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Tories Attack Labour Policy T HE Conservatives are still probin g restlessly
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into Labour's plans for road haulage. " There is no field :n which the Labour Party's plans are more divorced from reality ", says a Tory pamphlet out this week, "than that of transport. Their policy can be summarized in two of the favourite words of dogmatic Socialism—integration and nationalization."
The pamphlet attacks each of these in turn. Mr. Wilson's views on integration is not only incompatible with free choice for the consumer, but it would lead to higher transport costs by eliminating the spur of competition, penalizing the efficient and subsidizing the inefficient. "if ever there was an example of the old adage that large-scale decisions lead to large-scale mistakes, it is in this fallacious assumption that a centralized decision can lay down once and for all the " right' distribution of traffic between road and rail."
On nationalization, the pamphlet says the Socialists realize that this policy will not win them votes. So they now talk of extending British Road Services while at the same time imposing distance limits on private lorries. Such arbitrary restrictions weuld so cripple the business of road haulage companies that it would squeeze them out of existence and would be equivalent to nationalization without compensation. Some enterprises, the Conservatives add, work best when organized on a large scale. Others can only have full scope for initiative and efficiency when organized in relatively small units. "This is certainly true of road haulage, where managers and drivers know and support each other personally, and are indeed Sometimes the same individual."