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Incidents which NAANY are the amusing Lighten a Few Spare IVA remarks made by bus con Moments ductors and passengers. They
would, if they could be garnered, provide a host of good stories. Two questions recently addressed to conductors by foreign passengers intrigued us. One man asked if the bus went to Tothampton Court Road (Tottenham Court Road) . Another asked for Archie Marble, which the conductor quickly interpreted as Marble Arch. As regards other incidents, one of the best, in our view, occurred to a bus and its, passengers in the early morning following a heavy raid, for, after travelling for some miles and following many police diversions, the vehicle and its complement found themselves back at their starting point. Nothing like a run for your money
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Essential Work A N interesting point concern
Orders and Rights of ing the Essential Work Employers . . . Orders and their effects upon employees is referred to in the
C.M.U.A. Bulletin. The Minister of Labour has pointed out that Essential Work Order have not taken away the employer's right to discharge a worker for serious misconduct, and the National Service Officer has no jurisdiction in such a case unless the worker has successfully appealed to an Appeal Board. If alleged lateness or absenteeism be reported to the Officer, he is. required to supply the worker with a copy of the particulars given by the employer. Continued offences of these types would, no doubt, be considered as serious misconduct justifying direct action by the employer.
A Canine Method of pp ECENTLY terrific screams " Thumbing " for a I from a small dog brought Lift. horrid visions of the poor animal being squashed by a lorry, but they proved to be merely a brilliant idea on the part of the animal, whose mistress informed a nearby constable that he always did this when his feet were cold and he wanted to be carried. We have occasionally suffered from " cold feet," but nobody has ever offered to carry us.
Billy Brown's "Shop" rr 'HAT well-known character, Troubles in Drawings I "Billy Brown," of the and Verse . . . London Passenger Transport Board, has been given a job in the London Transport workshops, this taking the form of a neat folder with nine sets of drawings, each accompanied by a verse written by Miss J. Chapman. It covers the majority of actions, which, through lack of knowledge or carelessness, result in injuries to the individual and to the work which is being done. There is also a series of " Do " and " Don't" notes. The style is both attractive and amusing, and the production should commend itself to all workers in the Board's shops and elsewhere.
Government Should CHATTING last week with Consult Our Leaders' •--" Viscount Nu.ffield, he of industry . . . expressed the view that one of the difficulties in getting the right men into the right jobs, so far as the Government is concerned, is that those at the top are not in a position to be good "pickers," and that they would make a better show if they consulted the leaders of industry in the country. We have no doubt that this would be something of a revolution in Government procedure, but, at a time like this, we must all work as a unit and not have vital sections in splendid isolation.