WAGE CONTROVERSY IN THE NORTH-WEST.
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Lengthy discussions regarding the grading of districts took place at a meeting of the North-Western Area Conciliation Board, on Thursday of last week. No agreement was reached, we are informed, and the meeting was adjourned until February 21. By a decision at an earlier meeting, Grade 2 will continue until July 1.
For A and B-licence holders in Rochdale, Oldham, Leigh and districts, the employers asked for Grade 3, stated the secretary of the United Road Transport Workers' Association, following the meeting, but this request was refused by the employees' side. It is contended by the workers' representatives that Grade I should apply in all industrial districts of Lancashire and Cheshire. This matter is to be discussed before
the next meeting by the associations on the employers' side.
Cases of the dismissal of men for making application for the wages agreed „by the Board were considered. The employees' associations have notified the employers that, in all cases where the agreement has not been carried out, claims for retrospective payments will be made, Provision that, where a vehicle carries to or from an area in which a higher rate is operative than that of its originating district, the higher rate (or, in certain cases, the trunk rate) shall apply is urged by the workers.
The Latest in Public-address Vans.
We reproduce on this page a picture of an interesting Bedford 2-ton publicaddress van, which is in the service of Messrs. Mobile Announcers, 40, Huron Road, Balham, London, S.W.12. The capacious body, which is 21 ft. long, is streamlined ; it was designed by the user and built by Wallace Carr and Co., 42, Acre Lane, Brixton, London, S.W.2. It is finished in black and red and has chromium-plated frames on each side for carrying 8-ft. 6-in. by 4-ft. posters, whilst at the rear is a frame on each of the double doors for taking posters 1 ft. 9 ins. by 2 ft. 7 ins. The van has the latest Savage sound equipment. LFS. IMPORT CHANGES DURING THE PAST YEAR.
Owing to the policy of the Irish Free State Government for establishing a motor industry in the country and to the ban, introduced last October, on the importation of completely assembled vehicles, the imports of commercial vehicles into the Free State. last year, totalled only 41, as compared with 99 in 1933. The value of mobir parts and accessories, however, rose from 4446,306 in 1933 to 4557,683 in 1934, whilst the number of chassis im ported rose from 1,834 (valued at 4248,956) in 1933 to 2,912 (£341,464) last year.
During December last, vehicle parts and accessories to the value of 444,630 were imported, this figure representing a decline of 41,619 on that for December, 1933. The number of chassis imported rose from 89 in December, 1933, to 543 in December, 1934.