The Wool Textile Dispute The dispute in the Wool Textile
Industry continues without any decided success on either side, though each 'side continues to assert that the other is giving way. As a result of the further intervention of Miss Bondfield, the unions' will allow the workers' representatives in the Joint Industrial Council to prepare further proposals on the basis of the Macmillan Report, though they say that they will never accept the Report itself. It is not expected that these proposals will satisfy the employers, who have themselves submitted no further suggestions. The deadlock is therefore complete, and in the meantime trade is being lost which it will be difficult to regain. It is more than doubtful whether either side can gain anything by a continuance of the dispute. And this is not all, for it is possible that the only existing machinery -for avoiding such disputes—the Joint Industrial Council—will break down.
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