RAIL MUST NOT GET UNFAIR FREEDOM.
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Commenting on the report of the T.A.C., Mr. F. G. Bristow, general secretary of the C.M.U.A., has made the following statement:—The T.A,C. refrains from including, in its recommendations, one dealing with the submission of the road-transport organizations that if the railway companies obtain substantial relaxation from the existing statutory regulations, relating to the carriage of merchandise by rail, road hauliers also should obtain a measure of relexation by the removal of certain disabilities from which they are suffering. This should be particularly in relation to the conditions under which applications for A and B licences are determined.
It is to be seriously hoped that the Government will undertake amendments to the Road and Rail Traffic Act, 1933, as nearly as possible simultaneously with the granting of any measure of increased freedom to the railways.
New North-Western C.M.U.A. Committee. Representatives of the various C.M.U.A. areas have set up a new committee for the North-Western Division (Eastern sector). The chairman is Mr. P. G. Harper. Committeemen have been elected as follow 1--Preston: Mr. P. G. Harper, Mr. J. H. Maltby, Mr. H. Robinson ; South-East Lancashire: Mr. W. Patton, Mr. J. Johnson, Mr. J. Bramhall, Mr. H. Allen; Manchester: Mr. C. H. Clague, Mr. C. H. Christensen, Mr. F. Brown, Mr. A. Shaw, Mr. H. E. Young, Mr. J. A. Ferrington; Blackburn representatives
are still to be nominated. Mr. W. Farnorth has been appointed secretary to the divisional committee which in future will hold regular meetings in each area in rotation. Six representatives were appointed to meet the western sector of the division to form the north-west liaison committee; they are Messsr. Harper, Allen, Patton, Ferrington, Maltby and Young. Mr. J. H. Wilson and Mr. C. A. Christensen will be delegates to the north-west Regulation Committee, which has been set up by the Road and Rail Central Committee to advise on rates and conditions for the North-Western Area.