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New Effort to Stabilize Rates
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Tnewly formed road-transport section of the Bradford Chamber of Trade is to take an active interest in the forthcoming General Election. At a meeting of the section, on Monday, it was agreed to send out a questionnaire to the Parliamentary candidates, in the four Bradford divisions, with a view to ascertaining their attitude on various questions concerning the roadtransport industry.
This plan was put forward by Mr. Harold Goodwin, secretary of Blythe and Berwick (1928), Ltd., Bradford. The election, he said, presented the industry with a golden opportunity of making its presence felt in Parliament, for there were 1,250,000 persons engaged in the road-transport industry, representing at least 3,000,000 votes. This big proportion of votes should be used in an endeavour to build up in the House of Commons a strong body of sympathetic Members.
Mr. Goodwin suggested that candidates should be asked whether they were in favour of a reduction in motor and petrol taxation, whether they would support the claim that the Road Fund should be used for road con c34 struction and unkeep, did they recommend strengthening weak bridges and abolishing toll bridges and toll roads, and were they in favour of increasing the speed limit on heavy commercial vehicles (over 21 tons unladen) from 20 m.p.h. to 30 m.p.h.
The following officials and committee of the section were elected :—Chairman, Mr. Charles Holdsworth (Halifax) ; vice-chairman, Mr. Harold Goodwin; hon. convenor, Mr. R.' F.
Ac k r oyd. Committee : Messrs.
Burrill, Webster, Mansley, Barr, Battye, Jones, Preston, Hall, Ormondroyd, Woodhead, Poulter, Wales, . Parkinson, Redfearn and Burton.
One of the chief functions of the section will be to deal with the stabilization of haulage rates, for the section incorporates the Bradford Road Transport Rates Tribunal, which has done much good work during the past two years. The committee will be divided into two sub-committees----one to deal with long-distance haulage matters, and the other to handle questions in connection with short-distance road haulage.
Referring to the rates-stabilization question, Mr. Fred Pickering, hon. secretary of the Chamber, remarked that the Rates Tribunal had been handicapped by the fact that it had not been able to enforce its rates all round. One of the purposes of the section would be to seek means for securing the geneiral application of the stabilized rates, When necessary, the roadtransport section could obtain the support of the whole of the Bradford Chamber.