Grocers and Baillie Report
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OPPOSING any sectional arrangements between..employers and Workpeople's organizations, and advocating comprehensive statutory legislation for wages, hours and conditions, to cover the whole of the. distributive trades, Mr: Herman Kent, M.B.E., secretary of the National Federation of Grocers Associations, 'addressing the grocers of the country, last week, said that the road-haulage industry was a concrete example of the need for this control.
In this industry: the voluntary system, even with a statutory obligation to pay fair wages, had so completely failed for. want of statutory enforcement that the hauliers' organizations and the Transport and General Workers Union had pressed for statutory enforcement of wages, hours and
conditions. The Baillie Committee had reported in favour of this, and it was almost certain that it would be a principal feature of new legislation in the present session of Parliament.
The Baillie Committee also dealt with the Same question in relation to the drivers Of C-licence vehicles, and made recommendations which indicated some compulsory powers of enforcement. Grocers felt that drivers of Clicence vehicles in the distributive trades could hest be dealt with as a whole at the same time as other workers in the distributive trades. The Baillie Committee contemplated that such a course would be. possible as an outcome of the discussions of the Retail Distributive Trades Conference, under Ministry of Labour auspices.