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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 6 (October 1, 1927)

Friendly Co-operation

Friendly Co-operation.

Not long ago, Sir Josiah Stamp, Executive President of the London, Midland and Scottish Company, remarked in a friendly talk to the members of the Derby branch of the Railway Clerks' Association, that running a railway was a “rummy job.” In straight-forward terms, Sir Josiah put before his audience the difficulties under which his line was working at the present moment, and the talk was typical of the friendly fashion in which Home railway leaders to-day treat with their employees in the effort to increase railway efficiency.

For many years it was the custom of the British lines to make known their difficulties to their staffs by means of official circulars, bulletins and similar lines of approach. Recently it has come to be realised how lacking in appeal are many of these cold and sternly official documents. To take their place, so far as this is practicable, there now pass friendly messages between the managements and the men, by way of heart-to-heart talks delivered by the various leading officers to the staff at the principal centres. The replacement of the stereotyped broadcasts of the past by this new line of approach is a feature of especial interest, and is a move which is going far towards building up the spirit of teamwork and co-operative effort among all ranks, which forms so important an essential to successful railway working.