22 MARCH 1919, page 1

News Of The Week.

111HE industrial situation as we write on Thursday is critical, though not, we think, hopeless. The Coal Commission, it is aaid, has failed to agree on an interim Report on......

We Must Note Mr. Straker's Statement That " The Mere

grant- ing of the 30 per cent, and the shorter hours demanded would not prevent unrest, neither would nationalization with bureaucratic administration," and that "just as we are......

The Coal Commission Continued To Take Evidence Till...

and then sat in private to consider its Report. The most interesting witness was Mr. Straker, the Northumberland Miners' Secretary, who on Friday week revealed the miners' idea......

Mr. Vernon Hartahorn, Who, Unlike Some Of His Colleagues On

the Miners' Executive, showed himself a true patr:ot during the war, told the Conunission last Saturday that the miners were resolved to attain a higher standard of life. They......

Last Saturday What We Can Only Describe As A Deliberate

attempt to confuse the issue was made by Mr. Robertson, one of the Scottish miners' leaders, who gave the Commission a lecture on the evils of housing in Scotland, and......

Mr. Straker Proposed That A Mining Council, Appointed As To

half the members by the Government and as to the other half by the Miners' Federation, should manage the cool industry. There would be District Committees and Pit Committees, on......

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