WELSH STRIKE EXTENDED
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LAST week-end, the bus strike in West Wales extended to other concerns, the ,,employees of 21 undertakings already participating.
Last Saturday, Mr. A. Gray, general manager of the Western Welsh Omnibus Co., Ltd., withdrew the company's services in the affected areas, in the interests of public safety. This tactful action prevented the possibility of the "sympathy strike" spreading to Cardiff, and the implication of the National Union of Railwaymen in an unofficial demonstration.
Certain trolleybus services of the Llanelly and District Electric Traction Co., Ltd., were affected.
The strike continued on Monday and Tuesday of this week and there was no evidence of an early settlement. There was, indeed, a danger of the stoppage spreading to other South Wales districts and that railwaymen might become implicated. The strikers made an unsuccessful attempt to influence certain employees of Red and White Services, Ltd., Messrs. Gough's Welsh Motorways and Messrs. Imperial Motors, Abercynon.
As there exists conciliation machinery for settlement of differences between bus workers and employers, the conciliation section of the Industrial Relations Department for South Wales and Monmouthshire cannot intervene. Nothing can be done by the Conciliation Board until the men and the officials of the Transport and General Workers Union settle their internal dispute.
HEYWOOD EARNS PROFIT.
DURING the year ended March 31 last, Heywood Corporation's passenger-transport undertaking earned a net profit of £1,441, the total revenue having been £16,982 and the expenditure £15,540. The services are operated under an agreement with Bury and Rochdale Corporations. Bun., charged 12.542d. per bus-mile and Rochdale 12.691d.