On Wednesday Mr. Thomas gave an outline of his plans
for increasing employment. He has lost no time in bringing the Railway Companies into agreement about spending six and a half million pounds, partly on home-made steel sleepers. He proposes to spend thirty- seven million pounds on roads during the next few years. Mr. Lloyd George is entitled to smile. In London the repair of Waterloo Bridge is to go ahead. The policy of transferring labour out of distressed areas is to be hastened. A committee is to consider the relief of the Labour market at its extremes by raising the school age and pensioning workers at sixty-five years. Mr. Thomas proposes to go to Canada and discuss emigration there. He might have been Mr. Baldwin speaking of the only real remedy for our discontents, a revival of trade.
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