CAPETOWN'S TR ANSPORT
DISLOCATED TO STRIKE MEN ELUDE TTIE POLH’-E (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) Capel ow n. Apri I (». A tramway and bos strike dislocated traffic in Capetown during Easier. Th<. tram ioinjumy recently absorbed ilie opposition bus run to Seapuint an 1 appointed Mr. Hughes, owner of the opposition, manager of the Seapoint section. The men refused to join ihe tram union and struck at midnight. Pol ice guarded the garages, bur the strikers succeeded in getting lhrough the skyigln in ilp. headquarters an I i«moved all rlie essential parts as well as deflating all the tyres. It was raining to-day and the full effect of tfie strike wil nor be felt until the :< sumption of business to-morrow.
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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2398, 7 April 1931, Page 5
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