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A Fighting Force for Road Transport
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FOR a very long time we have been pressing for a permanent combination of road interests which can speak for the industry as a whole and have at its command sufficient money to form a real fighting fund.
Writing last February, we said that the various associations representing road transport should get together without delay and formulate a proper plan of campaign, a plan not necessarily involving a large expenditure, but one which would lose no opportunity for giving the Press informative facts which would throw a proper light on to the situation, whilst journals devoted to the interests of particular trades should not be forgotten, because thousands of their readers are users of road transport.
We also pointed out that it was essential to push home the facts that road transport employs more men than the railways, and that it also represents a huge capital expenditure and has its own shareholders to consider, so that any curtailment would not only make the public suffer, but would add many thousands to the already swollen ranks of the unemployed, and thus constitute another drain on the national purse.
Within a few weeks of this advice, a committee was formed which really constitutes the nucleus of the new British Road Federation, the formation of which we have assisted and guided during the past few weeks.
At last, a really important measure of cooperation is being achieved. The detail work will naturally take some little time to settle, but matters are advancing rapidly, and in the next issue of this journal we hope to make an important announcement concerning the policy of the Federation and to give details as to membership.
We must emphasize the point that the work of this Federation will supplement, not replace, that of other associations.
Employers Who Do Not Consider Their Drivers.
TT is evident from a number of eases that has -I-come before the Courts recently, that there are still many concerns owning commercial vehicles which continue to expect their drivers to work under unrea'sonable conditions. We have not the slightest sympathy in cases where such a practice can be brought home to the culprits and they are suitably punished, but we regret the opprobrium which these cases bring upon the commercial-vehicle industry. .
The driver has not, by any means, an easy task, particularly if much of his work has to be performed at night, as so often happens, and where it becomes extremely monotonous.
It is these law-breaking concerns which do so much to encourage such measures as the Salter Conference, and render difficult the work of those wile givetheir employees every possible consideration.