SHORT-DISTANCE HAULIERS WILL GET NOTHING •
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THE worst feature of the Transport Bill was the provision for compensation, said Mr. John M'Donald, of the Road Haulage Association, at a meeting in Dundee last week. Although the compensation to be ,paid to the longdistance haulier was far from generous, the short-distance fiaulier, who was either to be squeezed out by the Commission or would be glad to give up business, would receive nothing at all.
Urging operators to impress upon their customers the effect of the Bill on their businesses, Mr. M'Donald suggested that they might flood the House of Commons with letters and telegrams of protest.
At another meeting of the Association in Perth last week, Mr. W. Dickson Gilmour, chairman of the branch, declared that, although in the past the fight against nationalization has been non-political, it would now have to be fought on a political basis. "If we are against nationalization," he said, we are bound to be against the Labour Government, which, it appears, is going to nationalize any business showing a profit."