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The ending of the Roa( Haulage Wages Act of 1938 was described as "a tragedy' last week.
Speaking during a debate or the Employment Bill, Mi Stanley Crowther (Labour Rotherham) mentioned recent example of the greal value of the Act. In the milli industry, just over a year ago it was possible for a wages dispute to be settled amicably under the terms of that legislation by the Central Arbitration Committee.
That settlement, said Mt Crowther, followed a bittei dispute in the road haulag€ industry when there had been strikes throughout the country. Strikes could have occurred in the milk industry but for the rights of the parties to go to the committee to get the dispute settled.
It took only a moment's imagination to visualise the terrible consequences of a strike of road haulage workers in the milk industry, with no milk being moved from the farms to the depots or from the depots to the customers, added Mr Crowther.
A strike of that nature would be a disaster, but it was aveted because of that useful piece of legislation which was now about to disappear.
He hoped Mr Prior would be able to say that he had given this matter a little mnre thought and would come forward with a proposal to fill this glaring gap in legislation which would undoubtedly lead to more strikes.