Mr. A. J. Cook, having led the miners to disaster,
has retired for the present to Moscow. He and his secretary, Mr. Glynn Evans, a member of the British Communist Party, have been making long statements about British Labour and the future. Mr. Cook declared that the General Council of the T.U.C. was " chiefly responsible " for the miners' failure, but that although the miners had failed, " a revolutionary. situation " now existed in England. " The vast majority of the rank and file," he said, " are ready to fight again not merely for' wages, but for revolution, and for revolution not only in Great Britain but also on the Continent. Bolshevism has come to stay in Eogland. Ruisia is going up; Great Britain is going down." It is to be hoped that the British miners will read this rubbishy defamation .of their country and draw their own conclusions.'
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