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KEY WAREHOUSIN END IN RESIGNATION AS RHA MEMBERS

9th July 1965, Page 28
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

rINE of Hull's leading haulage con

cern's—Key Warehousing and Transport Co. Ltd.--has withdrawn from the Road Haulage Association as a protest against the Association's attitude on the question of charges. Mr. T. W. Jackson, managing director of the company, sent the following telegram to the Association's headquarters: "kindly note we have lost all confidence in the RH A's representation on behalf of members (especially on behalf of ourselves). We therefore have no alternative other than to resign our membership." Key Warehousing is particularly concerned at the RHA proposal that the principle of general recommendation to the members on haulage rates should be abandoned.

Mr. Jackson, who is vice-president and past national chairman of the National Conference of Road Transport Clearing Houses, and former chairman of the Hull sub-area of the RNA, said he completely disagreed with the abandonment of rate recommendations. Neither did he agree with the Association's action in postponing the rate increase from June I to July I. He said the rise in -costs was not caused by the hauliers, but by Government policy, and added: No haulier likes having to approach his customers. time and time again with increased rates brought about not by his own ineffiCiency or inability to run his business correctly, but by added costs because of taxation."

Mr. Jackson accuses the RHA of "indecision ". It had caused nothing but confusion and dissent between haulier and customer to a magnitude he had never known after 34 years in haulage, said Mr, Jackson.

If the practice of recommending general rates increases is to be abandoned, then surely so should be the practice of general wage increases, argues the Hull haulier, since the employer is (in effect) the customer of the employee. Is Mr.. Jones, or Mr. Brown. suggesting that (as with rates increases) employees should return to the jungle of individual negotiations?

Competition within haulage is so intense that there are no surplus margins. he argues, and wages arc by far the single highest operating -cost. Therefore it is nonsense forthe .Prices Board to argue that wages can be allowed to rise without increases in charges.

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Organisations: Road Haulage Association
People: T. W. Jackson, Brown

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