7 MAY 1937, Page 3

The speech was particularly appropriate, for with a rather dull

Parliamentary week, mainly consisting of the Committee stage of the Livestock Industry Bill, the attention of Members has been concentrated on industrial unrest in general, and the 'bus strike in particular. Sympathy with the case of the 'busmen is by no means confined to the Labour Party. There is a general feeling that something ought to be done to ease the increasing strain of the 'bus driver's life. The seven-and- a-half hour day is believed to be an economic impossibility, but a more generous system of breaks in the period of driving is regarded as a practical compromise.

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