Labour to Have Another Go at Government Transport Policy
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FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT
TRANSPORT policy is to get another 1 public airing when the Labour Party hold their annual conference at Blackpool in October.
It has become something of a hardy annual at this conference and is assured of a repeat by a decision of the executive committee of the National Union of Railwaymen to submit a resolution for debate.
This " deplores "the proposals set out in the Government White Paper" Reorganization of the Nationalized Transport Undertakings," which, the resolution declares, is in opposition to the policy of an integrated transport system.
"We see no useful purpose in the sectionalizing of different parts of the transport industry and the further regionalization of the railway industry • and urge Conference to reiterate and press the declared policy of our movement," the resolution continues.
." We express concern at the continued policy of closing certain sections of the railway system which has the effect of denuding large parts of the country of a necessary social service."
As in previous years, there is little likelihood of its being defeated.