TRAMWAY STRIKE

Wairarapa Daily Times, 11 May 1932, Page 5

TRAMWAY STRIKE

PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. EFFORTS OF TRIBUNAL. CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. The preparation of their statements of claim, which will be placed before the tribunal which is to investigate the tram strike, occupied both the Tramway Board and the Tramway Employees’ Union practically tho whole of to-day. A preliminary meeting ot the tribunal will be held to-morrow, but it is unlikely that it will deal with anything more than procedure. The decision of tin tribunal, it is understood, will be filed as an industrial agreement and will be accepted 1 y both parties in the dispute. The Board still intends to run a service during the evening to-morrow on five lines. One of tho first questions to be decided when tho tribunal meets is whether the chairman is to have a vote. Under the Act he may have a casting, but not a deliberative, vote, and even this only if the members of the committee agree. At present it appears certain that Mr Donnelly will be given this casting vote of representativ es of both parties, who recognise that in this wav only is tho dispute likely to be settled. In this event a settlement of the dispute is likely to devolve largely on Mr Donnelly himself. The Tramway Board has made a reservation that the claims of the volunteer workers must bo given every consideration, but the .chairman of the Board, Mr Andrews, said to-day that the Board was not reserving the right to deal with these workers apart from the tribunal’s decision, but was merely making a recommendation to the tribunal. —(P.A.) WITHOUT A HITCH. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Nothing unusual occurred overnight and the trams are running without a hitch. .... . The tribunal is now hearing the dispute, —(P.A.)