COURT OF INQUIRY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19314, 3 May 1937, Page 5

COURT OF INQUIRY

REQUEST FOR REPORT CONDITIONS OF WORK (British Official Wireless.) Reed. noon. RUGBY, May 1. Central London presented an unusual appearance this morning in the absence of the lines of familiar omnibuses, SCOO of which have been withdrawn from the streets by the strike. The trailic 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 football cup tie.

The Ministry of Labour has set up a court of inquiry under the 1919 Industrial Courts Act to inquire into and report upon the question of hours of work, working conditions and circumstances of the employment of drivers and conductors in the London central omnibus service, and the matters in issue between the London Passenger Transport Board and the Transport and General Workers Union."

The court will meet on Monday. London morning papers deplore the withdrawal of the buses at a time when London is crowded with visitors for the Coronation, and express the view that the men are alienating sympathy which would Imj with them in a reasoned appeal for a reconsideration of their conditions in the light of the strain of City traffic.