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Answers to Busmen's Pay Claims Soon

14th September 1956
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NEXT .Wednesday has been .fixed as the date for the National Joint Industrial Council to hear the wages committee's recommendations on the claim for an extra 18s. a week in pay for 77,000 workers employed in municipal passenger transport.

On September 24, talks will be resumed between London Transport officials and the unions on a claim for London bus workers.

Early in the N.J.I.C. negotiations, the leader of the employers' side emphasized that the previous wages settlement had been made only six months earlier. He asked what new factors had arisen since that settlement, and stressed that the rise in the cost of living had been very small and did riot justify the amount of the increase sought.

The need for assessing the ability of the various undertakings to meet a further increase in wages was mentioned, and he stressed that many were in a

serious financial position.

Comparisons made by the union side between the speeds on services of various municipal undertakings and those of London Transport services were not borne out by an examination of the facts, he submitted.

BOURNEMOUTH PARKING INQUIRY DATES FIXED

PROPOSALS by Bournemouth Corporation to restrict the entry of toaches into the town are to be heard • by the South Eastern LicensingAuthority at Bournemouth Town Hall on October 16 and 17. As reported in The Commercial Motor on June 29, the Passenger Vehicle Operators Association will strongly oppose the proposals,

The corporation are seeking to divert express carriages, which now use the Avenue Road car park, to the King's Park car park, about two miles from the centre of the town,


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