Bus Wage Claims Being Heard
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STTTING in London to-day, an Arbitration Court -is • hearing thc application presented by the Transport and General Workers' Union and othcr Unions for substantial increases in the basic pay of bus workers. The application concerns drivers, conductors and garage staffs of privately owned transport undertakings, An application on behalf of thc employees of municipally owned undertakings is to be heard next Friday These demands follow the failure of the Unions to obtain the shift rat requested.
COACH FARES RAISED TOO SOON UlANY people who booked return 01 coach tickets from Edinburgh and Glasgow to London during October were overcharged 10s. Now the companies—Scottish Omnibuses, Ltd., and the Western S.M.T. Co., Ltd.—are having to refund the money.
The mistake arose because new fares, not due to come into force until December 1, were charged from October 1. Permission to raise the fares was given only on October 13 by the Scottish Licensing Authority, after hearings in Edinburgh and Glasgow. This allowed for the abolition of the £2 10s, return fare from Edinburgh and Glasgow, and the issue only of single tickets at 30s.
NORTHERN HAULIERS. MOBILIZE
STEPS to be taken to counter the revocation of permits are to be outlined this afternoon at an open meeting to be held by the Northern Area of the Road Haulage Association in the lecture theatre of the Literary and Philosophical Society, Westgate Road. Newcastle-on-Tyne, at 2.15 p.m. The area committee has decided to fight with every means at its disnosal
It is understood that 30 hauliers in the area have received summonses alleging the infringement of conditions of permits.