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From our Industrial Correspondent
TWO days have been set aside next week for discussion by a subcommittee of the National Council for the Omnibus Industry of the five claims put forward by union leaders on behalf of 100,000 company busmen.
Altogether the 'package deal", it is estimated, would cost the industry £14m. per year—equivalent to a 16 per cent increase in the present wages bill. Such a steep rise would be quite impossible to meet without another rise in bus fares. most of which went up after the last pay settlement last spring.
The three main claims are parallel with those submitted on behalf of 70,000 municipal busmen. In their case the negotiations have reached deadlock, which even Ministry of Labour intervention has so far been unable to break. The latest move is an appeal to the Minister of Labour to set up an arbitration court.