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No "About Face" by Union—Mr. Coyle
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SUGGESTIONS that the Transport and General Workers' Union had turned about by backing both the provincial and London busmen's pay claims were denied this week by Mr. Frank Coyle, national secretary of the Union's passenger transport group.
Asked why the Union had supported a reduction of the pay differential, and were now seeking to widen it again, he told The Commercial Motor: "That is confused thinking. We did not ask, in relation to the provincial and London busmen, that the differential should be lowered. We asked that the differential on London and provincial rates existing in 68 other industries should be applied in respect of provincial undertakings."
The Union do not expect a reply to their new claim for at least another week. Mr. Harry Nicholas, assistant general secretary,. said: "We are basing our claim upon the rising cost of living since our last increases; the responsibilities, skills and hazards of the busman's job: and the relativity with pay rates in othei industries."
In Birmingham. where municipal bus crews receive higher wages than the national agreed rates, Union officials are preparing a demand according to whatever increase is granted to their London counterparts. Mr, Harry Green, the Union's Birmingham leader, said that if the full demand for 25s. were granted in London, Birmingham municipal workers would lodge a claim for 15s. 6d. In any case, there would be some claim if the London workers received anything over 9s. 6d. Birmingham crews were awarded 9s. 6d. last summer.