NEWS OF THE WEEK.
111HE industrial situation as we write on Thursday is critical, though not, we think, hopeless. The Coal Commission, it is aaid, has failed to agree on an interim Report on hours and wages, and has presentzd three separate Reports. The Miners' Federation haa now to decide whether the men shall cease work on Saturday. The railwaymen are still bargaining with the Railway Executive Committee, as the result, it would seem, of Mr. J. H. Thomas's aerial viait to Mr. Lloyd George in Paris. The transport workers, forming the third party in this " Triple Alliance," have arranged matters with some Dock Boards and large employers, but have not attained the general settlement which they desire. We trust that the leaders who have Mobilized these industrial armies will not, after all, try a national strike. War does not pay.
