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NEWS OF THE WEEK

IN less than three weeks the coal subsidy, which alone makes it possible for coal mining as a whole to be carried on, will come to an end. The only scheme in the field for preventing a disaster when the subsidy ceases is that of the Royal Commission. It is not often that a nation approaches a decision so heavily loaded with the issues of industrial life and death as that which must be taken by the miners and the mineowners within the next few days. We are hopeful for moral or psychological reasons rather than because of . any very encouraging evidence in the facts before us—hopeful because the responsibility for refiiSing to try. to work a seherne to which there is admittedly no alternative seems too heavy for any group to shoulder.

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