London Busmen Boycott Wages Meeting
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LONDON central busmen refused to send delegates to the meeting held in London on Tuesday by the Transport and General Workers' Union to attempt to establish a co-ordinated national policy on busmen's wages. The meeting was attended by more than 100 representatives of provincial company and municipal busmen, and of London trolleybus and country service workers (see page 587).
A letter sent on Monday to Mr. Arthur Townsend, national secretary of the bus worker's section, by eight of the 13 members of the London busmen's negotiating committee, said they had "no confidence that the decisions of the rank and file delegates" to the conference "will be accepted and carried out."
They expressed their dissatisfaction with the Union's refusal to countenance action to obstruct London Transport's reduction of services.
A delegate to the meeting suggested that the Union's executive council should conduct a full-scale investigation into the reasons for the central busmen's surprise action. This would compel Mr. Frank Cousins, general secretary, and other Union officers to justify their refusal to support retaliatory measures against London Transport.
STRONG OPPOSITION TO • NEW EXPRESS ROUTE TEN road operators joined British I Railways in objecting to an application heard jointly by the East Midland, Eastern and Metropolitan Traffic Commissioners this week. Buckmaster Garages, Ltd., Leighton Buzzard, Beds, were seeking a new express service between Aylesbury and Glasgow, picking up at Leighton, Dunstable, Luton and Bedford.
Four days were set aside for the hearing at Luton. It was scheduled to occupy Wednesday and Thursday of this week and next week.
REVOCATION DAY
FIVE operators will appear before the Northern Licensing Authority, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, at Newcastle upon Tyne, on November 25, to show why special A licences held by them should not be revoked or suspended.
The licensees are McPhee's (Newcastle), Ltd. (five vehicles); Mr. T. Dodd, Bedlington Station; G. C. and A. Robson, Slaley; N. Elliott, Haltwhistle; and Mr. G. Allinson, Etherley Dene, Bishop Auckland, whose case was adjourned from November 10 for the attendance of a witness from K. and B. Motors, Ltd. (The Commercial Motor, November 14).
WESTERN REVOCATION INQUIRY
THE Western Licensing Authority has
called P. B. Browne, Ltd., Sheepwash, Beaworthy, Devon, to an inquiry to be held at The Castle, Exeter, on December 9, to show why their A and B licences should not be suspended or revoked.