“EXPUNGE ALL MINUTES”

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 764, 10 September 1929, Page 1

“EXPUNGE ALL MINUTES”

Transport Board and Union SUGGESTION BY TRAMWAYMEN FULL details o£ the proposals made to ''persons concerned" by representatives of the Tramwaymen’s and Omnibus Employees’ Union in the course of unofficial conversations on Friday, with a view to ending- the deadlock between the union and the Transport Board, have been made available byUr. J. Liddell, secretary of the union.

An outline of the union's sugges- j tions was published in this paper on Friday, when it was stated that the ; union had offered to expunge a resolu- i tion to which the board objected, on : condition that a dismissed employee, j Thomas Massicks, was reinstated. Mr. Liddell stated he wished to ! make it clear that the union had not i capitulated.' Certain conversations had taken place, and the basis of discussion as published was right as far as it went. The conversations had been instigated by a third party, who suggested that representatives of the union should unofficially meet the persons concerned. UNION'S PROPOSALS Accordingly, the following proposals were formulated and duly submitted:— 1. That both parties expunge all minutes referring to matters arising from the Massicks case from their books. 2. That we start afresh, as though Massicks had not been dismissed, and in consequence Massicks be reinstated.

3. That a committee comprising two representatives of the Transport Board, two from the Tramwaymen’s Club and two from the union be set up to consider the employment clause in the agreement between the board and the union as it affects new men regarding club membership and its operation concerning members of other benefit societies paying into the tramwaymen’s medical fund.

Mr. Liddell said the result of the conversations would be reported to a

meeting of the union executive tomorrow evening, and it would then be decided what would be the next step. “The union has no desire to put sand into the cogs.” the secretary said. “It hopes with the Transport Board that a settlement will soon bo possible.” He regretted that part of the union's proposals should have been made public before what he considered the proper occasion. THE MASSICKS APPEAL The grounds for Massiek's appeal were that although he had signed a form agreeing to become a member of the Tramways Club and to make certain payments thereto, he. having been a member of the Reehabite Lodge, felt that the same concessions should be extended to him as to members, who were also members of the Foresters’ Lodges in that the latter were exempt by an executed agreement with the Transport Board from paying certain dues to the Tramways Club. Another ground of his appeal was that an arrangement had been come to between himself and the secretary of the club that, notwithstanding the form that h-' had signed agreeing to become a member and to pay contributions thereto, the secretary had stated to him taat he need not make certain payments.

» A further ground of the appeal was j that he was dismissed without an opportunity having been given r.o him jto explain the matter, although such a right was prescribed in the agreej ment between the Tramway Union and I the Transport Board.