The Miners' Federation continued its Conference at the end of
last week. It discussed in private its relations with the Russian Miners' Union and the Communists, and we understand that it rejected decisively any closer co-operation with either. In public the chief discussion -ranged round the eight-hour day. Though their conclusions were not what ours would have been, some of the speakers showed a clear understanding of the problems of foreign competition. In Paris the old apple of discord was thrown into the Congress of the Inter- national Federation of Trade Unions in Paris by Mr. Purcell, this year's President. He developed the inter- esting theme, which has also occupied the Pacific Conference at Honolulu, of the industrialization of native races, and he came to the conclusion that all these peoples, as well as the Russians, must be organized with other Proletariats. The Continental delegates were evidently very angry at the persistence of the British delegates in taking up the cause of Moscow.
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