Yorks Bid to Standardize Local Rates T HE Yorkshire Furniture Removers
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Association has launched a campaign to extend the machinery: for the stabilization of local removal rates, which, on its initiative, has been put into operation in various Yorkshire towns. This move has been prompted by comments on the question of stabilization which have been made by the Yorkshire Licensing Authority (Mr. Joseph Farndale).
At the meeting at which it was decided to launch the campaign, Mr. George Cole, of Messrs. John Cole and Sons, Leeds, complained that some Leeds removers not in the Association were still operating at cut rates. He declared that, iii certain instances, such operators had increased their removals tonnage since the basic year.
It was time members of the Association objected to the licence applications of such people, said Mr. Cole. Members were trying to raise the status of the industry and to pay fair .wages to their employees, and they must take steps to protect themselves against unfair competition.
Mr. T. E. Pickersgill, of George Pickersgill and Sons, Ltd., Bradford, favoured the opposition of licence applications in such cases as those mentioned by Mr. Cole, hut emphasised that opposition would be useless unless concrete evidence as to rates charged were put forward. It would be necessary to obtain and keep a record.
The Licensing Authority's observations were also discussed at a meeting of Bradford removers under the chairmanship of Mr. 1'. E. Pickersgill.
Mr. Pickersgill remarked that the schedule of 'local removal rates which they had formulated in Bradford already had the support of operators representing about 75 per cent, of the removal vehicles used in the city, The observations of the Licensing Authority made their position both clearer and murh stronger. Efforts should now be made to obtain the support of local operators who had not yet signed the schedule.
Replying to Mr. Arthur Batty, who suggested that the organized members in Bradford should become definitely linked up with the Yorkshire Furniture Removers Association, Mr. Pickersgill said that he had already put before the Yorkshire Association the question of forming a branch. Several Bradford removers were already members of the Yorkshire organization, whilst others had stated that they intended to join: