Arbitration Board Meet on Bus Pay Claim
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From Our Industrial Correspondent
THE board of arbitration into the pi claim of 100,000 provincial busmt in private company undertakings beg.' its hearing in London this week. Judgir by the speed of a similar board inquirir recently into the parallel claim ft municipal busmen, their report should t available very shortly.
They will no doubt bear in mind 0I Is. award made to municipal busmei which has been accepted by bot employers and unions.
The board is under the chairmanshi of Mr. D. J. Robertson, soon to t Professor of Econornies at Glasgo University. With him sit Mr. Stank Kennedy, nominated by the employer and Mr. W. D. Goss, named by th unions.
Although the main claim on th municipal side of the industry has no been settled, the undertakings are face with yet another claim. The settlemer applied to bus crews and semi-skille and unskilled maintenance men. No, the skilled men are asking for mar money.
T h c Amalgamated Engineerin Union's policy-making National Con mittcc decided at Eastbourne last wee to press for an extra II a week for thei skilled members. They were not sans& with their last increase of threepence a hour and delegates claimed that thci rates did not compare with earnings i industry.