Following upon a stoppage of two weeks' duration, work was resumed in the Linesmen's Section of the Electricity Department, on Monday, the 19th instant, The terms upon which the men engaged hava taken up duty are the same as those existent prior to the strike, with the exception that pay will be given to men called upon to carry out "stand-by" duty.
Such payment is already made to men engaged upon similar duty in other sections of the Department, and the concession would have readily been made to the Linesmen's Section had the request been. presented in a constitutiona] manner, and not in conjunction with a number of other and extravagant demands.
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