Labour Supports Use of Coaches
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QUPPORT for the action of Sheffield
Transport Committee in operating 20 private hire coaches to supplement the municipal bus fleet was expected to be given by the city council when The Commercial Motor closed for press. After hearing spokesmen for both the committee and employees, who are striking against the use of the coaches, on Monday, the Labour group, which controls the council, agreed to support the committee's action,
Last Saturday, most of the transport department's employees kept their threat to strike if the coaches were not withdrawn. They have said that they will strike each Saturday until their demand is met. This week there was talk of a complete stoppage.
Sheffield's busmen contended that the hiring of private coaches would set a precedent for the rest of the country, and that they would be deprived of earnings because they were paid extra for overtime working at peak periods.
The transport committee assured the staff that none of them would suffer any loss in pay, and that every effort would he made to give them the type of duty similar to that which they had been called upon to surrender as a result of introducing the coaches.
The coaches were used on five services on Monday. Collecting boxes arc being employed in place of conductors, and Mr. R. C. Moore, general manager of the transport department, said that the takings indicated a reasonable return.
v. SOUTHEND
BOTH sides of the National loin, Council for craftsmen in municipal passenger transport undertakings appeared together against Southend Corporation before the Industrial Disputes Tribunal, in London, yesterday. The reference was under Article 9 of the Industrial Disputes Order, 1451, which deals generally with cases in which particular employers are alleged not to have observed the conditions or terms of a negotiated settlement. The hearing was in private.