' Extending' Nationalization ?
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From Our Political Correspondent IN wharseems to have been little more I than a passing reference in a weekend speech, Mr. George Brown, Labour's deputy leader, referred to his party's plans for " cxtending " road haulage nationalization.
This addition to Socialist terminology on the point everyone wants to know about seems, at long last, to have struck the right note. For it now appears probable that no massive, all-embracing take-over is contemplated—merely the creaming off of what is financially attractive, plus the restriction of what transport is left.
This may be an over-simplification of an issue which does not appear yet to be settled even in Socialist minds. However, there is nothing which can lead the layman to suppose that B.R.S. will not be substantially extended in size and freedom, and presumably the Labour Party intends that this shall be achieved by the take-over of the more successful parts of the private side of the industry.
Would B.R.S. competition then be unstoppable? Would the lest, given sufficiently unfavourable conditions to work under, wither away? Is the C-licensee to find life more restricted and difficult while the railways, romp ahead? There is still a state of uncertainty which even Labour supporters would like to see illuminated.