The Haulage Nati onalization Threat
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"ROM the evidence so far available it
• does not seem that the change of eadership of the Labour party is going
o be to the advantage of the road
iaulage industry, said Mr. A. R. Butt, a ice-chairman of the Road Haulage Asso iation, at the annual dinner of the ilanchester and Salford sub-area of t.H.A. on Saturday.
Mr. Hugh Gaitskell at no time showed ny great enthusiasm for the surrealistic '.lause Four written into the constitution I his party, but Mr. Harold Wilson, it ow appears, is in favour of the clause nd has every intention of implementing ., given half a chance.
This can only mean nationalization ver a wide field, Mr. Butt went on. The Jad haulage industry is, naturally, chiefly oncerned with nationalization as it ffects them. At the moment everything oints to the fact that a Labour governtent would seek to renationalize longistance road haulage, "Although they have beeet threatening as on and off for the past 12 years, I ill find difficulty in believing it," he tid. "Such a measure would fly in the tee of all common sense. It would not
only mean disaster to many thousands of our members, but would cause acute depression among trade and industry.. the users of transport, and even the workers in the road haulage industry, in spite of what the unions might say."
Was there the slightest suggestion, he asked, even among the Socialists, that hauliers are inefficient?
Another Lorry Driver Contest AANOTHER new eliminating round is to be added to the 1963 Lorry Driver of the Year competition. It will be held at Cheltenham on Sunday, June 23. Organizing secretary is Mr. W. F. Sanderson, Priory Lawn, High Street. Cheltenham.
Central London R.H.A.
AT the meeting on Tuesday of the PA Central London Sub-Area of the Road Haulage Association Mr. J. P. Wells was elected chairman. Mr. R. J. B, Knell and Mr. H. C. F. Barnes were elected vice-chairmen.