BIG HAULAGE STRIKE QEVERAL thousand drivers and other 0-I employees
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of about 30 large haulage companies in London started an unofficial strike on Monday. Deliveries of meat, fruit, fish, newsprint, and other commodities were suspended The men were stated to be dissatisfied with a proposed award increasing their annual holidays from six days to nine days. They claimed an annual holiday of 14 days. The workers were also opposed to the rejection of a claim for the reduction of the working week from 48 hours to 44 hours. Another complaint was that the machinery of the Road Haulage Central Wages Board was too slow in action.
Members of the Transport an Genera; Workers Union, National Union of General and Municipal Workers, Scottish Horse and Motormen's Association, Liverpool and District Carters' Association, and the United Road Transport Workers' Association were involved in the dispute. The companies concerned were engaged in transport from Covent Garden and Smithfield, Billingsgate, Spitalfields, and Borough markets.