20 JUNE 1914, Page 3

On Thursday the conference of the National Union of Railwaymen

approved the triple alliance between the Execu- tive of that body, the Miners' Federation, and the Transport Workers' Federation. We have dealt elsewhere with some of the larger considerations involved in such an alliance, but may mention here the reasonable speech made at the confer- ence by Mr. Thomas, M.P., in which he deprecated the ordinary sympathetic strike, and declared that the proposed alliance was not to be at the beck and call of everybody, but, on the contrary, was to be used only in the very last resort.