NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE menace of a great labour war has passed away for the moment. The railway strike was settled on Saturday week, a normal service has now been resumed on all the railways, and the Commission of Inquiry has been sitting since Wednes- day. There has, however, been a good deal of rioting in the provinces, involving frequent collisions with the police and occasional intervention of the military, and an extraordi- nary epidemic of looting, directed chiefly against Jewish shop- keepers, has broken out in the mining valleys of South Wales. But Liverpool remained the chief focus of disturbance, nearly seventy thousand dockers and transport workers re- fusing to go back until 250 uniformed tram workers, who had struck in sympathy with the railway men, were reinstated. On the other hand the remaining 1,500 tram workers threatened to strike if the other men were reinstated.
