T.U.C. Backs Plan for Another Take-over
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By an overwhelming majority, the Trades Union Congress last week called for renationalization of road transport as part of the urgent need for Britain's basic industries to come under State control. Mr. Frank Haxell, general secretary of the Electrical Trades Union, said the Labour Party's nationalization programme met with the T.U.C.'s full approval, although industrialists would put up stiff opposition.
Thousands of pounds were now being spent in advertising private enterprise industries, not merely because they were highly profitable, but also because the people who controlled them controlled the economic resources of the country in no small measure. With 80 per cent. of the nation's industry under private enterprise it was impossible for any economic plan or any control methods to succeed.
"If a Labour government is to be successful it will need to plan the nation's economy, and to do so it will need to take a number of steps which will undoubtedly be resisted by the present owners of industry," he declared. "We must determine our requirements for nationalization so that we can develop our campaign for their implementation, and so ensure the future of our people."
The E.T.U. resolution was passed without comment from the General Council.