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17th April 1936, Page 30
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

The wheels of wealth will be slowed by all difficulties of transport, at

whatever points arising, as a carriage is by the roughness of the roads over which it runs.--John Beanie Crozier.

DRASTIC REVISION IN NATIONAL BOARD PERSONNEL? • It is anticipated that drastic" alterations will be made in the constitution fat the employers' panel of the National Joint Conciliation Board, 'when• the two-year term of office of the present members expires in June next.

Reference to the matter was made at a meeting of A and B-licence holders in Leeds, last week. Mr. Harold Goodwin, of Bradford, asked whether it was not a fact that, as from July 1 this year, a new National Board would be brought into operation, and that on the employers panel there would be a representative from each of the employers' panels of the 10 Area Boards.

Mr. Newham Dawson, of Scarborough, said . there was every hope that, when the National Board was reconstituted in July, it would reverse some of the decisions of the present Board, and make recommendations more on the lines of the Yorkshire employers' own schen:Le of wages• and conditions.

The 10 delegates would probably he additional to a number of other employers' representatives.

L.N.E.R. to Stop Road Transport of Timber from Docks?

Suggestions that the L.N.E. Railway Co. was demanding that goods brought into Hull timber docks should be carried by rail, on pettalty of a 50 per cent. increase in rentals to tenants, were made at a meeting of the council of Hull Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. J. H. Fisher, J.P., believed this to be the case, but Mr. J. Basil Stringer, president of the Humber district of the Timber Trades Federation, disagreed. Mr. Stringer declared that the railway 816 company had offered to spend a considerable sum of money to avoid congestion in the docks', and the subject was closely associated with that of road haulage.

Another speaker maintained that many timber hauliers would he put out of business and timber would be sent to other ports. Indeed, arrangements were already being made

Many "Potteries Drivers Underpaid ? That many operators in the Stoke area were not complying with the National Conciliation Board's agreement on Grade 2 wages, was alleged

by Mr. S. Brookes, secretary of the West Midland Area of the Transport and General Workers Union, at a meeting of the North Staffordshire Trades and Labour Council, at Hanley, last • week. Mr. Brookes said that the conditions agreed should have become operative on March 31 last, but in Stoke-on-Trent it had been shown that two-thirds of the operators were not paying Grade 2 rates, let alone Grade 1.

Whilst the payment of Grade 1 wages had not been agreed by the West Midland Conciliation Board, this award had been made by the National Board and should be put into operation without further delay.

Mr. G. W. Parton said that if he were furnished with a list of concerns paying Grade 1 . wages, he would examine the names of operators employed by the corporation and draw the attention of the city council to contractors who were not complying with the proper wages condition. During the ensuing discussion, Mr. Brookes suggested that the corporation should run its own transport department. RECORDS BEING SUPPLIED TO TRADE UNIONS?

Complaint is being made that, in pursuance of their activities in connection with the wages and conditions of goodstiansport employees, trade-union officials have, so it is alleged, obtained copies of the records kept by trade-. unionist lorry drivers, from the drivers concerned.

' Not only is strong exception being taken to this procedure, but the question is raised as to whether it is legal for a driver to supply to a trade union a copy of his records thus disclosing

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details of his employer's business to a party having no legal authority to have access to them.

P.W.R.A. Approach to Co-ordination.

Speaking to the Southampton centre of the Furniture Warehousemen and Removers Association, Mr. H. V. Bishop, the president, stated that the Association was arranging for the views of the furniture-removal industry to be placed before the committee of the Transport Advisory Council, which is making a large-scale investigation of co-ordination.

Ambitious Schemes Mooted.

Various hauliers are being invited to join in the formation of big operating companies. Apart from that in which Messrs. Mawby. Barrie and Letts, solicitors, are interested, another firm of solicitors is negotiating for the establishment of a goods-transport concern which will have a working capital of not less than £500,000. Efforts are being made to build this up from existing haulage companies.


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