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The National Union of Railwaymen has decided emphatically not to

impede the movement of coal, and thus will help the Government (who are facilitating the importation of Westphalian, Silesian and other coal) to keep transport and factories at work. By itself the import of coal may seem economically disastrous in principle, but it is worth while to keep industry alive. Those who abused this policy in Parliament and elsewhere as a blow at the miners seem to forget how many thousands of workers the foreign coal may save from unemployment, if not from the starvation of which they talk. • Mr. Hodges last week urged most reasonably the merits of the Report and of a five years' agreement which should give enough stability to allow the industry to ask for a loan, not a subsidy, for technical reconstruction.

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