19 JUNE 1926, page 2

We Ourselves Feel Rather Strongly On This Point, As The

doctrine of high wages is, we believe, going to mean a great deal to British industry in the immediate future, and an appreciable reduction in such an important industry as the......

The Fortieth Session Of The Council- Of The League Of

Nations ended on Thursday, June 10th, the most curious, if not the most important day, of its history.. The serious and useful work of the session has been the decisions to lift......

In France Neither Parliamentary Government Nor The Franc...

during the week. On Tuesday the franc fell to 180 to the £ and M. Peret, the Finance Minis- ter, resigned with a hint that support which he had expected from the Banque de......

These Troubles Are To Be Regretted, But Still More Do

we deplore the proofs that Spain and Brazil so little realize the purposes and essential spirit of the League, and are so incapable of throwing themselves " into the common......

There Is No Good News From China. A Fortnight Ago

we recorded the- seizure of the salt gabelle in: the South- by Marshal Sun Chuan-fang. Since then the military authorities at Tientsin, presumably men of General Chang, have......

Wages Are The Test By Which, Almost Exclusively, They...

upward and downward movements in the con- ditions of their industry. They have frequently been wrong in doing so, and they have commonly taken no account of the differences......

It Would Be Unjust To Leave This Important Debate Without

mentioning Sir Alfred Mond's remedy for the sickness of the coal-fields—a selling agency on the German model. What Germans have done in reconstituting the finance of their mines......

It Is Generally Known That Before The Debate On Tuesday

the Government tried to induce the owners to say that if the miners chose a longer day there would be no reduc- tion at all in wages. The owners felt unable to agree. They went......