25 MARCH 1922, Page 1
There is rather more hope of a settlement in the
engineering dispute than when we wrote last week. Sir Allan Smith, President of the Employers' Federation, has been in conference with a deputation appointed by the National Joint Labour Council. Our own view is that if moderate opinion on both sides could make itself felt, there would be a speedy end to this disastrous dispute. We have given in full elsewhere our reasons for thinking this. On the one side Labour extremists and busy- bodies who really desire nothing but to hold up industry, and some tactless employers on the other side, bring about entirely superfluous disputes which involve everybody though the majority are involved very much against their wills.
