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Manchester Bus Pay Clash
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N offer by Manchester Corporation I Transport Department of improved tyments to platform staff, at a probable ;st of £4,000 per week, met with a mixed ception when placed before the men last eek-end. Several depot meetings are id to have accepted the plan, but two fused, demanding a straight uncondimal rise in the basic wage. Should the orporation not agree they are threatened ith unofficial strikes in the near 'future. The Corporation plan calls for standing issengers to be carried at all times, for e use of one-man buses when necessary, id for depot staff to act as relief drivers td conductors at peak periods. Platform aff would relinquish their present incencc bonus, early morning pay and latetish overtime.
Instead, there would he a big improveent in spreadover payments and good mduct bonuses, and time and a quarter Ir early and late turns. The main dispute over good conduct money; the men's presentatives stating that an employee mid lose more than 6s, if late for work nly once in a week when, if on split-shift orking, he might be reporting as many ; 18 times.
For the T.G.W.U., Alderman R. E. homas told The Commercial Motor on ,ednesday that further meetings would ave to take place before the question auld be finalized. At that time, he said. le situation was not clear.
Man Management
COURSE on man-management for A. senior transport managers in the bus Ldustry was held this week by the ;Austria] Welfare Society at their ondon headquarters. The speakers Lauded Mr. E. R. L. Fitzpayne, general lanager of Glasgow transport departLent, Mr. W. D. Hart, staff and comiercial manager of Southdown Motor 2•Tvices, Ltd., Mr. L. Waller, traffic tanager, Ribble Motor Services, Ltd.. ad Mr. J. F. J. Webb, personnel officer, ianchester Corporation.
The course was introduced by Mr. 31in Marsh, the Institute's director, and Ir. David Davies, technical adviser. The Vital Work of Road Transport D OAD transport was doing a vital job. 1‘ said Sir Richard Nugent, M.P., at the annual lunch in London on Tuesday of the National Conference of Road Transport Clearing Houses. Mr. Nugent said: "The railways have their part to play, but there is no doubt that you are doing a vital job in helping the export drive. The Government are grateful to you for all you do in your tough, competitive world.
However much you may feel neglected in the building of roads you are priority No. I. The Government has now built, or is building, 300 miles of motorway."
The president of the conference, Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies, made a plea for amendment of the Construction and Use Regulations to permit larger maximum limits, He said: "I do not believe the country as a whole, and industry, realizes the growth of the Common Market."