22 FEBRUARY 1919, Page 2

The Ministry of Labour announced on Tuesday that a National

Industrial Conference will be held next Thursday to consider the labour unrest. All the Industrial Councils and other bodies representing employers and workmen in the various industries will be asked to send delegates, and Sir Robert Home, with other Ministers, will confer with them. Meanwhile a special Committee is being formed to investigate the subject of miners' wages and conditions of labour. It is to sit from day to day and to report by the end of March. Coalowners, miners, and the public are to be represented on this Committee, which will, it is to be hoped, set forth the facts in a lucid and tangible form.