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criticized by Mr. Robert Taylor, general secretary of the Scottish Horse and Motormen's Association, in an address which he gave at a co-operative conference in Motherwell, last week. The railways, he said, were feeling the effects of new and more flexible forms of transport, and were appealing for assistance, not because they desired to improve the service to the community, but because they desired to protect shareholders.
Mr. Taylor declared that from the ' day the railway companies' capital was introduced into road transport the extension of these services to the community steadily decreased. They have no enterprise and are not prepared to run on routes which, for a time, would be unproductive. They are content all the time to invest money in enterprises which, it is already known, will earn dividends.