The General Council of the Trades Union Council met on
Tuesday and considered the report of its Industrial Committee which has been conferring with the " Mond Committee " of employers, and accepted it by 18 votes to 4. This means that they will recommend to the Trades Union Council in September the setting up of a National Industrial- Committee. Mr. Hicks moved, with the support of Mr. Cook, a resolution for putting an end to the 'conversations with the employers. How far this motion was genuinely based upon a desire to confer only. with the employers' organizations we cannot say. The General Council rejected the motion by 15 votes to 6. This is a most satisfactory proof of the good sense and good will of the General Council. It cannot be discon- nected altogether from the manifesto of Mr. Maxtor; whom his colleagues in the House of Commons regard as clever and well-meaning, though misguided, and of Mr. Cook, whom his colleagues in- trade union circles regard as most misguided, but as neither clever. nor useful. That manifesto has had no important support except from Mr. Wheatley, and it is taken as an attempt to lead the Independent Labour Party into revolt against the Labour Party in Parliament.
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