New Bill's Effect in Yorks
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I N the Yorkshire Traffic Area, where the employers led the revolt against the old National Joint Conciliation Board, first impressions suggest a favourable reaction among hauliers to the Government's new Road Haulage Wages Bill.
So far as the constitution of the new Central Board is concerned, the proposals go a good way towards meeting one of the chief Yorkshire complaints— lack of Traffic Area representation on the central body. They do not accede to the contention that, apart from the independent members, the Central Board should solely comprise representatives of the Traffic Area Boards : but there is not likely to be much cavilling at the appointment of 12 representative or " national " members (six for the employers and six for the
workers) if, as is proposed in the Bill, the representatives from the Areas will, in the aggregate, amount to twice that • number,
Another point in the Bill which should have a pacific effect among Yorkshire employers is the proposal that' although, with the exception of Scotland, Area Boards shall not have power to initiate proposals, they must be consulted by the Central Board before that body submits any proposals to the Minister of Transport.
The Bill is welcomed in Yorkshire also because it gives promise of early legislation which will prepare the ground for, rates stabilization. It is felt that in itself the legislation proposed in the Bill will do a good deal towards checking the practice of ratecutting., '