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Frank Cousins backs the Bill
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• Mr. Frank Cousin's, TGWU general secretary, has pledged his union's support for the Transport Bill.
Mr. Cousins, writing in the Left Wing weekly Tribune, says: "The Road Haulage Association and other employers organizations which are opposing the Transport Bill are not talking our language; they are not speaking for our union or our members".
The TGWU leader denies that men will be laid off as a result of Mrs. Castle's legislation —"In fact, lorry drivers will get better protection when this Bill is passed".
The reduction of hours is long overdue, says Mr. Cousins. The present maximum of 11 hours a day is too long. Men who work them become physically tired and a tired man in charge of a big, heavy vehicle is a danger to himself and to all other road users.
Mr. Cousins warns, too, th-at the TGWU will insist on the same pay which men now get for the reduced hours worked.
"Quality licensing and other measures in the Bill will make the roads much safer," he adds, "and the job of the long-distance lorry driver more humane."
The TGWU supports the Bill; it might argue about details but it is a big step forward.
'TGWU members should be under no delusions about the employers' opposition to
the Bill. They are opposed to it because they are opposed to the men having better conditions of employment.