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Old-fashioned T U C Plan says Mr. Butt
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E Trades Union Congress had nothing from past experience of transport nationalization. This was stated by Mr. A. R. Butt, chairman of the Road Haulage Association, at the annual dinner of the Association's midCornwall sub-area on Friday.
Mr. Butt said that "according to reports the TUC is planning to ask the Minister of Transport to re-introduce something like a monopoly for longdistance goods transport by both road and rail."
The TUC seemed not to realize how near the national economy came to disaster when nationalization was tried nearly 20 years ago, he said.
"I should hardly have thought it necessary to point out," said Mr. Butt, 'that the old-fashioned type of nationalization suggested by the TUC replaces healthy competition with a kind of hybrid monstrosity which gives the customers the worst of both worlds; that the typical long-distance operator today provides just the service the customer needs; that there' is ample machinery for co-operation between operators where this becomes necessary; and also for co-operation between road operators and the railways."
Mr. Butt added that this machinery had not made as much progress as many would have liked, because of the opposition of the railway unions to hauliers participating in the liner trains scheme.