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Company Busmen's Claim Rejected
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FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT
THE three-point claim by 100,000 company busmen was turned down out of hand when the National Council for the Omnibus Industry met in London on Monday. The six unions which make up the workers' side of the council submitted demands for a substantial increase in their rates of pay, a 40-hour week without loss of pay and a third weeks' holiday with pay.
In a statement afterwards the employers' side maintained that the unions' claim came too soon after the last "voluntary settlement" (41per cent in May) and a further increase could not be entertained at the moment.
Leaders of the 70,000 municipal busmen were due to meet their employers to submit parallel claims at another meeting yesterday (Thursday). It was considered most unlikely that the municipal employers would show ^any greater willingness to grant another pay rise so soon after the last settlement.