10 JULY 1926, Page 2

Monday. The N.U.R. has been holding its annual con- ference

at Weymouth, and Mr. Dobbie used the occasion to call Mr. Baldwin "our Pecksniffian Prime Minister" who "trotted out platitudes about peace" when troops and ships of war were being moved to suppress the general strike. He accused "that honest, peace-loving and simple British farmer, Mr. Baldwin," of leaving no stone unturned to break the workers' movement. If the typical British gentleman was a hypocrite, he said, then Mr. Baldwin was an English gentleman. Mr. Dobbie's mischievous and insincere futilities, however, do not deserve much attention except as symptoms of calamitous leadership.