TRAMWAYMEN’S DISPUTE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 92, 20 April 1939, Page 8

TRAMWAYMEN’S DISPUTE

SETTLED AFTER CONFERENCE. [Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, April 18. A dispute that arose between members of the Dunedin Tramwaymen’s Union and the City Council has been amicably settled following a conference between the parties this morning. The conference was one of some duration but all points at issue were fully discussed and all misunderstandings removed. The conference was characterised by the best of feeling on both sides. The final outcome of the conference was that the 12-minute service, instituted on the St. Clair, Normanby and Anderson's Bay Gardens routes would be extended to 15 minutes by the adoption of this altered schedule. The council would still continue to economise in running costs and alteration to the running of cars on those lines would come into operation on Thursday week. The council had given the union officials a definite guarantee to make every endeavour not to dismiss any of the staff and if, after making every endeavour to retain its present staff it found it could not do so, the council had further agreed not to dispense with the services of any employees without first holding a conference with the Union.