The sympathetic action thus set up is beginning to find its way to the establishment of closer co- operation between the Unions of these several trades.

The different industries engaged in river-side work are rapidly forming into closer union.

So also the various mining classes, the railway workers, civil servants, are moving gradually but surely towards a recognition of common interests, and of the advantage of close common action.
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The fact of the innumerable delicate but important relations which subsist among classes of workers, whose work appears on the surface but distantly related, is leading to Trade Councils representative of all the Trade Unions in a district.

In the midland counties and in London these general Trade Councils are engaged in the gigantic task of welding into some single unity the complex conflicting interests of large bodies of workmen.
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