Baldwin. Sorely harassed, Premier Stanley Baldwin spent virtually the whole of last week in attempting to mediate between the coal miners and owners of Britain. (TIME, Apr. 26 et ante.)
Since the subsidy extended to the coal industry last July has already cost the British taxpayer £100,000,000 (nearly half a billion dollars), there is the most intense opposition to its continuance* by all unsubsidized taxpayers. At the same time, the miners insisted last week, that they would walk out May, 1, unless their wage demands were met; and the...
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