HigherPay for Coal Workers
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THE National, Arbitration Tribunal has made an award granting wage increases ranging from Is, to 5s. 6d. a week, to drivers and mates employed on vehicles operating under .0 licences in the Yorkshire coal distributive trade. This award, which chiefly benefits the lowest-paid workers, brings the weekly wage rates of the employees on. Clicence vehicles to practically the same level as those of employees on B-licence vehicles.
The full increase of 5s. 6d. per week is granted to drivers over 21 on fulltime coal-delivery vehicles up to and including 2 tons capacity. This brings their weekly wage 'up to 100s. 6d. in Grade A districts, and to 96s. 6d. in Grade B (rural) districts.
instead of the old classification Whereby drivers of Vehicles ranging from 2 tons to 6 tons capacity were grouped in one class at a wage of 101s. in Grade A districts and 97s. in Grade B districts, there are now two classes. In one, for drivers of vehicles ranging from 2 tons to 5 tons capacity, the wage is advanced by is.; in the other, for drivers of vehicles over 5 tons capacity, the rate is raised by 5s.
FORMER HAULIERS SEEK POSTS
FOLLOWING the acquisition, last August, of his rpad haulage business by the British Transport Commission, Mr. Frank Heaton, director of A. and F. Heaton, Ltd., Gomersal, near Leeds, has announced his intention to sign on at Spen Valley employment exchange, as one seeking a job. His employment by the B.T.C. has just ended, but his brother, Mr. A. Heaton. is being retained as unit manager.
The brothers began business nearly 20 years ago with two lorries. In 1940 they took over a Bradford haulage concern, and at the time of acquisition had 14 lorries.
Another dispossessed haulier who is signing on at an employment exchange is Coon. W. Nunn. Walsall. He began his business in 1929. His company was due to be acquired on March 14, and when he was asked whether he wanted a job he told officials that he required a certain salary and time off to attend to his public duties. The officials stated that he apparently did not want a job.
His former employees, who have made him a presentation, have expressed the wish that he will soon be back again at their head.
CHARTS SHOW HOW BUSES RAN ONDON TRANSPORT has adopted a novel method of impressing on bus crews the inconveniences of irregular running. At a pre-arranged time. inspectors with synchronized watches note the position of each bus on a given route. This information is then plotted on a chart, together with the scheduled positions of the buses at the time To make the chart readily understandable, the route is depicted as a straight line marked in minutes. the scheduled and actual positions of the buses being shown by symbols. An improvement in the running of services is said to have resulted.