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Taken all round, I thought Mr. Morrison's the best of the three political broadcasts with which we have been favoured at recent week-ends—though how far we are really the better for any of them is a matter for lather nice computation. But why Mr. Morrison at one point took suddenly to talking through his hat I can't imagine. He thought a lot of current talk about incentives was bunk ; that, oddly enough, is just what I thought Mr. Morrison's talk about incentives was. " I don't believe we are or ever were short of people who will give what it takes to see Britain through without thought or argument of what they are going to get out of it." Then what have the Coal Board and the Government, particularly Mr. Morrison himself, been discussing with the miners for the last month? Why are the miners' leaders themselves admitting that in many pits the men are not honouring the conditions on which the five-day week agreement rested? " I won't believe that British men and women are not going to give Britain all the effort she needeunless they are spoon-fed and bribed." Then why have extra rations and extra consumers' goods and other inducements for miners been carried to the point at which leaders of other unions protest that their people will not stand such discrimination? There may be some defence for the miners, but when it comes to bunk—.
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