Nationalization News
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MR. STRAUSS GIVES GOVERNMENT'S VIEWS
TijE essence of the speech by Mr. . R. Strauss, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, at the Institute of Transport luncheon, held last Tuesday, was that despite every effort to obtain co-relation between road and rail and attempts to find a formula for settling commercial rates, these had failed. This was for the reason that road and rail were separate financial entities and if these entities were to disappear, it would be possible to devise a. far more satisfactory rate system based on the needs of industry and the travelling public, and there would be greater co-relationship. This would he rendered possible under common ownership by the State.
Mr. Strauss said that the whole of transport would be closely affected by the Government's impending changes. The opponents of nationalization assert that because of the Government's doctrinaire political prejudices, it desires to impose a system for which there was no need and which would not work. The Government's supporters, on the other hand, claim with equal conviction that the opponents of its policy do so because of their doctrinaire political prejudices, and are resisting a long-overdue change rendered necessary by recent developments in trade and industry.
The economic conflict between road andjail before the war was leading to a severe crisis and some action must be taken to resolve this. A rates structure cannot be built, up on the reasonableness of individual rates. It would he an impossible task to frame such a structure which would cover the variations of size, cost and conditions as they concern -road haulage.
R.H.A. STAND AT SHOW CAUSES STORM AUCH controversy was caused at a In recent three-day show at Wisbech, organized by the Wisbech and District Allotments Association, by a stand occupied by the Road Haulage Association and used to impress on the public the dangers of nationalization.
" Everyone seemed to be of the opinioa that the danger of nationalization is passed and the Socialist element appeared to feel that local hauliers were speaking out of their turn in attempting to influence public opinion against the policy of the Government," Mr. J. Archer Tribe, A.I.R.T.E., of Wisbech, told "The Commercial Motor."
MR. MACMILLAN TO SPEAK AT R.H.A. RALLY A s announced in "The Commercial PI
Motor" on October 25, the Road Haulage Association (Metropolitan Area) will hold a rally at Caxton Hall, London, S.W.1, on November 18, at 2.30 p.m. Mr. Harold MacMillan, M.P., will be the principal speaker.
He will be supported by Mr. H. T. Duffield, chairman of the National Road Transport Federation, and representatives of all sections of the transport industry, trade and commerce.