In The Year 1918 The United Kingdom Spent Over £128,000,000
of public money on various forms of social service, including poor relief, education, public health, old age and war pensions, and insurance. This remarkable fact is stated for......
The Three Ironmoulders' Unions, On A Ballot Last Week,...
once more to accept the terms which their leaders had made for them with the Engineering Employers' Federation, with the help of the Executive of the Trade Union Congress. The......
• Trade Depends. Yet Neither Metternich Nor Bismarck...
have been more careful to keep the world in darkness about what was being planned for the disposal of the fate of millions. The policy of secrecy is particularly selfish and......
A Not Very Edifying Sensation Has Been Caused By The
publi- cation in the Weekly Dispatch of last Sunday of an article by the Lord Chancellor disparaging the political Coalition to which he belongs. Lord Birkenhead says that the......
The Railway Reiriew Informs Us That Only One Item In
the Government offer was then accepted by the Conference. That item referred to the standardization of railway work by the elimination of a large number of grades. Every other......
Mr. Martin Harvey Is Producing Hamlet At Covent Garden....
it is obviously a mistake to attempt to give a performance of a metaphysical play in so vast a theatre, Mr. Martin Harvey's production is by no means without Interest. Mr.......
The Return Shows That The Total Cost Of Public Social
services increased fourfold between 1891 and 1918, if we deduct the cost of war pensions. In England the cost in 1891 was £20,696,000, and it rose to £37,845,000 in 1901, to......
The Answer Was Given To Them When Mr. J. H.
Thomas and his companions visited Sir Eric Geddes at the Ministry of Transport. The public, when we go to press, are still unin- formed as to the nature of this answer. All we......
On Friday Week The N.u.r. Conference Decided To Reject The
Government offer—the•offer which was the result of months of negotiations, and which had been commended to the railway- men by Mr. J. H. Thomas as an honourable settlement that......
The Scarcity Of Coal, Which Has Caused An Outcry During
the past week, seems to be mainly due to an insufficiency of railway trucks. It Is uncertain whether the railways need more trucks or whether the existing trucks are not used to......
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