AT AN END

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 122, 18 May 1932, Page 2

AT AN END

Tramway Strike 52 UNIONISTS LOSE JOBS SIXTY VOLUNTEERS RETAINED (Per Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. The tramway strike is now definitely over, and the board hopes to bo able to resume the normal services on Friday. At a meeting to-night’the Tramway Employees’ Unioo decided dcfin.'toly to accept the decision of the chairman of tie tribunal (Mr A. T. Donnebv> with the amplifica/otis and cxr»> a nations which he gave this morning in answer to the union’s objection that his first decision was too vague in terms. The board has agreed to employ permanently no more than 60 of the volunteers. It has promised to proceed at once with the weeding-out process necessary to select those men who will be suitable for employment as permanent members of the staff. It can employ forthwith 90 members of the union to fill the 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 reemployment of members of the union.

Forty members of the union did not strike. These will he retained. Of the remainder, 130 will he re-employed and 20 more will be given temporary employment, in accordance with the rationing scheme recommended by Mr Donnelly. ' Fifty-two members of the union will lose their jobs.

FURTHER RECOMMENDATIONS

BY CHAIRMAN OF TRIBUNAL

CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night

With the exception of the traffic department, which is to employ 60 new men, all other vacancies in other tramways departments arc to be filled by union men now on strike. This was the text of a recommendation made this morning by Mr Donnelly, chairman of the tribunal, as the outcome of a further conference with the parties. Mr Donnelly has further recommended that 55 of the now men be employed within seven days and the remaining five within 14 days. After this select tion any vacancies on the staff occurring within three months should be filled from members of the union who were not selected in the first 90 taken on under the tribunal’s finding. The union meets this afternoon to consider Mr Donnelly’s further statement.. No date has yet been fixed for resumption of the full service. TWO TRAMCARS COLLIDE CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. Two traincars met in violent collision outside Government Buildings in Worcester Street, last night. A woman was hurt. The side of one of the trams was torn out and the rear bogie lifted off the track and partly dragged across the roadway. It is not believed that the accident was due to sabotage but to omission to alter the points after an earlier car.