mately only by a far greater productivity here. There is no other way. If we do not work we shall be poor, instead of rich as we were before the war. If we work badly enough we...

T HE Yorkshire miners are still on strike. A week ago the Government and the Miners' Federation made an agreement concerning piece-rates in all the coalfields ; but Mr. Herbert...

of Railwaymen, who has recently returned from America, declared at Derby last Saturday that the strike was a two-edged weapon, and that a political strike, such as Mr. Smillie...

tiations in London, and, unlike the Unions in other districts, did not order its members to resume work. The Minister of Labour waited till Tuesday for the Miners' Federation to...

anxiety, but the marked fall in the value of the sovereign in America was bound to come. The warning will be useful if we learn our lesson as we ought to do. All through the was...

hundreds of thousands of workmen in the steel and textile industries, and were not throwing the whole mechanism of industry out of gear, we could watch these ingenious tactics...

Miners' Federation Executive on Friday week, the piece-rates were to be increased " by an amount which on the average will be that necessary to correspond with a ten per cent....

letters submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his best to return contributions in case of rejection.

o utter sad homilies on the tragedy of allowing a " small rationality" to remain so conscious of traditional wrongs as :o be a permanently embittered ingredient in an otherwise...

Onega, west of Archangel, last week increased the public anxiety for the safety of our small forces in Northern Russia. Mr. Asquith in a speech at Edgware last Saturday called...

serious, and the Governor of Illinois has mobilized all the military force of the State. it is reported that 28 persons have already been killed and about 500 wonnded. " A...

General Staff, and now a Field-Marshal, was entertained at dinner at the House of Commons, when the Prime Minister made a speech in his honour. Mr. Lloyd George said that Sir...

had occupied Eastern Hungary at the request of the Allies for the duration of the Armistice. The Allies on Saturday last announced that, as Bela Kun had broken the Armistice by...

German Assembly on Friday week, revealed the fact that in August and September, 1917, the military party foiled an attempt on the part of the Pope to find some ground for...

tions, will not make the mistake of trying to teach Americans their business. It would be only too easy for British newspapers to point out how the carefully organized system by...

Versailles, gave a most vivid description of his notable foresight in predicting in January, 1918, exactly where and how the Germans would deliver the great attack on the...

see that this high tribute to Sir Henry Wilson's sagacity is an amazing reflection upon his own. Or was he in so generous a mood that he was determined to pay the •compliment in...

to receive the congratulations of the City on the conclusion of Peace. The King in his reply said what all sober men are thinking The British people displayed throughout the war...

seems to us, it is true, rather unreal ; but, on the other hand, it must be remembered that it is a controversy which could easily be made real by politicians determined to use...

an amendment to the Transport Bill which would have divided the Bill into two separate measures, one dealing with the railways and inland waterways (the less controversial...

Bothwell, a typical Lanarkshire mining constituency. Mr. Robertson, the Chairman of the Scottish Miners' Union, was returned by a majority of 7,168 over Mr. Moffat, a...

demanded by the House of Commons Committee, which issued its Report on Tuesday. Every Londoner knowe that the railways, tubes, trams, and omnibuses are unman fortably crowded in...

Askwith, accusing the Prince Minister of bringing about the present discontent by crass misgovernment. At the end of his letter Lord Askwith says :— " I have accused the Prime...

the great antiseptic of public life. Our argument is greatly and most oppor- tunely reinforced by the announcement in Thursday's Times that Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Lon& Sir Eric...

Commons, has issued a special Report which goes to the root of the matter. It recommends that the disabled soldier shall have a statutory right to a pension, and that there...

that British agriculture must be encouraged in every possible way. He told the Members representing agricultural constituencies, who had waited upon him, that he had not had...

as that which was written to the Morning Post of Tuesday by Mr. H. B. Marriott-Watson. Mr. Marriott-Watson says :— "I write, Sir, as a father whose only son fell in the...

A TALE OF TWO STATESMEN. A WEEK ago, on July 25th to be exact, the news- papers contained important speeches by two leading inen—speeches which afford a very remarkable...

W E congratulate the Duke of Northumberland on his fearlessness and plain speaking in his dispute with Mr. Smillie, for such plain speaking is the antiseptic of public life. Mr....

I T is not to be wondered at that during the anxious public discussions about Nationalization, proposals should have been made that the g reat issue should be decided by means...

I T is difficult to see daylight through the Russian confusion, and we fear there is nothing for it— though this is not a very comforting saying—but to leave the Government...

TT is to be doubted whether many people read the poet 1 Daniel nowadays. Indeed it may safely be asserted that most of the followers of the new Georgianism have never even heard...

I N the Contemporary Review some months ago there was an article by Mr. C. R. Johns, Secretary of the Canine Defence League, upon the methods of dog-stealers. From it we may...

I THE power of suggestion is no longer scoffed at even by the most sceptical. The subconscious self is being recognized as a. person in practise if not in theory—a person whom...

FREEDOM OF THE RHINE. (To urn EDI20a of TIM " SPECEATOt."1 Sia,—" We are living in a position. of economic slavery as regards our neighbours," said' a French-Swiss Deputy...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH...

ITO THE EDITOR Of THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your issue of June 28th you were good enough to publish a letter from me on this subject. We are all now learn. ing by very bitter...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—One finds many people who confuse the nationalization of minerals with that of mines, but one does not expect a "Lawyer " to fall into...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SEECTATOR."1 SIR,—The excellent suggestion that Mr. Mills has made, that workmen should become capitalists and take shares in the in- dustries in which...