TRAMWAY STRIKE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10551, 6 February 1912, Page 4

TRAMWAY STRIKE

SETTLEMENT ARRIVED AT SIR JOSEPH WARD ACTS AS IN-» TERMEDttfRY. (By Telegraph—Fress Association.} WELLINGTON, Last Night. In connection with the tramwaystrike, Sir Joseph Ward to-day offered to act as intermediary, and at 11 o'clock a meeting of the City Clouncil was held. Sir Joseph Ward was present for an hour, and then left to interview the Strike Committee at the Trade* Hall. After twenty minutes deliberation,, he returned to the Council, when a. joint meeting of representatives of the strikers and the City Council was held. Before 1 p.m. a basis of agreement had been unanimously arrived at, ,and Sir Joseph Ward officially an-, ; ,:n«ftnced to iibout a thousand" oebple (outside the Tredes Hall that the dispute was over, and the agreement only required to be endorsed by a greeting of the tramwayroen at 3 o'clockMhis afternoon. He said tfie->la-tter proceedings would be only fbr[.■mal,- in view of tho fact that the i.terms of settlement had been arrived [rat unanimously. The terms of settlement provide for (l)The removal of Inspector fuller to ; some other position in the •tramways service, as originally requested the-.Tramway-Union, an<l :iaow desired by that officer himself;. •and (2) .that, it be an instruction to the Eleotirical" Engineer to. have Inspector Puller placed, on the settlement of the dispute, in a position where he will hot have any dealings with the members of the Tramwaymen's Union. The agreement was subsequently •ratified at a meeting of the Tramways Union, and the cars will resume •running to-morrow morning.