NO LESS CONGESTION.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 171, 3 May 1937, Page 5

NO LESS CONGESTION.

MORE PRIVATE CARS IN USE.

Pit ESS COMMENT ON ACTION,

(Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, May 1

Central London presented an unusual appearance this morning in. the absence of the lines of familiar omnibuses, 5000 of which have been withdrawn from the streets by the ’busmen’s strike. The traffic seemed no less congested, however as large numbers of additional private cars had evidently been brought into use, and whatever diminution’ the coincidence of the first day of the strike with the Saturday half-day may have caused in the numbers of incoming workers was more than made up by the “invasion” from the provinces for the Association football cup tie. The Ministry of Labour has set up a court of inquiry under the Industrial Courts Act of 1919, “to inquire into and report upon the question of hours of work, working conditions, and the circumstances of employment of drivers and conductors in the London Central omnibus service and the matters at issue between the London Passengei Transport Board and the Transport and General Workers’ Union.” The court will meet on Monday. London morning papers deplore the withdrawal of ’buses at the time when London is crowded with the visitors for the Coronation, and! express the view that the men are alienating the sympathy which would be with them in a reasoned appeal for reconsideration of their conditions in the light of the strain of City traffic.—British Official Wireless.