STRIKE AFTERMATH

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 127, 24 May 1932, Page 3

STRIKE AFTERMATH

MEDIATORS CRITICISED BY TRAMWAYS BOARD (Per Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. Describing tho mediators at partisans, criticising the manner of the Tramway Union’s deputation and declining to accept any blamo for the tramway strike, members of the Christchurch Tramway Board spent more than an hour this afternoon in a lively discussion of the pros and cons of the dispute. Mrs E. R. McCombs, who gave rise

to the discussion by attacking the board’s attitude, was in turn attacked by other members of the board, one of whom suggested that she would best serve tho community by resigning. After declaring emphatically that there had been no victimisation in the selection of the men who were dismissed, Mr D. Sykes went on to say that if he had had a hand in the picking tho president of the union (Mr J. Mathison), on account of his soap box agitation, would have been the first man to go. Ultimately votes of thanks were passed to all employees and to the temporary police who had assisted the board during the strenuous period of the strike. On more than ono occasion the discussion grew heated and the chairman had to intervene.