WHAT DOES IT MATTER?

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1907, 15 November 1913, Page 7

WHAT DOES IT MATTER?

IF THE TRAM MEN COME OUT. "Mercutio" writes: "Why all thisfflss about whether the- Wellington tramway men will or will liot strike ? Who on earth really caws if the men do go out and 'paralyse tlio traftnvay service'? It might put suburbanites out a littlo and bring on tlio motor bus a Kttlo sooner than anticipated, bat why people and tho Press become excited as to what attitude- tlie tramway fiien will, assume* pa-sses njy comprehension, The public have for the most, part lost sight' of the fae-t that tho electric (or any trams) are more or less of a luxuty, ■ Wβ arc able to get from point to point a little quicker and with drier feet and shoulders (in wet weather), that is about all the trams mean. Thefo is a legend told by the old people round the glowing hearth on bitter winter evenings that Wellington residents at oiio time used to walk all tlw way from Newtown to To Aro, and that the .least hardy among tliDm did not consider the walk from Tlionufon to Ka.rori any great hardship. It is almost unbelievable t fancy how tired they would be, and Übw long such a tramp would take. . > . But to bo serious'—what would a tramway strike mean? People- Would have to rise half an hour earlier, and in reaching their places of business would havo to tako a Kttlo more of the exercise they are so badly ia need of. 3\o one- wants the tramway men to go out, unless it be the Weird Red Feds., but if they havo the itch to rest for a clay or two, well, let thorn. Stack all the ears in the sheds, lock up tho ptiwer-kmse, and savo the coal.'