16 MARCH 1912, page 1

But Though This Is The Situation To-day, It Must Not

be sup- posed that all hope is abandoned. In the first place there are indications that the public opinion of the working classes is steadily, if slowly, developing against the......

• While The Mine Owners Have On The Whole, Shown

a laud- able willingness to accept the Government proposals, even though they may think them unfair in the abstract and likely to damage the industry, the miners have as yet not......

There Were On Friday Signs That Among The Miners Them-

selves there is a good deal of unrest and annoyance. In one or two small pits the men have returned to work, and it is said that in Lanarkshire, where there are a very......

Allied To The Possibilities We Have Just Stated Is The

fact that, though the Government have wisely refused to do any- thing which could be represented as a throat, they recognize that they have great responsibilities in the matter.......

News Of The Week.

T HE coal strike still continues, and we should be guilty of undue optimism if we were to say that we see any immediate prospect - of a settlement. The conferences between the......

• * I ,* The Editors Cannot Undertake To Return...

,ino case.......