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boots annually.
 * reefer jacket, one serge jacket, two caps and two pairs of

The provisions as to ill-health, defective eyesight, retirement, and special duties, were preserved, with the additions that loco. foremen should be selected from drivers; that all engine cabs should be standardised; that a committee of the Society should supervise all engines for that purpose; that enginemen be supplied with watches, repairable at the company's expense; that split duties be abolished, and that men shall live where they choose. The programme approved by the 1919 Conference was indeed bold and comprehensive.

Such is the post-war programme of the Society for its members. Now, however, we must turn to the story of the greatest railway strike on record, that of September, 1919.