News of the Week
The New Session ON Tuesday Parliament quietly reassembled, and Mr. Snowden, who is temporarily taking the place of the Prime Minister, presented to the House of Commons so long a programme that Mr. Baldwin remarked that the Government had the optimism of childhood. The Widows' Pensions Bill is to be passed by the end of this month, and next on the list come Bills dealing with Unemployment Insurance, the coal industry, factories, hours of labour, and amendments to the Trade Disputes Act. We cannot help hoping that, as there is so much urgent work to be done, the amendments to the Trade Disputes Act will not be pressed. We were among those who thought that some of the clauses in the Act invited trouble, but it turned out that though Trade Union audiences were ready to give the conventional cheer to any fire-breathing statement about abolishing the Act, there was-really. no very strong feeling on the subject. The Labour campaign against the Act astonished us all by its tameness.
