A S we write on Thursday morning, the coal strike announced for Monday is still a grave threat, but not a certainty. The firmness and moderation shown by the Government in their...

bound to Wiviril the delegate conference to declare a strike. He resented Sir Robert Home's summing up of his statements as equivalent to saying, " Nothing is going to be done...

griev- ances of the poor miner and accused the newspapers of hound- ing the Government on straight into an industrial dispute." He admitted incidentally that the Government...

met Sir Robert Horne on Thursday week, they virtually withdrew their " indivisible demand " for higher wages and lower prices, and insisted solely on an increase of wages by two...

abandon the claim to fix coal prices, but he declined to delegate the duty to a special committee, any more than to the Miners' Federation. The Government had no intention of...

been as commendable as his firmness, made it clear to Mr. Smillie and his colleagues that the Government's offer was twofold. First, the demand for two shillings a day should be...

on Friday, Sir Robert Home made it clear that the Government would refer the dispute about the increase of two shillings a day to an impartial court. If the miners' leaders were...

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have ceased. Signor Giolitti constrained the -employers :to --accept the principle of co-operative control, and the Confedera- tion 'of Labour ordered the workmen to vacate the...

the railwaymen and transport workers, who form with them the "Triple Alliance." Later in the day they asked for an interview with the Prime Minister, who was accompanied by Sir...

Trade Union Congress at Portsmouth on Mr. W. A. Appleton, the Secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions and President of the International Federation of Trade Unions....

denounce " secret diplomacy " but keep their own dealings very private, we are not permitted to know what the delegates said in regard to Sir Robert Horne's conciliatory...

to discuss terms of peace. The military operations have not ceased. The _Pelee have followed up the retreating Bolsheviks beyond the :provisional frontier suggested :by -the...

economic truth that imports have to be paid for by exports, and -that wages cannot be determined by food prices, but must eventually and inevitably be determined by the value of...

of the rates of wages on the basis of output. He inadvertently described this proposal as an alternative to the other, though Sir Robert Home had put forward both proposals as...

engineering trades the Electrical Trades Union withdrew its unwarrantable demand that foremen should 'be compelled to join the union and obey its orders—a demand which it sought...

Adriatic dispute between Italy and the Southern. Slays by seizing the islands of Chars°, Arbe and Veglia on the anniver- sary of his armed occupation of Flume. Of these islands...

of New York, at noon on Thursday week. A 'loaded - truck blew up outside Messrs. Morgan's banking-house. As the narrow street was crowded with clerks and messengers, 'many...

neces- sary not to forget that it is a proof of the awful provocation which the Sinn Feiners have given by their long and relentless campaign of assassination. We must remember...

set made by Mr. Robert Williams and his colleagues against Mr. Appleton by statements which have appeared in the Yorkshire Post. The London correspondent of that paper says that...

the trafficking in stolen Russian diamonds for the support of the Daily Herald. It now appears that the mother-in-law of Mr. Edgar Lansbury—Mr. George Lansbury's eon—was also...

a most damaging allegation: If it be true. that Mr. Williams speaks with one voice in Holland because he wants an inter- national job, and with another voice in England, he ie...

Feinl propaganda works- conies from Dublin. Early on Wednesday - a military detachment went to the Exchange Hotel- to arrest a Sinn Fein leader named Lynch. When the soldiers...

true. The least we can-say is that it 'fits in perfectly with the attitude of the Daily Herald, which has been not only ready but °tithed , astically ready to take its orders...

extremist leaders or; rather, naisleaders. Mr. Appleton has• the•courage to tell the truth, and he is not listened to—at all events not at Trade Union Congresses ; Messrs....

and by whom they were- elected, and who waa paying their expenses ? " Up to the present," he adds, " I have received no reply nor do I expect one, because I know, as every other...

sacking of Balbriggan we also read of the attempt to lynch three negroes in the highly civilized City of Chicago. The negroes bad killed a. man in order to rob him, and nothing...

and in a long list of riots and reprisals the most tragic story is that of the events at Balbriggan, a small seaport town about- twenty miles north of Dublin. On Monday...

15, 1920 ; 5 per cent. War Loan was on• Thursday, 841; Thursday week, 811 ; a year ago, 94

THE THREATENED STRIKE. I F Mr. Smillie and his friends should persist in forcing a strike—and when we write on Thursday we have no substantial reasons for optimism—it will be...

T HAT Colonel Repington's Diary, The First World War (Constable, 42s. net), ought not to have been published goes without saying. If such indiscretions were common there would...

W E have always regarded Mr. Bevin as an honest, straightforward, and particularly able revolution- ary, a man mistaken, as we hold, in his methods of attaining.the goal which...

A LTHOUGH we write before the event, that is to say on the day of the meetin g at Versailles, there seems to be little doubt that M. Millerand will be elected the new President...

E VERY age is inspired or distraught by its own peculiar enthusiasms and passions. An enthusiasm for justice under the guise of equality has now taken hold of society, and men...

THE COMING FALL IN PRICES ? [To The EDITOR or TIM " SPECTLTOR "1 SIR,—The man in the street who is a diligent reader of the daily newspapers may fairly be excused for feeling...

T rrHE new goods rates proposed by the Advisory Committee 1 will mean, in most cases, a 100 por cent. increase on the pre-war charges. The new passenger rates just imposed are...

[To in Eamon or ac " Sescrszoz."1 &a,—The extraordinary seriousness of the (soul position may be seen by comparing the position in this country with that in the United States....

(To THE Emma OF TEM " Srrersroa."3 Bra, — The Spectator has excelled itself this week by the sane. ness of its leading articles, but the contribution of "A Coal Company...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more dective, than those which fill treble the space.] FOR THE SAKE OF BRITISH -...

Bescrerea."3 SIR, — In all the recent deluge of speeches and fulminations en affairs in India I have not seen anywhere any clear present- ment of the real danger of the present...

CTo THE EDITOR or THE " SPECIATOS.”1 Bra,—The Bulletin of the Rs-lands Library, just published, contains an interesting account of the success of the movement started in 1914 by...

"SPECTATOR."] Ste,—Map I draw public attention to the very great hardships caused by the unconscionable delays in the release of moneys belonging to neutrals as well as to...

(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECEAT011.."] SIE,—A state of terrorism without historic parallel now obtains in Ireland. While Irish rebels, priestly and lay, write freely in the...

SPECTATOS."1 Sin,—In response to the appeal contained in the letter of Sir Edward Eiger and Sir Henry Harlow, wo beg to announce that over .£1,100 towards the minimum then...

fTo TES EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.] Sm.—Within a few yards of my study window a fine rowan or mountain ash has borne a very abundant crop of berries this year. This has afforded...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

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A LONDON GRAND GIIIGNOL. THE English theatre is continually, and not unjustly, being accused of " lack of direction," of " purposelessness," of being " a rudderless ship."...

PRAYERS. I.—Terr NY EYES MAY BE MADE TO BEE. Gon of bright colours ,—,rainbows, peacocks. And the shot-silk gleam of springing Wind-shaken wheat On red-ribbed Earth : Thou...

GREAT FIRE OF LONDON.• Iv is strange that no historian of London until now should have written a comprehensive account of the Great Fire and its sequel. Mr. Walter Bell, who...

difficult for the parent to follow the course of the revolution which is going on in educational theory and practice. We blow that a modem movement is at work in the sphere of...

the history of modern politics were to be asked who were the founders of Christian Socialism he would almost certainly say F. D. Maurice and Charles Kingsley. Mr. Raven's ably...

THE Institute of International Affairs was founded in Paris last year by some members of the British and American dele- gation& These two great corpe-of specialists- hach much...

Pasnars the most striking thing in Mr. Holt Thomas's interesting book on Aerial Transport , ie the folding map of the world at the end of it, which shows very plainly what...

A SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO WORDS.► IT is possible to shut ourselves off entirely from painting. We need have nothing to do with music. For us sculpture may not...

A FOOL IN HER FOLLY.• Tars posthumous novel of Miss Broughton helps in part a least to explain how it came about that so brilliant and well equipped a writer lost her public in...

Massey, who represented the London newspapers with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, has written an inter- esting narrative of Lord Allenby's operations in 1918, of his great...

[Nonce in MU Mutme does not nanmrUy WC) The British Year Book of International Las', 1920-21. (H. Frowdo and Hodder and Stoughton. 15s. not.)—A committee of British students of...

Hassall's handbook will be found convenient for reference. It covers the whole field from Caesar's first invasion up to last year. Parallel columns are devoted to England, the...

188. 1895 Professor Warming of-Copen- hagen published the first comprehensive work on that branch. of botany which has come to be called "Ecology," and four years after A. F. W....

and: Donaldson. 6s. net.)—Mr. Martin took the deserted mill above Clayton, on the Sussex Downs, a. few miles north. of Brighton, and lived in it, so that be might study...

7a. net.}—The thesis of this book is thak because the. State had to control. various trades and engage on a large scale in the making of munitions during the war,...

Cecil Palmer. 15s. net)--Colonel Tennant has written a spirited account of his experiences with the Air Force in Meso- potamia from August, 1916, to the spring of 191S, and has...