News of the Week ' S.J.C. Explains
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Its Attitude
THE Standing Joint Committee. of Road Hauliers' National Organizations has issued a notice pointing out that the question of organization in the road-transport industry will continue to receive the unremitting attention of the Committee, and its efforts to reach the goal desired by all who have the well being of the industry at heart will be continued.
It also deals with the history of the S.J.C. scheme to provide an organization for A and B licence holders, without disturbing the existing associations, regarding which it issued a Press statement last July. In essence, the scheme provided for the incorporation of the S.J.C. and its extension to the various areas. It believes that the Committee would thus have been made more effective in the following ways:-.--(a) incorporation would have given it an enhanced status and operators as members would have had a more intimate connection with its work; (b) machinery similar to that of the S.J.C. would have been available locally as well as nationally ; (c) by grouping operators on a functional basis, orderliness of representation would be improved and adequate representation of the whole industry assured.
However, the trading clauses in the scheme resulted in objections. Then. although the majority of the associations supported the scheme as re-drafted, the C.M.U.A. urged the early amalgamation of all road-transport organizations. In the meant4ine the Government haulage scheme was developed, and its partnership with the Ministry has met one of the needs which give rise to the S.J.C. original proposals.