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24th March 1939, Page 47
24th March 1939
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on Their Dignity" rOMPLAINT of the slowness of many C-licence holders in the Yorkshire Traffic Area in returning the vehicle-census forms for the defence scheme, was made by Major F. S. Eastwood, Yorkshire Licensing Authority, at a meeting at Halifax, last week. Councillor Charles Holdsworth, chairman of the North Eastern Division of the C.M.U.A., presided over a large attendance.

" Seventy-eight per cent. of the unreturned census forms in the Yorkshire Traffic Area are due from C operators," said Major Eastwood. When a C-licence holder in the audience spoke of difficulty which he had experienced in the formation of a group Major Eastwood commented:— "You C-licence holders are all standing on your dignity, instead of getting together."

A questioner—who retorted to the critioism by pointing out that the Calder Valley Woollen and Worsted Manefarturers' Association had made inquiries among its members with a view to forming groups—raised a wages point. Pointing out that A and B-licence holders' drivers are in a different position from those of Clicence holders, from the wages standpoint, he asked what was to happen if and when drivers of all categories were working together under the emergency scheme. " Is it possible," asked the questioner, "that before long the C-licence holders will come into the same wages category as A and B-licence holders?"

Councillor Charles Holdsworth (a member of the Central Wages Board and chairman of the Yorkshire Area Board) answered this question. "In my opinion," he said, "the writing is on the wall for the C-licence holders. In my view, the day has gone when they should have an advantage in this direction over what I would term the professional haulier, who is in competition with them."

Replying to further questions, Major Eastwood emphasized that joining a group did not mean that immediately war broke out an operator's vehicle or vehicles would be commandeered. The idea was to get people into groups for petrol rationing, and to make the best possible use of the petrol.

Asking what would be the position with regard to vehicles employed on food distribution, a member of the audience remarked that there was much overlapping as between Bradford and Halifax. Major Eastwood replied that so soon as the fuel position became " tight " in wartime a comprehensive organization of food distribution would be introduced, so as to minimize petrol consumption.


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