DRIVERS 'IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE'
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FINES totalling £125 were imposed on five drivers who pleaded guilty to charges of falsifying drivers' records, at London Quarter Sessions Last week. Drivers H. T. Smith, T. H. Jupp, F. G. Etherington, W. J. Norman, and K. E. Kiddie were each fined £25 with costs.
Evidence was given by Mr. H. M. Self, prosecuting for the Ministry of Transport, that for the drivers' records to be correct a driver would have had to be "in two places at once". What was happening, he told the court, was that in order to avoid prosecution for driving more than the permitted number of hours, a driver would record only part of the journey on his log and the remainder was credited to another driver —who signed the record, despite the fact that he would be busy elsewhere.
Mr. Salmon appealed for leniency to Mr. 0. S. MacLeay, presiding, as all the drivers had long standing service with their employers, Tunnel Refineries Ltd., and none had been in trouble previously.
Fine unofficial strikers —Say CBI
THE Confederation of British Industry now favour fines for unofficial strikers and Unions violating procedure agreements. This was stated by the president, Sir Stephen Brown, when appearing before the Royal Commission of Trade Unions and Employers' Associations on Tuesday.
The CBI would oppose legislation making it illegal for employers to forbid workers to join unions. The "closed shop" should be outlawed because it could result in workers being deprived of their livelihood.