Alleged Colour Bar Al Bus Department

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from "The l-orningStar" Is there a colour-bar in operation in the Stockton-on-Tees Transport department ? "Yes" says the Teeside International Friendship Council. "No" replies lir.W.C. Wilson, the transport manager, who also claims that all applications for employment are treated "on their merits", Mr.Nawab Mirza, leader of the local Pakistani Association, claims that coloured applicants have been turned down as "unsuitable", A spokesman for the busmen's branch of the transport workers' union has denied allegations that the union supports a colour-bar, but the local press carried interviews with busmen who say they will resign if coloured workers are introduced. fhere are at present 35 vacancies in the department... (lr.wWilson) said there had been no recent applications for jobs from coloured people but Mr.Mizra saids"we will find a few people who want jobs on the buses, They will go and ask for jobs and if they are refused then we will all know what the situation is",