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War Averted
THE belief that better days are ahead for road transport, and that road:transport operators, as well as the railway companies, will receive a square deal, was voiced by Mr. R-. E. Britton, chairman of the Hull Sub-area of A.R.O., At the Sub-area's annual dinner on Saturday last. Other speakers also spoke in hopeful vein concerning the outcome of the development arising from the " square deal " negotiations.
Major F. E. Eastwood, chairman of the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners and Yorkshire Licensing Authority. who was the chief guest, said that they were all looking forward to the time. when the road-rail agreement would not be provisional, but actual.
Major the Hon. Eric Long, political adviser to A.R.O., said he was glad of the indications that a rate-cutting war between rail and road interests had been averted. The prevention of such a conflict would, he believed, save their industry, from extermination, and
it would be for the good of the trade of the country, particularly in these difficult times.
Mr. J. A. M. Bright, of Selby, chairman of the Haulage Sectional Board of A.R.O.'s Yorkshire Area, remarking that the , new wages boards had been established under the Road Haulage Wages Bill, said there was now a possibility that road-haulage contractors would obtain freight rates in keeping with the wages which they would be called upon to pay to their employees. Originally, the square deal for which the railway companies appealed had so many sides that it resembled a cube, but now it seemed as if something definite was to come out of the negotiations. , Mr. M. Whileblood, the L.N.E.R. company's chief motor clerk at Hull, stressed the value of sound organization both to rail and road interests, and said it was important that these two sections should come together for the common good.