STILL SQUABBLING!

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6866, 24 May 1932, Page 7

STILL SQUABBLING!

Tram Strike Aftermath MRS. McCOMBS RAISES BOARD’S IRE Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. Describing tho mediators-*as cl-parti-sans, and criticising the manner of the Tramway Union's deputation and declining to accept any blame for the tramway strike, members of tho Christchurch Tramway Board spent more than an hour this afternoon in a lively discussion of the pros and con 3 of the dispute. Mrs. E. E. McCombs, who gave rise to the discussion by attacking the board’s attitude, was in turn attacked by other members of the board, one of whom suggested that she would best servo the community by lesigning. After declaring emphatically that there had been no victimisation in the selection of the men who were dismissed, Mr. D. Sykes went on to say that if lie had had a hand in the picking that the president of the union (Mr. J. Mathison) on account of his soap box agitation would have been the first man to go. Ultimately votes of thanks were passed to all the employees and to the temporary police who had assisted the board during the strenuous period of the strike. On more than one occasion the discussion grew heated and the chairman had to intervene.