London Bus Claim to be Heard Soon
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THE London busmen's claim for a 25s, a week pay increase will go before the Industrial Court within the next two weeks. This assurance was given in the House of Commons, when Mr. lain Macleod, Minister of Labour, promised that there would be no unnecessary delay in hearing the case. Mr. Macleod explained that lie liad refused to set up a court of inquiry into • the demand because he thought it would not be 'right to have to hold a narrow investigation. He knew that the " leapfrogging " danger still existed, but he hoped the industrial Court would review the passenger transport industry as a whole. He was answering criticisms of industrial policy Voiced by Mr. Alfred Robens..(Lab.), who aceused the Minister of letting down the Industrial ComMissionet, Sir Wilfred Neden, and humiliating trade union leaders by rejecting the suggestion for a commission of inquiry. Mr. Macleod stressed that the decision had been •taken entirely on his, own responsibility, and rebutted the suggestion that the Government's wages policy had destroyed faith in arbitration.
Mr. R. Carr, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour, said the Government believed in the value of arbitration and would respect arbitration awards. The tribunals were entirely • independent bodies SLOT-MACHINE SHAVING
A' part of a drive to popularize slotmachine electric shaving in .coach and bus stations, Partwest, Ltd., London, have named eight areas in which they will install Auto Shavers at 'approved termini with o tit. charge. • These instruments, which give five minutes' use of an electric shayer for 6d., have already been installed at Victoria Coach Station, London. The areas selected by Partwest are London, the Home Counties, Cardiff, Coventry, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and within a 30-mile radius from Manchester.
TWELVE TIMES MORE LORRIES MEARLY 109,000 lorries and tractors I •41 and over 5,200 buses were registered in Poland on July 1, 1957. Compared with 1939, there are now 12 times more goods vehicles and 2-1 times more buses.
Last year 12,500 lorries and tractors
were newly registered. Production of vehicles is tending to outstrip main tenance and servicing facilities. There are now over 460,000 vehicles in the country.
GLASGOW TRAMS TO GO—FINAL
THE transport committee's recommendation that the trams should be abandoned during the next 12 to 15 years was approved last week by Glasgow Corporation. They will be replaced by oil-engined buses and by a maximum of 200 trolleybuses which will be restricted to routes already approved.