Union Opposes Conductresses
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EMPLOYMENT of conductresses is 1--dlikely to be reconsidered in Manchester following a report on the improvement of recruitment, which is being prepared for the transport committee by Mr. A. F. Neal, general manager of Manchester Transport Department.
The Department's shortage of staff, described by one source as chronic, has been heightened during the past few days by the illness of nearly 450 of their 4,000 employees. This has decreased peak hour running by approximately 10 per cent.
Aid. R. A. Thomas, a Manchester official of the Transport and General Workers Union, described the employment of conductresses as a wartime expedient. The last left Manchester Corporation transport department in 1947. The unions, he said, had always been against their employment, and would still be against it.