TRAMWAY STRIKE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21647, 18 May 1932, Page 10

TRAMWAY STRIKE

TERMINATION ANNOUNCED DECISION OF TRIBUNAL ACCEPTED NORMAL SERVICES ON FRIDAY (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 17. The tramway strike is now definitely over and the board hopes to be able to resume normal services on Friday; At a meeting to-night, the Tramway Employees’ Union decided definitely to accept tlfi; decisions of the chairman of the tribunal (Mr A. T. Donnelly) with the amplifications and explanations which ho gave this morning in answer to the union’s objection that his first decision was too vague in its terms. The board has agreed to employ permanently no more than 60 of the volunteers. It has promised to proceed at once with the weeding out process necessary to select those men who will be suitable for employment as permanent members of the staff. It can employ forthwith 90 members of the union to fill vacancies on the staff which have never been taken by volunteers, and in the course of a few days it will reduce the number of volunteer workers to ihake possible the re-employment of members of the union. Forty members of the union did not strike. These will be retained. Of the remainder, 130 will be re-employed and 20 more will be given temporary employment in accordance with the rationing scheme recommended by Mr Donnelly. Fifty-two members of the union will lose their jobs, CARS IN COLLISION FAILURE TO ALTER POINTS. (Feu United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 17. Two tramears met in violent collision outside the Government Buildings in Worcester street last evening. A woman was hurt, and the side of one of the trains was torn out, and the rear bogie lifted off the track and partly dragged across the roadwqy. It is not believed that the accident was due to sabotage, but to an omission to alter the points after an earlier car