5s. Rise fcr Busmen: "One-Man" Pay Dispute
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APAY increase of 5s. a week has been awarded to bus workers in municipal undertakings by the Industrial Disputes Tribunal. Both sides of the National Joint Industrial Council for the industry met in London yesterday officially to receive intimation of the award.
The employers' side of the National Council for the Omnibus Industry are expected, on Wednesday, to give their answer to a pay claim for workers in company bus undertakings in the provinces. It is • expected that the Tribunal's award will influence the decision.
Talks on a pay claim fob London's bus workers are to be resumed between' the Transport and General Workers' Union and the London Transport Executive nest Friday.
A committee of the N.C.O.I. is to meet today to discuss a difference which has arisen between employees and the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., on the question of a higher rate of pay for drivers of one-man buses.
The union side has told the employers that no extension of one-man operation can be agreed until the difference with the company has been resolved, and that the rate generally paid has been adjusted in the manner desired by the trade unions." The employers have been reminded that the unions had always contended that the rate now being paid for one-man operation was too low.
FUEL RATIONING POWER DOWER has been taken. by the I Government to ration fuel and control its price. There is so far no suggestion that it will be used.
Plans to meet the threat to oil supplies caused by events in the Middle East are to be co-ordinated by an oil emergency committee set up in London an Monday. The British Petroleum Co., the Royal Dutch-Shell group and Compagnie Franeaise des Petroles are represented on the committee.
Urgent attempts are being made to obtain additional supplies from America and Venezuela. Stocks at present held in the United Kingdom are extremely high, but they will drop rapidly 'while supplies are brought round the Cape or from the Western Hemisphere.
NEWCASTLE FARES MAY RISE PA
A FURTHER increase in fares maymaybe needed by Newcastle upon Tyne
Transport Department. At a meeting of the transport committee, it was revealed that there was already a deficit of more than £1,100 for the current year, and that the general reserve fund had dropped from a peak of £400,000 to €169,140. , Fleet renewals in the present year were expected to cost £176,000, which, plus more than €54,000 already spent, would wipe out the existing balance