"A Virtual Dictator
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By J. S. Wills,
Managing Diredor of the British Electric Traction Co., Lid., and Chairman of the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd.
THE Transport Bill is should judge, one of the most amazing measures ever to. he laid before Pariiament. A Labour Government,' put into power by a minority of the electorate, proposes to. make one man—the Minister of Transport—a virtual dictator over all inland transport (except for aviation), and over the destinies and livelihoods of 1,000,000 men and their families He is to be given power to authorize the seizure of the whole or any part of a municipal or company passenger transport undertaking and to ruin any undertaking he does not choose to take over.
The thought of such powers and Of the enormous bureaucracy which would inevitably follow, fills one with alarm. The Government is manufacturing C' creating" is too noble a word) vast, soulless monsters Which will destroy it.
That would not matter, but the monsters may well do irreparable" damage to the national economy.
before they are destroyed. Is it right that a large minority should, in the name of democracy, ruthlessly inflict upon the Nation such a fundamental change? All sections of the population should -unite in demanding a public inquiry into the proposals.