Yorkshire Reactions to Bid for
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Further Wages Demand ,
TI TREE Yorkshire road-transport operators, who have written letters in support of opposition to the latest application for an increase in the pay of A and B licence-holders' employees, assert that the individual earnings of their drivers are as much as they (the employers) draw from their businesses.
The letters are among numerous endorsements received by the Federation of Yorkshire Road Transport Employers, of the resolution passed at its recent meeting in opposition to another increase in wages.
One concern employing road-haulage workers, motor engineers and coachbuilders, states that the balance of wages among their various classes of worker has been upset already by the most recent wages increase.
Comparing the existing wages scales of A and B licence-holders' drivers with the pay of men in the Forces, another concern remarks that if a further increase be granted to the former, "it will be one • step more towards the state of affairs prevailing in the 1014-18 'ar—the civilian harvest and the Service draught."
. Another concern characterizes the application for a further wages increase as " a preposterous and unreasonable action by the trade unions," which, he suggests, appear to ignore the democratic rule of. this country by a policy of allowing 10 per cent, of the road-haulage industry, at the ports, to dictate the level of wages in the remaining 90 per cent, of the industry.
A further 'Yorkshire operator points out that his drivers have already received increases ranging from £1 to £1 10s. per week since the beginning of the war.