The Yorkshire Miners' Union was not represented at the nego-
tiations in London, and, unlike the Unions in other districts, did not order its members to resume work. The Minister of Labour waited till Tuesday for the Miners' Federation to assert its authority, and then reminded the Executive that they had promised to bring the strike to an end. The Federation leaders professed to have done all that they could, and suggested that the Government must bring the coal-owners and miners together. Apparently the Yorkshire miners' leader, Mr. Smith, was standing on his dignity, and, with a placid indifference to the industrial community's sore need of coal, was waiting for the coal-owners to approach him. On Tuesday, when the West Yorkshire coal-owners, acting on their own initiative, asked him to meet them, be agreed to do so. The Conference on Wednesday, at we have indicated, was fruitless. A few of the purnpmen have returned to work and, with the naval stokers, are help- ing to save some of the pits from being waterlogged and ruined.
