CHRISTCHURCH TRAMS

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18639, 18 May 1932, Page 7

CHRISTCHURCH TRAMS

THE STRIKE OVER. MEN TO RESUME WORK. TRIBUNAL’S TERMS ACCEPTED. (By Telegraph. —Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. Tuesday The Christchurch tramway str “" Is definitely over and the board hopes to be able to resume normal services At a meeting to-night the Tra 3 Employees’ Union deoided to accept the decisions of the chairman of the tribunal, Mr A. T. Donnelly, with the amplifications and explanations "hicm he gave this morning m answer *° the union’s objection that his first decision was too vague in its , tern lV The board has agreed to er ? P :^ v permanently no more than 60 of the volunteers. It has promised to proceed at once with the weedmg-out process neoessary to select those men who are suitable for employment as permanent members of the staff. It can employ forthwith 90 members of the union to fill vacancies on the staff which have never been filled by volunteers, and in a few days will reduce the number of volunteer workers to make possible the re-employment of members of the union. Forty members of the union did not strike and they will be retained. Of 1 the remainder 130 will be re-employed employment in accordance with the rationing scheme recommended by Mr Donnelly. . • . Fifty-two members of the union win lose their jobs. / ABSORPTION OF VOLUNTEERS. MR DONNELLY’S RECOMMENDATION (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. Tuesday. With the exception of the traffic department, which is to employ 60 new men, all other vacancies in the other tramway departments are to be filled by union men now on strkie. This is the text of the recommendation made this morning by Mr Donnelly, chairman of the tribunal, as an outcome of a further conference with the parties. Mr Donnelly has recommended that 55 of the new men be employed within seven days and the remaining five within 14 days. After this selection 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.