Then, again, there is a Minority Movement. Although the British
Communists are very few they have been able, after the manner of minorities, to make a considerable noise. They have butted into the negotiations between the miners and the mineowners, and also into those between the railwaymen and the companies. A good example of the Minority Movement's methods has been provided in South Wales. All the mining districts have been drawing up plans as to what they should say and how they should vote at the Federation Conference at Blackpool. But when the South Wales programme, drafted by the Executive, was presented the Minority Movement simply destroyed the whole policy by somehow or other—we wonder how they did it—carrying a purely subversive amendment that one month's notice should be given on June 30th to terminate the agreement with the mineowners. We have not such definite information about the action of the Minority Movement in connexion with the railways, but' aSt Sunday Mr.-Thomas denounced it so strongly that he evidently takes a grave view of it.
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