Resumption of Negotiations:
Both Parties Anxious to Reach a Settlement London, Mar. 27, In the House of Commons today the Premier, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, announced the resumption of negotiations between. the parties in the trafiie dispute. Tornight's conference had been adjourned until to-morrow, He found that both sides were: very, desirous of effecting a settlement, The Premier bewailed the fact that sine the beginning of the year a whole series of industrial Uisputes which have been mature ing for months and even for years had come to a head. The Gov. ernment would do their best, to meet, the public convenience while the dispute Insted und in the event of its spreading. The first step would be the issue of la proclamation of a state of emergency, Every hospital would be provided yeth facilities for bringing and taking away patients, the larger Publio services must be maintain. ed_and the Government must protect those engaged in their Hegal occupations. He emphasized that the Government, would not merely act as a strike-leaking. organization, Quiet and Calm Action, Mr Ramsay MacDonald, after refer to various outside:
Suggestions to cope with. the strike, including flooding of the streets with soldiers, and con imandeoring of employers? property and material, decluwed that the only rule the Government would. adopt wan the rule of ical "convenience, Te was et and calm action that told the end ard the Government woul do nothing to broaden and deepen the o: ig divi wed of the Government's. foresight in making the proclama ation. He hoped that Inter on the Government and the House of Commons " would consider what waa possibly the most. serious question the country had to face, namely, how to gob some kind ven of temporary pence iv dustry that would give the country a chance of recovering, Mr. Lloyd George supported the suggestion as regards. commandeering if there were insuffi ent voluntary assistance, He said that the Premier need not imagine that this was an extreme Proposal, from which any section of the House would shrink
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