Tactics and Strategy
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WARNING against confusing the 1 strategic and the tactical objectives the road haulage industry was given Mr. F. M. Bennett, prospective nservative candidate for Reading rth, at the annual dinner of the tding sub-area of the Road Haulage ;ociation, last week.
For the time being," said Mr. mett, "a total return to free enterte is quite out of the question in a ge number of industries. Fortuely, this does not apply to road ;lap, where the Conservative Party pledged itself to a return to free :rprise at the first opportunity." 'he Government, he said, alleged that purpose of the Transport (Amendit) Bill was to nullify and wreck the nsport Act. "This is our purpose he future, but it is not the intention the Bill, which merely attempts to ow out the policy of the Labour ty upon which they fought the last tion," declared Mr. Bennett.
he Labour Party had stated that irtial nationalization is the pattern chosen for road transport and the steel industry" and that "for private and public enterprise to compete fairly with each other could be good for both." The amending Bill did nothing more than carry these statements into effect.
Mr. C. W. H. Sparrow, chairman of the Metropolitan and South-eastern Area, expressed confidence that some result would be obtained from the Bill, and that, in any case, the battle for freeenterprise haulage would be won in the end.
We must stimulate interworking, or sub-contracting, as I prefer to call it. We must learn to trust each other." Mr. Sparrow added.
GLASGOW DROPS STATION PLAN
GLASGOW is not to have a new bus station on Clydeside, as proposed. Opposition from the Clyde Trust and the proprietors of property facing the river has proved too strong for the corporation.