"THE NEW ORDER"

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 146, 18 December 1919, Page 5

"THE NEW ORDER"

RAILWAY. SHAREHOLDERS A.ND LABOUR,

A by-product of the British railway strike is an attempt to form an organisation of shareholders who take aeriouslj their personal responsibility for the .eoriditiohii of labour. , One. is. surprised to niid that the movement has originated among a -.group of members of the Society of I'rionds, including Miss .Theodore. Wilson {Us secretary), Lady Parmoor, Miss Joan M. Fij, ahd Mr. Edward Backhouse. Among .non-Quakers v*hd are. oooperaiingr are Miss. Emily Kinniird, Mjsß Maude Kciyflen, Miss Picton Tui-borville, Blather Adderley, and Father Bull-. . A statement issued by the p'romotors of the movembnt affirms their oonviction that "the. claims of the- workers to wages ma.Uing it possible for them to live a full and tree life como before the claims of. shareholders .to dividends." Tliey .further pledge th.emselves "to support such a' reorganisation of the present railway sys': tcm as shall bring about the highest good of the- workers and tho best interests of tho community," and declare themselves "prepared to accept whatever personal loss shall arise through such reorganisation." ;. . ,Tlifc r , effort, is not a pretentious or. am-Wtious-bne, b'ut^those who ftre; taking part in it express -^tie hope ihii, they may accomplish "a real, practical bit of roadmaking for the new order that is to bY