10 JULY 1926, Page 2

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 employers upon the trade union movement. Is that fair ? Can anybody imagine a Prime Minister who has faced more difficulties in order to prove his sympathy with the trade union movement than Mr. Baldwin has faced ? The Declaration goes on to accuse the Government of having abandoned the Coal Report. Yet, as we have seen, Mr. Baldwin is still urging the miners to accept it.