Loyalty—Co-operation—Service.

Taking up another theme, Mr. Sterling said he was proud of the railway men. Their loyalty to their work was unbounded. Loyalty was almost a tradition among railway men, and the people, he believed, would secure from them as good a service as the people any other part of the world. (Applause.) He had pledged the men to do their work, and he was confident they would honour that pledge.

Mr. Sterling went on to say that he was in agreement with the association in respect to an adequate transport service overseas for the Dominion, and he did not hesitate to say that so far as the Railway Department could co-operate in securing such a service the association could count 100 per cent. on its co-operation. (Applause.)