THE DRIVERS.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14836, 29 November 1913, Page 12

THE DRIVERS.

The meeting called by the secretary of the Drivers' Union, under instructions from Thursday's meeting of that Union, to discuss with employers of drivers a basis of settlement of the drivers' dispute inChnstehurcli, was to have been held at the Trades Hall yesterday morning at 10 odock. Messrs Hiram Hunter and H. R. Voyce, the local members of. the National Executive of the Workers' Department of the United

Federation of Laboui% were ia nnce, but the invited not. One representative of ployer was present 'to ask exemptiWrf tbo firm's drivers, and he was infdnnrt'f? that his request would bo dealt n.v the Strike Committee. Atu>t'-*&.*.§ >ag abaut a quarter of an hour, Hunter and Voyce concluded that tit* ~P meeting would .not take place. ffz £.-? matter of fact,, the employer* of drijei'Cwere not interested in the discussion oi a basis for the wtUeaeatVXot a drivers' strike, which vas alrsadx - settled, as far as they wore eonccnuSf *~* quite satisfactorily. The leaders of tj» '' ■' old Union had made their «| ; #l peace too late. The opportunitr *S^l p"*- .• • ' : '^:-^PI: Tho members of the okl Union met at the Socialist Hall p.m. yesterday, a good number \b&**M present. The secretary of the when asked what decisions the ing had arrived at, stated that present had decided to stand the decision of tho union. It Tras"a»fc|p' decided to convene- a meotinc of allM? carters to be held in the Socialist HiMP at 8 p.m. on Monday, tho object ofttSlSi meeting being to review tho Tho meeting adjourned till 10 a,a'-t62p day. ■ •:■ ft^Sil