Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the Labour Party, emphasized the impossibility of a trade union levy. He said the situation was not adequately realized. There had been consultation with union leaders ax to the best means of helping the miners and he had been perfectly appalled at the unemployment: toedch unio The industrial situation has to be faced. The resolution before the conference definitely' committed the Parliamentary La-bone Party to. nationalization mines and he hoped the conference! would pass it and thus give some encouragement to the miners. Tt was the best thing that the conerence could do now. The miners' fight would only begin on a new plane when the present crisis was over. That new plane was the House of Commons and the new policy wax nationalization of the industry.
Mr. MacDonald's statement evoke ed some booing.
Eventually the resolution was adopted by the overwhelming majority of 000 votes against 210,000, Seven Thousand Bank in One Day London. Oct. 43.
A further increase of 7,000 in the Joumber of miners working yesterday was made up chiefly of 4,000 men from. Lancashire-and North Wales.
The stream ig so. substantial la some areas that the collieries orel pending much necessary preliminary
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