The General Council reply is euri-Jously ineffective as propaganda to Jcounter this ingenious letter. It professes to regard it as a most regrettable abuse of the ordinary courtesies, and says that it cannot permit "an intolerable inter-{ference in British trade union matters." The rank and file o tthe trade unions as well as the miners have been quick to seize upon thi phrase and exploit it to the detriment of the T. U. C. Bettr, they say, to come with bread and abuse when we are starving than to come only with fine words. Russia, they comment, is paying the piper, let Russia call some of the tune. This was the point of view of many of the delegates, but by a large majority the Congress passed a resolution endorsing the Council's reply.
The feeling is: general in Labour circles here that the Congress has been a disheartening failure. The more intelligent leaders admit that it has only served to direct attention to the shortcomings of. La-hour's general staff and the discords fe among its warring sections.
lead has been given in any direction. There has been a general disposition on the part of the ion of the mistakes of the past cannot be denied that if' Labour should have a large measure of success in the next General Election—and Labour's enemies admit that it is very possible—it will be solely through. the' mistakes of its opponents, The Communists have made a very poor showing during the week, partly because their most intelligent debaters are in prison, but they profess to be jubilant at the the effect of Tomsky's letter and the Russian help which accompanies it fon the minds of the workers. lone conspicuous which emerged from the year's trade union history is the evidence that the strike is a weapon with waning powers. Lis impotence to achieve results in recent years may partly due to the shortcomings of the present crop of trade union leaders, who appear to lack both wu rage and intelligence, But the oot cause lies deeper. The com: nations of employers have de feated the combinations of workers. The trade unions will have to find other and more effective means of maintaining standards of living, A scheme for the registration of wireless traders and repairers has Just been Iaunched by a joint committee of the Radio Society of Great Britain and the Wireless League. 'The object is: "To eliminate the! undesirable element in the industry and to provide the public with' trustworthy information as to the of wireless traders and very registered tr: n on his premises, and will be supplied with a certificate denoting his appointment Tue hunt of a homicidal maniac in a forest near Kuga-mura, Chiba-ken, lasting over 40 days, having proved vain, the parties of several ultimo, and the forest is now guarded by 'a few dozen policemen only. The local villagers are scared. Sugasawa Toramatsu, aged 45, and Tsuchiya Chuji and his wife, whom the maniac is eager to destroy, have removed from Kuga-mura to the houses of relatives at a distance. It appears that the authorities _have ascertained that the maniac is no longer in the forest, and have changed their method ' of _hunting im. According to the "Yamato" the maniac appeared in Kuga-mura on the 23rd, and got clothes at Yamakura Yosuke's, and before his disappearance he had even a shave at "h certain place" in the village.
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