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Operators Committing "Suicide"
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CIVIL WAR " amongst operators meant nothing less than lingering suicide, said Mr. Intin, local organizer for the Transport and General Workers Union, in a striking appeal to a meeting of A.R.O. members, at Warrington, last week. Employees generally gave employes credit for a superior outlook, but he was much afraid that in this instance the masters lacked such an attitude. Amongst other things for the general good they must eliminate raterutting. He appealed to operators to organize, just as much as he appealed to the workers to unite.
Major the lion. Eric Long said that emergenty taxation imposed in 1931 was faced cheerfully by the industry, but it was with the full anticipation that, in due course, it would he removed. The possibility of a raid on the Road Fund for armaments was a matter that should be the subject of questions to .Members of Parliament.
Local approach to each M.P. was necessary in order to link up with the national work done by headquarters.
In the matter of wages, he agreed that workmen should be paid the highest rate possible, but they must not kill the goose that laid the golden egg.
The police could not be blamed for persecution, declared Major Long, who attributed the responsibility to the legislators. There was, he added, a great need for special traffic. courts.
Although he felt that the industry suffered from over-legislation, he wokild. welcome Government intervention to bring about unification and orderly control of the business, said Mr. R. B. Stockdale, chairman of the A.R.O. North-Western area. Investigation of a new means for achieving iinification of associations was also necessary.
Mr. J. Wyudliani Gibbs Spoke on the practical work carried on by A.R.O. in the districts.