On This Day
On This Day, 29 April 1918
On 29, Apr 2018 | In On This Day | By Nicola Gauld
Evening Despatch
Monday 29 April 1918
TRAM SERVICES
A DEPUTATION TO WAIT ON THE BIRMINGHAM COMMITTEE.
A further protest against the raising the fares and the earlier stoppage of the tramcars in Birmingham was forthcoming from the Trades Council on Saturday night.
Recently a deputation from the Trades Council waited upon the manager of the Corporation Tramways Department and urged that the services on the main routes should continue to run until 11.30, in order that postal, railway, and other workers who did not leave their employment until eleven o’clock might not be compelled walk long distances to their homes in the suburbs.
The report of the deputation not being considered satisfactory, the President, with representatives of the railway and postal workers, were appointed to seek an interview with the Tramways Committees, as the result of which it is hoped a few cars will run on the main routes until 11.15 p.m.
The deputation will also protest against the abolition of the halfpenny fares for school children and the raising of the ordinary fares by curtailing the various stages.
