23 OCTOBER 1920, Page 2

Mr. J. H. Thomas urged the Government to " reestablish

confidence " by giving the -miners what they asked for. Delay would be dangerous. Three weeks ago, before the miners agreed to take a fresh ballot, the railwaymen's delegates had met and, after two days' -debate, had-decided by only one vote not to strike in sympathy with the miners. Mr. Thomas expressed a fear lest the-extremists in his.union -should force-a strike on the -ground that, as so many railwaymen were thrown out of work, they -might as well cease work in-a body.