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Hauliers Reply to Labour Attacker

2nd October 1959, Page 57
2nd October 1959
Page 57
Page 57, 2nd October 1959 — Hauliers Reply to Labour Attacker
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

FOLLOWING comments -by 'Mr. Anthony Greenwood; a former Labour M.P., in a television broadcast concerning road haulage-vehicles operated under free enterprise, Mr. Edgar Williams, managing director of the Williams Brothers Group in North Wales, has taken up the challenge.

Posters with the words, A vehicle of free enterprise road transport. Anthony Greenwood, Labour M.P., says: These vehicles are not roadworthy—drivers are exploited.' Look at the vehicle! Speak to the driver! Form your own opinion," are displayed on the group's vehicles.

Mr. Williams is backed by the North Western (Western) Area of the Road Haulage Association. Other hauliers in the area supporting his action by displaying the posters include Sutton and Sons (St. Helens), Ltd., M. A. Keenan and Sons, Ltd., and Robert Armstrong and Sons, Ltd., Liverpool. In North Wales a recent meeting of the Wrexham Sub-area was unanimous in support and a large number of posters was distributed.

RENATIONALIZATION MEANS INFLATION

UNLESS there was to be confiscation without' compensation, the money required, in the event of a Socialist Government rcnationalizing the steel and road haulage industries, would go to inflate the country's economy without adding a single new lorry or steel mill to the nation's capital equipment.

Lord Hailsham made this observation at Fakenham, last week, when he challenged the Socialists to say what the cost of renationalizing the industries would be. " We do not know because they have never told us," he said.

CANDIDATES PRESSED propaganda sent to all Election

candidates by the Standing Joint Committee of the motoring associations, arguments are put forward for better roads, more parking facilities and the reform of vehicle taxation. A reduction in the rate of tax would be more than offset by the yield from the increasing number of :vehicles on the roads, it is stated.