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Haulage Not a "Free For All"

28th February 1958
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

ROAD haulage should not be a free 1N, for all, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Northern Licensing Authority, declared last week. " Too many vehicles on the road undercutting each other result in vehicles being in an unsatisfactory condition," he said.

Mr. Hanlon was answering a furniture trade witness, Mr. V. Clarke, who supported an application by Mr. R. Liddle for a short-term B licence for furniture and shop deliveries within 25 miles of Newcastle upon Tyne. • . • Mr. Liddle, a former long-distance lorry driver, was opposed by several established furniture removers.

In evidence, Mr. Clarke said his company obtained better and cheaper service, often at awkward hours, from one-man concerns, compared with some of the larger furniture removers.

"It is a free country under free enterprise," he contended. "A shop has the right to competitive service. Nine times out of 10 you cannot get the bigger firms when you want them."

Mr. Hanlon said he sympathized with Mr. Clarke, but he could not grant a licence on the evidence available. He suggested, however, that Mr. F. Milton, for the objectors, should supply a list of operators . available for Mr. Clarke's work.

"BLACK-LISTED" DRIVER TWICE DISMISSED

THE case of a bus driver who has twice

been dismissed because other men refused to work With him has been taken up with the Transport and General Workers' Union by the Liberal Party's Civil Liberties Committee.

The driver, Geoffrey Smith, began work three weeks ago with United Automobile Services, Ltd., but after one day he was told to find other employment because his colleagues would not accept him. Later he lost a job with Middlesbrough Corporation for the same reason.

Mr. John McQuade, chairman of the committee, said in London on Monday that Smith had been black-listed for working during last July's stoppage. He was not a union member, and at the time of the strike was employed by a non-union concern. He had since offered to join the union.


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