Monday's Times contained a forecast of the Bill in which
the Government will redeem their pledge to restore the Trade Union rules and modems which were set aside in 191.5 in order to secure a maximum output of war material. Representatives of the employers end of the Trade Unions, except the Amal- gamated Society of Engineers, have conferred with the Govern. ment about the draft scheme. The leading idea is said to be that any old rule restricting production will be motored whenever, bat not unless, a majority of the workmen affected demand it. Employers will be bound under penalty to agree to the demand. It seems likely that the workmen, after an interval of four years, will not desire the revival of some customs which limited their own earnings as well as their employers' profits. But the workmen are to be the judges. We can only hope, in the interests of British industry, that they will be wisely guided, for the de- liberate restriction of output is a suicidal policy.
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