29 APRIL 1922, page 3

The Committee Therefore Recommended, First, That Trade...

set up only in trades which were sweated and which were badly organized, and, secondly, that it should be possible to vary the minimum rates much more quickly than under the......

The Engineering Employers On Saturday Last Decided To Give A

week's notice to the semi-skilled and unskilled men belonging to the forty-seven unions other than the Amalgamated Engin- eering Union, which includes the skilled men who were......

Mr. Lloyd George's Intermediary Went On To Say That Het

desired peace with the Russian people, "'whatever the character of their Government may be,"" but that the Bolshevik delegates with their Oriental methods of bargaining were......

But Our Criticism Of Lord Robert's Manifesto Must Be Wider

than this. We said that the manifesto was admirable as a moral survey. That is what it is. It is not sufficiently definite. What Lord Robert Cecil really wants is that the Will......

Lord Cave's Committee On Trade Boards Reported Last Week...

the Boards had put an end to sweating, but that some of them had done much to aggravate the depression of trade and to increase the number of the unemployed. While the Boards......

The Programme Of The People In Between, Lord Robert Thinks,

-should include international co-operation, the recognition that Labour must have in some practical sense a voice in its own destiny, the scientific treatment of unemployment,......

Employers And Operatives In The Cotton Trade Have Once Again

displayed their good sense in adjusting a dispute over wages by a reasonable compromise. They agreed on Tuesday that wages should be reduced by 4s. Id. in the pound, in two......

. The Papers Of Last Saturday Published A Long Letter

from • Lord Robert Cecil to the Chairman of the Hitcliin Unionist .Association, which was in effect a political manifesto. Lord _Robert Cecil begins_ by pointing out how many of......

• The Employers' Federation Has Not. Improved Matters By Its

comment on the demand that is to be made by the trade unions for a Court of Inquiry, which will examine the causes of the dispute. The employers say that, if a court is set up,......

Bank Rate, 4 Per Cent., Changed From 41 Per Cent.

Apr. 13, 1922 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on Thursday, 991'; Thursday week, 101 ; a year ago, 88-1.......