LONDON BUSMEN STRIKE

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22082, 3 May 1937, Page 9

LONDON BUSMEN STRIKE

Hr* —*- — , mW^ G E SPREADS ;JQ PROVINCES pIsBNGER TRANSPORT » DISORGANISED pbS T MORNING UNEVENTFUL mean association- copyhioht.) (Received May 2. 8.57 p.m.) . ' '' LONDON, May 1. J e London busmen’s strike began it midnight. At the same time 120000- .provinGial busmen were LnM oh to* cease work in support S unofficial strike which had already affected 10 counties. Wept for strikers outside garages - Jailing and booing drivers of iiaiJSi the first mornin S of the strike Uneventful, though scarcely so (or tegular bus P atrons who ha d to flshf for'a place on packed trams, had to trudge to the nearest railways, while thousands walked or (jdsd to work. Taxi-drivers reaped a harvest. An earlier message: Negotiations for a settlement of the Lonjjon busmen’s -dispute caused iy ibe men’s demand for a seven and'a b»lf hour day having broken down, a- conference of busmen decided to Strike at midnight in the eentral London area. Five thousand which carry 5,000,000 passenger! a be involved. XJie busmen’s representatives discussed the -possibility of sympathetic potion with representatives of the tramwaymen, trolley-bus worktube workers. It is understood 'that the tubes are not involved at -present unless the buses are jnahMd by volunteers. The Minister for Labour (Mr Ernest Brown) has appointed a court d iflqujjy,, consisting of three memunder the Industrial Courts Act/to inquire into all aspects of theldiipute. '