TAXIMEN VICTIMISED

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 20 February 1932, Page 15

TAXIMEN VICTIMISED

SYDNEY POLITICAL RIA'ALRY. DRIVERS DR AAY THE DOLE. Some of the most liarrased workers of Sydney are the taxi-drivers. A great many are receiving the dole, having no work at all. Those who can get a cab drive it, even though their earnings be insignificant. A correspondent of the Melbourne “Argus” says: “Recently the police took action against a number of' taxidrivers on charges of having slept in their cabs near the railway station. The drivers did so not from but because it saved expense. They had to pay somehow the cost of tires to replace those damaged by rivals inspired by political hatred. “The antagonism existing among the drivers is exemplified by the steps taken regarding membership of the Read Transport Union. Supporters of the Lang Plan seek to make themselves felt in that union as elsewhere. 44 4IIV rluiVfiPS mliA cl r\ rmf eimn/u4

‘Any drivers who do not support Mr. J. T. Lang are regarded as ‘black’ and their, enemies want the Hoad Transport Union to say so. The cause oi : this exhibition of spleen is the fact that the taxi-drivers who are being proceeded against worked for the Federal Labour Party in the Fast Sydney election. “Some citizens assort that there are spies who busy themselves in makingtrouble in the unions for those who object to political bondage. There is fear that more tires will be gashed.”