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Greene Light for Liner Trains?

23rd July 1965, Page 31
23rd July 1965
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Page 31, 23rd July 1965 — Greene Light for Liner Trains?
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From our Industrial Correspondent QIGNS that the National Union of Rail waymen may be relenting in its opposition to allowing private road hauliers into the proposed liner-train terminals became apparent at the union's annual conference which ended at Southport last week. They came in a speech by Mr. Sidney Greene. the union's • general secretary.

Speaking in a debate on transport, Mr. Greene suggested that it might after all be in the best interests of the union to co-operate in the running of liner trains. He said that not everyone believed that the liner trains would pay and Mentioned that the Transport Holding Company had been rather critical of them.

Mr. Greene added: "I don't want the responsibility for their failure to be placed on the union. I would sooner accept them and let them run. And if they did not pay, then it would be a responsibility of management. But if they do pay and bring us more jobs, then it is a step in the right direction. We have to look at this very seriously indeed."

Coming so soon after the virtual elimination of the union's second objection—the question of guards—this statement must be regarded as the most hopeful yet and gives hope that the new chairman of British Railways, Mr. Stanley Raymond. may be able to bring in the trains before the end of the year.

The conference showed its disappointment at the Government's failure to carry out the policy expected of it by passing a resolution which said they were "greatly disturbed" at the delay in formulating a national transport policy based on the social and economic needs of the country,

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Organisations: National Union
Locations: Southport

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