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THE failure to report the wages structure and "1conditions of work of London Transport busmen to the Prices and Incomes Board was the final evidence of the failure of the Government to take its own policy seriously, said Mr. Norman St. John Stevas (Tory, Chelmsford) in the Commons last week.
It was, he added, clear to everyone that the Board was about to make a handout to the busmen, together with a reduction in the services offered to the long-suffering London public.
Mr. George Brown countered that what Mr. Stevas had said could not possibly be either accurate or relevant, because the new pay claim had not yet started.
Mr. Patrick Jenkin (Tory, Wanstead and Woodford) suggested that a useful purpose could be served if the restrictive practices in the London area—notably the refusal of the TGWU to accept even so elementary a thing as work study—were referred to the Board.
Mr. Brown was no more receptive when he was asked to refer the proposed increase in rural bus fares to the Board.