CHANCES NOT BRIGHT
STRIKE SETTLEMENT MELBOURNE TRANSPORT SYDNEY, April 29. Though delegates of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Amalgamated Engineering Union are meeting in Sydney in an attempt to settle the transport crisis in Victoria, the chances of an agreement being reached are not bright. Union officials say that their men will not be content with less than £1 weekly increase in wages, and that deregistration of the union will not help to solve the problem. To-day is the sixteenth day of the Melbourne transport crisis. There are no suburban trains or Government buses. The tram services have been reduced and the country rail services have been heavily cut. Unemployment is increasing and queues are forming at the shops in the outer Melbourne suburbs that are usually served by electric trains.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22317, 30 April 1947, Page 5
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134CHANCES NOT BRIGHT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22317, 30 April 1947, Page 5
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