.U.C. Press Minister for Rural Services
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From Our Industrial Correspondent EADERS of the T.U.C. were due to. I see the Minister of Transport yestery to protest about the position of blic road and rail transport in rural :as. Mr. Harry Douglass, general :retary of the steel workers was leading leputation from the T.U.C.'s economic mmittee of which he is chairman.
The committee have been considering ral transport and have found. that not ly were railway branch lines being ned down without alternative bus ser:es being provided but that its some aances bus services introduced to lace trains had soon been withdrawn ain because they did not pay.
Before they saw the Minister a member the deputation told me: "We shall k,Mr. Marples to take steps to keep daily' necessary services going before tole tracts of rural England are turned to virtual deserts. Mr. Marples has en sitting on the Jack Committee report rig enough."