TRANSPORT STRIKE CAUSES CHAOS
(Press Assn. —
ONE-DAY STOPPAGE RAILW^YMEN MAINTAIN NORMAL SCHEDULES
) Rec. 9.30 p.m.)
SYDNEY, Jan. 20. Following the stoppage of all Government.-owned trams and buses in Sydney and Newcastle at mid-night last night workers either walked to work this morning or used emergency transport. The pressure was eased by the refusal of the railwaymen to join the 24-hour stoppage and normal schedules are heing maintained by electric trains which serve many Sydney suburbs. Grave concern is felt that the communist faction will take control of the mass meeting of Sydney tramwaymen to-day and will carry a resolution to continue the stoppage until the demands have been met. A large attendance is expeeted but many members, especially those living in the Eastern Suburbs, will lack transport to attend the meeting. The moderates are hopeful of rallying enough of the older men 'to1 outvote The left-wing move. To-day's stoppage is in defianee of the direction from the Sydney Labour Council that the men should stay at work till the Arbitration Court deals with their claims. Many younger tramwaymen have been influenced towards direct action by the fact that Melbourne tramway*men gained time and a lialf for Saturday work and double time for Sundays by staging a nine-day strike. About 500,000 workers were affected in Sydney this morning. The electric trains and ferries handled some of the early traffic but many city firms used their own transport, taxis and hired cars to get their employees to work. The Government has lifted its ban on the milltiplo hiring of taxis during the currency of the stoppage. Special petrol allowances will be made to employers who transport eniployees to work. The watersiders have decided not to work without tram and bus transport, and little work will be done on the Sydney waterfront to-day. This will throw 40 overseas and 14 inter-State vessels idle and will cust the men about £9,000 in wages. The trouble which threatened between the gaswoikers and their employers on the transport position was settled when Ihe employers agreed to provide hire cars for shiftwoikers.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5307, 21 January 1947, Page 5
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