DUBLIN MONOPOLY A FAILURE?
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T"prolonged strike of bus workers in the Dublin city area has intensified the adverse conditions affecting the development of a co-ordinated passenger-transport system in accordance with the provisions of the Irish Free State Road Transport Act, 1933, which gave the Dublin United Tramways Co., Ltd., a complete monopoly.
Mr. Sean Lemass (Minister for Industry and Commerce) intervened in the dispute, last week, and suggested that the company should reinstate the bus driver whose dismissal' led to the stoppage, and that the questions of wages and conditions, which have, for the past eight months, been points at issue between the company and the unions, should be brought before the Conciliation Board. Mr. Lemass said: " If the public is to be subject to the risk of a sudden and unavoidable stoppage of practically the whole transport service in the Dublin area, the whole policy underlying recent legislation may have to be reconsidered." The workers rejected these proposals.
CORPORATION AGAINST' "FOREIGN" COACH TOURS.
AS the result of a complaint by the Devon General Omnibus Co., Ltd., the traffic committee of Torquay Corporation has recommended that representations be made to the Western Traffic Commissioners regarding the picking up and setting down of passengers in Torquay by tour operators
from other areas. The company claimed that this practice would nullify the recent arrangement between the local operators and the corporation for picking up at definite points.