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brewing concerning the question of future machinery for the regulation of wages and conditions in the goodstransport industry. The Baillie Committee, it will be remembered, recommended the setting up of a new Central Board, the employers' panel of which would include two representatives from each of the ten traffic areas.
The employers' panel of the old National Joint Conciliation Board, which the new Board would replace, wants a scheme of reconstitution, formulated in 1936, put into operation, whereby the employers' panel of each of the ten traffic areas would have one representative on the National Board, with a deputy to act in his absence. • There are already indications of strong opposition to such a procedure. It is pointed out that under this arrangement the ten area representatives would be simply additional to the 15 employer representatives who have, hitherto, comprised the employers' panel of ihe old National Board, and, therefore, the latter would still have a majority which would enable it to control the policy of the employers' national panel. Such a position, it is argued, would mean that the national panel would still not be properly representative of the industry.
The contention that the national panel was not properly representative Was one of the main points put before the Baillie Committee by employers opposed to the National Board and its scheme of wages and conditions. It was stressed in the Yorkshire opposition evidence, and it may be anticipated that the erpployers who put forward that evidence will take ,steps to oppose the suggestion that the employers' national panel should not be completely re-formed, but that the existing panel should be augmented by the addition of area-board representatives.