Trams And Buses Not To Operate

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5305, 18 January 1947, Page 5

Trams And Buses Not To Operate

SYD/XIEY, January 17. That Government-owned trams and buses will not operate in Sydney or Newcastle for 24 hours from midnight on Sunday^ was decided hy the combined executives"of the two unions after a three-hour meeting to-day.

All the tram and hus employees will be asked to attend a stop-work meeting on Monday, at which it will be moved that the strike be continued indefinitely, The union decision was made in defiance of instructions hy the Txades and Labour Council last night that the stop-work meetiiig should not be held in view of certain promised coneessions. The proposal to hold another mass meeting on Sunday to reconsider the stx-ike decision was defeated to-day. A further disruption of the gas supplies and of work on the waterfront is threatened hy the pending* stoppage of transport on Monday. The Gas Employees' Union has informed the gas company that its members will not use thc company transport to get to Work. The waterfront militants Txave issued pamphlets urging the men not to use any emergency transport. The pamphlets predict that the stoppage will be leng'thy, and say that the men will be eligible for Conimonwealth relief.

More than 300,0'00 people in tho city and suburbs were without electricity to-day, when the overstraining of the Bunnerong installations blacked-out six suburbs. Emphas'ising that tonda'yls blackout had nothing to do with yesterday's interruption of .the service, a Sydney County Council spokesman said that the serviceable plant availahle had been insuffieient to deal with the demand.