;TRIKE-IN-VAIN BY :YMS MEN IS OVER
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( A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
'HE seven-week East Yorkshire
Motor Services Ltd. strike is er. The Transport and General orkers' Union called it off on mday. By 8 o'clock on Monday Drning all 244 EYMS buses and 10 crew members were working many.
But the strike—which cost the men pre than £50,000 in pay, robbed the mpany of about 120,000 passengerles and greatly inconvenienced the all public—achieved . . . nothing. True, the new schedules were modified include fewer extra spreadover duties and sure a slight change in second-man work the Hull-York service. But these modifi'ions, says managing director Mr. A.
R. Carling, could easily have been ained when the revised schedules were ;t posted.
The company made no other "concesins": one-man operations, extra city vice work and spreadover duties are all ng undertaken by the men today.
The EYMS strike was the first indepen-it provincial bus company strike to be icially backed by a major union since the
National Council for the Omnibus Industry was formed in 1940.
In insisting on following NCOI procedure and refusing to negotiate while the strike was on, EYMS upheld a principle and set a precedent: NC01 machinery for the settlement of disputes must first be exhaustively tried.