Last week the National Union of Railwaymen confirmed the policy
of the "Triple Alliance" to take no part in the Industrial Council set up by the Government. Yet the Industrial Council was the means of having drawn up, with the unanimous consent of both Capital and Labour, one of the most memorable pro- grammes ever framed in the interests of Labour. That pro- gramme includes maximum hours of labour and a minimum wage, and the Government have already promised to legislate upon it. Why should the railwaymen reject it ? Because the programme is useless to them as their own conditions are already in advanee of the programme. The programme, nevertheless, would be the charter of a new life to the vast majority of trades. For all trades but their own, however, the leaders of the" Triple Alliance" seem to care nothing.
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