NEWS OF THE WEEK
A LTHOUGH there is only a day to run before the - Owners' notices to the miners take effect the when we go to press on Thursday, is still unsettled. The country faces the prospect of one of the worst-indtistrial blows it has ever suffered at a time when4: is-not in a position to sustain even a mild set-back to. it timid efforts towards recovery. We can only hope that before these. pages are in our readers' hands some expolient: may have been -found to avert the catastrophe: If there is any justification for :optimism_ it • is the fact 014 the par4ly-sis: which' a Stopptige. ivouiti mean, and• the misery. and impoverishment which would be forced on everybody, • seem • too dreadful to be accepted by sane men. Throughout Wednesday. the Prime Minister was t:iying to prevent a _stoppage. by persuading the owners to withdraw their notices. He saw that the one .hope was to obtain a breathing spaee.
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