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Let us look back over the other principal events of

the week. When we wrote in our last number the miners had just produced proposals which were tentative but which showed a readiness for such concessions as would not have been dreamed of a few weeks before. In their final form these proposals were as follow : that the miners should accept the wages of 1921 as a temporary arrangement for the immediate resumption of work ;. that the terms of a national agreement on wages should be referred for decision [this meant compulsory arbitration and the Government proposals also mean that] to an independent Tribunal to be appointed by the parties ; and that the terms of reference to the Tribunal should be the means of applying the Royal Commission's Report.

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