3 APRIL 1926, Page 1

NEWS OF THE WEEK T HE nation 'has set foot on

the threshold of a new Industrial Revolution. The critical question is whether we mean to see this Revolution through or to falter where we stand. No one who has followed recent political and industrial events can be blind to the significance of present events. The industrial workers have asserted their claim to a considerably larger share of the good things -of life, and the nation as a whole recognizes that the claim is just. Politicians are divided only as to the means of satisfying the claim. The whole issue is implied in the controversies over the reconstruction of the mines and the wholesale supply of electricity.

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