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ULSTER WAGE AGREEMENT.

4th October 1935, Page 36
4th October 1935
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Page 36, 4th October 1935 — ULSTER WAGE AGREEMENT.
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Keywords : Truck Driver, 5s

It was announced on Monday night that an interim agreement, from October 1, 1935, until January 31, 1936, has been concluded between the Northern Ireland Road Transport Board and the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers Union, with regard to the wages of lorry drivers outside the city"of Belfast.

The new agreement fixes rates as follow :-Drivers of lorries of 2-tons and over, 55s. per week, assistants, 42s. 6d,; drivers of lorries under 2-tons, 45s., assistants, 35s. The agreement provides for a 48-hour working week, with extra pay for overtime. The union is to submit to the Board, in November, proposals for a permanent schedule.

Agreed Sugar•beet Haulage Rates.

At a conference between representatives of the Lincolnshire county branch of the National Farmers' Union and the Lincolnshire Transport Association, at which representatives of the Lincolnshire Sugar Co., Ltd., of Bardney and Brigg, were present, it was agreed to recommend the following rates as fair and reasonable, under normal conditions, for the conveyance of sugar beet during the 1935-36 campaign, the rates being based on a charge per one-way journey :-5 miles, 3s. 2d.; 6 miles, 3s. 4d.; 7 miles, 3s. 6d ; S miles, 3s. 9d.; 9 miles, 4s.; 10 miles, 4s. 2d.; 11 miles, 4s. 4d.; 12 miles, 4s. 6d.; 13 miles, 45. 8d.; 14 miles, 45. 10d. ; 15 miles, 5s. ; 16 miles, 5s. 2d.; 1d. per ton per mile above this distance. These prices include assistance in loading to be supplied by the grower, but if help be not given, 3d. per ton extra is payable.

Confusion Over Licence.

At Neston Police Court, last Friday, Mr. Herbert Nettleton, Greenbank Drive, Pensby, Cheshire, was summoned for driving a lorry, on June 12, without a carrier's licence.

For the prosecution, Mr. D. 11. Mace said that on March 19 the Licensing Authority granted the defendant a special licence for carrying goods. On March 28 a notification to this effect was dispatched to him, but he did not send the fee of £1.

The defendant said that the Licensing Authority granted him a licence to carry goods for any number of persons. When he received the notification, he discovered that the licence ready for him limited him to work for two particular builders in Birkenhead and Wirral. That was the reason why he had not sent the fee.

Mr. Joseph Roberts, who defended, suggested that the summons was illfounded and argued that there was no authority for the statement that a licence was not valid until the fee was paid. The licence was effective so soon as it was granted.

Mr. G. J. Lee, the chairman, said the bench felt that there had been a misunderstanding. The case would be dismissed on payment of 4s. costs and 7s. 6d. witness's fees.

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