News of the Week
LTHOUGH the coal dispute is still at a deadlock, and when we write there is rio official movement o end it, there are stirrings and foelers. Opinion is eing tested ; kites are dotting the sky ; and though none these things may mean very much, and may even can nothing, one is inclined to attach more im- dance to them than would have been possible some eeks ago for the simple reason that the dispute must me to an end at last and the weariness of it is now tense. In the House of :Commons on Monday the rune Minister said plainly that the Government had Amsted their attempts at mediation and could do othing till an agreement came about " within the ndustry." This negation looks more forbidding than Was probably intended to be, for it: cannot be supposed or a moment that the Government would refuse to act f a really promising opportunity of bringing about peace ere presented to them.
