1528 Aims of Industry, which claims a membership of 4,000 Hritish companies is expected to launch a massive anti-nationalisation campaign later this year. Ideas that the form of the campaign should take will be discussed soon after Easter, at a meeting of the organisation's council, presided over by Sir Ian Lyle. Sir Ian is Chairman of Tate and Lyle, whose Mr. Cube cam paign against State .ownership caused an uproar among Labour Party members in the late '40's, In finalising its plans, the council will be thinking in terms of a General Election . - with nationalisation as a "main political issue" —- sither in October or the Spring of 1964.. Its propaganda will be directed not only against further State ownership but against any extensions of controls or growth of bureaucracy.
Large sums are expected to be spent on advertising, and there is =, ob vious possibility that more cartoons, along the lines of Mr. Cube, will bo’ ereated. The advisability of holding public mestings throughout the countpy will also be discussed. In the past, Aims of Industry has never given any indication of the amount of money it has spent on: campaigns of this kind, but there were suggestions during the 1950 election that its expenditure was in the region of £150,000, The Aims of Industry council_consists of 17 members, including the President. Among them are Mr. J.3E. Reiss, Chairman of issociated Portland Cement Manufacturers, Mr, George Harriman, Chairman British Motor Corporation, Colonel W.H. Whitbread, Chairman of Whitbreads, Sir Ken= neth Hague, Chairman of Babcock and Wilcox, and Lord Rank,
It is by means of Aims Of ‘Industry, that the Tories are able to got around the laws regulating the amount of funds that can be spent on elections, and to put into the field the considerable financial assistance they receive from Industry. . In this way, they are probably able to double the amount of money they spend on a General Election, which otherwise would be restricted by the laws that govern such expenditure.