1 JANUARY 1927, Page 6

A letter to the Times adds some information about the

co-operation of Borodin, alias Brown, alias Grusen- berg, with Mr. A. J. Cook. Mr. Cook was not at that time the Secretary of the Miners' Federation :- " Terribly grave as all this is " [says the writer of the letter to the Times] " it is also rather fascinating to watch. The Com- munist conspirators meet. Four years later the disciple has become secretary of the Miners Federation, thereby exemplifying the Communist device of pushing their nominees through the apathy of the trade unions' rank and file into key positions. As secretary he organizes and, with the help of the U.S.S.R. Red trade unions, leads and maintains the most disastrous strike in British history. Meanwhile the master, by this time promoted' to ' General' Borodin, is busy in the Far -East injecting the virus which has paralyzed British trade in that region, and is hurting us badly here. When Borodin was here he was an agent of the Third International. Now he is a high official in China of the

Soviet Government."