I should like to see a union where employers and employees should have equal rights of membership." McNish grunted contemptuously.
"It would be an interesting experiment," said the minister.

"An interesting experiment, McNish, and you are not to grunt like that.

The human element, of course, is the crux here.

If we had the right sort of foreman he might be trusted to be a member of the union, but a man cannot direct and be directed at the same time.

But that union of yours, Maitland, with both parties represented in it, is a big idea.