6 JULY 1929, page 6

Cotton Matters Have Come To A Head In The Dispute

which threatens to throw the spinning section of the Lancashire cotton industry out of gear. At a joint conference on Tuesday, at Manchester, the representatives of the......

Next The Government Promised Extensive Slum Clear- Ance...

of new urban and rural housing for which, of course, Mr. Neville Chamberlain has been preparing the ground. There is to be a Royal Commission upon the sale and supply of......

On Wednesday Mr. Thomas Gave An Outline Of His Plans

for increasing employment. He has lost no time in bringing the Railway Companies into agreement about spending six and a half million pounds, partly on home-made steel sleepers.......

In The Upper House The Address In Reply To The

Speech was moved by Lord Russell and seconded by Lord De La Warr. The party leaders, Lord Salisbury, Lord Beauchamp, and Lord Panuoor, after reference to the King's recovery,......

* * Coal In T Ha Coal Industry There Are

welcome signs that the Government—and also responsible miners' leaders— are going about the problem in the right way. Last week the executive of the Miners' Federation conferred......

The Permanent Mandates Commission The Fifteenth Session...

Commission opened at Geneva on Monday. That public-spirited body, which is happily free from political cares, is one of the brightest jewels in the League firmament, and we look......

Honours The Dissolution Honours Which Were Announced Last...

a " step " for Lord Peel, earned by much public work, besides his recent labours at the India Office. Sir William Joynson-Hicks, as expected, takes a Peerage, as his health is......