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Mr. Baldwin announced the good news in the House of

Commons on Wednesday afternoon. He said that the General Council of the T.U.C. had informed him that morning that it had decided to call off the strike. He and his colleagues would try to bring about an immediate resumption of the coal negotiations. He added in magnanimous words which will be read with equal pleasure and agreement that the victory was a victory of common sense, not of any one part of the country, but of the common sense of the best part of the whole country. It was of the greatest importance that the British people should look forwards, not backwards. " We shall begin our work in a spirit of co-operation, putting behind us all malice and vindictiveness."

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