What the Associations are Doing
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Service to the Public Must Come First
1.1AD the warfare between road and 1 /rail continued it would have brought disaster to the public as well as to the main participants, said Major Eric Long at the seventh annual dinner of the A.R.O. North-western Area, which was held in Liverpool, last Saturday. He asked them to support their leaders and to fight for peace in transport, the result of which would be a more efficient service for the public than it had enjoyed in the past. With stabilized wages and rates they could go a long way towards a sounder state of affairs.
Membership of the association was increasing at the rate of 2,000 a year, said Mr. In Macaulay. Very shortly it would represent half the A-licensees in the country although only a few years ago there was little co-operation.
Liverpool existed on various forms of transport, said Mr. T. F. Hargreaves, and if road transport was injured so the city was injured. The Mersey Tunnel was a great advantage but operators had to pay to use it and ratepayers also had to payl whether they used it or not. He looked forward to a time when such undertaltings as the Tunnel might be national highways, paid for by the nation.