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Reconstruction of North-Western Board

17th January 1936
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A CTION to make the NorthtAWestern Conciliation Board's employers' panel fully representatiye is urged by many Cheshire 'operators and at a meeting held under the auspices of the C.M.U.A., in Crewe, last Friday, a resolution was unanimously passed to the effect "that . . . only responsible employers of labour be allom ecl to sit, as we feel the present Board does not adequately represent the districts. . . ."

The meeting comprised employers from Macclesfield, Northwich, Stockport, Chester, Knutsfofd, Tarporley, Whitchurch, Alsager, Sandbach, Winsford, Middlewich and Delamere.

The meeting further demanded the reconditioning" of the machinery affecting the National Joint Concills..tion Board and asked that the C.M.U.A. National Council, together with other associations concerned, should immediately approach the Government with a view to the reconstruction of the National Board, as operators believed that, it no longer represented the industry in the way they approved. That each of the traffic areas should elect one representative and that a third of the Board should retire annually, was the system suggested. '

Grade 3 wages were affirmed to be sound for the Cheshire area and the highest which the industry could afford. It was further decided that higher rates for the picking up or setting down of goods in a higher-rated area should not apply, whilst, owing to the fluctuations of trade, it was impossible at times to give employees a guaranteed 48-hour week.

Ethployers present agreed with " the suggested wages scale for a new Graf: 1. for the North-Western Traffic Area, along with the necessary reductions for Grades 2 and 3, as set down in the National Joint Conciliation Board's report." The Area Board was asked to press for a uniform date, for all districts, "for the commencement of the national wages rates as set down by the National Board."

Forthcoming A.R.O. Meetings.

A meeting of the Northern sub-area of the Metropolitan division of A.R.O. will be held on January 20, at the Angel Hotel, Fore Street, Edmonton, at 7.45 p.m. Mr. R. W, Sewill, national director will be the principal speaker.

We are informed that the venue for the meeting to be held at Gloucester, on January 29, will be the Shire Hall, and the proceedings will begin at 7.30 p.m. In our issue dated December 27, a meeting was announced to take place at Northampton on February G. This has now been cancelled, but a meeting will be held at Aylesbury on that date.


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