Busmen Press for a Decision on Wages
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UNION leaders of 100,000 employees of private .bus companies asked the. Industrial Disputes Tribunal, last Fridayi for a decisicin on their claim for a 10s. 6d. a week wage increase. This follows the rejection by the Transport and General: Workers' Union of a 5s, offer by the employers, combined with a concession to skilled night workers.
Mr. Arthur Townsend,. national bus officer of the T.G,W.U., told the chairman of 'the Tribunal, Lord Terrington, that wage rates had risen in other industries since. the busmen last had an increase. There was also a: large differential between provincial and London rates for bus workers.
The British Transport Commission, he said. owned 37 of the 72 private Companies involved in the claim, and there was no reason why the Commission should not extend its pension schemes to the so-called private company busmen.
--HAULIER MUST OPERATE 7 MILES FROM HOME 1-1 A SCOTTISH livestock 'haulier under
took at Aberdeen, last week, not to base his vehicle in his home town, but to operate from a point seven miles away. He was Mr. Alfred Tennant Morrison, Land Street, Keith, who applied to the Scottish Licensing Authority to take over a B licence held by Mr. George Burnside, IVIulben.
Mr. Morrison said he had been running the vehicle since last February on cattle haulage. Two local farmers gave evidence, both claiming that they would be inconvenienced if the application were refused.
Objectors were Burgess TranspOrt (Keith), Ltd., Who withdrew when Mr. Morrison agreed to work from Mulben and not to keep his vehicle at Keith. The application was then granted.
John Bull Embark on New Trading Policy
A' ,NEW trading policy has been announced by the John Bull Rubber Co., Ltd. _Garages. will now be able to obtain the company's whole range of tyresfrom the same distributors and motor trade factors who handle other makes. .
A number of district stock depots has been closed because new depots in London, Bristol, Leeds and Glasgow are to be, opened shortly. Each will be a self-contained unit carrying a complete range of tyres and accessories,
. A separate tyre division has now been set up under" the control of two John Bull directors, Mr. Trevor Laker and Mr. Gordon --Barrett Sales manager is Mr. Bryn Lewis, formerly national sales manager of Tyresoles, Ltd., and his deputy is Mr. C. .R. Mitchell, Mr. Laker's personal assistant for the past two years.
Mr. A. L. Oran controls the export business and Mr. D. R. Burrows has taken charge of advertising and publicity matters.
Early next year a completely redesigned and extended range of John Bull giant tyres will be listed in sizes up to and including 10-in. sections and in various ply ratings.
CASH COMPENSATION?
CEYLONESE bus operators who had ‘ed their businesses taken away through nationalization last January will be paid compensation in cash if the Government agrees to a suggestion by the Minister of Nationalized Services and Road Transport. The original idea was to compensate them with Government bonds, but foreign creditors have been pressing the former operators for hire-purchase agreements to be settled.
Compensation, to be fixed by a special tribunal, will cost the Ceylon Government about 11,857,000.