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KAILWAYMEN AS "WRECKERS."%
The Daily Espress Labour Correspon dent writes:
·Triple Alliance affairs have not been going smoothly for some time, and the simmering antagonism has now been brought to a sudden boil by the outbreak of a serious quarrel between the leaders Fof-the-three organisations.
The persons mainly concerned, in this development aro Mr. J. E. Thomas, M.P., and Mr. Robert Williams, who, in the score- tary both of the Triple Alliance" and the Transport Workers' Federation. Mr. Robert Smillie and Mr. Frank Hodges, the president and secretary of the Miners' Federation, aro only slightly less involved.
The explanation of the trouble is the combined opposition of the miners and the transport workers to the recent policy of the N.U.R., and the original cause of the existing strained relations was the railway strike, which, behind the scenes,
was condamned by most of the big unions. A personal issue between Mr. Thomas and Mr. Williams has arisen out of #hig condemnation. “. It is' a' clash that wIE 'bound to come, but it is important to regard it only as a symptom of the much more seriona and equally inevitable claah between the organisations and their poli- cies.
railway
After the settlement of the strike. Mr. Williams, in a public speech at Newport (Mon.), severely criticised the strike action of the railwaymen's leaders, mainly on the ground that they took action without consuting the asso clated organisations. It is laid down in the constitution of the Triplo -Alliance that each organisation instituting a move- ment which is likely to involve the other organisations shall before any definite steps are taken submit the whole matter to the joins body. The railwaymen en- tared on their strike" without any sucb submission:
As luck would have it, a member of the NUB. executive happened to be in Mr. Williams Newport audience, and be made the speech the subject of an official réport to N.U.R. beadquarters. Then began a series of incidents, the secret. history of which is just being revealed.
The N.U.R. executive, after a fiery dis- Cusion the line taken by Mr. Williams. passed a resolution strongly con- This was conveyed to him by Mr. Thomas, who, in a covering letter, embarked on a further reprimand of Mr. Williams, told him that the complaints which he had made should be the subject not of a public Apeech, but of
representations in a private acasion of an executive, and accused him of havin Alliance.
imperilled the continuance of the Triple
Mr. Williams, in a characteristic reply. stated that, he not expect the N.U.R. to throw bouquets at him, and that be would reserve what he had to say until a meeting which had been arranged. He so far broke this amiable resolution as to add the sarcastic remark that he was glad to re cerva
as it was the enly cuidance strike thats remembered that i the Triple Alliance was still in being.
Thomas or the railway
All the correspondence has been cr culated to the members of the three execu- tives Mr. Rabent: Smillie and . Mr. Frank Hodges are to join in the fran They, too, in common with practically every member of the miners' executive although, perhaps, for different reasons were batterly opposed to the manner of
railway strike, as they are atill
op posed to subsequent actions of the roil-
the
Waymen.
It would be a mistake to let the per sanal side of what has become a fierce con- toves dogcure the far weightier ques
of policy that and at the bottom of it. The view of both tho miners and the transport workers is that the N.U.R., by suddenly acting on their own respon ability, stole a march, and not only broke the terms of the combination, but jeo- pardised the future of the other two organisations, and ran the gravest pus sible risk of involving every union in the country in a completely disastrous general strike. That view supplies the reason for the intervention of the famous mediation.committee.
action
The genesis of the trouble extends back to the days when the great" direct. bubble was pricked. There were two schools of.. <
direct actionists," One, including the Smillio-Hodges section of the miders, knew that direct action could, only be effective so long as it was merely a threat. In other words, know- ing that direct netion" could never be put into really effective operation, they hoped to secure their objects by instilling Rear into the community of what "direct action might do.
The other school-a much smaller one -wished to try the experiment and to
damn the consequences."
Those who
were at the final conference remember how Mr.
C. T Cramp waved his arms and proudly declared the power of the N.U.K. executive to call an immediate strika without reference to members or a council meeting.
Then came the rail with its
#
strike,
revelation of what Governmental and public organisation could do in lace of public peril. It proved what the first school of direct actionists had known, but it did more it made the continued manipulation of the bogey impossible
The miners have another count against the railwayman. It is miners have rejected that, while the ide scheme of joint control of the mines, the railway men have accepted a much less complete scheme of joint control for the railways, and have thus weakened from the inside the miners' demand for full nationalisa tion An ironical sequel to this is that one iteni of the Triple Alliance business to consider how best to support the miners' nationalisation campaign.
The present quarrel may be patched up, but for all practical purposes the Tripla Alliance has ceased to function. How far it will be absorbed or replaced by the new Labour General Stat
remains to be seen. Abat will depend largely on how. much
executive power the unions will consent to
delegate to the new body, The dahnite proposal now is t
that
the Parliamentary Committes of the Trade Union Congress shall be substituted by "a general council, to be elected annually, and that a number of administrative de partments shall be set up to work under the direction of that council
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