CONDITIONS FOR TAXI DRIVERS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22367, 2 April 1938, Page 22

CONDITIONS FOR TAXI DRIVERS

vo tsi editor or zhb pizss. Sir, —Thank you for giving me the right of reply to the letter signed C. Fitzgerald. Does Mr Fitzgerald understand the following few simple facts: —The drivers have now to work 60 hours one week and 70 the next, to have these hours spread over 13 hours every day, to have one day off a fortnight and no annual holiday. Bus Is by Mr Semple’s ruling. Even the Transport Authority on November Ifi last gave the drivers one day a week off and a week’s holiday every yearDuring the last 25 years there have been the same horns (SO one week and 70 the next, also a holiday), according to the old award, which is now out of existence, yet when everyone has had their hours reduced (without a single exception) Mr Semple increased the drivers’ hours at a time when driving conditions are daily becoming more difficult, especially long hours on wet nights, the taxi-drivers’ busiest time. Yet Mr Fitzgerald says Mr Semple has treated the men fairly. Every day. the Minister is advocating more road safety campaigns, yet he 1* going right against his arguments by his action in this case. It is a pity Mr Fitzgerald was not living 100 years ago; they worked wonderful hours then and enjoyed itr—Yours. etc_ DAY AND NIGHT. March 30. 1938. [This correspondence is now closed.— Ed.. “The Press.”!