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The Miners' Delegate Conference came to no conclusion • on

Wednesday and when we write on Thursday it has not yet been decided whether the Executive of the Federation shall be instructed to accept the Government's offer or whether the matter shall be referred to the districts. The second course seems the more probable at the moment. The temper of the Conference was determined by the patent fact that the miners' resistance is broken. Even Mr. Cook talks of "organized retreat." On Wed- nesday there was a rush back to work. The number of miners in the pits rose by 11,745 in that one day. Mr. Cook was listened to in silence, but on the other hand Mr. Spencer, Who was recently removed from his position as a trade union official because of his angry criticism of Mi. Cook, was- -considerably applauded.

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