The London 'Busmen Despite the decision of the men's delegates
to strike on September 23rd if the London General Omnibus Company insisted on a reduction of wages, we shall be very -much surprised if the differences between the London traffic combine and the omnibus drivers and conductors are not settled in a friendly way. For the reductions in wages announced by the company are so small- ls. 6d. a week for drivers who earn 86s. 6d., and is. for conductors who earn 79s. 6d. for a forty-eight hour week—that it would be difficult to justify a strike against them. The men object also to slight altera- tions in working conditions which would reduce their overtime- and therefore their extra pay. But it would be unreasonable to expect of such a large and com- plicated service, which is always being varied to meet the changing requirements of the public, that every man employed should be left in precisely the same groove for the rest of his working life. This is, in fact, a case for the skilled diplomacy of which Mr. Bevin, the Transport Workers' secretary, is a master, and not for the waving of the red flag with incitements to strike - against the community.
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