Mr. Hamilton Fyfe, who has retired from the editorship of
the Daily Herald, published on Monday, the day before his departure, an article entitled "Nothing but the Truth," on which he is to be congratulated. He pointed out that the miners committed an act of folly in refusing the Samuel Memorandum. There was never any likelihood of their getting better terms, and now they are in danger of -getting much worse. It was because the General Council of the Trades Union Congress recognized the folly of the miners that it called off the General Strike. In Mr. Fyfe's opinion the Trades Union Congress was perfectly right not to allow the interests of the unions as a whole to be sacrificed to the minority movement in the coal fields. The result of this declaration was that on Monday night a band of Communists held a hostile demonstration in front of the Daily. Herald office, but Mr. Fyfe refused to yield any points to them. We note that the new Editor of the Daily Herald is Mr. :William Mellor, who, after taking his degree at Oxford, worked in the Fabian Research Department. Later he joined the Communist party, but resigned from it ; he refused to serve in the Wvr, and since the War he has been Mr. Fyfe's assistant.
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