"The Soviet workers are very i dignant, continues the telegram, at such mistreatment of the British] Trade Unions, the blame for whi must be laid to the "bend the knes attitude towards the Government of] leaders like Mr. J. H. Thomas, the! main instigator of the defeat of the general strike, who, when on the General Council and' must report in connection with the Strike, evades his responsibility by departing for overseas.
Had the Strike not been quashed] by the General Council's order it would have led to a glorious victory. You would already have been freed from your Government of aristocrats and mine-owners."
The Soviet's Request The Soviet Council particularly' regrets that the British Delegation at Paris, meeting the Anglo-Russian Committee, categorically refused to discuss the question of assistance to the miners, and at the Berlin meeting of the Anglo-Russian Com. mittee rejected Soviet proposals to the miners, including a one per cent. levy for the benefit of the strikers Continuing, the telegram says the Soviet Council behoves that there is no more important question for the entire world Labour movement than that of assisting the British miners, and has therefore resolved) to allocate a further three million xoubles for the benefit of the miners from the receipts of the one per cent. levy, which, it has no doubt, will be adopted overwhelmingly by the Soviet workers. trious criticism, and cannot countenance intolerable interference in British Trade Union affairs. In this it feels confident of the support] of the Congress.
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