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" The wheels of wealth will be slowed by all clifiCculties of transport, at whatever points arising, as a carriage is by the roughness of the roads over which it runs.--John Beattie Crozier, 500 People at Manchester C.M.U.A. Supper PROMINENT members of the industry—including Col. A. Jerrett, Mr. F. G. Bristow, Mr. D. Soper (deputy clerk to the North-Western Licensing Authority), and Mr. J. C. Francis (secretary of the United Road Transport Workers Association)—were amongst those attending the C.M.U.A. Manchester Area annual hot-pot supper on Tuesday last. Nearly 500 persons attended.
This seemed to be one of the only means for getting together the members and ridding them of the appalling apathy that surrounded the industry, said Mr. W. E. Macve, Manchester Area chairman, who presided. In three years co-ordination inside the industry was no nearer, due to the indifference of operators.
At the moment the industry was in a peculiar position, said Col. Jerrett He would have liked to make an announcement, but at present that was
impossible. Road transport accounted for a good many casualties within itself. Instead of cutting each other's throats, they needed somebody to go forward with a national scheme of coordination. During the past two or three years, the progress of the Manchester Area was one of the most outstanding in the country.
Both the industry and the Association wanted waking up, said Mr. F. G. Bristow. If only the Association had support from 'all parts of the country similar to that received from Manchester, it would have the necessary backing to' go to Parliament with the industry's demands. The problems of the industry were also the problems of the trader, and the haulier was actually fighting battles for the whole community. One of the Association's aims in assisting members was to have the period of the A-licence extended from two to five years.