Last Sunday there was a meeting of miners in Trafalgar
Square, when the centre of attraction was the South Wales unemployed miners who had tramped to London. It was impossible to withhold pity from such a spectacle, though there is no doubt that the South Wales miners had allowed themselves to become pieces on the chess- board of a trade-union wrangle. Mr. Cook and his friends had organized the march in the interests of the Minority Movement. It had not been sanctioned by the Miners' Federation, and incidentally it caused intense annoyance to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, who dread nothing more than 'a fresh outburst of Cookism. The miners seem to have been well looked after at the stopping places on their way to London, and, on the whole, they have had a better time than they would have had' at home. There have been protests, however, by some of those who were generous yet reluctant hosts.
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