" B.T.C. WILL NOT UNDERCUT"
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AN undertaking that the British Transport Commission would not undercut the independent haulier, so long as his rates were reasonable, was given by Mr. G. R. Strauss, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry Of Transport, in the House of Commons 'last week.
He said that there would be no con.trol of the rates charged by hauliers operating outside the Commission, and that the Commission would be guilty of. a dereliction of duty. if it 'made iinpossible the work of the short-distance haulier.
This important announcement is one of the points made by our legal adviser in his analytical article on the proceedings on the Transport Bill, on page 174.
Mr, Glenvil Hall, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, refused to accept" an amendment to allow stockholders, who. are entitled to receive Transport stock, to elect to take it in such form as to secure equality of income.