Union to Press for Fuel Rationing?
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CEAR of unemployment consequent I on any deterioration in the fuel supply position will almost certainly lead the Transport and General Workers' Union to press for priority to be given to " essential " road services at the expense of private motoring. It is thought that they will bring pressure to bear on the Government to introduce rationing at an early stage. Signs of the Union's concern have already appeared in the north-west, where on Sunday area officials are to discuss the position. The Trades Union Congress may bring up this aspect of the subject at a meeting of the Government's National Production Advisory Committee on Industry, in London, today. Mr. Frank Allaun, Labour M.P. for Salford East, said on Tuesday that the laying-up of British Road Services' vehicles would affect about 1,900 men throughout the country. They would be kept in employment at the basic minimum wage, but the Union thought that B.R.S. would not be able to retain them indefinitely and that unemployment would result. "They feel particularly disturbed because these lorries are doing essential jobs so that export contracts can be fulfilled in time," he said.
NEW JOINT SERVICE TO BLACKPOOL
ANEW express service between Glossop and Blackpool was last week authorized to Yelloway 'Motor Services, Ltd., Lancashire United Transport, Ltd., North Western Road Car Co., Ltd., Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., and W. C. Standerwick, Ltd., by the North Western Traffic Commissioners. For the applicants, Mr. John Green said their aim was the co-ordination and pooling of licences in south-east Lancashire. It was really a continuation of the Oldham-Blackpool joint licence scheme. North Western's existing Glossop-Blackpool licence covered much the same ground as the Oldham licences, and if the present application were granted it would be surrendered.
It was their intention that in future revenue and mileage should be pooled, but operation would continue as at present. There was no question of merging licences.
WHITE-COLLAR WORKERS: FURTHER TALKS
TALKS on the establishment of national negotiating machinery for white-collar workers in company road passenger transport undertakings are to be carried a stage further later this month when officials of the three unions concerned will again meet officers of the Ministry of Labour. The unions are the National and Local Government Officers Association, Transport and General Workers' Union and the National Union of Railwaymen.