three months were good, but it was proposed that after three months there should be a return to the 1021 agree ment . representing . 20% above the standard wages instead of the...

1st, he surprised the House and gratified those of us who want the Report and nothing but the Report by , suggesting that if the miners would agree it was still possible . for...

that the Hours Bill would not be pressed forward as had been arranged. The Lords had already given the whole of Monday's sitting to the second reading and the debate had...

the policy of the Report and nothing but the Report we can see nothing whatever vicious in the Eight Hours Bill in itself. Lord Grey of Fallodon said on Monday that in his...

A LL the lessons of the week in connexion with the coal dispute show the dangers which were bound to attend any departure from the Report of the Royal Commission. Nobody...

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for his clients than any other trade unionist leader, and has made the N.U.R. the richest Labour organization in the country, had once again to fight for his official life....

the Conference. In spite of the sound advice of Mr. J. H. Thomas the Conference decided that only newspapers which were "trade union houses" should be allowed to report the...

at Weymouth, and Mr. Dobbie used the occasion to call Mr. Baldwin "our Pecksniffian Prime Minister" who "trotted out platitudes about peace" when troops and ships of war were...

slogan " meant the immediate throwing out of work of some 300,000 miners and that such a solution "appears too awful for any trade union leaders to contemplate." The miners are...

Union Executives at which the history of the general strike was to be threshed out was postponed in order to avoid drawing attention to the Labour split while the coal strike...

The latest returns show that exclusive of the miners there were 1,638,600 unemployed. This was 3,858 more than in the previous week and 334,357 more than a year ago.

to interview the Government and the offending terms were withdrawn. Lord Gainford explained in the House of Lords that he held the Yorkshire terms to be justifiable and even...

Shadwell, who is an exceedingly good judge and a very sympathetic and learned student of Labour affairs, says that there is a regular campaign among Labour leaders to advance...

industrial situation by the Trades Union Congress which was extremely inopportune in manner and matter. The Declaration complains of determined attacks by the Government and the...

he agreed "in the main" with the Experts' Report, though he did not approve of their proposals for taxation. As the Treasury was unable to meet the capital expendi- ture on the...

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in a life and death debate. The " two-headed " Govern- ment of M. Briand and M. Caillaux must abide by the results. The signs are perhaps a little more hopeful than when we last...

curative formula became a fashion, a craze and a joke. Many men who started with no more psychological learning than M. Cone had would have become charlatans, but M. Cone was...

three hundred milliards, of which a large proportion was of very short date. The two possible policies of meeting this internal debt were compulsory consolidation and slow...

Budget and the " real " meeting of Treasury obligations cover a tragedy of make-believe. Not many days ago the French Government announced that the Budget had "at last been...

on December 3rd, 1925. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 100 11 ; on Wednesday week 101; a year ago 99 j. Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 86j; on Wednesday...

THE CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS IN CANADA rpm Parliamentary crisis in Canada raises not only .1_ some very important political issues for the . Dominions but may be making an...

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] W HEN Fascism suddenly changed its programme of revolutionary Socialism to one of reactionary conservatism after the temporary occupation of the...

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BY NEW MEMBER. rr HE darkness which shrouds the coal situation was • intensified during the week, and the quite legitimate gamble in which the Government has been indulging now...

visited Russia with three other Unionist M.P.s. They spent part of April and May, 1926, in Moscow and afterwards published a short statement recording their impressions which...

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A UREA was late for the dress-rehearsal at Olympia, of course. How could one remember it took twenty minutes to get there ? Besides, she thought it began at three o'clock, so...

T HIRTY acres or so for a stage and the whole firmament of heaven for a back-cloth, what a chance, I thought, for the dramatist, and then I fell to thinking of luncheon. The...

BY BERNARD DARWIN. T HE first answer I feel inclined to give to the question set me is that the Americans can generally beat us at any game if they put their minds to it. But...

THE 150th anniversary of the founding of a nation is a great occasion in the life of any people, and its citizens are entitled to rejoice, but when that nation happens to be the...

TURGENEV AND GEORGE SAND [A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY. BY IVAN TURGENEV. ROYALTY THEATRE.] THE French have been celebrating the cinquantenaire of George Sand, who died in 1876....

COVENT GARDEN OPERA " FALSTAFF " THE two months season arranged by the London Opera Syndicate at Covent Garden was brought to a brilliant close on July 2nd with a performance...

A LETTER FROM EAST AFRICA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — We in East Africa make no apology for ourselves, or for bringing our problems before those at Home. We are...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—I am impelled in the interest of truth to demur to the criticisms by Mr. S. K. Ratcliffe, in your issue of July 3rd, to portions of my...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Of course I regret that my reference to Stannington Children's Sanatorium should have distressed any who work for it, as does Mr. Howard...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—The anonymous author of the article headed "The New Messiah" in your issue of June 26th should have made more sure of his facts. It is...

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Sin,—It appears that very little is generally known of this product, and for the benefit of those interested I should like to give a little authentic information about this...

from the many references to it in the ballads celebrating Robin Hood's exploits, I think there .. can be no possible doubt that greenwood means simply the Woodland and not the...

TO AN ORANGE (FOR N. L.) IN days gone by we thought you rather vulgar, Playing a humble—tho' not hidden—part, The darling of the undiscerning many, Sold from a stall (at two...

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15 for a list of the seven greatest Victorians. A new competition will be announced next week.] IN a competition which is judged on democratic lines, by a plebiscite, as it...

by Captain G. W. Meredith (Constable, 4s. 6d.), contains sound but not very striking or original information. The section on jumping is good, as is a final observation on...

The President of the Royal Horticultural Society says in his preface that all lovers of this delightful flower will benefit by the book : we cordially agree with Lord La...

Psycho-analysis for Normal People. By Geraldine Coster. (Oxford University Press. 2s. 6d. net.). . Endimion : My thoughts have no veins, and yet unless they be let blood, I...

SIR WILLIAM ARBUTHNOT LANE endorses What's Best to Eat, by Mr. Henning 13elfrage, with a practical supplement by Miss Yates (Heinemann, 7s. (Id.) as follows : "The deeper one...

Essex, has written in Better Golf a really lucid book about the game, illustrated by twenty-four action photographs. Especially clear are the author's remarks on the choice and...

containing an English text done into 576 foreign languages. This is a tour de force which proves that the Bible is now the cheapest and most accessible of books. The Gospel in...

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THE July Contemporary opens with a joint article on "The Liberal Party" by Lord Beauchamp and Professor Ramsay Muir. The second section is the more interesting. In it Professor...

THE authors of this interesting publication tell us that the method they have adopted has been that of Sir Stafford North- cotes Twenty Years of Financial Policy, a little...

The Orange Tree : A Volume of Essays. By Robert Lynd. (Methuen. 68.) Spinikins : A Book of Essays. By George A. Birmingham. (Methuen. 5s.) The Wooden Man and other Stories and...

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Armstrong relates in alniost conscientiously detailed manner the experience of a young Alexandrian sybarite who,. recoiling from hedonism after an unfortunately terminated-love...

Monday, July 12th, at 3.30 p.m. Mr. F. G. Butler, I.C.S., will read a paper on Somx Porms or DIFFERENCE IN THE CRIMINAL LAW or ErroLswn AND INDIA. Under the auspices of the East...

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the coal trade and the large number of new issues which are being brought out have had the effect of slightly checking the im- provement in gilt-edged stocks which had been...