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ability of workers from Midland car factories, Guy Motors, Ltd., Wolverhampton, have been recruiting labour from among ex-employees of the Austin Motor Co., Ltd. A 5-cwt. van bearing a placard which lists vacant positions at Guy has, during the past week, been visiting the Austin factory at Longbridge and the nearby Selly Oak employment exchange.
So far between 200 and 300 men have been interviewed, 60 of whom have been engaged. Almost all the immediate vacancies have now been filled, most of these being for lathe operators, but setters are still required for night-shift work.
Transport difficulties are being overcome by the provision of a Guy coach, which runs between Birmingham and Wolverhampton. In the evenings this coach returns day-shift workers to their homes and picks up night-shift personnel.
PAY TROUBLFS GO TO MINISTER
D EP RESENTAT1ONS on the diffi
culties they are having in establishing national joint machinery to cover clerical and supervisory staff employed by companies in the B.E.T. and Tilling groups are being made to the Minister of Labour by the Transport and General Workers' Union, the National and Local Government Officers Association and the National Union of Railwaymen.
The B.E.T. group are said to be putting up the strongest opposition to the unions' proposals. , SHOPPERS' SPECIAL SERVICE
'THE introduction of a special bus
service for shoppers for an experimental period of three months has been approved by Grimsby Transport Committee. In putting forward the suggestion, Mr. J. Rostron. general manager, proposed that the service be run along specified streets on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
The committee rejected an application by the National Dock Labour Board for concession fares for dock workers. "If we give this to the N.D.L.B. we shall have British Railways and everyone else asking," the chairman commented.
NO FOG AIDS FOR DRIVERS IT would be impracticable to mark white lines on roads with arrows to aid drivers in fog, the Ministry of Transport has told the road transport section of Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. The Ministry stated that road markings had been subject to much study and research before the adoption of previous recommendations. Members of the section have been asked to consider uniformity in payments for shift work, as there is no provision concerning them in existing wage scales for road transport workers. c3