CAPETOWN TRAMS
A STRIKE PROBABLE
(United Press Association—By ElectricTelegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this dav nt 11 n.mA CAPETOWN, Dec. 21.
Tile City of Capetown is faced with a '.«ei‘iouh problem, having bus and tram tm.ffio paralisecl at the height of the Christmas shopping season. A huge mootviicr of tram and bus employees was held at midnight and lasted four hours, to decide whether they strike, as a result of a failure to obtain from employers the demands they made in regard to wages, ootiditionis of service.
The actual result of the ballot taken on the question, the press being rigorously excluded from the meeting, is rink.u'own, hut it authoritatively learned that the men had definitely favoured a strike, the actual time of' commencement of which is bring kept a closely guarded secret, but it is known buses and trams will stop at a prearranged signal.
The men were warned that if they strike they will be instantly dismissed.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1930, Page 5
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156CAPETOWN TRAMS Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1930, Page 5
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