14 AUGUST 1926, Page 1

• It is disheartenink In find. OurseiVeS- 'in: the -

fifteenth . week of the stoppage and ivith--'n'n'Yeally:goOd news to record. A few Miners will- briibabli "IriCkle " back ; a district might break away fioni.- the Federation ; And next Monday there -is to be another-national con- ference of delegates in London.; -It: -is profoundly un- satisfactory to have'no better :hoPes on Which' to build, and we are 'forced to look -elsewhere. 'The' two sets of leaders could come to no agreeinent together and we have bow seen also the failure of the Well-meant efforts from outside of the Industrial Christian Fellowship to bring the parties into any agreeMent. * . * * -