Smithfield Drivers Told to Settle Dispute
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THE London dockers, by a majority of 49 to four, on Tuesday passed a resolution which in effect told the Smithfield meat-vehicle drivers, who have been on strike for two months, that if they did not resolve their dispute by tomorrow, the dockers would return on Monday.
In reply, the Smithfield drivers' strike committee passed a resolution asking the officers of the Transport and General Workers' Union to continue to press for the re-opening of negotiations on their demand for a 15 per cent., increase in wages. The employers had, up to Wednesday, refused to resume discussions on the claim.
The demand for higher pay is based on the increase in the speed limit of heavy goods vehicles from 20 m.p.h. to 30 m.p.h., although not more than about one in .14 of the drivers on strike is affected by the change. Even men on long-distance work were still adhering to the old 20 m.p.h. schedules. The drivers had been assured by the employers that they would be no worse off under the 30 m.p.h. limit.
FROM RAIL TO ROAD FOR COAL PLANS have been completed for a change-over from rail to road haulage in August next year at Middleton Colliery, near Leeds, said Mr. Harold Saul, No. 8-Area general manager of the National Coal Board, last Saturday. The railway linking the colliery and Hunslet, the world's oldest commercial railway line, will be closed.
MICROGRAMS
Licence Renewal: Vehicle Excise licences which expire on June 30 may be renewed as from next Tuesday.
Parking Ban: Heywood Town Council are to prohibit the parking of heavy lorries on their parks between 6 p.m. and g a.m.. Don Distributors: Services (Tyre and Accessory), Ltd., 15 Union Street, Oxford, have been appointed distributors of Don brake and clutch facings.
Accessory Agents: Gerard Wakeharn, Ltd., Clifton Street, Glasgow, C.3, have been appointed sole Scottish representatives for Tudor Accessories, Ltd.
Lay-bys Sought: Traders in Sale, Cheshire, are urging their council to build lay-bys so that trade will not suffer because of proposed loading restrictions on the trunk road through the town.
End of G.N.R.: A Bill is being drafted for the Ulster Parliament for the ending of the Great Northern Railway, which, on October 1, will be taken over by the Ulster Transport Authority and Coras Iompair Eireann. Minibus On Show: The Morris Minibus J2 will he exhibited at a two-day display of British cars and small buses in Rome next month. It is hoped to interest influential circles in Vatican City in British vehicles. School Tour: Nearly 7,000 miles have been covered in the Low Cbuntries, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy by a Perkins mobile school, based on a Dodge chassis, which gave instruction to over 2,000 people. Body Brochure: W. Mumford, Ltd., St. Andrew Street, Plymouth, have issued a brochure describing the different kinds of bodywork they produce. Among the types illustrated are a pantechnicon, a mobile shop and a breakdown tender.