NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE most important fact of the week has probably been the negative one, namely, that no serious opposition has arisen here or abroad to the progress which the Govern- ments concerned ought to be making with the Security Pact. Naturally, therefore, attention at home has been mainly centred on our industrial troubles, which grow graver as the weeks pass. The Mine-owners delivered on .Tuesday to the Miners' Federation the formal notice of the termination, on July 31st, of the wages agreement, which has been in operation for a year. The covering letter spoke plainly of the difficulty in finding new terms to propose in the face of the men's refusal even to con- : sider an extension of the seven-hours day. But their representatives will not help matters by saying, as Mr. . A. J. Cook is reported, that this is a " declaration of war."
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