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Extracts from Addresses 357

but better and happier citizens, by giving them that knowledge which
they know that other people who have been more fortunate than them-
selves have acquired in the course of their school and college life. The
result is that now in each of the universities of Great Britain there
is a joint body, consisting in most cases of seven representatives of the
university and seven representatives of the workers, who sit side by
side in a committee which organizes courses of lectures and study, ad-
vanced study, university standard, which lasts for a period of three
years, which the workers attend in the evenings, after the end of their
long day’s work, in which they guarantee to go through a three years’
course, to write essays, and to enter into discussions after the lecture
with their tutors. They meet the tutor as an equal with themselves,
learning and trying to seek out, he with their help, as they with his
help, the truth of the subject they are studying. I think that is going
to be a great intellectual bond, which will be more intellectual as time
goes on, between the working class and the teaching class, and through
them the other classes of the country. I attach a great deal of im-
portance to that. It has been found that these classes have been
founded not only in the universities of Great Britain, but also in most,
if not all, the universities of our dominions beyond the seas, during the
last year. I think it is one more indication of the fact that the better
different classes of different countries understand each other, the less
trouble there will be between them, and the more harmoniously they
will be able to act, not in competition but in cooperation with each other.

Another significant example of the same thing is the fact that there
was an inquiry held by the government a short time ago. A com-
mittee was appointed to inquire into the causes of industrial unrest in
Great Britain, and the report of that committee, which is an extremely
significant one—and commonly called the Weakly report, since the com-
mittee was presided over by Mr. Weakly—is that there should be en-
couraged in business concerns what are called trade councils; that is,
committees on which the employers and employed sit side by side, each
learning around the same table all that can be known about the con-
duct of the business, and acting as an advisory council to the manage-
ment of that same concern. These trade councils have been instituted
in no inconsiderable number of businesses in Great Britain at the pres-
ent time, and I look forward to that as one more example of the spirit
of cooperation, because we have been suffering from the suspicion that
existed between the employer and employed, and the only way to re-
move that suspicion is that we should sit side by side at the same table
and come to understand each other better.

I hope that spirit of cooperation is going to act, not only between

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