Abstract

Editorials

This article focuses on various recent socio-political developments and issues across the world. It first describes some experimental political developments concerning disputes between the railways and employees in the U.S. When the conference between coal miners and operators began in February 1916, and there was fear of a strike the country knew that it had no legal provision for preventing such a calamity. General sentiment has proved powerful, not merely in halting incipient strikes, but in inducing capital and labor to make trade agreements for arbitration, or to hold regular joint conferences to adjust differences. In Australia and New Zealand legislation has gone farther than in Canada. It is described that the New Zealand compulsory-arbitration act creates a number of industrial districts, in each of which is aboard of conciliation to which disputes must be referred. Another news item reports about changes in German opinion concerning the flow of newspapers, pamphlets, and books, which are now almost unobtainable in the U.S.