Shortly after it was announced that the Prices and Incomes Board had come out against the £1 a week wage increase award to municipal busmen, two meetings were held in Nottingham by corporation bus employees to discuss the matter. Resolutions were passed unanimously by the crowded meetings instructing their national union officers to "take all possible steps" to see that the £1 award is paid, Another resolution was passed pledging full support for "any militant action decided upon on a national scale." The local corporation is so afraid that there will be another bus strike that the chairman of the city's Transport Committee, Alderman William Dyer, has hinted that he will try to find ways around any ban which the Government puts on the payment of the award. He stated that he would seek a mandate from his committee to take this action when it next met. The meetings passed resolutions congratulating Mr. Ray Thorpe, the local TGWU organiser, for the work he put in during the eight weeks' dispute. Many of the busmen told me that they were extremely pleased with the support given to the busmen during their work-to-rule and strike by the local paper Nottingham Voice. This paper made the disrute the main front page story in its December issue and its supporters held meetings and sold copies of the papers to bus queues for the purpose of explaining the busmen's case,
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