NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE way in which the Report of the Coal Commission is- used- will determine the course and temper of industry as well as its degree of prosperity for years to come. The Commissioners cannot be sufficiently praised for their courage, their sincerity and their impartiality, and also for their ungrudging labour. The Report is serious but it is not tragic. It demands sacrifice from everyone—the greater sacrifices, we think, from the mine- • owners—but it offers a reasonable certainty of future safety for the coal industry if the substance of the advice given is accepted. The question now is whether there will be enough good will, enough patriotism, enough sense, enough, too, of enlightened self interest, to secure that the Report shall be discussed with a firm resolve to inaugurate a new life-for the mines. It is a critical question. We have the 'Choice of behaving as men and brothers or as bickerino. children. -The itepoit is pUblished at a shilling. . . Everyone ought to read it. * • * • *
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