On Friday week the N.U.R. Conference decided to reject the
Government offer—the•offer which was the result of months of negotiations, and which had been commended to the railway- men by Mr. J. H. Thomas as an honourable settlement that would bring untold blessings to the workers. It was not known for several days in what precise form the Government offer had been rejected. The fact is that the whole of the negotiations have been - covered by an impenetrable veil. We have often pointed out how much cant and insincerity is contained in the popular protests against secret diplomacy. Labour leaders never weary of calling attention to the alleged evils of secret diplomacy, and attributing half the sorrows of the world to this bad old relic of an obsolete system. We have never, how- ever, seen insincerity carried so far as it has been by the Labour leaders in this railway dispute.
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