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THE Minister of Labour has issued an Order, which became effective on January 31, confirming the proposals of the Wages Council for the Bread Trade in England and Wales providing for wages and conditions of workers. It is the first Order for this industry.
Pay of rounds workers in London is fixed at E6 12s. a week, provincial A workers 1:6 6s., and provincial B workers £6 2s. Transport workers in London. provincial A and provincial B areas now receive: Up to 1 ton, £6 17s., £6 13s. and £6 7s.; 1-5 tons, £7, £6 16s. and £6 10s.; over 5 tons, £7 4s., £7 and £6 14s.
Transport workers covered by the agreement between the Transport and General Workers' Union and employers in the building trade have been awarded an extra 2s. weekly. Similar employees of the British Oxygen Co., Ltd., have had an increase of 7s. 6d. a week and the subsistence allowance has been raised to 15s. a 'night.
Proposals have been issued by the Aerated Waters Wages Council for a rise of hs. a week for driver-salesmen, delivery workers and mates. Doubletime payments should be made for Sunday or holiday work, it is suggested.
Men in the retail food, furnishing and drapery trades are now being paid another 6s. a week and women 4s. hd.
BUSES WOULD SAVE 1215,254 THE replacement of trams by motor' buses will save Aberdeen Transport Department an estimated £215,254 over a period of 10 years. This was revealed in a plan submitted to a special meeting of the city transport committee by the general manager of the department, Mr. F. Y. Frazer.
Under the plan, which is expected to be approved by the town council, trams will be completely abandoned by the end of 1959.
A five-year plan for the replacement of 300 obsolete trams by motorbuses and trolleybuses was announced by CM:. R. McAllister, convenor of the transport committee, at last week's meeting of Glasgow Corporation. It would take 15 to 20 years before the entire tram fleet could be abolished.
LEVY RECEIPTS--£6.6m.
UP to the end of last month 16,618,810 had been received from the levy, the Minister of Transport told Mr. Dodds last week. He did not agree with Mr. Dodds that the sum affected the cost of living.
Mr. Ernest Davies was informed that by the same date 12,716 British Road Services vehicles had been sold, 12,314 in 4,271 units and 402 in three com panies. • The report of the Committee of Inquiry into London Transport is being printed and should be published in two weeks.