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Vehicle for Election Campaign Fund
THAT provincial initiative is needed 1 for speedy action to put forward General Election propaganda on behalf of the road-transport industry, particularly against nationalization, was emphasized at a meeting of the R.H.A.'s new Dewsbury and District Sub-area (incorporating the Heavy Woollen District Transport Associa tion) at Dewsbury last week. This -point was made during a discussion on a report of plans for such a propaganda campaign in Yorkshire under the auspices of the R.H.A. and the other constituent associations of the N.R.T.F.
Speaking of the provision of funds for this Yorkshire campaign, Mr.. V. Box, of Dewsbury, stated that it had been suggested the appeal to be made for operators' financial support should call for donations at • the rate of Ed per vehicle. He shared the opinion that that figure was not too high as a basis of contribution towards fighting the transport nationalization menace that lay 'in the programme of the Labour Party, He felt that 21 per vehicle was comparatively little if it were going to be a means for saving the businesses of operators. There was need to educate both Parliamentary candidates and the public as to road transport's farreaching relationship to the life of the people, and as to the implications involved in nationalization, The united front which operators had achieved through the Perry merger scheme gave opportunity for making a good job " of election propaganda on behalf of the road transport industry.
Mr. Brook, of Dewsbury, said that he did not think there was any doubt that, if the Labour Party secured a working majority in the House of Commons, it would introduce legislation to nationalize all forms of transport, as well as the mines.
Suggesting that men of Labour views could not be expected to support the campaign, Mr. P. Burnett, of Dewsbury, said: " I know plenty of good, upstanding business men who have Labour views."
Mr. T. Bailey, the chairman, of Batley: " I am not a Conservative, and I have never` voted Conservative in• my life, but the candidate who is in support of Winston Churchill is the man who will get my vote, no matter what his politics are. If we are going to vote on principle, we can support only Mr. Churchill." •
At the outset of the proceedings, approval was given to the completion of arrangements for the winding up of the Heavy Woollen District Transport Association and its incorporation in the new Dewsbury and District Sub area of R.H.A. The officers of the H.W.D.T,A. were elected to hold similar offices in the sub-area organization as follow:—Chairman, Mr, T. Bailey; vice-chairman, Mr. E. LIpyd; hon. secretary, Mr, Tt Jackson, of Dewsbury; bon. treasurer, Mr. U. Chadwick, of Dewsbury. Mr. Jackson was reappointed as representative on the Yorkshire Hired Vehicle Operators' Committee, and was elected to represent the sub-area on R.H.A.'s West Riding Area Committee.