TRAM STRIKE OVER.

Wairarapa Age, 18 May 1932, Page 5

TRAM STRIKE OVER.

UNION ACCEPTS DECISION OF TRIBUNAL SIXTY VOLUNTEER MEN TO REMAIN. FIFTY-TWO OLD EMPLOYEES lose Jobs. 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 tonight the Tramway Employees’ Union decided definitely to accept the decision of the chairman of the tribunal, Mr. A. T. Donnelly, with the amplifications and explanations which he gave this' morning in answer to the union’s objections that his first decision was too vague in terms. The board has agreed to employ permanently no more than sixty of the volunteers. It has promised to proceed at once with the weeding out process necessary to select those mai who will be suitable for employment as permanent members of the staff. It can employ forthwith ninety 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 will reduce the number of volunteer workers to make possible the re-em-ployment 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 a rationing scheme recommended by Mr. Donn ®“ y ; Fifty-two members of the union will lose their jobs.—(P.A.)