Haulage Workers Get 4s. More on Monday
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STRONG objections by operators to a proposed increase of 4s..a week in the wages of adult road haulage workers, with proportional advances for juniors, have been overruled by the Road Haulage Wages Council.
The Minister of Labour has accepted the proposals set out in R.H.(47) and the new wages will come into force next Monday (January 18). The Minister has made an Order to this effect.
Mr. Bernard WinterbottoM, national chairman of the Road Haulage Association, is asking members to complete a return showing the wages paid and hours worked in each of four .weeks during November, 1953, by all Workers covered by the Road Haulage Wages Orders. The information' will be of great 'value to the employers' representatives on the Wages Council.
According to the Association, lack of the • information, which :is -new being sought handicapped the employers in the negotiations on -the Wages Council, which culminated in the increase of 4s. a week: This' proposal was contested by the employers and the voting Of the three independent members of the eounciFtipped the scales in favour of it.
. Schedules published by the Ministry of Labour include details of the average earnings of workers • engaged in goods road transport, but the method of compiling the details is not known. A wide margin of error,His possible, say the R.H.A. ' The Ministry bases is calculations on returns received twice a year from a few Selected operators, who are not necessarily representative of the industry.
-The information which Mr. Winterbottom is seeking will enable the official statistics to be checked. It would be treated confidentially.
33% INCREASE IN DELIVERIES
DELIVERIES of Leyland vehicles to operators in the United Kingdom during 1953 showed an increase of 33 per cent. over the 1952 figures. The most pronounced increase was in tI4 deliveries of Comet 90 chassis. Leyland Motors, Ltd., also report that business was brisk in double-deck buses.
Orders recently received from overseas included one from South Africa for 68 Comet 90 goods chassis. Spain has ordered 46 Comet 90 chassis, 16 of which will be used for passenger vehicles, and India and Pakistan have contracted for 36 and 16 Comet 90 passenger chassis, respectively. Africa has ordered 12 Super Beavers, and Holland 10 Tiger Cubs.
CHEAPER TYRE RATE
A SAVING of £1,170 a year will be /A made by Glasgow Transport Department as the result of a reduction from 0.64d. to 0.63d. in the mileage rate under Dunlop and India tyremaintenance contracts for the bus fleet.