5s. Increase for Haulage Workers Recommended : Employers Resist
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AFTER a meeting lasting from 11 a.m. until 7.30 p.m., the Road Haulage Wages Council decided by a majority vote last week to recommend an all-round increase of 5s. a week for adult road haulage workers. An extra 3s. 6th was awarded to workers of 18-21 years. and 2s. 6d. below that age. The employers voted against the award, which, so far as adults are concerned, corresponds approximately to the rise in the cost of living that has taken place in the past 12 months.
It was also decided that the subsistence rate should be increased by Is. to 16s. a night. An extra 9d. a day, making a total of I0s. 9d. a day, was awarded for
subsistence on a weekly basis. • The following towns are proposed to be transferred from Grade 2 to Grade 1: Mclksham, Torquay, Paignton. Ripon. Whitby, Boroughbridge, Winchester, Totton, Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Stratford on Avon. Upgrading of 16 other towns was refused.
It was agreed that the period during which holidays should be,laken should remain unaltered.
The table below shows the present and proposed rates for 44, 52 and 66 hours a week. Including overtime, the driver of a maximum-load eight-wheeler in London will receive an extra 8s. 7d. a week.
Steamer Owners
AS operators of a sea cargo service between Uig and Glasgow, David MacBrayne, Ltd., objected last week, together with Highland Haulage, Ltd., and the railways, to an application by Mr. Angus Stewart, of Uig, Skye, for a licence for two additional vehicles to carry diatomite from Uig to Glasgow, Motherwell and Stirling.
Mr. J. Boyd, managing director of Scottish Diatomite, Ltd., Uig, appeared in support of the application and said that his company expected to treble their. output. There was a need for flexibility in the types of transport available, and he had guaranteed to deliver 15 tons a week to a Glasgow concern.
Because of the uncertainty of the steamer's running to schedule, it was essential that these loads should go by road, The application was granted by Mr. A. Robertson, Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority.
Progress in the Highlands of Scotland could not be retarded, although traffic might be abstracted from MacBrayne, stated Mr. Robertson when Messrs. Stormont and MacLean, P.ortree, applied to carry agricultural feeding stuffs for Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd.,
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from Glasgow and distribute them throughout Skye.
A MacBrayne representative said that some of their sea cargo services might have to be curtailed if there were too much abstraction of traffic in the Western Isles. but a witness from Scottish Agricultural Industries claimed that road transport would be more efficient and not present the same risk of loss by damage.
Granting the application, Mr. Robertson said that ever since he was old enough to read the newspapers, depopulation of the Highlands had been a common topic. The Highlands and Islands Advisory Panel and the Crofters' Commission had from time to time referred to the urgent need for reasonably priced transport.
BIGGER BUSES FOR LIVERPOOL A T present operating 61-seaters, Liver1-1, pool Transport Department arc to experiment with a Leyland Atlantean 77-seater, an A.C.V. Regent Mark V 75seater, and an A.C.V. Bridgemaster 75-seater. It is proposed to buy the Atlantean and the Regent at a cost of approximately £5,500 each, but to hire the Bridgemaster for a trial period.