1 MAY 1947, page 2

Bookless Schools

The problems created by the shortage of paper multiply. News- paper publishers and book-publishers are all hard hit (the latter much less than the former) and some further......

Action For Atomic Control

The principal virtue of Wednesday's debate on atomic energy in the House of Lords was that it posed quite explicitly the question of how long the world can wait for Russian......

Coal New Year

On May Day the new coal year began, and on Monday May 5th the five-day week will be introduced in the industry. This is clearly a time for taking stock of the situation. It......

Dockers Never Learn

The public's reaction to the strike of the London stevedores and lightermen has been one of deep disgust. The more closely the strike is examined the more irresponsible and......

Legislation By Fiat

At a little after eight on Tuesday evening, in the course of the second day's debate on the final stages of the Road Transport Bill, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe pointed out that for......