SYDNEY TAXI-DRIVERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 42, 19 February 1932, Page 8

SYDNEY TAXI-DRIVERS

MANY WITHOUT ANY WORK SLEEPING IN THE CARS Some of the most harassed workers of Sydney are the taxi-drivers. A grea 4 many are receiving the dole, having no work at all. Those who can get a cab drive it, even though their earnings be insignificant. A correspondent of the Melbourne Argus says:— “Recently the police took action against a number of taxi-drivers on charges of having slept in their cabs near the railway station. The drivers did so not from choice, but because it saved expense. They had to pay somehow J he cost of tyres to replace those damaged by rivals inspired by political hatred- The antagonism existing among the drivers is exemplified by the steps taken regarding -membership of the Road Transport Union. Supporters of the Lang Plan seek to make themselves felt in that union as elsewhere. “Any drivers who do not support Nir Lang are, regarded ar ‘black’ and their enei ies want the Road Transport Union to say so. The cause of this exhibition of spleen is the fact that the taxi-drivers wht> are being proceeded against worked for the Federal Labour Party in the East Sydney election. Son' citizens assert that there are spies who busy themselves in making trouble in the unions for those who object to political bondage. There is fear that more tyres will be gashed.”