5 JUNE 1926, Page 1
NEWS OF THE WEEK T 'signs of an end to the
coal dispute are not visibly better than- when we wrote laSt week. The latest.prOposal has come from the owners, the idea being that they and the miners shMild meet for discussion under an independent • chairman. Both sides have refused—by letting the time elapse—the offer of a subsidy of £8,000,000 as though such blackberries grew on every hedge. PlentY of proposals have come from those who are not officially. connected with the dispute, but it is impossible for us to summarize all these. One, howevei, may be mentioned because it is the first con- sidered plan from the miners' side for a • reduction in wages.: This is the scheme of Mr. Varley (LabOur M.P. for Mansfield), which was published in the New Leader.
