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BRS Expansion is Not Enough says Union Chairman
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THE C licence had been allowed to "run riot" and if nothing was done ibout it the economy of the country vould suffer greatly. This opinion was xpressed by the chairman of the coltish Commercial Motormen's. Union, Ir. Robert Morrison, speaking at the Inion's biennial conference at Ayr this veek.
Mr. Morrison also expressed disapiointment at the delay in introducing egislation that would strike a severe Low at " the hundreds of operators who ad no respect for the law ". It was a cell-known fact, he said, that many !rivers were working round the clock, .ided and abetted by their employers. As a lorry driver myself, I condemn ut of hand my fellow workers who are ssisting in this crime, and I would urge le Minister of Transport to arise from is slumbers on this question and give s action."
Early attention was also needed on :onstruction and Use Regulations, he aid. Too many vehicles were using the roads that should have been condemned to the scrapyani.
Looking to the future, Mr. Morrison said that the union had always stood for complete integration and co-ordination of all sections of the transport industry. "I do not accept", he said, that the recent decision of the Minister of Transport to allow British Road Services more power to expand as an interim measure is in the interests of the nationalized road transport. There is only one way to ensure expansion of the nationalized road section—that is to acquire the businesses that are in direct opposition to BRS at the current value of the stock. without goodwill, because it does not exist."
Mr. Morrison reminded his colleagues in other transport unions that there must be new thinking on their part in order to obtain desired changes. The parochial outlook of protecting interests must be abandoned, and where changes were in the national interest they must take preference.