Company Busmen Claim an Extra £1 2s.
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IT is understood that a rise of £1 2s.
a week is being sought by the 100,000 employees of company bus undertakings in the provinces. As reported last week, the employers' side of the National Council for the Omnibus Industry are now considering the claim, which also seeks alterations and improvements in employees' working conditions.
Dissatisfaction with their existing pav —and, indeed, with the amount of the increase now proposed by the trade unions—is indicated by the action of a number of employees of the Scottish Omnibuses group who, last Saturday, staged an unofficial token one-day strike over a claim for an extra fl 17s. a week. The strike was not as widespread as it was originally expected to be.
A meeting of some 350 employees of the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., in the Worcester area last Sunday agreed to support an application for a narrowing of the gap between provincial and London's country bus workers. This was the third meeting of its kind in the Midlands (The Commercial Motor, March 15 and last week).
IRAQ TALKS FOR
SIR W. WAKEFIELD iNTENDING to discuss with the Iraq I Government that country's transport requirements and the prospects for increased purchases of British vehicles, Sir WaveII Wakefield, M.P., chairman of Park Royal Vehicles, Ltd., and a director of the A.E.C. and A.C.V. concerns, is to leave London for Iraq tomorrow.
Large-scale road construction and general development are being undertaken in Iraq financed by oil royalties. Last year's British vehicle exports to Iraq were valued at nearly £1.4m.