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refuse to use buses operated by companies who employed non-union labour and to tip non-union drivers on coach excursions, Mr. A. West urged at last week's meeting of Nottingham and District Trades 'Council. The -unions should .oppose the granting of licences to' operatorswith non-union labour, he
said. • He Moved that the council should call upon all trade union, labour and cooperative organizations to boycott certain bus companies.
Supporting the motion; Mr. J. Bailey said that in the recent strike the Government had encouraged the employers, the police had been provocative and the Press vicious.
Mr. L. Jacobs, president, said that the attitude of the police towards " blackleg " labour was of the utmost seriousness, and Mrs. M. Shaw complained that the Nottingham police had helped to load people into buses in the garages.
MANY . LEYLANDS FOR URUGUAY t IltUGUAY is receiving a steady flow of vehicles from Leyland Motors, Ltd., who have orders in hand from that country to the value of well over £500,000. Shipments of vehicles in the past few weeks to Corausa Corporacion Automotriz, S.A., Montevideo, the company's agents in that country, have amounted in value to nearly £100,000.
Among the customers arc the C.U.T.C.S.A. bus co-operative of Montevideo, who have already more than ,600 Leyland buses, and the National Brewery, who are to receive a fleet of Comets. These vehicles will have • two-speed axles . of heavy-duty 'pattern and 10.00 'by 20 tyres. '
CROXSON REMANDED AGAIN I AST week, Harry Nicholas Croxson, haulier, of Berwick Road, Rainham, who had been remanded in custody by Aldershot magistrates on the charge of being concerned in the theft of a lorry and its contents, was remanded until October 3. '
He was allowed bail in the personal recognizance of £500 and two other sureties, each of £500. In addition, he was ordered to report daily at Rainham police station.
As reported last week, Croxson was charged with three other men in stealing the vehicle which, with its load of tobacco and beer, was said to be worth £30,000.
MILEAGE CUTS GRANTED
T"application by East Yorkshire Motor Services, Ltd., to reduce frequencies on 12 East Riding rural bus services, which will save the company £11,595 in a full year (The-Commercial Motor, August 2), has been granted by the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners in a reserved decision.