"A new phase of trade unionism is to be formally inaugurated on Saturday, when @ conference will be held at the Essex Hall for the purpose of establishing a National Federation of Professional, Technical, and Supervisory Workers.
"Mr, G. D. H. Cole will preside, and a number of professional and other workers who have associated themselves as guides, philosophers, and friends of the organized trade union and Labour movements will take part.
The men behind this extension of trade unionism are, in the current slang, live wires," writes Mr. A. M. Thompson in the Daily Mail." "Mr. G. D. H. Cole, the chairman of next Saturday's meeting, is a young man in the thirties, formerly Fellow of Magdalen College, who has written hundreds of pamphlets on industrial subjects" and many such as The World of and that scientific study of ges system, The Payment of 7 "The secretary, Mr. Arnot, is a graduate of Glasgow University, who has written many 1 tracts and collaborated with Mr, Cole in a book on Trade Unionism on the Railways.
'Another member of the drafting committee is A. G. Walkden, who became secretary of the Railway Clerks' Association 14 years ago, when it was 4,000 strong, and has since raised the membership to $5,000. He is a man who rose in the service of the G.N.R. from office boy to goods agent, then won a prize on 'How Best to Run_ the Great Northern,' and Lord Rosebery, on presenting the prize, told him there was no position to which his abilities might not aspire.
"Men like him and the secretary of the Engineering and Shipbuilding Dranghtsmen represent the voices of workers earning from £1,000 to £1,500 a year. In the general trade union clamour for a new social order the utterance of their voices would be useful."
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