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Busmen's Leaders to See Minister
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LLEADERS of London's busmen are to see the Minister of Transport next Friday (December 11) to discuss problems affecting London's bus services. But if they had any idea of using the meeting •for the purpose of getting support for their current quarrel with the Board over the cuts in timetables, Mr. Fraser has neatly forestalled them. writes our industial correspondent.
In a letter to Mr. Sam Henderson, national passenger group secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, inviting him to meet him, Mr. Fraser wrote: "I am sure you will 'appreciate that the particular difficulties accompanying the adjustment of particular services in the immediate future to meet changed demands, to which you have referred in your letter, are matters which I must leave for settlement between your union and the Board."
But diplomatically be added: "It would be most helpful to me' in my consideration of future Government policy to hear, the views of the unions concerned about the longer-term problems of maintaining an adequate public transport' system in London."
In his own letter asking for the meeting, Mr. Henderson had said they wanted to discuss staff problems and other matters hindering efficient operation, including the increasing car traffic.