More Talks on Pay: London Busmen Want El 5s. Extra
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cURTHER discussions on the claim
for a wage increase of Ll a week were held yesterday by both sides of the National Joint Industrial Council for the municipal passenger transport industry.
At the previous meeting. the employees' side rejected an offer by the employers of an extra 9s. a week for drivers, 7s. for conductors, 5s. for inside staff, and 3d. an hour for employees on permanent night duty.
Next Tuesday, the National Council for the Omnibus Industry, representing the provincial bus companies and their employees, will meet for the first time to consider a similar claim.
Normal bus services were run in Manchester last Saturday. Drivers and conductors who had threatened to repeat each Saturday until Christmas the one-day strike of the previous weekend in protest against the delay in negotiations for an increase, reversed their decision during the week.
A delegate conference representing 58,000 London busmen decided by a majority last Friday to instruct their representatives to ask the London Transport Executive for an increase of £1 5s. a week on their basic rates, with a levelling up of differentials. Inside staff, as well as drivers and conductors, are concerned.
London Transport are understood to have offered 6s. 6d. for drivers and conductors, and union officials believe a better offer might be obtained if the men would undertake to work sufficient overtime to maintain present schedules.
Leaders of the Transport and General Workers' Union were not given a chance to speak at Friday's meeting.
SCOTTISH LIST RESULTS A LTHOUGH tenders for units in the I—I Special Scottish List closed 16 days ago, no details of purchases are yet available. The implication is that exceptional thought is having to be devoted to the offers submitted. Most of the vehicles are contained in large units.
OBITUARY
WE regret to record the death of MR. J. FARRIMOND. Mr. Farrimond, who was 62, was traffic manager of Lancashire United Transport, Ltd., and served the company for 48 years.