29 SEPTEMBER 1950, Page 2

The Printing Dispute Again

The negotiations between the London Master Printers' Association and the London Society of Compositors have again broken down, and this ,ieek's SPECTATOR has had to be produced under the crippling conditions set by an overtime ban and the re-imposition of restrictive practices. Consequently this issue contains twelve fewer pages than had been intended, and some of the regular features have had to be curtailed. We apologise to all our readers for the shortcomings thus imposed upon us by a dispute to which we are not parties and over which we have no control.