10 JULY 1926, page 2

On Tuesday Mr. J. H. Thomas, Who Has Done Better

for his clients than any other trade unionist leader, and has made the N.U.R. the richest Labour organization in the country, had once again to fight for his official life.......

A Grotesque Incident Occurred In Connexion With The...

the Conference. In spite of the sound advice of Mr. J. H. Thomas the Conference decided that only newspapers which were "trade union houses" should be allowed to report the......

The Terms Offered By Tilt.. Yorkshire Employers For The...

three months were good, but it was proposed that after three months there should be a return to the 1021 agree ment . representing . 20% above the standard wages instead of the......

Monday. The N.u.r. Has Been Holding Its Annual Con- Ference

at Weymouth, and Mr. Dobbie used the occasion to call Mr. Baldwin "our Pecksniffian Prime Minister" who "trotted out platitudes about peace" when troops and ships of war were......

The Report Goes On To Point Out That This "

slogan " meant the immediate throwing out of work of some 300,000 miners and that such a solution "appears too awful for any trade union leaders to contemplate." The miners are......

It Will Be Remembered That The Conference Of The Trade

Union Executives at which the history of the general strike was to be threshed out was postponed in order to avoid drawing attention to the Labour split while the coal strike......

Meanwhile The Figures Of Unemployment Are, Of Course,...

The latest returns show that exclusive of the miners there were 1,638,600 unemployed. This was 3,858 more than in the previous week and 334,357 more than a year ago.......

On Wednesday Representatives Of The Yorkshire Owners Came...

to interview the Government and the offending terms were withdrawn. Lord Gainford explained in the House of Lords that he held the Yorkshire terms to be justifiable and even......

In A Letter To The Times Of Wednesday Dr. Arthur

Shadwell, who is an exceedingly good judge and a very sympathetic and learned student of Labour affairs, says that there is a regular campaign among Labour leaders to advance......

The Papers Of Last Saturday Published A Declaration On The

industrial situation by the Trades Union Congress which was extremely inopportune in manner and matter. The Declaration complains of determined attacks by the Government and the......