AUCKLANDERS INCONVENIENCED.

Northern Advocate, 5 June 1920, Page 5

AUCKLANDERS INCONVENIENCED.

BAD WEATHER FACTOR

MAKES CONDITIONS WORSE

( Special to "Advocate.")

AUQ|i|AND, This Day. A howling norwPt&st gale is raging over tho city, and the unpleasantness or the weather is accentuated by the ab-

sence of trams,

Thousands are trudging through tho rain to work.

CITY COUNCIL CONTROL

MUST BE ACKNOWLEDGED

SPECIFIC PRONOUNCEMENTS.

AUCKLAND, This Day.

The City Council considered the tram strike last night and appointed a special committee to deal with the matter, with full power to act.

The committee sat immediately after the council meeting and subsequently issued the following statement: —

(]) The tramway service has ceased to run on account of a section of the men having refused duty yesterday and the remainder failing to take out their cars this morning at both depots.

(2) When the men refused duty yesterdaj', or failed to take out the cars this morning, the council had no option but to lay up the cars and give a week's notice to the other employees affected.

(3) The council must insist on retaining control of the services, and cannot resume the services until this position is adequately established.

(4) The council in the meantime is compelled to give a week's notice to all traffic and other employees whose services are not needed during the stoppage of the tramways.

The Tramways Union will meet this afternoon.

The positioon at a late hour last night, therefore, was that a tram strike was on, that no other section of the Transport Federation had joined the strikers, and that the jockeys had not indicated any intention of refusing their riding engagements to-day.—Press Assn.