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THE general picture in the municipal passenger transport field this week is that the majority of busmen are working normally, but those of certain undertakings are taking some militant action in protest against the freeze of the recent 9s. 3d. wage award.
Dundee busmen, for example, are banning standing passengers, refusing to take part in any further productivity schemes and also restricting the amount of overtime -worked. Mr. Russell, general manager at Dundee told COMMERCIAL Moroi), on Tuesday that so far the effect of this action was not being very severely felt. The proportion of standing passengers carried normally was very much less than of recent years in any
case.
In Newcastle upon Tyne, bus crews are con sidering taking similar action to the Dunde, men, but in South Shields men "out of loyalt: to the Government" have decided to endorsi the wage freeze policy. The action of the latte busmen is expected to be repeated in many part of the country.
Secretary of the Municipal Passenger Trans port Association, Mr. R. E. Hyslop, tolt COMMERCIAL MOTOR that he did not expec the busmen to take much action. The busmet were only a section of the 5,000,000 employee: affected by the wages freeze. No further meeting: of the NJIC were planned to deal with this subject