The Unrest In The Metropolitan Police Does Not Seem To
have been wholly allayed by the Prime Minister's very generous con- cessions. General Macready has offered the men collective representation through a Police Association,......
For Nearly Two Years, Especially In Regard To The Munition
workers, the Government have followed a hand-to-mouth policy. They have never thought out clearly an industrial policy. They have behaved like a Commander-in-Chief in the field......
The Political Atmosphere During The Past Week Has Been Less
noticeably charged with rumours of an approaching General Election. We hope that this may mean that the Prime Minister is weakening in his desire for such a dangerous expedient.......
Yet Again, Is There Any Instruction That Proxy Papers Are
to be sent in duplicate by different ships ? No doubt a certain number of them Will be torpedoed. Whether the prosecution of the war would or would not be served by such......
It Would Be Interesting To Read The Letter Of Some
earnest blue- jacket or private soldier who has written to his proxy describing the nature of his own political convictions. He could hardly have done more than write a vague......
We Sincerely Hope That We Detect Some Signs Of Misgiving
in the Times when we read in the leading article of Wednesday the following words :- " It would be ridiculous to charge the House of Commons with the highly teohnical task of......
The Threats Of Fresh Strikes Are As Plentiful As The
blackberry erop of this year. Firemen, cotton operatives, municipal servants, shop assistants, teachers, in various parts of the country are talking in more or less definite......
We Wonder Whether Any One Has Seriously Worked Out The
material difficulties of a General Election during a war when about half the male electors are away on foreign service ? If it is true that the new Register, as regards voters......
On Friday Week The Trade Union Congress. In Spite Of
the pro- tests of Mr. Clynes, voted by a small majority a resolution in favour of a meat subsidy. The idea was that the price of meat should be fixed below cost and that the......
The Trade Union Congress Decided On Friday Week, By...
to 567,000 on a card vote, not to form a Trade Union Labour Party, but to remain with the Labour Party. The attempt of a strong and sane minority of Trade Unionists to escape......
Although The Voting Went Against Mr. Havelock Wilson In His
attempt to rescue the Trade Unionists from Socialistic and Pacificist control, no one who was present at the Congress, we believe, failed to notice that the leaders whom Mr.......
Bank Rate, 5 Per Cent., Changed From 51 Per Cent.
April 5, 1917.......
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