Meanwhile, drivers and conductors of other vehicles deserted them at the terminus and gathered at trance to Central Station. conductor came out, he return to his work' and called on the other employees of the company to go on strike. In this he was contradicted by one of the motormen, a member of the union, who said that the union would never support them in this case.
The motormen and the conductors then boarded their vehicles and brought them to the Hart Road depot where they declared a strike. A police party, from Bubbling Well ation and the Reserve Unit attended, but no arrests were made.
Later in the morning, talks were held between the menagement of the company and the strikers, with the result that the latter agreed to resume work in the afternoon.
The question of "squeeze," which threatened the strike on a large scale yesterday, has been the sore point of the company as well as of the passengers for some time now. Only recently a Chinese passenger met death when he was said to have been pushed out of a tram by a conductor, with whom he had a quarrel over "squeeze."
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