'Substantial Haulage Pay Claim
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FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT
THE new cla:m for higher pay for 1 130,000 employees in the haulage industry is to be presented to the Road Haulage Wages Council on January 13. The claim, which is for a " substantial " increase in rates of pay, does not specify any amount. But union leaders have in mind a rise of no less than the 5 per cent won by engineering workers last month and possibly as h:gh as the 6 per cent liven to railwaymen. A further claim for a -10-hour week—a reduction of two bows in the present basic working week—
also in the offing. But this will not be put in at the present time.
If negotiations take their normal course it will he spring at the earliest before any increase can come into effect.
The men had their last pay rise of 5 per cent on January 16 last, giving increases ranging from 9s. 3d. to 10s. 3d. per week. As a result he basic wage of a London area man driving a 5-tonner went up to £9 17s, 6c1. a week. Other rates were: 510 10 tons, £10 5s. 6d.; 10 to 15 tons,
£10 12s. 6d.: 15 to 18 tons, £11 Os. 6d. Grade One basic rates are 5s. less and grade two 9s, below the corresponding London rates.
Since that settlement there has been another aereement giving improvement in night-duty rates and subsistence.