"1111104 090"Iiidapper
Page 25
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
The Transport Bill.
Opposition to the Transport Bill is growing rapidly,. and there are many rumours about, one .§uggosting that bir Eric Geddes may give place to Mr. Churchill as first Minister. -A feeling, is also growing that the Bill ev utalla I ly will be whittled down only to include Cho control of railways; many of the other issues in the Bill will therefore be eliminated. The movement against the inclusion of the roads is particularly' strong, as we have already recerdc.kr, but a later movement against that imlusion is. a telegi.apktic request to Mr. Boner Law signed by DOU members, of the House of Commons, chiefly Coalition Unionists, asking him to receive a deputation before a beginning is made with the report stage in the House of Commons. It is expected that the list of signatures now being made in the lobby will total no fewer than 20C names when the .deputation presents to Mr, Bonar Lawits arguments against the nationalization policy underlying the Transport Bill.
There is also very strong action by .5ir William Raeburn and other members chiefly interested in shipping against the absorption of docks and harbours, and there is again another movement against placing the electrical undertakings under the Transport Ministry_ Yet another -body which is agitating against the Bill is a group of owners of railway. wagons, who point out the impossibility• of carrying on productive industry unless the wagon holders are allowed an entirely free hand in the diePosition of their wagons.