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• The matter • was raised at the longscheduled second meeting of the National Committee on Tuesday hut it proved impossible to reach a decision agreeable to both employers and trade unions. The trade union view was that local disputes could not be discussed at national level until local negotiations had been finalized: the RHA view was that this particular local dispute had indeed been finalized and must he settled nationally. (Mr. A. G. Beck. commercial services secretary of the TGWU. emphasized to The Commercial Motor this week that the union view of the way to regard disputes was essential if the National Committee was not to be forever involved in discussing local matters. In his opinion, local negotiations could not be regarded as finalized until every possible avenue of negotiation had been exhausted locally.)
After inconclusive talks lasting virtually all day on Tuesday, all that was apparently decided was that the employers would send representatives to the Ministry of Labour next day. So on Wednesday morning Mr. N. T. O'Reilly (chairman of the employers' panel) and Mr. R. H. Farmer, together with Mr. E. W. Russell and Mr. R. P. Duffy of the RHA's secretariat, went to the Ministry and put a case to a conciliation officer. The employers' views were noted but there was no indication that the Ministry would intervene in the dispute at this stage.
Later in the day there were reports that the men on strike were to return to work unconditionally. but the final results of a joint meeting on Wednesday afternoon were not expected to he known until the following day.