Haulage Pay Confusion
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t Our Industrial Correspondent BLINGS of trouble to come in road-haulage industry. But no !ruptions.
was the confused picture as claims unter-clairns were bandied about le operation of the new pay and tgreernent.
Frank Cousins, general secretary powerful Transport and General Union, apparently did not find ssary to seek powers from his and General Purposes Commitmil out groups of his members on a strike.
lammed that all firms who had been :led had agreed to pay tin. three t. increase and make the two-hour on in the working week from last y-the date wanted by the unions ad of January 1, the d?te fixed by ulster of Labour.
ootland, Mr. Kitson, of the Scotarse and Motormen's Association, a similar claim. The threatened widespread strike thus seems to have been modified into a token stoppage, affecting only one employer and 100 drivers-at the Glasgow depot of Road Services (Caledonian), Ltd, But the Road Haulage Association denied that any of its members had stepped out of line.
For obvious reasons it was difficult to check .the conflicting claims.
Whatever the position in private haulage, there were increasing signs that British Road Services would soon be facing more active trouble.
They,.too, had offered the three per cent. rise and 42-hour week to start on January 1, but had been turned down by the unions.
London depots in particular were waiting for a sign to "have a go."