STILL NOT SETTLED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 219, 10 May 1932, Page 5

STILL NOT SETTLED

(Press. Assn.-t

TRAMWAY STRIKE STRENUOUS EFFORTS MADE ' TO ARRIVE AT AGREEMENT BOTH SIDES ANXIOUS

-By Telegraph — Copyrlght).

CHRISTCHURCH, this morning. The tramway strike is still not settled in spite of long and earnest consultations and deliberations. Negotiations between the Tramways Board and the union were resumed at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The Mayor (Mr. D. G. Sullivan), Bishop West-Watson, Bishop Brodie, the deputy-mayor (the Rev. J. K. Archer) and Mr. J. J. Roberts, secretary of the New Zealand Alliance of Labour acted as mediators. Both sides seemed to realise the urgent necessity for settling the strike and the mediators worked strenuouslv to prepare some formula which would be acceptable to all. Shortly hefore midnight the conference was still in session as it then appeared almost« certain that both parties would compromise on the question of the appointment of a tribunal, either of a private character or under the Labour Disputes Investigation Act. The chief obstacle to a final settlement is still the board's pledge to retain in employment those of its new employees who have proved suitable. These now number 110, though no others have been engaged since Sat urday. The president of the Alliance of Labour, Mr. Cook, and Mr. H. P. Armstrong, M.P., to-day attended on the union's behalf. Whether the strike is continued or not the board expects to resume the running of the night service on Wednesday.