11 OCTOBER 1919, Page 2

The Trade Unionist mediators, seeing the trend of events, renewed

their efforts to bring the railwaymen's leaders to reason, lest the whole Trade Union movement should be compromised and the political Labour Party ruined. They consulted Mr. Boner Law, and by Saturday night had arranged for a Conference between the Prime Minister and the strike leaders on Sunday. It may be noted that the mediators who did this useful work included moderate men like Mr. Clynes, Mr. Brownlie, Mr. Stuart-Bunning, and Mr. Bowerman, as well as Mr. Henderson, who is conducting at this moment the serious and unjustifiable strike of the ironfounders, and Mr. Hodges, who is one of the chief advocates of " direct action." Fortunately the moderate men kept their violent colleagues in order.