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RISE FOR CARTERS: NOTHING FOR MOTORMEN

30th December 1939
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Keywords : Wool, Labor

IVERPOOL transport employers

have issued a statement explaining why they do not fully meet the application of the Carters and Motormen's Union which has put forward an application for increased wage rates. The employers oiler 5s. a week advance to senior carters and 2s. 6d. to junior carters, but nothing for motormen.

Explains Mr. Allen Walter, secretary of the Conference of Liverpool and District Road Transport Employers (embracing representatives of the principal associations of motor users in the port):—

" There is no national negotiating machinery for darters. The regulation of their wages is still of local concern, hence the offer of the employers.

" For motormen, there has been set up the Central Wages Board under the Road Haulage Wages Act, and very shortly there will be issued by the Ministry of Labour the first wages order compiled and approved by the Board. Both the Liverpool employers and the Liverpool Men's Union are represented on this Board."

Certain Merseyside road-transport workers have been receiving wages on the same standard as the Grade I scale which will appear in this Order. Men who run vehicles outside a 10-mile radius are already paid wages higher than the Grade I scale, e.g., drivers of heavy solo vehicles are paid 2s, per week more; drivers of the lighter-type vehicles are paid from 1s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. per week more, according to the class of vehicle and the second men receive 45. a week more than Grade I.

Liverpool employers point out that if they were to grant an increase at this stage it would mean that both journey workers and local workers would be receiving wages well above the national scale. The level of the Merseyside transport workers' wages has, for many years, been above those in force in other centres, with the certain exceptions of London and the possible exception of Bristol.

Australian Encouragement for Producer Gas

"THE latest Australian mail brings 1 the text of the recently issued third report of the Commonwealth Standing Committee on Liquid Fuels, The report is almost entirely devoted to the subject of producer gas for motor vehicles, the use of which it strongly recommends for the operation of farm tractors and road-transport vehicles in country districts.

The committee also submits the following recommendations;-..-(t) That the Commonwealth and State Governments encourage the wider use of producer gas by the remission of 50 per cent, of the road tax on vehicles properly equipped for producer-gas propulsion, such concession to apply for a period not exceeding five years; (2) That, in order to stimulate public interest in the use of producer gas, the Commonwealth Government should appeal to all large public utilities,

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haulage contractors and private firms utilizing road transport to equip one or more vehicles with producer-gas units; (3) That the Commonwealth Government makes a sum of £1,000 available to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in the forthcoming financial year to cover the estimated cost of the proposed investigation on charcoal.

Personal Pars

MR. GEOFFREY PARKES has been appointed honorary technical adviser to the web-equipment and webbing-production branch of the Ministry of Supply. The board of Small and Parbes, Ltd., has released him from ordinary business for the duration of the war.

LORD CADMAN, C.C.M.G., has been appointed honorary adviser on oil by the Secretary for Mines, who has also appointed SIR HAROLD HARTLEY, C.B.E., F.R.S. , M.C., to be honorary adviser on the development of homeproduced fuels. LORD HYNDLEY, G.B.E., retains his position as honorary commercial adviser on coal.

A Time-saving Stud Driver

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Named the IVI.A.S., the tool is made for all standard sizes of stud from 2BA to / in., and the prices range from 7s. 6d. to 38s 6d.

r VEHICLES FOR WOOL CONTROL: RATES AGREED rURTHER steps in the development Iof the scheme for road hauliers of wool to co-operate, on a centralized basis, in transport for the Wool Control. organization of the Ministry of Supply, were taken at a meeting of West Riding operators in Bradford last week. Mr. Henry Burrill presided.

As reported last week, the scheme provides for a grouping of wool hauliers, each of them allocating a specific number of vehicles to haulage for the Wool control, with a central liaison officer to receive instructions from the Control and to organize transport. The immediate plan is to operate from Liverpool and Hull to the West Riding.

At last week's meeting every " operator present gave an undertaking, to allocate certain vehicles to this work as required. The number of vehicles promised totalled 77, with an aggregate carrying capacity of 762 tons (5,340 bales). Tonnage rates were agreed.

Mr. Henry Burrill was elected as

central liaison officer. In arranging for the dispatch of the wool from Vie docks, the Liverpool offices of William Burrill, Ltd., and the Hull offices of K. Barr (Leeds), Ltd., are to be employed.

Messrs, H. Burrill, H. Woodhead, C, M. Bradford, J. B. Ormondroyd and R. Barr were elected to a committee to carry on the scheme.

Administrative expenses will be met by • earmarking 5 per cent, of traffic. receipts. 'The balance will be distributed among the operators in proportion to the amount of wool which they carry under the scheme.

On the suggestion of Mr. Robert Hanson, of Huddersfield, it was agre:d that a monthly return showing the amount of wool carried by each operator should be circulated among the members of the scheme.

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