VIEWS OF EMPLOYEES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7852, 14 July 1911, Page 8

VIEWS OF EMPLOYEES

TESSS ASSOCIATION. DNtIEUXN, Inly 13. In connection with the new tramway regulations, a *' Star " reporter to-day interviewed employees and the union representative to learn how the proposed alteration would affect them. The consensus of opinion was entirely against the introduction of the regulations, which were described as impracticable and the product of ignorance. The men recognise that if more cars and more employees are engaged the working profits will be diminished so seriously that wages must bo decreased. The conductors recognise that they would stand as buffers between the public and the regulations. They resent the proposed increase of their responsibilities as regards carrying out the regulations, and point out that already they have to suffer public resentment of present regulations. One employee remarked that in five years no conductor had bean hauled over the coals for missing fares in crowded cars. They reckon that if the regulations are introduced the work will lie so irksome and ill-paid that it will be unattractive to steady men.