Busmen Strike on Coronation Day
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FIVE HUNDRED busmen in Monmouthshire went on strike on Coronation Day because they objected Co the decision of Red and White Services, Ltd., that they should work a Sunday service that day. They were willing to operate workmen's services, hut the company refused to let them do so unless they ran a restricted public service as well.
The company offered the busmen time-and-a-half rates of pay and a day off in lieu if they worked on Coronation Day. The employees contended that they should have been consulted about the services to be run on Coronation Day, as it had been proclaimed a public holiday.
-Other bus companies operated on a restricted basis, but many parts of industrial Monmouthshire were without buses.
Mr. E. Phillips, general manager of Red and White, said: "The company offer their apologies to the travelling public, but the cause of the inconvenience is something over which we have no control. The action of the staffs is contrary to the advice they have received from the trade unions."