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Engines and Men
Trouble on the Midland—First Emblems and Medallions—The Model Engines—A Calamitous Strike—The Generous Executive—Bitter Memories—The Tragedy of Tom Ball—Dot and Wool Tests~A North Eastern Programme
Railway Accidents—Footboards, Subways, and Bridges—Ne Compensation— Exhaustion by Long Hours—Conditions of Slavery—A Sooth Eastern Programme—Scottish Drivers Victimised—Terrible Records
The Hexthorpe Disaster Trial—Taylor and Davies Acquitted—A Great Victory—Growth of the Society—North Eastern and Great Western Wage Movements—Advice Against Strikes—Messages from America—The L. & N.W. in 1890—New Rules of 1889.
Wages and Engine Power—The Taff Vale Strike—Select Committee on Railway Workers' Hours—An Associated Programme—The Miners’ Strike of 1893—Fines and Suspensions—A Year of Testing
Mr. Parfitt's Recollections—The First Representative E.C.—The Society in London—Taft Vale Trouble—A Proud Position—England's Wealthiest Society—The Orphan Fund—Events of Jubilee Year—The Engineers’ Strike—Talk of Federation
