Standard Charges for Removals
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CONFIDENCE in the success of the Association's efforts to stabilize rates for local removals is expressed in the annual report of the executive committee of the Furniture Warehousemen and Removers Association. The costing committee has drawn up a schedule of minimum charges for local removals,
the figures being subject to modificaby the Association's various centres to meet special conditions. A scale of rates on an hourly basis Las also been added. If the success anticipated for the local schedule be forthcoming, the committee is likely to tackle the question of stabilized rates for long-distance removals.
The furniture-removal industry has its own Joint Industrial Council, representative of delegates from the Association and the workers' organization, for settling questions of wages and conditions of employment. It has its own conciliation agreement.
The executive committee of the Association states, however, that its representatives on the Joint Industrial Council have had their hands_ tied, because the union delegates have not been prepared to agree to any substantial departure from the findings of the National Joint Conciliation Board.
It is understood that, at a meeting last week, the Council agreed to the rates of wages for drivers and mates contained in the National Board's agreement, but negotiations concerning conditions of employment continue.
The question of road-rail co-operation in removals is also mentioned in the report. A suggestion from a member that a remover who sent traffic by rail, should receive a discount was discussed at a conference at the Railway Clearing House, to which a delegation from the F.W.R.A. was invited. It was hoped that the railways would evolve a scheme affording such terms as would encourage a revival of railway transport for members' traffic.