M.o.T. Sees R.H.A.: Men Hostile
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THE Minister of Transport, Mr. J. S. Maclay, last week received a deputation from the Road Haulage Association to discuss the Association's plan for denationalization.
The R.H.A. representatives consisted of Mr. F. F. Fowler, national chairman, Mr. R. Morton Mitchell, chief executive officer, Mr. B. Winterbottom, Mr. R. H. Farmer, Mr. J. S. Barry and Mr. R. G. Crowther, the four vicechairmen, Mr. C. W. H. Sparrow, Mr. H. Hunter, Mr. 0. G. Wynn and -Mr. Henry Walker. They comprise an
ad hoc committee which has been considering the plan.
As forecast in "The ,Commercial Motor" last week, the general executive council of the Transport and General Workers' Union has endorsed resistance to denationalization.
The council has approved resolutions from branches expressing grave apprehension over the suggestion that the Government might denationalize com mercial road transport. Mr. Arthur Deakin, general secretary, stated last week:— " In the view of the council, a properly co-ordinated and efficient system can only be developed and maintained through the medium of a public authority, that is, with the British Transport Commission giving effect to the provisions of the 1947 Transport Act, and co-ordinating, through its various Executives, every form of inland transport in the country."
Mr. M. Pounder, acting general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, also expressed his Union's opposition to the denationalization of road haulage.