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family. The founder of the dynasty joined the Great Western in 1840. He remained with the company forty-two years, and left with them two sons, of whom one served forty-five years, and the other forty-two 杭州龙凤地图论坛 years. Each of these two sons had five boys, and all ten followed the example of fathers and grandfather in becoming servants of the same company, keeping their positions for periods ranging from six to thirty years. The fourth generation is represented by four 杭州桑拿排行榜 members, one of whom has already been with the company for over ten years. The total service of those members of the family who were still working on the Great Western a year or two ago was 147 years, and the aggregate for the four generations was then over 800 years. Each of the workers concerned has been employed in the locomotive department.

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the general popularity of the railway service, agitations and strikes have occurred from time to time; though down to 1907 most of these arose in connection {446}with questions of conditions of labour in regard to 杭州按摩女图片 particular lines of railway.

In 1907 an agitation was promoted by the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants in favour of what was called a “National All-Grades Programme” of demands for higher wages, reduced hours, etc.; and there was a further demand that the 杭州不正规的洗脚的地方 negotiations in respect thereto should be carried on through the officers of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. The companies declined to grant the concessions asked for in the “Programme,” alleging that to do so would involve them in a wholly impracticable increase in their working expenses. It was subsequently stated that acceptance of the “Programme” would have increased the expenditure of the companies by between ￡6,000,000 and ￡7,000,000 per annum; that the cost to the London and North-Western Railway Company alone would have exceeded ￡500,000 per annum, equal 杭州家庭式spa to 1? per cent of the company’s dividend; that on the London and South-Western it would have been equal to a two per cent dividend on the ordinary stock; and so on with other companies in like proportion.

In the result the demand for the concession of the 杭州夜网杭州龙凤网 “Programme” became subordinate to the demand of the A.S.R.S. for “recognition”; but this, again, was refused by the railway companies on the ground, not alone that the membership of the society included only a minority of the men qualified to join but, also, and more especially, because “recognition,” involving the carrying on of negotiations through the union leaders, would, it was argued, lower the standard of discipline in a service where considerations of the public interests, and especially of the public safety, made it a matter of paramount importance that a high standard 杭州哪里做spa比较嘿嘿 of discipline should be maintained.

Threats of a general railway strike caused much alarm, and led the Government to intervene. The negotiations carried on at the Board of Trade were based mainly on the possibility of arranging some system of conciliation by means of which further disputes would be avoided; and eventual