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Furthermore, the so-called «little railway Parliament» was created by law; it was an emanation of the railway servants and constituted neither more nor less than the chief source of insubordination and of the subversion of every sound administrative rule.
If this occured in the most important and delicate branch of the public service, it is easy to see how, with these tendencies predominating, a scheme for the control of industry should have matured, and how organs should have been evolved constituting a beginning of the introduction of factory councils and of those other conceptions calculated to ruin industry, trade and every form of productive progress. Here too it was not a case of isolated ideas, but of initiatives emanating from Parliament and passed on to the Government, so much so that a definite plan and a Commission existed for studying the details of execution of this marvellous system of workmen's control over industry.
The Socialists had got possession of a large number of municipal administrations, and the manner in which they squandered the public funds was indescribable.
