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Bus Employer Backs the Workers

12th September 1958
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READING a paper on "Labour Relations in the Municipal Passenger Transport Industry" at the annual conference of the Municipal Passenger Transport Association at Blackpool this week, Cllr. C. Blackwell, chairman of Manchester Transport Committee and an ardent trades unionist, was highly critical of the employers. At the same time, he thought that if there were only one trade union in the industry, instead of six, conditions would be easier. He was in favour of payment by results, and urged the case for grouping municipal undertakings by regions. He wanted all pay awards to be made retrospective.

Wages and conditions were an incidental theme in the paper on "Public Control Without Nationalization " by Mr, Norman Morton, general manager of Sunderland Transport Department. He presented a case for the taking over of all the stage-carriage services in the country, including those of London Transport, by local authorities, and the formation of a separate body as part of the British Transport Commission to run express services.

The abolition of licensing and the establishment of a national wages council were expected to flow from the new forms of ownership. Mr. Morton quoted the high costs and fares of London Transport as an example of what happened when an organization grew too large.

Aid. J. H. Whitaker, vice-chairman of Todmorden Joint Omnibus Committee,. in his presidential address to the Association on Tuesday, joined CM-. Blackwell in saying that the machinery of the Municipal Passenger Transport Employers' Federation should be reorganized. Like Cllr. Blackwell, he also condemned the fuel tax, which he described as a tax on the poor.

• He thought the M.P.T.A,'s activities were inclined to be too varied, and that if they were reduced and more time were devoted to each, the testilts Would be better. There were 11 standing' committees, and the M.P.T.A. were represented on abOut '26 other committees. • Some of the redundant committees Might with advantage be wound up.


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