Yorkshire A.R.O. Breaking New Soil T HE Yorkshire Area of A.R.O.,
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the salaried officials and staff of which have hitherto been concentrated at Leeds, is to open additional offices at Sheffield and Hull. An official from headquarters at Leeds is also to visit York at least once per week.
In conjunction with this decentralization of offices, for the purpose of providing more localized service for members, another measure of decentralization is being adopted with regard to committee work. This is an extension to the goods side of the system already adopted on the passenger side, whereby the Yorkshire Area is split up into four divisions, each with its own committee.
From these divisional committees will be elected the Yorkshire Area committee. This will be in two sections— one for goods and the other for passenger. operators, each section having its own chairman and vise-chairman. The new arrangement will not involve any change with regard to .the local committees of goods operators in the various towns:
Meetings of A.R.O. members will be held shoCtly in Leeds, Sheffield, Hull, and York for the purpose of electing the new divisional committees.
It is also intended to establish in each division a committee to organize the work of rates stabilization. A Yorkshire A.R.O. rates committee will co-ordinate the rates stabilization activities and function as a link on stabilization with the employers' panel of the Yorkshire Area Joint Conciliation Board.