The English Building Guilds: An Experiment in Industrial Self-Government
The last eight years have seen the adoption by a number of the younger leaders of the British trade-union movement of the ideal of industrial self-government. In June, I914, the annual meeting of the National Union of Railwaymen resolved unanimously, that this congress, while reaffirming previous decisions in favor of nationalization of the railways, declares that no system of state ownership of the railways will be acceptable to organized railwaymen which does not . . . . allow them a due measure of responsibility and control in the safe and efficient working of the railway system.' At the annual conference in May, i919, of the Postal and Telegraph Clerks' Association, it was emphatically pointed out that the control demanded by the postal employees included participation in directing the technical improvement of the service for the good of the community.2 In i9i9 the Miners' Federation brought formally before the Coal Industry Commission a request not only for the nationalization of the mines, but of joint control by the
- DOI
- 10.1086/253398
- Volume
- 29 (10)
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- 777-790
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- en
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