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| From the Sydney Sportsman 4 Oct 1916 p. 2. |
TOUGH ON THE TRAMWAY TROUBS.
THE SUDDEN SACK FOR SOME.
FOR FOLLOWING POLITICIANS' EXAMPLES.
That it is not always safe for "the man in the overalls" to follow the example of the man in broadcloth is proved by recent happenings in the Tramway Service. The departmental rule is that conductors and other employers shall have annual holidays.
As part of this concession the tramway employees are granted a railway pass that entitles them to travel free on concession is further extended to the wives of such employees. To enable them to give their mother, sister, or some lady friend a trip into the country, it has been a custom lor single men to join the service as married men.
Recently the "heads" have been busy looking up the matrimonial records of its employees, as single men are a bit in demand just now. The result of this labor of the "heads" was that they discovered that a number of single men had used the married men's railway passes.
This was enough for the "heads". They immediately sacked every one of the backsliders. When a certain member of the Ministry was detected in doing exactly the some thing as the Troubs are alleged to have done, he was not sacked out of public life for his back sliding.
Nor was another Big Noise, who is now in the Legislative Council, fired out for the same offence. From this it will be seen that it is not safe for a tramway troub to offend on the fame lines as a legislator.
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