Mr. A. J. Cook, Secretary of the Miners' Federation, is
in effect to be put on trial by his colleagues. For some time there has been a mystery about the accusation brought against Mr. Cook by Mr. Joseph Jones (the Secretary of the Yorkshire Miners' Association) at the Llandudno Conference of the Federation,_ „Mr, Jones. said that Mr. Coak'-had signed propoSeci..terms for the settlement of the coal dispute in 1926 without the know- ledge of the Exeeutive and that the Rxecutii%e had not to That.day seen the document to which he had agreed.. At last the paper which •Mr. -Cook is said tO have signed. has been diSclosed. It contains a set -Of proposals by disinterested unofficial persons and was drafted. when the Eight Hours Bill was -passing. throUgh . Parliament. Mr. Cook was, of &Anse, demanding . the . last ounce of resistance by the whole. Trade IThionist MoVement against that measure. The most interesting point. in the dOcument now disclosed is- the last 'clause. It pro- poses that if the Wages Board in any district shOuld be Compelled to fix a wage below the subsistence level the miner's injhardiqtriet'Should have the option of working. longer hours; * *
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