A TRAMWAY UNION

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 56, 30 November 1926, Page 3

A TRAMWAY UNION

Noumosas MOTION OF SYMPATHY with employees. At a meeting of the executive of the Wellington Tramway Employees Union the following resolution was carr'“The executive places, ou record its sympathy with the Hawke’s Bay freezing workers in the stand thevtau taken to secure a living *age for n services they render to the commum. y, and declares that tt is a public scandal that between 30 and 40 per cent of those workers are only able to earn, under an award of the Court and in one of the greatest industries of the country, a wage of roughly, £3 ” £3 ss. a week during the season, and are then dismissed when the Into market is at its worst ’Hie union draws public attention to the fact that the employers, whose mouthpieces arc advocating an industrial truce, have n this industry rejected a proposal to meet the union representatives tn conference. and have also refused to join with the union in an application to the Arbitration Court for an of the award according to thc t " nrt * pronouncement in September, 1.2.. the employers have taken tin an unreasonable and dictatorial atti nde. the Tramwavs Union anneals to the workers through their industrial orgatlisations to give every support to the freezing workers in their just claim for adequate remuneration.”