RAILROAD DIRECTION

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 9, 10 January 1920, Page 6

RAILROAD DIRECTION

INTERESTING EXPERIMENT TO BE

TRIED IN PRANCE,

Ths termination ''of military control of the_ railroads in France will mark the beginning of an interesting experiment— the colloboration of delegates from all the different classes of railways workers with heads of departments and the board of directors in the management of the railroads (stated a recent despatch from Paris). ' .

The plan of M. Claveille, Minister of Public Works, embraces the organisation of a "committee of exploitation" which will be presided over by a functionary still to be chosen, called "the general railroad commissary." . This plan may be modified in some details, but it appears to be the general agreement to try the much-advocated scheme, of direct participation by the workers and technical men with the directors in the management and operation of the roads. The railroad workers express great satisfaction that they at last are going to have their say in the upper councils, though for the moment their participation will be mostly consultative. The press shows some reserve as to the probable results. Shippers and merchants are glad to welcome any experiment in which 1 there is any likelihood of improvement in transportation, of which they complain quite as much as before partial demobilisation.