Mr. Moore Angers Sheffield T.G.W.U.
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QHEFFIELD officials of the Transport and General Workers Union lost no time last week in replying to an attack on certain platform staff made by the recently-retired general manager of Sheffield Transport Department, Mr. R. C. Moore, in his paper to the Public Transport Association at Eastbourne.
The paper was summarized in The Commercial Motor last week. Discussion on it is on page 584 of today's issue. Mr. Moore said that some people working for bus undertakings lacked a real
■ iense of responsibility and were "an equal burden to their trade union as to their employer." Union officials in Sheffield promptly regarded Mr. Moore's paper as a direct attack on Sheffield crews.
Commenting on the matter, Court. E. Scott, local passenger officer of the T.G.W.U., said: ." Mr. Moore says that added payments for abnormally awkward hours could possibly, be justified, yet all the time he was in Sheffield he was an opponent of it. Sheffield passenger branch has carried far more than its share of the burden in its endeavour to maintain a reasonable form of service for the public."