27 APRIL 1929, Page 2

We are told that the Trade Unionists took the wise

course of frankly recognizing the employers' difficulties, and then of appealing to them on general grounds not to shut a door which it might be extremely difficult, if not impossible, ever to open again. There is some reason to hope that the new Joint Committee may recommend _a Joint Consultative Body which would not differ essentially from what the Melchett-Turner Conference itself prepnsea under another name. Whatever may happen, the effect of this great day's work cannot altogether be undone. It was the first time 'that the organized bodies of British Capital and Labour had met together.