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The Times in a leading article on Tuesday emphasizes this

point and criticizes employers' methods of nego- tiation as compared with those of the Unions :— " They, the employers, have not adequately prepared their side of the case. They have not ascertained with sufficient care the

exact ability or inability of the industry as a whole to meet the claims put forward. Facts are gradually elicited as the enquiry proceeds, and it has been found before now that employers are finally willing to propose what a short time before they described as impossibilities. The effect, however little justified, is deplorable. It gives an impression of bluff, and lends support to the too common view among the workmen that force in trade disputes is a weapon superior to argument."

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