By the second day the Congress thad realized that its deliberations were tite Iaughing stock of the country, To evade a discussion of the General Strike was on a par }with @ performance of "Hamlet" without the Hamlet. All the dele-ates were in an irritable mood, Jand when the General Council's re-Jcormmendation that £50,000 should be spent in converting the Countess lof Warwick's present,—Easton Lodge—into a Labour college was put to the meeting it was refer back to the General Council by Jan overwhelming majority. A re. solution calling: for a general amal Jeamation of all unions into one big union was defeated, but an amendment that kindred ' unions should rerge into group unions was carried atter an exciting scene in which Mr. Cook of the Miner's Federation accused the Colliery Enginemen's Union of blacklegging during. the strike, The fraternal delegate from America, Mr, Hutcheson, addressed the delegates at the end of the day and told them that they should not only. fight for a livin Dut a saving wage. America's other fraternal delegate was absent, having thrown up his official position in the American miners' union which he belonged to take a £5,000 Per annum job with a mining company.
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