25 MAY 1929, Page 3

Mr..A. .1. Cook and Moscow Mr. A. J. Cook, who

is known as a very human person as well as the uncompromising Secretary of the British Miners' Federation, has been out of favour with Moscow ever since he paid that pleasing and richly deserved tribute to the personality of the Prince of Wales a few weeks ago. He has now been dismissed from his honorary posts under the Soviet ; in fact, one might say—since Communism has all the appearance of a religion—he has received sentence of excommunication for the crime of " treason to his class." Thus do the Simon-pure Commun- ists make themselves supremely ridiculous. What professes to be a world movement rides roughshod over that " little touch of nature which makes the whole world kin."