On Wednesday. 'the Miners' Federation at a 'delegate meeting adopted
the .advice of the Exeektive.• Mr. Sthillie said that the miners were " genuinely anxious for the interests of the nation," and wanted-nationalization for thee sake of the poorer cenSumet. The miners, he said; did not want the' absolete control of the Mines, bet only' " an effectere -voice in the contro/"—coupled, we suppose, with " lightning strikes " whenever' they could not have matters all their own way. He-denied most Streunotisly that the miners were responsible for the decline in output. Yet we are bound to add that the reduction of the wbrking day and the Yorkshire strik' es–hoth due-to the miners' leaders—caused the output of-coal to be reduced by nearly half'bet-Veen May 3litt and August 9th. Mr. Justice Sankey thought that the shorter working day wbeld involve a reduction of only ten per cent. Unhappily he was wrong, and all classes of the community, except the minerts, are suffering from theniistake.
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