Majority Vote for 14s. Increase
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1-1. A MAJORITY of London's 55.000 bus workers has voted in favour of accepting the pay increase of 14s. a week for drivers and conductors and 8s. 3d. a week for garage and depot workers offered by the London Transport Executive.
The oiler was conditional on the men's acceptance of arearrangement of working hours . (The Commercial Motor last week), and the new schedules are expected to be introduced experimentally at some 18 garages in about four months' time. It-will.probably be next summer before all garages switch over to the new workings.
It is now certain that bus and train fares will be raised to meet the cost of the wage increases,, estimated to cost between £21m. and Om.' a year.
The arbitration board set up to settle the differences on the pay dispute, in the provincial bus industry will meet for the first time on Monday: Sir John Forster, chairman of the Industrial Court, is the chairman of the board, and the nominees of the two sides are Mr. H. Douglass,general secretary of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (emjaloyees). and Mr. Hinnfrey H. Edmunds, a barrister.
It is three weeks since the dispute was referred to arbitration.
The National Joint Industrial Council will again consider the municipal bus claim in London next Thursday.
CALL FOR STRIKE IF . . . DELEGATES representing more than 4,000 Manchester Corporation bus drivers and conductors last week passed a resolution calling upon the national executive of the Transport and General Workers' Union to "serve 21 days' notice to the employers' side of the National Joint Industrial Council of the withdrawal of labour," failing a satisfactory settlement of the resumed national wage negotiations in London on November 10.
FUMES MAY CAUSE CANCER, SAYS DOCTOR THERE was considerable evidence that was fumes were a cause of the growing incidence of lung cancer, Dr. Handley Howell, a medical expert on cancer, told the Bristol centre of the Institute of Traffic Administration last Friday.
Even if this could not be proved, he said, steps should be taken to reduce the discharge of noxious fumes. A filter for this purpose had been developed in America.