TheCoal Commission, having heard over a hundred witnesses, is preparing
the Report which it will present next week. Lord Davenport, as Chairmen of • the Port of London Authority, told the Commission lain week that Labour representation on the Authority had not diminished strikes ; he thought, indeed, that they had had more tronble than before. Sir Hugh Bell, on behalf of the iron and steel trade, said that the coal Industry was too important to be used for experiments in nationalization. The steel trade was bound to suffer if the price of coal continued to rise. Further, the large steelwork' owning collieries could not endure State management of those collieries. Sir Hugh Bell said, very wisely, that there was no royal road to a solution, and he recommended employers and workmen to have patience. Such advice, of course, is not palatable to those who am preaching class- war, but it is none the less sound,
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