The Duke of Northumberland, presiding at an excellent lecture given
by Mrs. Webster on "The History of World Revolution " on Wednesday, spoke very plainly about the hidden forces behind the miners' strike. These men, he said, had a close connexion with Moscow. " Certain Labour leaders went to Downing Street not thinking of wages but of something quite different." The Government had tried to influence " Labour " to adopt moderate courses. The Duke of Northumberland suggested that the Government would do better to let the public know the whole truth about the doings of the extreme Socialists, who unhappily have more influence in the Labour executives than they have with the rank and file. The working man would be astonished if the real aims of some of his self-appointed leaders rare revealed. Arms Sylvia Pankhurst's letter, on which we comment elsewhere, is enlightening. Miss Pankhurst was
sentenced on Thursday to six months' imprisonment for publishing seditious articles.
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