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The - Miners' Executive, for their part, collected opinions in the -various

districts and issued a critical commentary upon theReport. But they gave no precise guidance to the districts where the working miners were puzzling their heads .Over. the meaning of: the Report, inclining to the - .. . belief that they could not possibly put up with any reduction of wages or lengthening of hours, suspecting that an attack upon the National Agreement had been planned by the owners, and entirely failing to see that interlocked with the proposal about wages in the Report was a whole series of suggestions that met many of the miners' most ardently expressed desires. Still, owners and men have at last met to discuss the real points.

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