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'Security Before Wage Increases
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SPEAKING to a gathering of local 1,..../hauliers in Doncaster, last week. Mr. J. A. M. Bright, chairman of the Yorkshire area of A.R.O. referring to the declaration issued earlier in the week on behalf of the employees' unions, said Mr. Bevin. had chosen an inopportune time to raise the issue. The time to raise such an issue would have been after it had been raised in the House of Commons, as had already been indicated.
His association had always taken up the attitude, he said, and did so most strongly at this moment, that as operators and masters they could not pay higher wages than they were paying at present until they received some security which would enable them to earn that money first. The security they looked for first was that of tenure of their licences. It was true the Minister had made a statement to the effect that he was to implement the clause in the Act empowering him to extend the period of licences, but they would be well advised, in the light of their experiences in the past, to wait a little longer before they clapped hands or shouted about that.
He did not remember anything having been given them on the one hand which had not been almost, or entirely, taken away from them on the other hand, and one thing of which they could be perfectly sure was that they would not be given that security of tenure without something being extracted from them in the shape of a quid pro quo.