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RICES Secretary Roy attersley denied this week at his announcement about lad haulage charges had iything to do with the prent dispute.
Consultations on the report, told MPs, were going on to last week and he acted as did toward every other port. Had he made a decision ithout consulting the Trans)rt and General Workers nion or the Road Haulage 5sociation, MPs would have implained that he had rushed to it and it would have been ;ht to complain.
Mr Hattersley said that the ice Commission was not and )uld not be an instrument of age restraint.
There were two things that nvinced him that it could t be implemented. One was at it could concern only a tall sector of the industry — out 10 per cent. The second is that a substantial number companies, even within that per cent, would not have en affected by the order beuse they were protected by eguards.
Therefore, he decided last lursday not to make the ler. His intention being to nounce this on Monday )rning, when the Advisory ,nciliation and Arbitration rvice announced that it was [ling the parties to the diste together on Sunday morig he thought it right to give 3m that information before 3 meeting.