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4s. Increase for Municipal Busmen

18th December 1953
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AN increase of 4s. a week was awarded last week to some 75,000 bus workers employed by municipal undertakings after their claim had been submitted to arbitration.

A• decision is still awaited on a similar claim made on behalf of 90,000 bus workers employed by private companies. It is understood that the employers made an offer of a wage increase last week, and that a meeting of the Transport and General Workers' Union has been called for next Monday to decide whether it is acceptable.

QUESTIONNAIRE AS EVIDENCE OF DEMAND FOR TOUR

AiQUESTIONNAIRE giving details of demand for a tour of Devon and Cornwall was praised recently by the Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority. It had been submitted by Messrs. Andrew W. Watson, Dundee, in support of their application for permission to run a seven-day tour of Devon and Cornwall.

The Deputy Authority, Mr. A. Robertson, said he was favourably impressed with the questionnaire. In the past it had always been difficult to get evidence of demand.

Mr. Andrew Watson said that if the application were granted they would run 13 tours at weekly intervals in June, July and August. He had already made provisional bookings with hotels.

Decision was deferred pending a further application by R. Dickson, jun., Ltd., Dundee, who, along with Messrs. D. Lawson, Kirkintilloch, and W. Alexander and Sons, Ltd., objected to the application.

BIRMINGHAM CORPORATION CRITICIZED

SPEAKING at a dinner in Birmingham last week, Mr. H. Herringshaw, a member of the executive of the Horse and Motor Vehicle Owners' Association, criticized the corporation's recent purchase of 100 lorries, at a cost of over £100,000, to reduce the need for hiring from contractors.

It meant, he said, that 100 vehicles had become redundant. This was a serious matter for the small hauliers who were affected. "Will any citizen receive benefit or get relief from the change? " he asked. "It seems only change for the sake of change."


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