Page 168
Page 168
166
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.
-2-
Page 168
Page 168
Page 168