LAYING TRAM TRACKS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 87, 9 October 1931, Page 8

LAYING TRAM TRACKS

WORKERS* REQUESTS

Representations recently made to the corporation regarding the employment of relief workers in Glenmore street were reported on at a meeting of the City Council last evening. The Tramways and Electricity Committee reported that a deputation had been received from the relief workers engaged on the re-location of tramway tracks in Glenmore street requesting that the following conditions be made applicable to the men employed on this work under the unemployment scheme: —(a) That the number of working days per week be increased to s}; (b) that they be employed and paid by the council during each third week in which they are at present unemployed under the unemployment scheme; (c) that they be employed by the council for a full eight hours on each day they work, the council to meet the payment for any time by which the eight-hour day is reduced by the Unemployment Committee. The committee recommended that requests (a) and (b) be declined, but that request (c) be granted subject to the provisoes that not more than two hours additional per week in respect of each man be paid for by the council, and that such payment should not prejudice the right of the council to receive the usual subsidy from the unemployment funds in respect of the balance of tho work. The report was adopted.