TRAMWAY APPEALS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 660, 11 May 1929, Page 5

TRAMWAY APPEALS

MEN DISSATISFIED NO CONFIDENCE IN BOARD Complaining that not one appeal by the Auckland Tramways Municipal Omnibus Employee’s Union had succeeded in the last 10 years, members have expressed strong dissatisfaction with the Tramways Appeal Board. A T two * largely-attended meetings held this week consequent upon the rejection by the board of an appeal bv Thomas Massicks, of Mount Eden, against his dismissal from the Tramways Department, the union passed a resolution stating that it viewed with concern the findings of the Appeal Board over the last 10 years. The union resolved: "We respectfully ask that the whole matter be investigated with a view to reconstituting the board in such a manner as will restore our confidence in it, and f hat the Minister of Public Works be requested to meet a deputation from the union on the question when he next visits Auckland.” The union will seek the support of f he Parliamentary Labour Party, Auckland Labour Representation Comjnittee, the Alliance of Labour, the Tramways Federation and other unions in this city. An amendment to the Tramways is desired to allow of some person °ther than the senior presiding magistrate of the district to act as chairman of the board if deemed necessary, the Massicks case was heard before au E ' C ' Cutten > S.M., Mr. J. A. C. Allum, chairman of the Transport Board and Mr. J. O. Liddell, employees’ representative The last-named dissented from the h e H S i° n ou tbe ground that Massicks aa been given no chance to defend ®seif. The trouble arose over the question whether the dismissed em- . °^ ee should subscribe to the medical enefit scheme in connection with the ram ways Club when he was alrea.dy a\ing for such benefit operated bv *• lodge.