[8] “On Municipal and National Trading,” pp. 56-92.
[9] While this pamphlet has been in the Press, there has been a strike of the Leeds Municipal workers, and the threat of a strike in the Post Office. It will be interesting to see whether the considerations above mentioned under existing conditions will be borne out, and still more if when the causes are ascertained, it can be proved that had the principles here advocated been carried out in practice, there would have been no strike, nor any threat of one.
[10] On Municipal and National Trading, p. 109.
[11] Ibid, Chapter VII.
[12] On Municipal and National Trading, p. 107.
[13] “On Municipal and National Trading,” page 10.
[14] “Westminster Gazette” of December 2nd, 1913.
[15] See “The Railways of Great Britain” by Lord Monkswell. (Smith, Elder & Co., 1913. Price 6/-). A most interesting book, published since this pamphlet was written.—Lord Monkswell is not an advocate of nationalisation, but apparently has an open mind.—He admits that England is now only served by five groups of railways, and that there is no effective competition.
[16] In Palgrave’s “Encyclopædia of Political Economy,” Vol. III. (1899), Article on Railways, signed W.M.A.