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FREE B.R.S. FROM LICENSING' SAYS LABOUR SPOKESMAN
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CLUE to the way in which the Socialists might. if elected, implement r intention to let British Road 'ices expand was given by Mr. Ray -der, M.P. for Southwark, when he
on Monday that under a plan ugh! out by a Labour Government .S. must be released from the oblion to apply to the regional Licensing hority every time it wished to extend Jperatiohs.
le was speaking at the Party Connee at Scarborough, at which resoiro is calling for deferment of Beeching closures until a survey of all forms inland transport had been completed a national transport plan drawn up, for a Labour Government to give ent consideration to a speedy and
extensive programme of underground railway construction, were carried unanimously.
Moving the first resolution, Mr. Sidney Greene. N.UR. general secretary, said the closures policy might bring disaster; an efficient transport system was needed to build an industrial nation, while an inefficient transport system might even strangle an industrial nation. Seconding the resolution, Mr. Frank Cousins, T.G.W.u. general secretary, said: " You. cannot make a section of the transport _industry efficient in isolation."
The denationalization of road haulage was the greatest act of sabotage. said Mr. J. W. Gill of the Boilermarkers' union, who asked his audience to remember all those who bad been killed on the roads since "these monsters" the heavy lorries-had been let loose, carrying loads which could be transported quicker and safer by a well-organized railway. His protest at denationalization was echoed by Mr. A. Kitson of the Scottish Horse and Motormen's Association. who said that a Labour Government should carry out Herbert Morrison's 1953 promise and renationalize road haulageat once. also taking a "serious look" at the compensation paid last time.
Mr. George Strauss said transport would be an important issue in the General Election and the Labour Party rejected and condemned the Conservative idea that each element in the transport system should be made to pay.
Replying for the executive, Mr, Ray Gunter said that no other industry was in a more chaotic state than transport at present. New developments -in transport must be analysed and surveyed to see how they fitted into an overall plan. It could well be, he said, that direct subsidies would be needed for road, rail or sea transport but it was to be hoped that they would be small. The public sector of road haulage must be very much enlarged and British Road -Services, under a Labour Government plan. Must be allowed to expand and must be released from the obligation to apply to the regional Licensing Authority every time it wished to extend its operations.