'Call off strike' plea to LT busmen
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• Leaders of the TGWU, who met the Minister of Transport on Friday to discuss the "serious crisis" in London's transport, are urging representatives of LT's 28,000 busmen to call off the token strike threatened for New Year's Day.
Although Mr. Fred Wiley told the meeting that he had no powers to initiate a public inquiry, Mr. Jack Jones, TGWU general secretary, said afterwards that "our irnpression is that the Minister sympathizes with our view".
Mr. Anthony Bull, vice-chairman of the London Transport Board, who attended the meeting, promised to arrange a meeting between the busmen's leaders and the chairman of the new Executive, Sir Richard Way, as soon as possible after February 1.
The busmen opposed, among other things, plans to reduce the annual mileage operated by the bus services passing to GLC control from 208 to 204m miles—a process to be spread over the whole year. At the time of closing for press, no meeting of the busmen's delegates had been arranged.