ABOUT A TELEPHONE.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2716, 10 March 1916, Page 6

ABOUT A TELEPHONE.

CARRIERS' UNION AND CITY . COUNCIL. A deputation of members of the ear-ners'--'.Union,waited- on the City Council last levelling .with reference to the taking over of the union's telephone in Grey Street. The grounds on which thoy wished the occlusive nso of the telephone was that the union was ono of tho oldest ones in "Wellington, and that thoy had. in that time worked up a good business, and did not see why Tom Dick, and Harry should use tho telephone. They had a traffic manager, and thcir's was a very well-con> ductcd stand. One of the speakers said that'tliey wero'all single-cart men, and it was to prevent victimisation bv men having two or more carts. All the trouble had been caused by one man ..U'lio. _had'.;jthree..carts. They were not "creating"'a'"monopoly, and considered that the union was a credit to Wellington. On being questioned, one of tho deputation stated that .there' wsro about twenty-five members of the union; about 300 carriers in Wellington.-., A -member becoming an employer- (havirigifiigra .than one cart) was membership, a rule which had practically-' been insisted on by tho Labour Department. 'J'hc '?.layor""said tho representations of tho union would be considered, and they would get an answer later on.