Section 93 to be Amended?
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AS the result of arguments placed before him by a deputation, the Minister of Transport has undertaken to consider them if an opportunity occurs of introducing legislation to amend Section 93 of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, relating to wages and conditions of public-service-vehicle operatives.
The deputation, which included representatives of the general council of the Trades Union Congress and of the Transport and General Workers Union, urged that the Section should be amended to provide a definite link with agreements reached in the industry, instead of being related to the fairwages resolution, passed in the House of Commons in 1909.
Mr. Harold Clay, on behalf of the deputation, declared that the unions considered that the Section did not operate in the manner in which Parliament had intended. The resolution of 1909 was, he added, designed to meet conditions existing in other trades, which were largely localized, whereas transport was not confined to a small area.
Mr. Clay mentioned that the Industrial Court had decided that men working in garages were not engaged upon work in connection with the operation of a public-service vehicle, and he argued that Parliament had not intended that such workers should be excluded from the protection of Section 93.