TRAMWAY STRIKE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10550, 5 February 1912, Page 5

TRAMWAY STRIKE

NO SETTLEMENT ARRIVED AT. STORMY MEETING OF COUNCIL, EPITHETS HURLED ABOUT. THREAT OB 1 GENERAL STRIKE. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. The tramway strike remains unsettied. The Oity Council held a special meeting on Saturday, to deal with -the report' of the suh-committee, which had conferred with the representatives of the Tramways Union. The terms of settlement had been agreed to, but the men took exception to the paragraph which stated that Inspector Fuller's transference Ivad been' at his own request. AINOTBIER OOKFERENOE. Subsequently the strikers' representatives arrived to announce the result of the previous night's meeting. They were received by the sub-com-mittee, wfliieh subsequently reported to the Council, sitting in committee, the Press representatives being oxckuled. "SCENE" IN THE COUNCIL. Load voices were shortly afterwards heard coming from the Chamber, and various epithets were hurled about freely. Councillors came out in ones and twos, and the meeting had evidently broken up in some excitement.

AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT. The Town Clerk later -gave the following* official statement' -to Press:— "The delegates of the Strike Committee came over to furnish us with their official report of the result of last night's meeting of Mheitr Union. They also asked to meet the delegates of the Council. of both sides met, and the' representatives of the Strike committee advanced further proposals in the direction of settlement. They asked that No. 1 clause should' be deleted entirely from, the (previous basis of agreement, and that the Council's own resolution should be substituted and embodied'in the, agreement as follows: "That it be an instruction

to the electrical engineer, on the set- j -' -tlement":bf the . FuHer^pla^'jn ',£, ,pc>sx£iQin" ""' : wherfi ; i*he J§^^i£ s J with pie;- members; i^jahi^vs;. . ~;;;: -whenf the" unfortu--"'nate'incident occurred which, led- to' : its compulsory adjournment until iSonday morning." GENERAL vSTRJKE TiifcEATENE3>. / The men met last night. Representatives of other Unions, whioh.,had not previously taken any part inthe matter, were present. ' It is understood that a resolution was passed that the City Council be notified-that unless the men's amended terms be accepted Iby noon on Monday, other Unions will be asked to "Down tools" in token f of sympathy with the /strikers.