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Rh department administered by politicians who had no comprehension of the work of the Post Office clerk, nor indeed of the work in general." The department can now be better run "without officials retained at high salaries, holding their positions because of political influence, though destitute of the least expert knowledge of the business." Everything that concerns the Post Office is known by the total body of workers who now carry it on. Why then should the entire management be refused them?

The Syndicalist argues against "throwing the railways into politics," as briskly and confidently as the average American business man. He has only contempt for Government ownership as now practiced. To these revolutionaries, the railroad in possession of any present government may be as viciously capitalistic as in private hands, besides being badly managed. Italy has taken over the roads and so badly bungles them as to rouse the same jeers, according to Odon Por, as in the case of the French Post Office. He says a very powerful Industrial Union is now established on government roads. These include practically all except the more highly paid officials. Of the aim of this Union, he says:

"By its method of organizing according to the technical nature of each man's occupation, while the problems of the whole service are kept before the mind of every member and his opinion and vote called for on each, the men are educated to a keen interest in everything that concerns the whole work of the railways. That they have arrived at a considerable degree of success is proved by the fact that, conscious of their increased collective power, they set before