AUCKLAND TRAMWAYS TROUBLE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14705, 4 June 1920, Page 3

AUCKLAND TRAMWAYS TROUBLE.

(Ver Press Association.) AUCKLAND. June :5. tramway strike developed in (!:■• citv this afternoon as an outcome of the attitude of some of the men in cotmrction with the racc-goin" traffic and tiirtofliequent action of the City Council jjainway Department in dismissing Aose men from the service. The tot:ti number so discharged was between 6U M il 70. The men who were dismissed ■fa-lured to run special race cam in the morning- The news oT the dismissal of da men who had refused duty reached 'tfe Tramway Union Executive at a meeting which was held in the early jtternoon. The almost immediate sequelwthat the cars in the vicinity of the jams were taken in and laid up Into: crews. The suspensionr? of the Ale service was shortly afterwards amonnred. and by 4.30 o'clock 110 trams itre running. Some of the tramwayjjm «re none too pleased with "the tara of events, claiming that the deBaoa to cease work would have appealed to them more forcibly had jockeys not Been riding at Ellerslie. In the mcaatime the opinion was expressed &at they had been forced into the posiftmt&ey occnpied by events over which theyhad no control. The Labor pickets ra»in evidence at the railway station hat they did not interfere with t&ncF-gOing public to any noticeable atfflt. and no trouble resulted in this nanectioa. It is worth recording that tie totalisator receipts at Ellerslie .iowed an increase of £21.966, when annpared with the same day last year. AUCKLAND. June 4. fp to midday there was no sign of a tfifement of the tramway strike. There it complete stoppage on all the lines idav, and vehicles of all kinds have Bi'requisitioned to convey people to mess. Fortunately the weather is *