Unfortunately just on the eve of the holiday season there has been bad disaster at the Montague Pit, Scotswood, Neweastle on Tyne where 38"men and boys were entrapped by an inrush of water and there does not seem any likelihood moderate leaders in this country are against the conference, and the rank and the file have not the least wish to say "Comrade" to Tomsky, Glebhoff-Aviloff, Milhailoff, Melnichaysky, Lepsy, and Mme, Chernycheva, of the All-Russian Central Trade Union Soviet. The Conference, which is provisionally fixed to open next Monday, is to devise a means whereby Russian trade Unions may be affiliated with other European, including the British, Trade Union movements. It is significant that Labour leaders who have expressed themselves frankly on the subject of Russia will nog be members of the Tredes Union Congress Committee,
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