Colour-Bar Strike Threatened
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DRIVERS and conductors employed by West Bromwich Transport Department have threatened to stage a one-day token strike tomorrow, and on each successive Saturday until their demand is met, unless the management agree not to employ coloured workers.
Although the threatened stoppage does not have the official hacking of the Transport and General Workers' Union, the district secretary. Mr. H. Green, has asked Birmingham Transport Department not to allow crews to operate buses beyond the city boundary on services worked jointly with West Bromwich.
The chairman of Birmingham Transport Committee, Ald. H. Watton, said on Tuesday night that if the strikes took place Birmingham buses would not run in West Bromwich, because Birmingham would have to replace with its own vehicles West Bromwich buses not running in the city.
At a public meeting at Yew Tree, West Bromwich, held to protest against the lack of bus services to the estate. air. J. Oakey said the transport department's major problem was the lack of drivers. There were occasions, he said, when up to 14 buses had to stay in the garage because there were no crews to work them.
LONDON BUSMEN STRIKE OVER NEW SCHEDULES
FOUR central garages, involving 19 routes, 1,610 employees and 303 vehicles, struck work at midnight on Tuesday in protest against reductions ii services which the London Transport Executive introduced on Wednesday (The Commercial Motor, last week).
A meeting of more than 100 delegates of the Transport and General Workers' Union representing London bus garages decided on Monday not to accept the cuts, but no decision about what steps to take was reached.
The busmen allege that there has not been sufficient detailed consultation over the reductions and that in some eases there will be loss of earnings, and in others harder work.