4 OCTOBER 1946, Page 4

Both the readers and the staff of this journal will

have learned with relief that conditions in the printing trade are back to normal, and deliveries should once more be regular. Into the rights and wrongs of the disagreement I will not enter, beyond observing that the one outstanding point—the question whether the working week should be 421- hours or 434- was a singularly narrow one on which to base a " no overtime " decision which involved the whole weekly- publication world in grave difficulties. However, the whole issue has been cleared up now, largely, I fancy, through the efforts of Mr. Ness Edwards, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour, in the absence of the Minister, and peace in the printing industry for a considerable period seems assured. JANUS.