Last Sunday Mr. Cook was still doing his best to
thwart the General Council'S efforts. The speech which he made at Liverpool was quite impenitent. He spoke with nothing better than a mocking toleration of the attempts at peace. He said that the General Council ought not to receive powers to negotiate and he demanded a levy --for the support of the miners and an embargo on foreign coal, not as a charity but as a. right. Then he .proceeded to threats :—" I warn the nation that if you drive the miners back to longer hours they will not work them. We will go down the pits and we will destroy more than we construct. We will fight a guerrilla warfare.. . We have no new .conditions to put forward." In marked. contrast to Mr. Cook's outburst was the action of the Nottinghamshire miners who on Monday decided to meet the owners for the purpose of drawing up a local agree- ment. Both Mr. G. A. Spencer and Mr. F. Varley were present at the meeting and gave their consent.
