Complete Takeover of Haulage Urged
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ASYSTEM of share-buying in the road transport industry, as opposed to direct nationalization, would not satisfy members of the Transport and General Workers' Union. This was emphasized by Mr. Frank Cousins, general secretary of the Union, when he spoke at the Labour Party conference in Brighton last week.
If they were given the choice, there would be an emphatic "No" to sharebuying, he said. His Union believed in the nationalization of industry, and in an extension of that principle. Public ownership should be used as an instrument of economic power in the hands of a Socialist Government.
The T.G.W.U. did not expect nationalization of road haulage to start again where it left off. There was a great case for the extension of the original principle of nationalization, Mr. Hugh Gaitskell, summing up the nationalization debate, said: "I do not think it is necessary for me to argue the reasons for renationalization of steel and road haulage." The case was amply made out at the time of nationalization and the record of the two industries under nationalization confirmed the arguments.
Following the debate, the conference approved the Party's policy statement, "Industry and Society."
NEW Lo.T, SECTION
THE East Anglia group of the Institute of Transport has been reconstituted as a formal section. It covers Norfolk and Suffolk, excluding Newmarket and Bury St. Edmunds areas.
Mr. L. H. Balls, director and general manager of the Eastern Counties Omnibus Co., Ltd., section chairman, becomes an ex officio member of the council of the Institute.