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What the Associations are Doing

8th May 1936, Page 36
8th May 1936
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

INDISCRIMINATE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST EMPLOYERS?

Letters sent out by two of the workers' unions, accusing hauliers of not paying proper wages and of not observing fair conditions; were referred to by Mr. E. 0. Gray, East Midland Area secretary of A.R.O., at the annual meeting of the Northants Sub-area, last Friday.

Mr. Gray charged the Transport and General Workers Union and the United Road Transport Workers Association with circularizing such letters indiscriminately. The 'problem had arisen in both Northamptonshire and Leicestershire. .

Members who receiVed such letters should pass them to him or to -the subarea secretary. • Members could rest assured that A.R.O. was looking after their interestsalthough• • it Could do nothing for those who were deliber-• ately flouting the conditions laid down by th6 joint 'Conciliation Boatd—and the -matter was being taken up with

the 'East Midland Board. .

Central Highways Board Urgently Needed.

Major the Hon. Eric Long, T.D., J.P., political adviser to A.R.O., addressing members of the South Wales Area Of the Association at the second annual dinner, at. Bridgend, last Saturday, rather welcomed the change in the method of dealing with road expenditure, announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer,

• He pleaded for a central highways authority to deal not only with the allocation of road monies, but with methods of road construction. Major Long contended that the vesting in local authorities of road-construction powers did not make, for a unified system-and the wisest spending.

B22 Mr. Arthur Andrews, chairman of the Swansea branch, presided.

Mr. R. C. Evans, clerk to the South Wales traffic commissioners, Mr. John Morris (chairman of the Area Joint Conciliation Board) and Mr. J. E. Edmunds (Transport and General Workers Union) were among other speakers.

C.M.U.A. Croydon Meeting Postponed.

The C.M.U.A. meeting arranged for Croydon on May 13 has been postponed, owing to the indisposition of

Mr. Winton. The date of the rearranged meeting will be announced later.

NO NEW WAGE GRADE IN PLYMOUTH.

The refusal of the Devon and Cornwall Joint Conciliation Board to accede to the request of A.R.O. Plymouth Sub-area to reduce the city and the surrounding area, within a radius of 15 miles, from Grade 2 to Grade 3 in respect of wages, was reported by Mr. R. W. Fennamore, hon. secretary, at a meeting last week.

It was decided by the meeting that, although nothing concrete could' be done at the moment, any evidence that hauliers just outside the 15-mile limit were working in Plymouth should be collected.


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