AUCKLAND GAS TROUBLE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3503, 15 June 1920, Page 5

AUCKLAND GAS TROUBLE.

ANOTHER STRIKE PROBABLE.

AUCKLAND, June 14.

A secret ballot, to decide whether the oifer of the employers in respect to a demand for increased wages will be accepted or not, and in the event of it being rejected whether they will favour the adoption of extreme measures to secure the union’: claims, is at present being taken by members of the Auckland gas employees’ union. Ballot papers, which were issued on June 10, are returnable before to-mor-row evening at 5 o’clock; At a special meeting of the union held on the. 9th ins’c., some 220 members at.tendin'g, the colnpany’s offer was rejected. The engineer ana manager of the Company was advised accordingly, and further notified that a ballot of all members was being taken to confirm or otherwise the resolution.