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the cost of working the railways would not be

an announcement of

hampered by the proposed anticipation of freight

relief to coal. He read to the Cabinet a draft

summary (which was altered in the course of the

Meeting) of the Conclusions reached by the

Unemployment Policy Committee.

The Secretary of State for War made a

verbal report on the work of the Migration Sub-

Committee to supplement the written Report

(Paper U.P. (28) 4).

The Cabinet then discussed in detail the

Conclusions of the Unemployment Policy Committee

under each head, and agreed

(a) "MIGRATION". To approve the Conclu- sions and Recommendations of the Migration Sub-Committee in the form contained in the Appendix.

(b) *CONCENTRATION AND ANTICIPATION”.

That the Prime Minister should announce in Parliament that the Government were prepared

dat

(1) To accept the principle that

the railway freight relief to coal should be concentrated upon coal for export and foreign bunkers and coal for blast

furnaces and steel works; and

(2) To consider the principle that

this concentrated railway freight relief should be anticipated, subject to the Government being

satisfied

(A) That it would not hamper the present negotiations between the Railway Com- panies and the Unions with a view to economies, and

(B)

That the railway freight relief should not be used either by the Railway Com-- panies or the Railway Rates Tribunal as a reason for

singling out the selected

traffics for an increase of

freight rates under the

general powers of the Act of 1921.

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