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Railway "Cant and Humbug," Mr. Bibbings
YORKS WAGES BOARD PERSONNEL.
THE new Yorkshire Area Board, established under the Wages Act, held its first meeting on Thursday of last week in Leeds. It is learned that Councilor Charles Holdsworth, of I. W. Holdsworth, Ltd., Halifax, was elected chairman, with Mr. A. J. Heal (Transport and General Workers' Union), as vice-chairman. Councillor Holdsworth and Mr. Heal held these offices respectively on the old Yorkshire Area Board.
It was intimated that the Employers' Panel of the new Area Board has elected Mr. A. H. Butterwick, of Leeds, to be its representative on the Central Board, and that the Employees' Panel has chosen Mr. J. Bowman (Transport and General Workers' Union), of Leeds, as representative.
North Shields Haulier's Appeal.
T" Appeal Tribunal, sitting at the County Sessions House, Preston, has reserved its decision in the case of an appeal by J. M. Burgess, Ltd., of Billy Mill Avenue, North Shields. against the refusal of the Northern Licensing Authority, to vary an A licence. The respondents were the London and North-Eastern Railway Co. and United Automobile Services, Ltd.
Forest Logging under Discussion.
" FOREST Logging and Extraction" is the title of the subject which will be introduced by Mr. E. H. B. Boulton, M,C„, M.A., on the occasion of a meeting of the Institution of British , Agricultural Engineers, at Hobart House, Wilton Street, London, S.W.1, to-day (Friday), at 6 p.m. The meeting will be open for general discussion.
Port Said Needs a Fire-engine.
THE Egyptian Ministry of Public Health, Municipalities Department, is calling for tenders for the supply, for the Municipality of Port Said, of a fire-engine with a 100-ft. steel telescopic fire escape. Tenders have to be delivered by February 25. Fuller details of this call may be obtained from the Department of Overseas Trade, 35, Old Queen Street, London, S.W.1, reference T.17941/39 being quoted.
A Book for A.E.C. Visitors.
ACLEVER idea of the Associated Equipment Co., Ltd., Southall, Middlesex, is the production of a "Visitor's Book," which describes a tour of the large and well-equipped A.E.C. factory at Southall. It is extremely well illustrated and gives a comprehensive idea of the manufacturing facilities and exceptionally fine equipment of this interesting works. It would be advisable for intending visitors to obtain copies.
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ABARNSLEY firm of coal merchants, whose business was said to have declined considerably because of an alleged agreement between railway and collieryinterests to restrict the road transport of coal, were opposed by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Co. at Rotherham last week, when they sought permission to carry other goods for hire or reward. The application, for a B licence in substitution for an existing C licence, was granted, subject to modifications.
During the hearing, before the Yorkshire Licensing Authority (Major F. S. Eastwood), sharp criticisms of the railway company were put forward by Mr. Frank G. Bibbings, licensing and propaganda officer to the Yorkshire Area of .A.R.O., who appeared for the applicants, Messrs. Booth and Hobson.
Mr. Ernest Booth, of the applicant firm, said that until about two years ago he and his partner were running a successful coal business. The collieries had since refused to supply coal to the applicants for delivery by road beyond a radius of seven miles. The reason for this refusal, he alleged, was an arrangement between railway companies and 'the collieries,
In reply to Mr. H. F. R. Sturge (for the L.M.S.) Mr. Boothadmitted that his firm had carried coal by road for more than seven miles.
Mr. Sturge submitted that, if the applicants had Suffered any hardship they had brought it upon themselves by breaking the condition.' .
Mr. Bibbings, in reply, said it was
cant and humbug " for the objectors to make such a suggestion. They 'had entered into "a disgraceful arrangement whereby they could control matters behind the scenes." They asked for a monopoly of coal delivery beyond a radius of seven miles.
Mr. Bibbings suggested that the railway attitude in this matter amounted to brutal exploitation of the railway companies' financial might.
In addition to the carriage of coal for the purposes of their business as coal merchants. the applicants were given permission to carry for hire or reward within a radius of seven miles, furniture and household effects, scrap iron, rags and building materials.