Two points in today's tele" rams are worthy of special mien tion. One is the fact that in come parison with Inst year the number of unemployed in Great Britain is 24,448 less than it wus a your ago, andthe" second" that large Capitalists and lenders in the Trade Union Congress are getting. together to discuss Industrial peace, the absence of industrial peace there is bound to be unemployment, fand as a corollary to that there will bbe more "unemployment, for eon-tracts which might be expected normally to come to the country will go elsewhere. All the domestic policy of the Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, during the past year has been" directed "towards peace in industry, and we believe that up to 4 point these figures show that he has succeeded. Tis personal efforts, however, are not enough for such a great" industrialized country og Great Britain, and it isa sign of the times that the great capitalists are following his lead and getting into personal touch with the representatives of the men they employ. By doing so it may be hoped to eliminate the influence of the labour agitator on the one hand and the die-hard capitalist on the ther, and when once there is some community of feeling we believe that much forther reductions can be effected in the million-odd_ une employed in Britain, When it is realized. that_ unemployment means larger taxes for the capitalists and, asa rule, lower wages for the employees, an advance may be made jg. relations, but the innate con servetism of each side must undergo. modification to arrive "at Satisfactory result." Nothing better fo work towards this end could be devised than meetings of responsible and reasonable men on. the opposite sides of the table.
Yestenpay, according tothe Chinese calender, was Tung-chieh, Winter Solstice. "Chinese public offices were closed for the occasion,
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