The address was conspicuous for ts common sense and moderation. Mr. Williams: realizes that the employers are now more efficen organized than the workers and can. face with more equanimity a long] stoppage of work if they have the Government of the day behind them. For it is idle to deny that the miners would have gut decent terms on the lines of a generous interpretation of the Coal Commission's Report if a Labour.or Liberal Government had been in power.
The policy that offers most to Labour is that which will get a Government in power with a warm sympathy for Labour ideals or a convietion that its permanence is dependent on a contented working class, and it is to this consummation that Mr. Williams, a practical trade union leader, looks.
But the delegates thought other-_ wise. The absence in the address of any practical proposals for the a istence of the miners on strike, the] cutting references to some of Mfr. Cook's aggressive slogans, the bold swing from a revolutionary Left to fan ultra-respectable Right, was too much for them. It was felt that 'a conversion was all very well in moderation, but that Mr. Williams would be more attractive if he left a decent interval between the time he Jquarrelled with his old Red love and embraced his pale pink new one. fan attack on them in the interests lof the mineowners. Other delegates took exception to its moderation and Jeondemnation of strikes, and it was only by the Chairman ruling that address was not a matter for discussion that it was possible to move on to other business.
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