6 MARCH 1915, Page 3

On Friday week the Government issued through Sir George Askwith

a summons to the Clyde engineers and their employers to resume work on the following Monday. It was pointed out that a serious situation in the production of war material was threatened by the labour dispute, and that this could not any longer be tolerated. A Court of Arbitration would be provided. The Committee on Production in Engi. neering and Shipbuilding Establishments have made recom- mendations for speeding up the manufacture of munitions and for checking the prevalent bad time-keeping in shipyards. We are very glad to be able to add that, in spite of some wild talk at the beginning of the week, the men returned to work on Thursday, and that the threat to pursue the criminal policy of "ca' canny" came to nothing.