... ., Stand and Deliver 1 THE miners' strike which is threat ening the country is another clear sign of the dangerous ex tent to which the extremists have attained the upper hand in the labour organisations. The miners' delegates curtly rejected the Government's clear and reasonable proposals without any explanation on the processes of thought and argument which prompted that re jection. This is, ...

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... By FITZWILLIAM THE Irish are fond of suggesting that we do not understand them, and it may be that there we fail, but I wonder if ever it occurs to Irishmen, whether from Belfast or Limerick, that they do not understand the English? They certainly fail to see that modern England is not the England of the Coercion Acts, and that for fifty years, through Unionists such as George Wyndham, just ...

... D; 'Profiteering j By FITZWILLIAM h^. D EVERY period has its scapegoats; in the days of Titus Oates it was the Plot; in 1820 the waltz was to blame; to-day the profiteer lies at the root of all evil, and whoever seems to make a living is suspect. At every dinner table the owner of a rolling mill is reviled equally with the newsagent who makes a charge for delivering the morning paper every ...

... . Plot or Not AT the time of writing it has not been decided whether the great strike shall be settled, or whether negotia tions will be resumed on the basis of the men going to work, or whether the strikers will decide to fight the community. By the time these lines are read that all important matter will be decided but what the community ought to know is the whole history of the proceedings ...

... . One Step Enough IN accordance with the plan of campaign which was laid down at the recent Trade Union Congress at Glasgow, the miners again saw the Premier last week with a view to renewing their demand for full nationalisation. But oh, what a change of atmosphere since the time of the Congress permeated this proposal; in the recent strike the railwaymen were for all practical purposes the ...

... PICTORIAL, POLITICS. An Impressive Memorial. THE King's suggestion as to the best way the nation could celebrate the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice was a wonderful in spiration which emanated fitly from our ruling house. For two minutes yesterday there was a complete cessation of work, sound, and locomotion, and no one who was in this busy metropolis will forget the impressiveness ...

... PICTORIAL POLITICS. Order First. IT will be a relief to the loyalists living in Ireland to hear from the lips of the Prime Minister him self that it was the intention of the Government to maintain law and order throughout that country. As was generally anticipated, the attempt to get a new Home Rule Bill through Parliament has been postponed until next year, although at the time of writing the ...

... PICTORIAL POLITICS. Science to Aid, MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN in his speech in the House of Commons last week, dis cussing the very serious economic position, argued that as there is no prospect of a reduction in the cost of labour to a pre-war basis, the country must rely upon some new methods of pro duction to bring about a fall in prices. This is a very true and very interesting statement. If ...

... . The River Clyde. A nd so that monument of British pluck and glory, the River Clyde whose name will always be linked with the most desperately glorious landing which the world has ever seen, has been sold under the hammer to the Spanish Government for a few paltry thousand pounds sic transit Economy is right, and it is the urgent duty of the Government to set an example, but surely this ...

... . The First Swallow. THE action of Messrs. John Brinsmead, the hundred- year old piano manufacturers, whose name is known all over the world, in closing down their works on account of the demands of labour for high wages without relative production, and for unskilled labour to be paid entirely out of proportion to the highly skilled men, is perhaps the first of a great many similar happenings. ...