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Britain's Highest-paid Workers
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From Our Industrial Correspondent
VEN before the latest pay increase, details of which are given in the accompanying panel, the men who work• the vehicle building industry were Britain's highest paid workers.
According to the Ministry of Labour .Gazette, they earned in October last an average of £16 19s. 7d. a week, compared with the national average for manual workers of £14 10s. 8d.
Men in motor vehicle manufacturing were top with £17 13s., followed by air. craft I manufacturing and repairing with £16 14s., motorcycle, three-wheel vehicle and _ pedal cycle manufacturing with £14 17s. 2d., and railway carriages and Wagons and trams with £14 13s. 7d.
On the women's side, road passenger transport, not including London Transport, easily Came out top with £11 Os. 7d. They were followed by women in motor vehicle manufacturing who were earning £8 19s. Id. a week. Both groups are well
• above the national average for women of £7 8s. 4d.
CHANCELLOR URGED TO CUT ROAD TAXES
THE British Road Federation has urged the Chancellor of the Exchequer to cut vehicle taxation by 30 per cent, in his forthcoming Budget. It is estimated that in the financial year now ending the Treasury will collect £657 million from road users.
In a memorandum, the Chancellor is reminded that when petrol tax was raised in 1952 to 2s. 6d. per gallon, road user taxes yielded under 1300 million a year. It has now more than doubled. And unless the rats are reduced, the forecast growth of traffic will swell the yield to some £800 million by the middle 1960s.
The B.R.F. view is that a yield of over £650 million a year is intolerable.
BAROMETER STEADY, SAYS DODGE
COM MERCIAL vehicle sales, accprding to an official of Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, are a good economic barometer, and seem to be "holding steady."
c26 Since the survey was made, the Ministry estimate, wage rises and reductions in hours of work have raised the level of full-time weekly wage rates in the industries covered by nearly 2; per cent, and that of hourly wage rates by nearly 3; per cent, by mid-February.
Contract A Switch Refused
WHEN a customer supported VI' haulier's application in order tr obtain lower rates, an entirely wrong principle was being used, said Mr. G Timmins, on behalf of British Railways when an application by Wilfred Harrisor (Transport), 1.td., Norborough Road Tinsley, was refused at Sheffield last wed by the Yorkshire Licensing Authority.
Harrisons wanted to transfer fou. vehicles, at present on contract to Tinslel Rolling Mills Co., Ltd., to. A licence They also sought one additional vehicb to be used solely for local work.
On the previous occasion Mr. W Harrison, managing director, said that tu promises had been made that the rate would be reduced, but when units wer. on A operation they were more flexibl, and interchangeable and there was ; chance that rates would be lower thai they were when the fleet was used fo contract operation.
"Objectors Must Present Schedules
THE importance of schedules of avail I ability of vehicles being presented b objectors was stressed by Mr. W. F. Quit the Scottish Licensing Authority, a Glasgow when Alex ,Scott fContractors Ltd., Glasgow, again appeared on continued application for 12 vehicles an eight trailers. ; In any such substantit application the objectors must preset evidence as well as objections, Mr. Qua ruled, adjourning the case for sue information to be filed.
When Mr. Quin asked whethr schedules of availability had been lodge by B.R. and B.R.S. to show that the had thousands of units available for extr traffic, he was told that no such • dal had been prepared. "My obligation to ensure that traffic does not "excec requirements," he said.