BUS DRIVERS’ STRIKE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 January 1944, Page 2

BUS DRIVERS’ STRIKE

THREE ULTIMATUMS ISSUED. DECISION OF STOP WORK MEETING. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, January 14. No buses will run within a 25-mile radius of the Chief Post Office, Auckland, next Sunday. If within seven days from today the dispute between the Auckland omnibus drivers and proprietors concerning double time for Sunday work is not settled, all buses within the 25-mile radius will cease running. If the section of the Drivers’ Union within the area covered by the Government’s deregistration order is not re-registered by the Government within 10 days, a further slopwork meeting of the Auckland drivers will be called. These three ultimatums were given by a stopwork meeting of the union held in the Auckland Town Hall this morning, and attended by about 1500 drivers.

While the meeting was in progress only trucks driven by owner-drivers w’ere on the roads. About 70 buses were lined up at the transport terminal outside the Town Hall, and there were hundreds of trucks and delivery vans. About a dozen women drivers were among those at the meeting.