TRAMWAYS STRIKE
. MORE HOPEFUL OUTLOOK. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) MELBOURNE, May 6. A conference of. the Tramway Board and the Trades Hall and the Tramway Employers’ representatives to-day discussed the strike. The outlook is now more hopeful. Cabinet, has decided not to intervene, as the Tramway Board is clothed with all the necessary authority to enforce discipline on the service, and to protect the public. The lack of trams to-day caused great inconvenience. The men tonight are discussing the proceedings pf the conference which have not been made public. THE BOARD’S DECISION. MELBOURNE, May 7. The Tramway Board, after a long discussion with the Trades Hall Disputes Committee, and other representatives of the men, refused to reinstate the gripman involved, and the strike remains unsettled. The Board’s attitude is that work must be resumed before anything further can be done in the matter.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 May 1924, Page 5
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