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action rejected
B R1TAIN must accept that public transport
with "social" routes is never likely to pay its own way, said Mr. T. G. Bradley, Labour MP for Leicester North East, in his presidential address to the annual conference of the Transport Salaried Staffs Association meeting in Folkestone this week.
He said: "If the nation's needs demand a level of public transport involving both social and stand-by services, the nation must accept the fact that they are never likely to be remunerative on a normal accounting basis, and be prepared to pay for them in other ways."
Later a Reading branch proposal asking delegates to say that the executive committee of the union should be more militant in their negotiations was defeated.
His branch would like to see the executive get tough with management said Mr. R. A. Bell (Reading) but Mr. J. G. Bothwell the general secretary, asked: "What does militancy mean? Does it mean we should thump and shout across the table?"
To cries of "Yes", he answered: "It would not be at all effective. We believe in putting forward sound and reasoned argument and this has brought results throughout the years."
In a report on salary negotiations, Mr. Bothwell referred to the setting up of a working party. which was made at the suggestion of the Minister of Labour, Mr. Ray Gunter, to examine salary and pay structure.
We Dropped a Brick!: In the Common Room feature in last week's issue it was stated that in 1964 more than 7+m. bricks were produced in GB. This should have read 7,500m. Later in the article it was stated that road traffic carried about 20m. bricks. which should have read 20m. tons.