TRAM STRIKE.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 June 1920, Page 5

TRAM STRIKE.

~ DEADLOCK AT AUCiaANQ •JVHOLE SERVICE SUSPENDED, THE RACING DIFFICULTY. By Telegraph —Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The threatened strike of tramwaymen m connection with the recent dismissal of jockeys did not affect the races to-day. The men booked to run race ears declined to leave the barn, but the management diverted a largo number of cars Irom other routes to those adjucent to the racecourse, and, after a lapse of forty minutes, the men who had determined not to run the specials assisted in conveying race-goers, though their cars had not the usual destination signs. There was no hitch in running the race train-,. The fact that "the jockeys are riding" had a deal to do with the breakdown of the threatened strike. Pickets were on duty trying to dissuade people from attending the races, but there was no apparent diminution in the crowd bound thither. Later information shows that 31 enr crews detailed for the races refused to leave the barn, but after some delay ofber crews took a number of special ears along the Remuera line, along which the rape trams run. It is reported that the men have been suspended, but this is. not confirmed. A meeting of the Union was held this afternoon to discuss the situation, and the latest is that the whole tramway service is suspended, and the cars are returning to the barns, owing to the suspension of crews for refusing to take race trams out. MEN DISAPPROVE OF STRIKE. Auckland, Last Night. The tramway strike developed in th-» city this afternoon, as the outcome of the attitude of some of the men'in connection with the race-going traffic, and the consequent action of the City Council's tramway department in dismissing those men from the service. The total niimber so discharged was between CO and TO. The suspension of the whole service was shortly afterwards announced, and by 4.30 o'clock no trams were running. Some of the tromway'men were none too pleased with the turn of event?, claiming that the decision to cease work would have appealed to them more forcibly had the jockeys not been riding at Ellerslie. Meantime, the opinion was expressed that they had been forced into the position they occupied by events over which they had no control.