HEATED DEBATE

Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1932, Page 2

HEATED DEBATE

TRAMWAY BOARD MEETING

AFTERMATH of strike

(By TelegTuph —Per Press Aiiociation')

CHRISTCHURCH, May 23

Describing the mediators ns partisans, criticising the manner of the Tramway Union's deputation, and declining to accept any blame for the tramway st-rjke, meipbers qf the Christchurch Tramway Board spent more than an hour this afternoon In a Hve’y discussion of the pros and cons of the dispute,

i -Mrs E. R. McCombs, who gave rise ito the discussion, by attacking the Board’s attitude was, in turn, attacked by other members of the Board, one of whom suggested that -she would best serve the community by resigning.

After declaring emphatically that there- Iliad been no victimisation in tho ,selection of the men who were dismissed. Air D. Sykes, wont on to sav that jf bo had had a hand in the picking the President of the Union (Mr J. Mathison), on account of liis soap-box agitation, would have been the first man to go.

Ultimately votes of thanks were passed to all of the employees and to the temporary police -who Iliad assisted the Board during the strenuous period of the -strike. On more than one occasion th o discussion grew heated, and the Chairman had to intervene.