18 SEPTEMBER 1915, Page 2

Mr. Lloyd George, with both courage and wisdom, responded to

the invitation of the Trade Union Congress to speak at Bristol on Thursday week. The chief question which he had been asked to answer was how the Government were keeping their promise to intercept war profits. But after answering that question be proceeded to show that the men, on their side, bad failed to keep their promise to suspend Trade Union regulations. He made it perfectly plain that so long as this failure continued the position of the country in respect of the accumulation of munitions would be critical. It was a bold revelation of the truth which for its very gravity should lead to a change of practice among skilled workers.