Labour Interest in Disposal Warning ?
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ONLY one of the 418 resolutions on the agenda for the Labour Party's annual conference at Margate from October 10-14 deals with the denationalization of road haulage. Coming from Harrow (East) Labour Party, it calls for "a full-out attack on the Government with the object of calling a halt" to disposal. Its force has been partially vitiated by the Government's new policy. A number of resolutions deal with nationalization in general, and several with the financial structure of the British Transport Commission. The Transport Salaried Staffs Association suggests that the State should either take over capital charges, leaving the Commission to pay interest on the basis of what they can reasonably be expected to earn, or should make a block grant. A resolution from East Ham (Borough) demands "the drastic curtailment of tax on all forms of oil used by road vehicles," referring specifically to "the ever-increasing cost of road haulage and passenger fares."
LIME HAULAGE RATES: -
.FURTHER MOVES THERE has been 'renewed pressure 1 upon the Ministry of Agriculture to raise lime-haulage rates by 21 per cent„ in addition to the 5-per-cent. advance already granted. Representatives of the British Agricultural Contractors' Association, the Road Haulage Association and the National Association of Corn and Agricultural Merchants were told recently that .the Ministry was not willing to raise rates until certain items of cost had been investigated. Mr. T. Cooper, Stoke Bank Farm, Stoke St. Millboro, Ludlow, a limespreading contractor, demonstrated at a meeting of the national spreading committee of B.A.C.A., a model spreader of his own invention, designed to eliminate drift.