contribute to the supplementary benefit fund. One cannot fail to be struck in reading Mr. Lesser’s pamphlet by the extraordinary success of the Federation’s scheme in producing co-operation and good feeling between masters and men. With the experience which firms get through putting into operation a method of unemployment insurance of this kind, the way is opened for the institution of a wider scheme of grouped firms, and ultimately for insurance by industry or industries. CHAPTER XXV THE RIGHT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYED 1. CONTENTMENT IN INDUSTRY (_b_) Human Status of the Worker in Industry—The Slowness of Ordinary Conciliation Machinery—The Whitley Councils Scheme—Joint National and District Industrial Councils—Works’ Committees—The Slow Progress of Works’ Committees—The Success of Works’ Committees on the Clyde—Executive Management a Matter for Employers. (_b_) Human Status of the Worker The next most pressing reform in our present industrial system is to secure for the individual worker a definite status in industry. To describe what is intended is easier than to define it. At present the individual worker complains that the government of industry is conducted by the employer entirely as the latter thinks fit. He calls it the “domination of capital”; he describes himself as treated with scant or no consideration, and undoubtedly he draws all his industrial inspirations from an atmosphere in which there is little apparent development of his human personality. The worker is right and he is wrong. He forgets that the conduct of industry to-day is not a matter in the uncontrolled hands of any employer. He loses sight of the fact that in all well-organized industries the conditions of employment which prevail have been the matter of extensive adjustment between the employers’ organizations and the Trade Unions, negotiated, of course, centrally beyond the horizon of the individual worker. The Slowness of Ordinary Conciliation Machinery