NO BUSES OR TRAMS IN SYDNEY ON MONDAY

Chronicle (Levin), 18 January 1947, Page 5

NO BUSES OR TRAMS IN SYDNEY ON MONDAY

Eeeeived Friday, 10.80 p.m. SYDNEY", Jan. 17. That Oovernment-owned trams and buses »will not operate in Sydney or Xeweastle J'or 2J hours i'rom midnight on Sunday was decided by the combined exeeutive oi the two unions after a threehour meeting today. All the twain and bus employees will be asked to attend .a stopwork meeting 011 Alonday at which it will be moved. that the strike be continned indetinitely. The nnion (lecision was made in defianee oi' instruetion by the Trades and Labour Council ltist night that the stopwork meeting shouid not be lield in view of eertain pi'omised eoncessiotis. The pi'oposal to hold a not her mass meeting on Sunday to rcconsider the strike decision was del'eated today.

A further disruption of the gas supplies and oT work on thc Yvaterl'ront is threatened by the pending stojipago of transport 011 ATonday. The Cfas Employees' Union has inl'ormed the gas conipanies that its members will not use the company transport to gct to work. The waterfront militants have issued pamphlets urging the men not to use any emergeney transport. The pamphlets predict that the stoppage will be lengthy and say that the men will be eligible i'or C'ommonwealth reliei". Alore than 800,000 people in Sydney and suburbs were without electricity todav when the overstraining of the Bunnerong installations blacked-out six suburbs. Emphasising that today 's blackout had nothing to do with yesterday 's interruption of the service, a Sydney County Council spokesman said that the servieeable plant avjtilable had been insuffieient to detil with the demand. Six Jai'ge suburbs were atTeeted. Butehers Dissatisfied. The master butehers who :tre members of the Meat and Allied Trades Federation have decided to reopen their shops under protest ne.xt Tues day. This decision followed a long and stormy debate 011 the announeement that Ihe Frices Commission had authorised a.11 in crca.se of D1 a pound in the w ho lestiitW pr j e es o^. tpea.t. ... Abipt.'*- '^>0 j'biieii^Fersf :- aftended the meeting, whi(-h lasted u early four hours. The secretary of the federation. Mr. T. A. Herbert, said that the whole- 1 sale price inerease, with a guarantee j of a retail inerease, had eome * as a. bombshell to the butehers. "Wh did not ask for it, and we did not want it," lie said. "It onlv means that the publie will have to bear-the brunt." The vote for reopening was takou at* * un early hotir this morning and was can'ied bv 23(5 votes to 195.