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EndNationalization N. Ireland Plea
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D EASONS put forward by Lord
Glentoran, Northern Ireland's Minister of Commerce, for keeping road transport nationalized were rejected by the Unionist Conference last week. By an overwhelming majority the conference passed a resolution urging the Government to implement a promise to hand back road haulage to private enterprise.
Lord Glentoran had stated that a competitive road freight system would seriously add to railway losses, so the question of allowing private operators to compete with the railways could not be considered on its merits in present circumstances. The most urgent task was to tackle railway losses—the Great Northern Railway lost £3m. between 1953 and 1958, whilst the Ulster Transport Authority lost £21m. between 1948 and 1958.
" It is quite impossible for the Government to sustain these enormous losses," he declared.
Mr. G. C. V. Brittain, who moved the successful denationalization motion, claimed that the U.T.A. had arrogantly defied public opinion. It was a "puppet body" which had never given a decision in favour of an appellant as far as he knew. Freight was being carried at a loss to prevent big concerns from buying their own lorries and the money was being recovered from small traders who could not fight back.