16 MARCH 1929, page 2

When We Turn From The Melehett-turner Report To Mr. Lloyd

George's scheme we turn from what is daring and reasoned to what is audacious and only slightly reasoned. The one possible justification for Mr. Lloyd George's extraordinary......

The Melehett-turner Report On Unemployment (for Which Mr....

was chiefly responsible on the Labour side). finds that there is no single solution of the problem, but that the results of unemployment - are :so serious that every possible......

The Movement Against The Dictatorship In Spain Has Spread To

the University of Madrid. The students are on strike, and the Government has responded by virtually closing the University. A few classes 'are allowed to carry on, but in most......

One Of The Most Welcome Points In This Report Is

the interest taken by the Trades Union Congress in emigration. There is a regrettable fashion at present in the homes of wage-earners , to regard. life overseas as a kind of......

These Are Serious Criticisms, But It Seems Almost Mere....

that they were not made several years ago. The raising of such doubts now will probably confirm the workers' representatives of all countries in their impres- sion that the......

* * * * -sir Arthur Also Drew Attention To

the advice of the Law Officers against accepting the Convention, as it stands, with the interpretations of the London Agree- ment of 1926, - on the ground that the......

Mr. Lloyd George's Chief " Plank " Is Road-making, And

he is prepared to spend £145,000,000 on roads alone in the first two years. He assumes that this would employ 350,000 men in the first year and 375,000 men in the second year.......

For The First Time Since The Establishment Of The...

Labour Organization the British Minister of Labour, together with his opposite numbers in Fran ce and Germany, has attended a meeting of the Governing Body. On Monday Sir Arthur......