LONDON BUSMEN'S STRIKE

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22083, 4 May 1937, Page 9

LONDON BUSMEN'S STRIKE

CONDITIONS OF WORK TO BE EXAMINED LITTLE DIMINIpION SEEN IN TRAFFIC (BRITISH OFFICIAL WTBELZBB.) RUGBY, May 1. . Central London presented an 'unusual appearance #iis morning in the absence of the lines of familiar omnibuses, 5000 of which have been withdrawn from the streets by the strike. , ' , , Traffic seemed no less congested, however, as large numbers of additional private cars have evidenily 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 football cup tie. The Ministry for Labour has set up a Court of Inquiry under the 1919 Industial Courts Act, "to inquire into and report upon the question of hours of work, working conditions, and the circumstances of the employment of the- drivers and conductors in the London central omnibus service and the matters at issue between the London Passenger Transport Board and the Transport and General Workers' Union." The Court will meet on Monday. The London morning, papers deplore the withdrawal of the buses at a time when London is crowded with visitors for the Coronation, and they express the view that the men are alienating sympathy which would be with them in a reasoned appeal for the reconsideration of their conditions.