T.K.C. Delegate' on Disposals Board ?
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APROMISE to consider the Minister of Transport's invitation for a trade union representative to sit on the Disposals Board, should the Transport Bill be amended to allow it, was given by delegates of the general council of the Trades Union Congress and of unions associated with road and rail transport, when they met the Minister last Friday.
The delegates made clear their opposition to denationalization. There was a discussion of specific questions affecting union members, including pension rights and compensation, wages and conditions of service in road haulage, and negotiating machinery. lhe size of the fleet to be retained under State Ownership was also discussed.
A further meeting took place on Tuesday. The trade union representatives gave their views on certain points arising from those parts of the Transport Bill under discussion during the committee stage' in the House of Commons this week.
On the first day of the committee gage, several Socialist Members Jeclared that thc unions would have nothing to do with the Disposals Board. Mr. Herbert Morrison claimed to have been informed positively to this effect. The Minister, however, hoped that the T.U.C. would nominate a list from which he could select a delegate and agreed that membership of the Board should be increased to seven.
An amendment to this effect was sponsored by several Conservatives. B.E.T, IN JAMAICA?
A N executive of the British Electric Traction Co., Ltd., could make no comment last week upon a report from Jamaica that the B.E.T. and two other interests were planning to run passenger transport services in the colony. The Jamaican Government was said to be negotiating with British companies to run double-deckers on the island. "The Commercial Motor" reported a year ago that Mr. J. P. Thomas, a British expert, who had been studying transport in Kingston, the capital of 'Jamaica, was believed to favour the introduction of double-deckers. A monopoly in passenger transport in the corporate area of Kingston is held by Jamaica Utilities, Ltd.