National Rates Plan for Removers
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RATES stabilization on a national basis and adequate machinery to enforce the agreed schedules, were urged by Major W. Taylor, MC., president, at the annual dinner of the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers, last week. The Association had already framed local schedules, he pointed out, but more widespread activity was necessary.
Membership of the N.A.F.W.R. had, Major Taylor added, increased.
Sir Harold Bellman, M.B.E., declared that associations played a bigger part in business than the trading community generally realized. Miss Ellen Wilkinson, M.A., M.P., said that, apart from fulfilling their duty to join their trade association, employers should recogniZe their employees' right to belong to a union.
dr. J. Riley, vice-president, paid a tribute to The Commercial Motor and other specialized newspapers for the important part that they played in furthering the removal industry's interests.
Other speakers were Mr. J. L. Gerson (vice-president), Mr. Leo ScottCooper (chairman of the National Federation of House Furnishers), and Mr. G. E. Gilbey (chairman of the N.A.F.W.R. Yorkshire centre).