BALLOT PAPERS ISSUED IN SCOTLAND
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THE National Executive of the Transport and General Workers Union has granted permission to members in the employment of the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., and allied bus concerns to take a ballot for and against strike action.
This follows the rejection by a delegate conference of bus workers, held at Edinburgh on March 10, of the SIVI.T. management's offer of improved wages and conditions.
Ballot papers have been issued to the branches in order that the vote may be taken to-day (March 24). A full statement is also being issued by the Union in which the issues involved are detailed. More than 8,000 members will take part in the ballot and returns will be sent, at the week-end, to the Glasgow headquarters of the Union for tabulation.
TROUBLE ABOUT BUS STOPS.
THEpractice of non-corporation buses stopping to "pick up" and " set down" between the fixed municipal halts is a Nuneaton grievance which brought the deputy town clerk of the Leicestershire town before the West Midland Commissioners at Birmingham last week. An application was made for the attachment to drivers' licences of a condition prohibiting their pulling up between the corporation stop signs.
It was asserted that the prevailing practice was prejudicial to traffic control, and constituted a potential menace to other road users.
For the Midland General Omnibus Co., Ltd., an objector, it was submitted that to attach such a condition to the licences would inflict hardship on lame people and women with young children.
The Commissioners reserved their decision.