The officials of the men's Unions, including Mr. Hudson, M.P.,
and Mr. Williams, the secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, behaved with great good sense and courage, and told the men plainly that their action was illegal. They had broken the conciliation agreement of last year. At a mass meeting on Thursday evening the men by a huge majority authorised their officials to accept the Company's offer of an inquiry into Goodehild's case, with no stoppage of his pay meantime. While expressing our admira- tion of the part played by the Union officials, we must also congratulate the men upon the good sense with which they finally obeyed the advice of their officials,—advice which it must have been somewhat galling to them to carry out. Like reasonable men, however, they would not continue in a false policy rather than admit that they had made a mistake.
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