Mr. A. J. Cook's scheme for a Grand Industrial Alliance
is not going well. The Boilermakers' Society has as good as 'told its members to vote against joining the Alliance ; -the National Union of Railwaymen has refused to join ; on Monday the Railway Clerks " deferred " a recom- mendation of their executive that they should join ; finally the Amalgamated Engineering Union has issued a very unsympathetic circular on the subject. The circular, as we learn from the Morning Post, which has been carefully watching these developments, reminds the members of the A.E.U. that if they vote for joining the Alliance their union will pass under the control of the General Council of the Alliance and all the obliga- tions of the members to their own unions and to their employers will lapse. Although the circular does not .definitely instruct the members of the A.E.U. what to do, the hint conveyed is as explicit as in " Don't nail his ear to the pump ! "
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