Editorial Appointments
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MR. ALAN E. HAVARD has assumed the editorship of The Commercial Motor. MR. CHARLES M. HENDY has been appointed assistant editor,
Mr. Beck to Succeed Mr. Eastwood
TWO appointments, important to the transport industry, were made by the Finance and General Purposes Committee of the Transport and General Workers' Union last week.
They chose Mr. Albert Beck to be the new national secretary of the Union's commercial services group and Mr. Sam Henderson to be national passenger secretary.
Mr. Beck succeeds Mr. Fred Eastwood, who has joined the Express Dairy Group as industrial relations officer, and will in future lead the union side at wages council meetings.
He was Mr. Eastwood's deputy since 1955 and before that served at Tooley Street, Bermondsey, where he looked after road transport members.
Passenger Side, Too For Mr. Henderson, the appointment means that the wheel has turned full circle. He was passenger group secretary 11 years ago in the days of Arthur Deakin's general secretaryship of the union, and was forced to resign when Communists were barred from holding office.
Mr. Henderson resigned from the Communist Party following the Hungarian rising and for the past few years has been serving as deputy to Mr. Arthur Townsend, who retires from the post in July.
Mr. Townsend has for some time been under fire from the more militant elements among the busmen and has decided to retire two years before the age limit of 65 as he is entitled to do under union rules.
Until he goes, he and Mr. Henderson will have joint responsibility. Their most important problem, of course, is the pay claim on behalf of 170,000 municipal and private company busmen.
Under Mr. Henderson, a soft-spoken Scotsman of 56, the employers will look for no softening of attitude.