EXPELLED FROM UNION: MEN APPEAL
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THE National Executive of the. General and Municipal Workers' Union is to consider the appeal by employees of the Economic Bus Co., Whitburn, Co, Durham, against expulsion from the Union for refusing to sign a declaration to abide by Union rules.
The men were expelled after the North-East bus strike last June. They were told by the Union to return to work and sign the declaration. Whilst obeying instructions to return to work, the men have declined to sign the declaration.
LOSS ON TOWN BUS SERVICE
BECAUSE the three town services in Arbroath have shown a loss of £750 in five months, W. Alexander and Sons, Ltd., is cutting down the system to one experimental route. If this does not prove profitable within a montb, it will be withdrawn.
Mk. SETTLES COVENTRY BUS STRIKE
ON October 9, Covent-ry Corporation'stion's bus employees, who ceased work because of a disagreement over conditions arising from the operation of services to meet the needs of staggered hours in industry, decided to return to duty. The stoppage lasted for nine days.
As reported in "The Commercial Motor "• last week, the National Joint Industrial Council was asked to arbitrate. A visiting emergency committee of the J.I.C. found that there appeared to have been misunderstanding between the parties on certain matters of fundamental importance. To enable the situation to be clarified and discussions to proceed, the .Committee suggested that there should be an immediate resumption of work, and an early meeting, in Coventry, between representatives of the parties, assisted by the emergency committee and a representative of the Ministry of Labour.
This suggestion was accepted, and the men, returned to work on the following terms proposed by the emergency committee:—The status quo to be modified to include the 11-day-fortnight schedule prepared to meet the staggering of industrial hours, such schedules to carry the appropriate hourly rate of pay, but with the present methods of payment for Saturday and Sunday work.
The further meeting is to be held in Coventry on October 23.
BUS STATION BUILT IN EIGHT WEEKS I N eight weeks London Transport has . built a new coach station on a site at the corner of Judd Street and Cromer Street, St. Pancras, London. This urgent work was necessitated by the expiry of the lease on King's Cross Coach Station.
The site consisted of the basements and areas of houses which had been demolished in 1944. To provide a level park, the ,basements had to be filled with hardcore, for which 5,220 cubic yds. were used. More than 1,000 cubic yds. of ashes were employed to make the surface of the park.
A temporary booking office and hail have been erected with timber wall sections and roof trusses from a sectional hut at Stanmore. Other accommodation, including a waiting room and luggage office, were constructed from 9 in. hollow concrete blocks, breeze slabs and bricks, with asbestos sheeting for the roof. The building was completed in just over three weeks..
TO THE POINT TO-N1GHT (October 17) two short papers will be read to members of the Omnibus Society at the Institute of Marine Engineers, 85-88, Minories, London, E.C.3, by Mr. J. H. Fielder (" Recent Technical Improvements in Bus Design ") and Mr. R. J. Durrant (" Tickets: Some Aspects •of the Society's Collection ").
Mr. J. Graeme Bruce will speak on " Bits Services on the Great North Road Between Doncaster and Edinburgh," at the Institute of Marine Engineers on November 21. Both meetings will be held at 6.30 p.m.