31 DECEMBER 1927, Page 1

News of the Week

filliHE New Year gives us a more promising -1,1f .16in/dation -for industrial peace than We have had for a long time. • Other foundations have proved faitity and one after the other have been removed. The utye'rkt need for , collaboration. between . Capital and LabOur . has been so emphatically proved during the pa.14t, yetT to the Satisfaction of .every reasonable man, whatever his polities, that no •disagreement on that sueet .remains.- Only the :method and the details hate to be provided and for these good. will and' the intHetual ability- to solve a not insoluble problem albne • neMs#17., The -Engineering and. Allied Employers': Nitionil: Federation has published a repOrt. on r rrhirty-;-Years -of Industrial Conciliation" which. nu#4, fr people have interpreted as a deliberate counterblait to the mt itation'WS/led by Sir Alfred' Mond, Sir. Josiah Starnrip and others-to the General Council- of the -Trades Union'CongresS.. The point of the report is that indiVidtial traits can compose their, quarrels, • as the engineering tratlesNhave done,- but that- no outsider can do it for thetn.r ' ar