Provincial busmen's leaders face strike threats
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FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT EADERS of six unions involved were 1-1 meeting today to consider making any recommendation to a special delegate conference of company busmen called for January 13.
A strike could take place the following day, if the anger and frustration of the 100 delegates boils over. The rank and file members have become increasingly restive over the failure of the employers to make a pay offer in line with the 9s. 3d. a week achieved by the municipal busmen effective from January 14.
The employers still insist that restrictive practices are being maintained in some areas, despite an agreement signed last February to end them, and they refuse to make any offer while this position continues.
Scotland's 16,000 company busmen decided on December 28 to work to rule in support of their outstanding pay claim, and feeling is still running high among East Yorkshire Motor Services busmen, whose recent seven-week strike was ended with difficulty.
Manchester busmen. angered by the decision of the transport committee of the city council to permit Sikh bus employees to wear turbans, may refuse to train turbanned bus conductors. The union says that special dispensation has never previously been made for religious minorities.