PRESS COMMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 103, 3 May 1937, Page 9

PRESS COMMENT

MEN ALIENATING SYMPATHY

INQUIRY TO START TODAY

(British Official Wireless.) ' (Received May 3,. 11 a.m.) RUGBY, May 2. . London morning papers deplore tht withdrawal of the. buses at a. Tim«; when London is crowded; with visitors for the Coronation; and express th« view that' the men are alienating sympathy which would be with them in a reasoned appeal for reconsideration, of their conditions in the light: of tha strain of City traffic. The "Daily Herald" says: "It is no longer a problem of preventing a dispute but of settling it," and that no time, should be lost in securing a settlement. ' • The Ministry of Labour has setup a Court of Inquiry under the 1919 Industrial.Courts:Act, "toI: inquire into and report upon the question of the hours of work, working conditions, and circumstances of employment of 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." Tha , Court will meet publicly on Monday, when evidence will be: given by the two sides, v '• ■■■'■'■ -' :'"'■ v ' "■■": >', : ' Central London presented an unusual • appearance yesterday morning' in tha absence of the lines of familiar omnibuses, 5000 of which have been withdrawn from the streets by the strike. Trany seemed no less congested, however,', as .large numbers of:.1 additional private cars' had evidently been brought into use, and whatever diminu- , tion'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 at Wembley in'the afternoon. From" an early hour, when specials began ta arrive at/the London termini, the pave-' ments of the' Coronation route were thronged with supporters of the two teams viewing'the decorations which are now in an advanced stage in preparation for Wednesday week. ' '•■.■;■■•;■■■■•',