(Contributed).
The news which Reuter's Service sends over the cables to the Far East on the grave events which are now in the making in Great Britain hardly enable the casual newspaper. reader to form a balanced judgement on the merits or demerits of the cause at issue.
A well known English author, commenting in an American paper on the industrial events of March, 1919, hag alluded to it as one of the most remarkable months in English history.
Certainly, if would not have seemed possible in normal times that a Commission could be set up with the extraordinary powers, wide scope, and unique personnel of the Coal Industry Commission appointed in that month, or that the big vested interests would have tolerated such an inquisition into the private ownership of capital.
The Commission was made up as follows:—Mr. Justice Sankey (in tha chair).
Employers Side:—Government. _nominees:—Mr. Arthur Balfour, Sir Arthur Duckham, Sir Thomas Rayden. Coal -Owness Representatives:—Mr. Evan Williams, Mr. B. W. Cooper, Mr. J.T, Forgie.
Labour Side:—Appointed by Miners' Federation:—Mr. Robert Smillie, Mr. Herbert. Smith, Mr. Frank Hodges, Sir Leo Chiozza Money.
'Agreed upon' between, and Miners Federation L. H.
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