AUCKLAND TRAMWAYS UNION.
GENERAL STRIKE PROBABLE. (Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 19. A meeting of employees of the Auckland Electric Tramway Company passed a resolution that in view of the company having dismissed several men without allowing them to adduce evidence in self-defence, the union considers the time has arrived when the company should be made to stand to its agreement. Unionists decided to insist upon the reinstatement of Conductor Herdson, or that a satisfactory ro lson bo given for his dismissal before noon to-morrow, failing which the men. will take measures to enforce compliance with their demand. In the event of a strike, the union decided that no unionist shall return to work with any “blackleg” labor that nny have been engaged by the company to run the cars. A EINAL ULTIMATUM. Later. A meting of the Union, attended by nr of tlie men to-night, unanimously confirmed the resolutions passed by the meeting this morning, and decided to issue a manifesto to the public, explaining the men’s case. The position, according to the resolutions, is that unless the management concede the men’s demands by noon tomorrow, the strike will take place. Air. Rosser presents the men’s demands to the general manager hi the morning.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2196, 21 May 1908, Page 3
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204AUCKLAND TRAMWAYS UNION. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2196, 21 May 1908, Page 3
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