/Ir. Brace and Mr. Vernon Hartshorn have resigned their positions
as representatives of the miners, and Mr. Brace has accepted from the government the position of Labour Adviser In the Mines Department. This appointment has been the signal for a vitriolic attack upon Mr. Brace by the Dailylierafd. Mr. Bruce may remain calm, as he probably does. Ho has done a thousand times more for Labour than has Leon done by those who attack him. On the lines on which he has always worked
he is one of the best friends and sturdiest champions Labour haa over known, and Labour may congratulate itself that in the future he will represent its interests at a post of great responsi- bility where he will be less Impeded in his good work than he has
been impeded lately by malicious extremists. Hr. Hartshorn In a letter to the South Wales Miners said "Men who think their representatives can be terrorized into doing something against their bolter judgment for fear of losing their jobs are taping to undermine the integrity end honesty of judgment en which the strength of our organization is founded, and indulging in a very low form of bleekquardism. A stand has to be made against the demoralization with which the Federation is threatened by men of reckless minds and muddled views. These men are deliberatly developing in the coalfield a poliey which aims at cutting down output, of organ- izing strike after strike in order to bring about the ruin of the industry, and of deriounoing everybody who is not prepared to lend himself to the promotion of this insane policy."
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