The Labour Party Conference at Brighton last week passed a
vote of sympathy with the miners and elected Mr. Hodges as a member of the party executive, from which it significantly excluded Mr. Robert Williams, the avowed Communist, whom the miners now regard as their false ally. Mr. Hodges made a pathetic speech, admitting that the miners' executive had -- - failed to coerce the nation, but boasting that the miners would only go back to work as a united body. "They might not be able to declare that they had won a great and glorious victory, but neither would it be possible for the Government to be proud of having gained a Pyrrhic victory." These fine words did not obscure the fact that the great trade unions had refused abso- lutely to declare a general strike in aid of the miners, and that the Miners' Federation had failed in their last desperate effort to gain their ends by producing industrial chaos.
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