Labour Repeat Integration Cry
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A S expected, the Labour Party Con
ference on Monday unanimously carried a resolution by Mr. Sydney Greene, general secretary of the N.U.R., expressing concern at Government policies " which inevitably mean unplanned and uncontrolled transport in this country" and calling upon the Labour movement to work for co-ordination and integration of the transport system.
Much of the discussion was understandably concerned with present railway affairs—the national strike, redundancy and line closures but Mr. Ray Gunter. winding up the debate for the national executive, returned to the broader picture.
Change was inevitable in the pattern of British transport. said Mr. Gunter. and
a railway system laid down so long ago inevitably needed readjustment. But traffic that could best be carried by rail should be carried by rail, and that 1:1. road by road.
Element of Service The principles of the market place could not be applied to transport, he said, apropos Dr. Beeching's application of the " profitability test" to the railways; inevitably there was a great element of service in transport.
No branch lines should be closed because of panic, he asserted. There was a social duty to people in remote areas and they should not be left without transport. "There are less horses about noss than there were 100 years ago."