1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
153
154
155
156 
Bus Pay Claims : Latest Moves
Page 55
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT MEW talks to prevent the threatened strike of 100,000 provincial busmen employed by private undertakings were being held in London this week. On the initiative of the trade union side a meeting of the National Council for the Omnibus Industry was called for Wednes day.
The six unions with affected members decided on this move in a last effort to avoid the strike on which they had already decided.
The employers, despite their willingness to meet, were still far from convinced that they could afford to grant another pay increase so soon after the last settlement.
THE MUNICIPAL CLAIM
SIR RONALD MORISON, Q.C., an expert on industrial disputes, is to head the board of arbitration into the claim for higher pay and improved conditions of 70,000 municipal busmen. His appointment was announced this week by Mr. John Hare, Minister of Labour.
With him will sit Mr. Harold Muscroft, for the employers. and Mr. Walter D. Goss, a former trade union official who was appointed by the union. The board will meet next Wednesday. when they will decide whether to hold their hearing in private or in public.
N.J.I.C. REJECT MANCHESTER BONUS SCHEME ANCHESTER Corporation's £200,000 bonus scheme, designed to solve the shortage of the city's busmen, has been rejected by the National Joint Industrial Council for the Road Passenger Transport Industry. Under the scheme the bus crews would have received nearly [1 a week extra.
The chairman of Manchester transport committee said this week that the N.J.I.C. decision would be considered at a committee meeting on April 18.
[Municipal bus incentive schemes: See pages 308-309.1 MR. D. L. HYDE GETS ABERDARE POST
NAR. DEREK L. HYDE, assistant M. engineer to Halifax transport department since 1959, has been appointed general manager of Aberdare transport department in succession to Mr, G. G. Harding, the new general manager at Wallasey.