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Dundee as container Motormen fight 'freeze' port?

2nd September 1966
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rr HE Dundee Harbour Trust is investigat ing the scope for a fast sea service to Scandinavia involving a container terminal, roll-on/roll-off facilities and tourist trade co-ordination. The Trust believes that the potential does exist in container operation and tourist travel activity to maintain such a terminal, and it intends to consult the National Port Authority.

A market research project will be launched in October to determine the likely traffic between the central Scottish industrial belt and Scandinavia, through such a container port.

Meanwhile, hauliers in the Grangemouth area are deriving increasing traffic from the regular weekly container service operated from the USA by Sea-Land.

THE Scottish Commercial Motormen's

Union announced last week that its 21,000 votes will be cast against the Government's wage freeze policy at the TUC congress and the Labour Party conference.

Mr. Alex Kitson, general secretary, said: "It is the opinion of the executive council of the union that such policies are not in line with Socialist thinking and will not solve the economic problems facing the country. The disturbing feature about the policy is that it has not only created a standstill on wages but has also negated agreements that have already been made."

The executive council was convinced, he said, that an effective incomes policy could only be carried out with the further extension of public ownership. The present incomes policy was losing the Labour Government support from the sections of society which were in much need of assistance lower paid workers and people on fix incomes.

Mr. Kitson said the union was seriom disturbed at the continued attitude of t Ministry of Labour in denying the carryi out of the British Oxygen agreement, whi was based on productivity and had laid t basis for the sweeping away of many strictive practices among transport drive The withdrawal of the agreement would me a return to the jungle so far as transp4 workers were concerned.

"It is only three months since t Ministry of Labour was pleading with t road transport unions to set up machine in the road haulage industry which woi do the job of work that has taken two a a half years to complete in the Briti Oxygen Co.", added Mr. Kitson.


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