ARBITRATION COURT.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 107, 9 May 1907, Page 5

ARBITRATION COURT.

Politics and Wages. Per Press Ass/ eiation. Auckland, May 8. Mr Scott, opening the case for the Tramway Company in the Arbitration Court, said there was no friction under the original award until the men heard of the political agreement made in Wellington just before the general election. Five members of the City Council stood for the House of Representatives and the tramway men picked on the psycholoaical moment to demand extra Day and a demand which meant that £6000 extra per annum was loaded on the Wellington system when it was not paying Without hesitation lie declared that the agreement was a political agreement which the Court should not recognise. It caused discontent throughout New Zealand. The Auckland men immediately came along with demands and moved for the first time for altered conditions. Dtinedm ■workers also made demands though "but for the Wellington agreement peace and content would have reigned there. Although there was some undoubted friction between the Auckland tram company and the men during the strike the relations previously were of a most cordial nature and since ths strike the cause of strife had been removed and the old relations were now in existence.