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We have two other suggestions to make. One is that

as wages and hours have become like red flags to Anda- lusian bulls the miners should be asked, without reference for the moment to those dread words, what they could do in the way of guaranteeing an increased output. In coal mining as in every industry production is, after all, the master word. In the end no doubt every factor in the problem would have to be discussed but there is some value in trying a new approach. The other suggestion is that much more attention should be paid, as Lord Balfour of Burleigh suggests in a letter which we publish this week, to family allowances. If this stem of allow- ances were applied the men with families would hardly suffer at all by a reduction of wages and in some cases might be even better off.

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