The heated discussions at the Transport Workers' Federation meeting at
Edinburgh last week showed clearly why the general strike was cancelled last April. The three parties to the " Triple Alliance " would not co-operate, and the transport workers' leaders were divided among themselves. Mr. Havelock Wilson bluntly and truly said that " the whole business had been a gigantic game-of bluff" and that the miners had been misled by their allies who promised more than they could perform. " Mr. Williams wanted," he-said, " a few men to havethe destinies of the working people in their keeping, having only to push a button to make them jump." That, indeed, is the ideal of the Communist agitators who strive to obtain- control of the trade union machinery. Mr. Williams could only retort that for an effective transport strike " they must move like a serpent, not like an alligator."
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