London Busmen Accept 7s. 6d.
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A DELEGATE conference•representri ing London's 53,000 bus workers. on Tuesday, accepted an improved offer by the London Transport Executive of an extra 7s. 6d. a week for drivers and conductors and 7s. 4d. a week for maintenance workers. It is back-dated 10 weeks. The new offer was made at a meeting between the 1...T.E. and the Transport and General Workers' Union on Monday.
A proposal which will enable the staff to earn an average of an extra Is. 6d. a week for Saturday work was also accepted. Maintenance workers will benefit from a -small adjustment which is to be made in the method of calculating the incentive bonus payment. These become operative from the first pay day after last Wednesday.
The increases will cost the L.T.E. nearly _£1.5m. a year and. it is understood, are likely to lead to rises in fares. The workers' claim was for an extra £1 a .week.
After two years' service, a bus driver's basic pay on Central buses and trolleybuses will now be £9 13s. 6d. and that of a conductor £9 9s. 6d. Country bus drivers will receive £9 4s. 6d., and conductors £8 19s. 6d., and single-deck coach drivers £9 8s. (conductors. £8 19s. 6d.).
APPLICATION ADJOURNED FOR FIFTH TIME ADJOURNING for the fifth time an application by T. Hesketh, Ltd.. Widnes. for the renewal, with modification, of their A licence, the NorthWestern Deputy Licensing Authority said on Tuesday that lithe applicants' witnesses did not attend on the next occasion, he hesitated to say what would happen.
Mr. E. A. Whitehead, for T. Hesketh. said that the basis of objection by the British Transport Commission was a change of normal user. When the licence was first granted in 1948, the normal user was "all classes of goods, Liverpool, London, Widnes, and as required," which was identical with the present application.
On December 11, 1948, the licence was transferred to a limited company. At the first renewal on June 16, 1951, normal user was granted for " all Imperial Chemical Industries' goods, as required," a material change of business.
The company were now applying for renewal in the original terms. Three previous hearings had been adjourned because there were no witnesses.
Mr. G. H. P. Beames, for the Commission, said that the objectors would contend strenuously that the case should be treated as a new application.
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