DISCOVERING THE FACTS.
This, unless the City is mistaken, is the point which has been pressed upon the attention of all grades of service in the L. M. & S. Railway by Sir Josiah Stamp, and it is probable that a vivid appreciation of the fact constitutes the necossary prelude to any successful solution of the difficulties with which the industry is confronted. It is a solution, moreover, which can only -be achieved by the management and the rank and file of our industries co-operating. In the first place, the facts of the position have to be discovered, and when they have been discovered they have to be resolutely faced. There is no use in discussing whether hours of working or methods of pay- ment have to be readjusted until all the facts of the situation and the causes of depression have been clearly revealed, and for a successful solution of the problem it is undoubtedly essential that workers as well as employees should be engaged in the task of investigation, so that they may be in accord with regard to the remedies to be applied.
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