CONTROL BY CORPORATION, SAYS UNION LEADER " MATIONALIZATION of the
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indus Itry should be on the basis of a public corporation responsible only to the Minister of Transport and to Parliament, on similar lines to the scheme devised for the mining industry," said Mr. A. C. Stevenson, Midland area secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, at Coventry.
" Appointments to the corporation. must necessarily exclude all who have expressed themselves convinced of the failure of nationalization," he declared.
A leading employers' representative had publicized an alleged shrewd guess that the Government will permit a radius limit of 25 miles for the operation of free transport," he continued.
In my opinion, so large a limit can be regarded as expedient only as an interim arrangement."
Mr. Stevenson went on to say that an essential requirement would be to stop the further issue of C licences where private operation remained after State control of road-haulage concerns had been imposed.
"A TRAGIC POLICY."—M.P.
" j BELIEVE it a tragic policy for a 'great industrial and trading nation, such as ours, to deny to the traders of the country the right to move their goods by what is to them the cheapest and most convenient form of transport. I am against monopoly in transport; I am against monopoly whether private or public." Capt. Peter Thorneycroft, made this statement in a debate held recently in Oxford on the subject of transport nationalization.
Speaking for nationalization, Mr. E. Durbin, M.P., said that one of the arguments in favour of socialization was the moral one. A slowly expanding programme of Socialization was necessary towards greater equality, and the system of central direction was more efficient than the present one.
CAMPAIGN GOES ON .1-1 ATEST information on the anti
nationalization campaign will be given by Mr. R. W Sewill, M.A., M.Inst.T., national director of the Road Haulage Association, at meetings at the Town Hall, Llarnludno, on November 20; Town Hall, Welshpool, on November 21; and Picton Hall, Liverpool, on November 22. All meetings will take place at 7.30 p.m.
HOLD INQUIRY FIRST
A. RESOLUTION urging the Governr-"k m ent to hold an inquiry into the future of transport before nationalizing the industry was unanimously adopted by the Association of British Chambers of Commerce at a recent monthly meeting.
PROBLEMS OF MAINTENANCE
THE Institute of Road Transport Engineers is holding its first meeting in Scotland this month at the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, Elmbank Crescent, Glasgow, at 6.30 p.m. on November 22. Mr. Sydney Wightman, M.I.A.E., of Albion Motors, Ltd., will speak on "The Problems of the Manufacturer and the Maintenance Engineer."