30 SEPTEMBER 1911, Page 3

Four managers of Irish railways gave evidence on Wednesday, and

all agreed that the Conciliation Scheme had in the main worked well, though it admitted of improve.

ment. Mr. Butterworth, the manager of the North Eastern, who gave evidence on Thursday, scouted the sugges- tion that recognition had produced chaos on his line, though he admitted that it had not prevented trouble, and recent de- velopments of trade unionism—such as the sympathetic strike, which he described as an unfortunate euphemism for an atrocious thing—might induce the Company seriously to reconsider their relation with the A.S.R.S. Recognition, if it was effectively to make for peace, must be voluntary in its character.