TRAM PEACE PROSPECTS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1932, Page 6

TRAM PEACE PROSPECTS

FURTHER WINDOW SMASHING

v COURT HAPPENINGS

I By Telegraph —Per 'Pres .< A ssociation |

CHRISTCHURCH, May 10

Though the prospects of a permanent peace in the tramway dispute ate appreciably nearer, uncertainty exists as ] to how far the decision of the., tribunal will prove acceptable to the Board. The Chairman.-, says the tribunal’s decision is binding as long as it complies with 'the reservations made by. both parties. ~, rt. r

Mr Donnelly has agreed to preside. A strong force of police and temporary police again guarded the tram lines and vital points overnight, but nothing -unusual occurred. Pickets •were nowhere in evidence.

Two more windows were broken in city premises yesterday evening, bo' h evidently by strike sympathisers. A further remand till Friday was granted in the case of three ex-tram-wayrnen, charged with assaulting the driver of a 'tram on May 6. “Such women are extraordinarily dangerous in a community at sucli a time,” said Magistrate Mosley, when Agnes Goodman, 23, married, was charged with inciting lawlessness ip Cathedral Square on Friday last. She pleaded guilty, and was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within six months, a condition being that she should stay in the, Salvation Army Home for a month.'

The poGce said the accused was a prominent member of the unemployed workers’ movement, which had 'linked itself with the tramway movement.