SUCCESSFUL WAGES CLAIM

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1934, Page 7

SUCCESSFUL WAGES CLAIM

TRAMWAYMEN AT CHRISTCHURCH.

REINSTATEMENT AFTER STRIKE.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night.

A successful claim for the money they lost in wages during their period of disrating was made against the Christchurch Tramway Board in the Magistrate's Court to-day by the employees who were disrated by the board and subsequently reinstated at the direction of the appeal board. Twenty claims were set down for hearing but only two, representing the two categories into which the claims fell, were heard. In both cases judgment was given for the plaintiff, with costs. All the plaintiffs were either volunteer workers or employees who did not cease work when the strike occurred in May, 1932. They were disrated soon after the new board, in which there was a majority of Labour members, took office last year.

The magistrate held that the judgment of the appeal board was that the men must be put back to their former status from the day they were disrated, and not from the day of reinstatement. He gave judgment according!., for the plaintiffs. The amounts sued for were £2 3s 4d and £4 17s 8d for the two categories respectively.