Mr. Clynes warned the Government that there would bo wide
distress if the unemployment benefit under the Insurance Act were to cease before Christmas. Mr. Adamson made a particular appeal on behalf of the miners who had been unable to find work since the coal settlement. Mr. Neville Chamberlain described the Labour Exchanges as a German institution and demanded their abolition. The facts revealed by Mr. Adamson about unemployment among the miners were, of course, only to be expected. From the first moment of the coal strike it was certain that whichever side might be said to have won there would be fewer miners employed after the strike than before it. We cannot, unfortunately, agree with Dr. Macnamara that it was desirable to save his Ministry. When the issue was " increase of staff or collapse,' collapse would have been much the best thing for the country. We have written on this matter elsewhere.
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