Co-Operation and the Railways.

Speaking recently at the annual conference of the National Union of Railwaymen, Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P. (Parliamentary General Secretary of the Union) said that the conference had been a remarkable and a good one. It had shown the desire of the organised railway workers of Britain for peace in the railway industry. The delegates, he said, were prepared to co-operate with the railway management in the carrying out of those essential matters which were as vital to the companies and the travelling public as they were to the men themselves. If that spirit of co-operation and goodwill manifested by the representatives of the men was reciprocated (as he felt sure it would be by the managers of the railway companies), then he saw no reason why the present relationship between employers and workers should not be placed on an even better footing than that on which it stood to-day.

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