TRAMWAY APPEALS

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 April 1934, Page 7

TRAMWAY APPEALS

HEARD AT CHRISTCHURCH

[PER press association.]

CHRISTCHURCH, April 13. The hearing of three more appeals

by tramwaymen was begun to-day. Frank Thompson, general manager of the tramways, giving evidence, said that the men who were recently taken on again were better than those who were dismissed. William Dick, traffic manager, said that the men were dismissed on their record, and on their present ability. Mr. Tracy: It is no use glossing over the matter —the men who went out on strike and inflicted injury on ithe community were sacked for doing it. Now you say they are no worse than the. others. Witness: Their work is infinitely better. Mr. Tracy: These three appellants are all volunteers. One appeal against dismissal from the traffic staff of the Christchurch Tramway Board was upheld, and two were dismissed, to-day. The appellants were George Francis Owens, Alan John Miles Cadman, and Arnold Cecil Potter. Owens and Cadman had lodged appeals against disrating, and during the period between the lodging and the hearing of their appeals, they had been dismissed. All the appellants had joined the service or rejoined it at the time of the tramway strike in May, 1932. Owen’s appeal was upheld, to the extent that from being a motorman, he be reinstated in the service as an assistant conductor at the bottom of the seniority list. The appeals of Potter and Cadman were dismissed.