NEWS OF THE WEEK.
IN the early hours of Thursday morning it was announced that the employers and the dockers had come to terms. The agreement between them came with almost a dramatic rush at the end and has had for the public all the elements of a truly gratifying surprise. Of course, the terms have still—when we write on Thursday —to be accepted by the dockers as a whole. We must not therefore assume a settlement till it is fully accom- plished. Only folly or wickedness, however, can prevent peace. The dockers are to get their two shillings with merely a little more delay than they themselves sug- gested. The Minister of Labour is to be congratulated on the results of his intervention ; his course of action was very different from that of the Council of the Trades Union Congress (which became a combatant instead of a mediator), and we hope that this difference, with all its pregnant results, will be duly noted. It must be added that Mr. Bevin argued the dockers' case with extraordinary ability.
