LONDON BUS STRIKE THREATENED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 89, 1 May 1937, Page 5

LONDON BUS STRIKE THREATENED

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Tying Up Traffic In City Area INQUIRY TO BE HELD

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(Received 1, 9.40 A.m>) IiONDON, April 30. - The buamen's eouference deeided to strike at midnight in the Central London atea. Five thousand buses, carryilng 5,000,0 00 passengeri idaily, will be iiiVolvedj The busmen rs repr6sentatives discussed th© possibility of sympathe.tic aetion With representatives of tramwftymen, trolley bus workers and tube workers. H is understood that tubes are not involved at present, unlees the buses are manned by volunteers, The Minister of Labour has appodnted a Court of Inquiry, consisting of three membera, under the Industrial Conrts Act to inquire into all afipects of the diepute* Greater London eontains ordinarily 1 population of 8,202,818, but, whixli the County of London, which includes the big reeidentiai areas of the immediat© suburbs, has rathet more than haif that number, in the actuftl city there are only 10,000 residents, By far the greatest part of the daily populace of the city uses bus services, of not on its way into town from the suburbs, at least for transport from th# et&tioh to individual places of business. Trams, underground Yailways, and ordinary trains are th© other principal transport systems of the pr«sent day