A TEMPORARY TRUCE. A SHORT CONFERENCE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 87, 13 April 1911, Page 3

A TEMPORARY TRUCE. A SHORT CONFERENCE.

Very brief was tho conference between tho sub-committee of the City Council and the representatives of the Tramway Employees Union, held last night in connection with the disputed roster problem. The meeting was called for 7.30 p.m., but tho two bodies did iiot meet until 8.30 p.m. The effect of last night's talk is that tho issues aro hung up until a certain, proposal is considered by the whole council. Immediately the delegates assembled, the Mayor said :—"I: — "I want to say. on behalf of the sub-committee, that I wash to thaule the union and secretary for handing over tho roster and key on Monday, and to tell them that w© have spent considerable time in going through them. The opportunity afforded us a knowledge wo did not previously possess,''and wo have decided to ask the council to take a very important step in this matter at the next meeting. We now ask you, in the same spirit in which you lent us the roster and kej', to meet as, and allow the matter to stand m abeyance at the present time until I, as chairman of tho sub -committee, have an opportunity of meeting your president and secretary on Friday week to discuss the date of our next meeting. It would not be proper at this sLage for me to tell you the form the resolution I propose to move at the council ' meeting would take, and I ask you to show your confidence in the sub-committee and allow the matter to stand over until Thursday week." Mr. A. Sutherland, secretary of the union, said :— "On behalf of the executive, I can see no objection to falling into line with your views. It has been our object to work as harmoniously as possible with the sub-committee. It is the right thing to suit your convenience and ours." The Mayor : I thank you for the spirit in which you have agreed, as it I will give us a better opportunity of I working together. I will carry out my I promise to notify you of the result.