Wann Fined £600 on Licensino. Charges
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A PERTHSHIRE haulier, John Wann,
Main Street, Methven, was fined a total of £600 at Perth Sheriff's Court on Monday, after being convicted on four licensing charges.
The first and second .charges alleged that Wann used two lorries without a
carrier's licence. Ninety-two offences were listed and Wann was fined £250.
The third and fourth charges, which involved 40 offences, were that Warm used a lorry outside the conditions of the licence. A fine of £350 was imposed. He was given three months to pay.
Sheriff A. N. Prain heard evidence in the case last week and announced his decision on Monday. The defence, he said, was that the lorries were not being used by Wann, but were hired out by him to a timber contractor and that the drivers were employed by a labour agency.
• The Sheriff was satisfied from the evidence that the drivers of the lorries concerned were, in relation to the journeys, in Wann's employment, and that the name of the labour agency in the context of this case was, to all intents and purposes, merely an alias for Wann.
BUSMEN REFUSE 29s. Sd. FOR ONE-MAN WORK
EEMPLOYEES of Hull Transport Department decided last week-end not to support the extension of one-man bus operation. They had been offered an increase in wages of £1 9s. 8d. a week, but they decided by 465 votes to 64 to resist any further .spread of one-man working. It was stated that any volunteer driver who acted also as a conductor would be "sent to Coventry."
• The dispute,. is now to go to the National Joint industrial Council.
Hull Transport Committee wished to inaugurate one-man working on two new routes with nearly 100 driver-conductors. It was emphasized that there would be no redundancy. The services should have come into operation last Sunday. •
Two months ago the crews voted against the extension of the practice.
PROVINCIAL BUSMEN TO "WAIT AND SEE"
UNION officials representing 177,000 provincial busmen have decided not to put forward new wage claims until the decision on London's demand is known. Leaders of the municipal and company employees held talks last week on the position which would arise if the pay differential was widened again, but agreed that it would be wisest to adopt a "wait and see" policy.
Meanwhile, the London Transport Executive were faced with a fresh claim, this time by 6,400 engineers in their bus workshops, who sought "a substantial pay rise.Four unions submitted the demand—the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the National Union of Vehicle Builders, the Electrical Trades Union and the Transport and General Workers' Union.
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