Docks Bill attacked
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CRITICISM of the Docks Work Regulation Bill came from Mr Albert Simpson, secretary of the RHA Southern area, speaking at the Brighton sub-area annual dinner in Brighton last Friday.
Exclusion for long-established operations was fine till it was realised that those depots which would qualify for exemption were those considered to have had no connection with the docks or had not had work transferred to them from the docks. These conditions without proper definition would lead to endless argument.
Moreover, said Mr Simpson, there was already machinery for establishing what was and what was not dock work and this had worked on many occasions.
The implications of this legislation for the haulier were utterly to his disadvantage and hauliers and others connected with the industry should protest strongly to their MPs about it. There was, after all, nothing to prevent dockers from applying for the jobs at cold stores and other depots outside the docks.