Mr. Thorneyeroft Opens "3M" Plant
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NTY years ago unemploymerr in the Gorseinon area of South Wales was nearly a third of the insured population. Even four years ago it was 6 per. cent. Now it has fallen to 1.6. This stems from the.-White Paper on Employment issued by the Coalition Government in 1944, following which the neighbourhood became a development area in which manufacturers are encouraged to build factories.
These points were made last Saturday by Mr. Peter Thorneycroft, President of the Board of Trade, after opening the new £250,000 factory of the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (known as the 3M cornParlY), at Goiseinon, Glam.
This -company was founded in Minnesota in 1902 to develop a corundum deposit at ' Lake Superior. To-day it operates all over the world. The four divisions of the English company specialize in Scotch Boy cellulose tapes, flexible abrasives (known as sandpapers). magnetic recording tape, and, what is particularly pertinent to the motor industry. Underseal rubberized protective coating. A large factory has been in existence for some years in Birmingham.
NIGHT SHIFT TO AVOID TRANSPORT DIFFICULTY
r\IFF IC U T transport facilities for L.! its employees had forced Carbodies. Ltd., to arrange a night shift, it was stated before the West Midland Licensing Autherity, last week. when Messrs. Bates's Luxury Coache s, Erdington, successfully applied to provide a Birmingham-Coventry service for the men.
The personnel manager of Carbodies. Ltd., referred to the problems of bringing workers to the factory from Coventry. The Railway Executive, in making an objection, contended that present facilities were adequate.
HAULIERS MAY NOT APPEAR
THE Canadian Government has decided for the present not to allow hauliers to appear before the Board of Transport Commissioners to present arguments against rail charges agreed between the railways and oil companies. This information was contained in a letter from Hon. Lionel Chevrier, Minister of Transport, to the Saskatchewan Motor Transpert Association.
Mr. Chevrier said that any decision -to allow hauliers to appear before the board might he considered an indication of federal intent to regulate road traffic within provincial border., "NO LEAKAGE," SAYS P.M.
THE Prime Minister stated in the House of Commons, last week, that no source of leakage had been discovered in the course of inquiries made into premature disclosures of the contents of the White Paper on transport policy. Every precaution had been taken to preserve secrecy, he said.