Home Guard Guidance for Transport Operators
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FOR the guidance of operators in the North-eastern Region, a memorandum concerning road-transport employees and compulsory enrolment in the Home Guard has been circulated to the operators' associations by the Regional Transport Commissioner, Major F. S. Eastwood. •
This explains that when the Ministry of Labour has directed an employee to join the Home .Guard, under the Defence (Home Guard) Regulations, 1940, the employer can make representations against such enrolment if he considers that, in the national interest, the man concerned should not be released from his normal duties in an emergency. Should the Ministry of Labour not accept those representations, the employer can appeal against that • decision to the Government department principally cmicerned with the work upon which the employee is concerned—in the case of road-transport workers, the Ministry of War Transport.
Pointing out that expedition is necessary in the lodging of such appeals, the Commissioner's memorandum suggests that appellants should immediately contact their local subdistrict manager in the case of goods transport, and -the Commissioner's office (44, The Headrow, Leeds, 1) in the case of those concerned with passenger transport.
"It will be appreciated," the memorandum continues, "that each case must he considered on its merits, but the broad criterion upon which the Regional Transport Commissioner will base his recommendation will be whether it is essential in the national interest that the man concerned must, in the event of invasion, continue to carry on with his civilian duties.".