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AFTER-LIGHTS ON THE

MINERS' STRIKE

Bad Machinery and Leadership

[By a Trade Unionist)

The two great miners' stop- pages of 1920 and 1921 were the biggest Labour conflicts that Britain has yet witnessed, and thời second was the most disastrous, whether we consider the blow which it dealt to British trade, the sufferings which it brought to hundreds of thousands of homes, or the load of debt and discredit under which it left the Miners Federation.

This second struggle Devar could have been won by the men in any real sense. Fought on the purely political isane of the "pool," it was a challenge aimed by a narrow majority of the Federation leaders

against Parliamentary democracy and representative government.

Of this they were well aware, though their members were not. Had it succeeded. democracy would in effect have been deposed by revolution, and every miner,; whatever he gained as a miner. would have lost bis rights as a free citizen. Had it failed-but it was bound to fail, and aid fail, and every miner has seen the sequences.

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PLAIN WORDS ON THINGS SEEN, Now how came an organisation with 2 million members, indi vidually men of a good type, to commit this ruinous and iosensate! folly Great light is thrown on the answer in a little book en titled The Mining Crisis (published by Messrs. Simpkin. Marshall and Co.), whose author, Mr. W. Livesey, was Chief Clerk to the Miners Federation through all the period covered by these

TUESDAY, MAY 2.

FLOWER HATS POPULAR --

BY MARIAN HALETM

This model depends for its and very beautiful gardenis ornamentation, op one large

NOT A WORKING DEMOCRACY.

The ordinary indoor lodge meetings are attended by a hand- Jui

poised at the very brim of the hat and apparently held there by ribbons which circle the crown' and are loosely Knotted.

The hat is faced with satin.

BASEBALL

American League-

New York, 3. Washington 0. Cleveland 3. Detroit 4. St. Louis 4, Chicago No other games.

clique who usually Positions in the Big Leagues. and commonly choose an official results to hard in the big Ameri appoint a delegate for six months. for the post. Then when the can Baseball Leagues -

The fallowing are the latest delegates come together, despite the fact that they bava such un- wieldy constituencies, they them.

April 23

body. A miners' delegate meeting selves are an utterly unwieldy has all the defects and none of He prefixes to his narrative far too big and noisy for class the advantages of a mob. It is Ruskin'e saying, that the great bing 2

reasoning and businesslike dis- human soul ever does in this world is:

cussion; and yet it is not a see

something and tell Primary body, nor *ven what it saw in a plain way. elected by any large proportion Jis in that spirit that he sets down of the membership.

events.

to

what he saw as Chief Clerk to the Miners' Federation.

National League-

3.

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New York, Brooklyn" Pittsburgh 14, Chicago St. Louis 6. Cincinnati No other games.

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April 24

How can you 6x responsibility

in such a crowd. Remember! DO report . of

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to the

American Lescue-

Boston 3, Washington 11. Chicago 3, Cleveland 6-Tea

innings.

Detroit 2, St. Louis 6. Philadelphia 4. New York 6.

National League-

Pittsburgh 2, Chicago 4. Brooklyn 7, Boston 8. New York 3, Philadelphia 2. St. Louis 3, Cincinnati 4.

April 25

National League

Brooklyn 5, Boston 2. New York 9, Philadelphia 3. No other games.

There is here no recanting note. that Mr. Liveser writes as a trade Froceedings unionist to trade unionists. Nor million members, sure what in- is there any note of personal dividual delegates give verbally bitterness.. He does not want to to their lodges. Suppose estates- traduce his late employers. He manlike official or leader wants to: wants to tell his fellow-workers appeal against the extremism of what is wrong with their official the delegates in favour of a sane machinery, and to exbort them policy, which the mass member- to amend it.

ship would prefer. How can be even get it to that mass member- MISCHIEF UNREMEDIED. Iship? The only report which The exposure is crushing. One would reach them of his speeches is inclined to say that if those to and action would be that given to whom it is addressed them in open-air barangues by learo nothing from it, then the very delegates whom he is jtber would leara

nothing opposing! though as ons rose from the dead. Figs are not resped from this- Yet in fact there has so far beentles, aor grapes from thorns. The nothing done since the strike to-system described places at every wards reforming the Minors point a discount on sane leader-American League- Federation.

ship and unselfish character, a Delegates hare conferred, dirty premium on irresponsible de- linen has been washed, leaders magogy and supple intrigue. bave done what they could to Mr. Livesey is very reserved in disown the paternity of policies his portraits of the leaders. which they advocated till failure Indeed, he gives none; he merely came. But the mischief remains. records in their due sequence What has been the root error? certain declarations and actions, I That trade union officials, having many of them hitherto undisclos developed a certain type of cop-ed to the public. Yet for the eye i stitution when the unions were which can piece these together, New York small, have continued it even there emerges a picture of time-Chicago where, as in the miners' case, the serving and self seeking, of shuff Pittsburgh membership rises to round about ing cowardice and immature St. Louis a million.

ternerity, above all of incoherence Philadelphia.. Their one thought has been and inconsequence, which cer- Brooklyn to mate their organisation tainly comes as a very painful Boston bigger and bigger, without revelation. ever reflecting whether old machinery can func- tion for the new numbers, or whether, in fact, there may not be & numerical limit of effective ness for any organisation whose weapon is the strike.

their

VICIOUS SYSTEM.

Boston 0, Washington 10. Philadelphis 0, New York 6. Detroit 3. St. Louis 5. No other games.

STANDING OF TEAMS,

NATIONAL LEAGUE.

W. L

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Pct.

9 2 .818

4 .636

3 .500

5

5 .500

4 5 .411

4 T .363

3 6 333

Cincinnati

3 7 .300

AMERICAN LEAGUE,

W. L. Pet.

We have travelled very far New York here from the leadership of such men as the miners' unions threw Cleveland St. Louis up when they were comparative Boston ly small bodies-leaders like Philadelphia... Thomas Burt, or Ben Pickard. Chicago The old-style smallish anion ham. Far indeed, but nowiss Washington

or John Wilson, of Dur-Detroit was a body of anything between forward; however advanced `be

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3 750

6 5 .545

5 6. 454

4 5 4 6 $400

444

3

8 ,272

9 .250

All the

500 and 50,000 members. It was the catchwords and call-ories. organised in local brances, each How comes this at a time when anything from 20 to 350 strong. the mass of miners stands beyond not concern it alone. These branches sent delegates to question at a higher level of big growths, fasions, aggregations a conference, which was the mental and moral development and alliances, which recent years sovereign

Parliament of the than it did thirty, forty or fifty bave witnessed in organisation. It was not a large years ago?

the trade body; and a system whereby the

anion world, are in Press was excluded, and the every detail, it would seem that have been motived by a blind

In substance, if not perhaps ia or lesser degree affected.

& greater All branch-member depended his delegate for report of answer. The fault lies jo

on Mr. Livesey has hit on the right faith in "big battalions," without what happened, did not

corresponding care for effectiveness machinery, от for

3 207 work thoroughly vicious constitutional the democratic

no badly. The delegates were machinery. True, even a good of the CO.tuente few enough, for there to the element of character in its by the mass of the individuals, few enough, and their consti- machine will not work without the conceptions of well-being held be effective personal contact buman agents. But a bad ma whose interests the movement is between delegate and delegate, cbine many work badly in spite supposed to serve. and between delegate and con- of large resources in character, if stituent.

A huge mechanism unrepres- Now see how this applies to a the best character are autom worthy ideal nor an effective

it is so constituted that men of entative to the core is neither af union with a million members.atically rendered unlikely to rise weapon. Brought to the test, it First, the branches are so big (to the top. miners' lodge often runs to several

either fails to go off (as we saw thousands) that most of them

with the Triple Alliance), or It cannot hold a full meeting except This is a matter which conflict a maximum of blind, futile, goes off in such a way as to in in the open aire, under con- fronts the Miners' Federation uncompensated injury on the! ditions when debate and discus- more urgently and glaringly than working-class, in we saw in thef sion are impossible.

any other trade union. But it does cass of the Miners' Federation.

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