MR. ATTLEE'S VIEWS ON WHITE PAPER
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LABOUR had only started to bring some order to the road transport chaos and now the Tories wete trying to dis-coordinate it, said Mr. Clement Attlee, Leader of the OPposition at a rally in Bristol last week. "The parts that don't make a profit you can pay for and the parts that can they will give to someone who can make something out of it," he said.
At the Co-operative Congress at A28 Margate, last week, a resolution was passed protesting against the Government's " retrograde proposals" for denationalization. Shop stewards from Road Haulage Executive depots in the West Riding net at Halifax to organize a protest meeting to be held on June 22.
Mr. E. G. Whitaker, chairman of the London and Home Counties Area of the Traders' Road Transport Association, said at Southampton recently that the principle of the road haulage levy was wrong. and should be resisted. He said that there would still be a Road Haulage Executive but it would be Smaller than at present.
What traders wanted was the different Executives to be independent bodies. "We are not going to invest our money in transport if somebody else can provide the transport services much more cheaply and efficiently than ourselves" he declared.
A declaration of the T.R.T.A.'s "100per-cent." Opposition to the levy was made by the president, Col. A. E. Jerrett, at the annual meeting of the London and Home Counties Area on Tuesday.
BRITISH PIPELINE FOR IRAQ
ANEW 24-in, pipeline is to connect the Zubiar oilfields of Iraq to Fao on the Persian Gulf. One of the most interesting points about this project is that the 80 miles of steel pipe will he supplied by a British concern, the South Durham Steel and Iron Co., Ltd. The total weight will be 17,000 tons and the cost nearly a million pounds. The order has been placed by the Basrah Petroleum Co., Ltd.
There is already a 12-in, line, but its capacity is insufficient for the estimated enormous increase in production.