P.V.O.A. Organizes for the Future
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MATIONALIZATION of passenger 11 transport will be opposed by the Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association, no matter what political party is returned after the General Election. This was decided at a meeting of representatives of action committees throughout the country, held in London. last week.
To implement a common policy, further the efforts and consolidate the work of committees in areas whether threatened by area schemes or not, the meeting decided a number of questions. It was resolved that all prospective Members of Parliament should be presented with the facts relating to area schemes and that emphasis should be placed on the absence of any evidence to prove the need for measures of the nature implicated in the schemes.
Local councillors will be informed of the bearing that the existing proposals have on their own districts, and on the possibility of further attempts at nationalization. Arrangements will be made to organize representation now, in areas not at present threatened.
It is understood that the branch of the Transport and General Workers' Union covering Kelvedon, Essex, has condemned the nationalization of road passenger transport. This decision has been communicated to headquarters of the Union. The men are said to have threatened to withold their subscriptions if the Union does not support their opposition to the proposed area scheme ,for East Anglia.
Messrs. Moore Bros., of Kelvedon, are strong opponents of nationalization.
An Ipswich branch of the. Omnibus Passengers' Protection Association has been formed to fight the eastern area scheme. Another branch has been opened in Great Yarmouth,