11 OCTOBER 1919, Page 2

The Prime Minister insisted on the railwaymen returning to work

before the complex negotiations about the new standard rates of wages were resumed. He also made it a condition of the settlement that the railwaymen who broke their contracts by striking should work harmoniously with the many railway- men who loyally fulfilled their obligations. It is fair to add that Mr. Thomas has done his best to fulfil this condition in the spirit as well as in the letter, and that the general resump- tion of work on Monday was attended with few of the usual local disputes between those who had struck and those who would not strike.