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A DECISION not to support de/--1 nationalization until an inquiry had been held was taken at a recent meeting of Halifax Chamber of Commerce. One member said that there would be chaos if denationalization took place because no private company had the organization for a take-over.
The transport services committee of Tees-side and South-west Durham Chamber of Commerce has asked the Chamber to support a resolution calling for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into transport integration..
When Road Haulage Executive employees from Oxford and other places in the area met last week, they were told by Mr. H. Letts, regional group secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, that the R.H.E. was paying its way through efficient administration. Its prices were so keen that many private hauliers had lost business and were now taking their last chance to prevent theinselves being priced out of the market.
Mr. Frank Cousins, national secretary of the commercial road transport group of the Union, said that it was only within the framework of the Transport Act that an efficient transport service could be provided.
March Through Town After a march through the town, • a large number of persons assembled on Yeovil football field at a recent meeting organized by the Transport and General Workers' Union to protest against denationalization, The local M.P., Mr. John Peyton, Conservative, was invited, and he told the gathering that the Road Haulage Executive had failed in the " impossible " task which had been put upon it..
At a T.G.W.U. protest meeting in Cambridge, a former Labour Parliamentary candidate asked: "Would a Tory businessman be prepared to sell a business at a loss—and sell it at a loss when it was showing a Dm. profit on an £80m. capital?"
Members of the T.G.W.U. who attended a similar function at Parkstone, heard ME F. Burbidge, chairman of a local union branch, declare : "If Mr. Churchill knows that those who are employed in the industry do not want it [denationalization], he will think twice."
When Mr. John Baird, M.P., addressed a 'protest meeting at Wolverhampton, he said: '1 don't think there is a possibility of the Government getting the transport denatidnalization Bill through Parliament before the spring of next year."
e A fault of nationalization was that it did not extend far enough. To obtain greater efficienci, C-licensees would have to be restricted. .
The Newcastle-on-Tyne office of the RILE. has intructed its employees to " remove anti-denationalization slogans from the Executive's lorries. Several vehicles in the -Thornaby-on-Tees area recently appeared with printed slogans paid for from a fighting fund organized by men who object to the lorries being. returned to private enterprise. A resolution passed by the Sheffield branch of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association "notes with pleasure the financial results achieved by the British Transport Commission for the year 1951."
"these results, it states, cOuplecl with the data now available, are an effective reply to charges of inefficiency and. mismanagement so loosely levelled by opponents of nationalized transport."
The resolution pledges the branch to resist by all lawful means the "mischievous and ill-considered" policy of the Government as recently expressed in the White Paper.
The White Paper departed in some particulars from the Road Haulage Association's policy on denationalization, but on the other hand it contained principles with which the R.H.A. was in full agreement. Mr. R. Morton Mitchell, chief executive officer of the R.H.A., made this statement at a meeting in Cambridge, last week, of the Eastern Area.
He said that every effort would be made to ensure that the Government's Transport Bill was drafted on lines which were practicable and likely to secure agreement and support.
Members attending the meeting expressed disappointment about the delay by the Government in implementing its promises of early relief from the 25-mile limit, but some were concerned that if this restriction were lifted the traffic available to returning operators would he depleted.
Fears were expressed over the possibility of big financial groups setting up private monopolies and It was asked how the disposals board would regard one tender for the whole of a group, compared with a number of tenders from ex-hauliers for one or two vehicles each.
• CLEARING HOUSES DEPUTATION TO MINISTER
ADEPUTATION from the National Conference of Road Transport Clearing Houses, led by Mr. I. McGregor, vice-chairman, in • the absenceof. the chairman, Mr. I. W. Ellis, was received on June 24 by Mr. A. T. Lennox-Boyd, Minister of Transport. The purpose was to discuss road transport denationalization, and the deputation submitted proposals by the Conference ryith the object of facilitating this aim.
NO EDINBURGH-AYR DIRECT SERVICE A N application by Scottish Omnirlibuses, Ltd., to run a direct service between Edinburgh and Ayr was dismissed by •the • Scottish • Licensing Authority, last week. The application was opposed by Dodds (Coaches), Ltd.. an operator of day tours between Edinburgh and Ayr during the summer. Mr. • R. M. Palmer, special duties officer of Scottish Omnibuses, Ltd., said that at present passengers had to change at Airdrie or Glasgow. The Authority • said that he could "conceive of no justification for running a direct service" between the. two points.