When the history of the present war comes to be written few ohapters will form a prender record than those recording the loyalty of Labour. Six months before war broke out there was more discootent in Great Britain than there had been, perhaps, at any period of her history. And in no section of employees was this more strongly marked than amongst railway men. Yet a few weeks ago, at 6 conference between general mans gers and representatives of the National Union of Railwaymen and the Amalgamated Society of Loc motive Engineers and Firemen 0 agreement was signed to continue the existing Conciliation Boards until peace has been declared. That means that all sorts of questions about which railway employees felt, and had a right to feo!, very keenly and which the Boards hed failed to settle are to be shelved. Tt is not too much to hope that, a result of this, resort to strikes will be far less quickly decided on than has hitherto been the case, at all events in the railway world.
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