NO LICENCE FOR MINERS' SERVICE
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WHEN Messrs. Frank Galloway and Sons, 80 Main Street, Stane, Shotts, Lanarks, applied to the Scottish Traffic Commissioners in Glasgow, last week, to operate a miners' bus service, it was stated that they had been providing such a facility for 24 years.
Mr. James Law, for the applicants, said that the service operated by the Central S.M.T. Co., Ltd., who objected, went from Shotts to Allan Schoo:. Miners going to the colliery had to change at Allan School. He believed that the service that Messrs. Galloway had been providing had been on a contract basis, a bus being hired to an individual acting on behalf of a committee of miners.
Mr. Galloway said that he was still operating the service and applied for a licence about six weeks ago. He agreed with a representative of the objectors that he was operating outside the law, but said that he had not been aware that he had been doing so.
Earlier last week 600 Shotts miners struck work because they wanted their union and the National Coal Board to support the firm's application.
The application was refused.