6 MARCH 1926, page 4

The Issue Is Of Vast Importance, For If Solemn Agree

ments• •are thrown• over without notice industry will lapse into chaos. The employers presumably would not have posted the notices of a national lock-out if they had not felt......

The Statement Explanatory Of The Navy Estimates Was...

Saturday. - The estimates in detail are not yet ready. It is unusual, if not unprecedented, for the Explanatory Statement to appear before the estimates themselves. The......

A National- Lock-out In The Engineering Industry 'is An Ugly

possibility: If 'it happened it might mar the industrial prospect which has been 'steadily improving in all directibhs. The decision one way or the other Will not be taken till......

The Royal Commission Which Has Inquired Into The Existing...

of Health Insurance has returned on the whole a favourable verdict. It is agreed by all that the compulsory and contributory principles must remain, but both the majority and......

The Debate Which Followed Proved That There Is Greatly...

support for a Ministry of Defence. It was not urged that the time had actually arrived for such a Ministry, but the insistence on the need for a joint Staff With executive......

In The House Of Commons On Thursday, February 25th, Sir

Samuel Hoare in presenting the Air estimates stated the general lines of the Government's policy. Home defence, he said, must come first and then the provision of defence in......

Yet Everybody Knows That There Has Never Been Such A

period of safety for the world as we are going through now. All nations are too exhausted to fight. Why should we not use this period for trying to build up an interna- tional......

-mr. Churchill In An _important Speech At Belfast On Tuesday

said that he expected to get the surplus of £1,000,000 for which he had budgeted. That, of course, would be without allowing for the coal subsidy which would cost '17 or 18......