AUCKLAND TRAMWAYMEN.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 39, 1 December 1911, Page 12

AUCKLAND TRAMWAYMEN.

We had a tinion meeting on the 16th, at which we elected six members torepresent the Union at the Conference with'the employers. .Messrs. T. White (president), A. Rosser 'secretary), P. Bichardson, E. Fletcher, J. Willis and C Robertson were e-lected. At the same meeting four representatives were elected to attend the District Council ©f the N.Z.F.L. on December 3. Messrs. T. White, P. Richardson. J. Willis and A. Rosser were elected.: We have great hopes of gaining very important concessions from the eomfiany, and I am pleased to say that the men. by the way they roH up to meetings, and t'.e enthusiasm displayed, are beginning to , realise the strength amd possibilities of the One Big Union. Wft wore very much disappointed, at the Wellington tramwaymen's award, arid we make bold onmigh t<. assert to the Dunedin and ChrisU-hurch men that going to the A. and C. Court is a waste of time, money and brains. AH i.hey get is two or three long weary years to kick themselves for trusting xo Siih and C 0. ., instead of getting up and fichting for what they want. : — TOM B. : .- . •■*...