TRAM STRIKE
UNIONISTS AND NEW MEN
i.By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, May 21
There is already some feeling between the volunteer and loyal tram workers on one side and the returning strikers on the other over the arrangement of work. The claim of those who struck but have since returned to work is that they are being kept out of double-time shifts, which are given to the volunteers and loyalists. The complaint, it seems, refers to the running of the trams to-morrow, when the crews will get double time for Sunday work. The trams ... are. to be run by the volunteers andiloyalists, and some of the strikers regard this as a penalty on/ythom jfOiy having struck. " ' ' ■ **'
APPEAL FOR GAOLED MEN
CHRISTCHURCH, May 22. A statement disclaiming any connection between the Christchurch Tramway Employees’ Union and the collection that is being taken up by some persons, under the auspices of the Labour Defence League, for the assistance of the dependents of the men who have been gaoled for militant action during the tramway strike, was issued to-dav by Mr E. Snow, the secretary to this. union..
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 May 1932, Page 6
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185TRAM STRIKE Hokitika Guardian, 23 May 1932, Page 6
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