Last Saturday the Archbishop of Canterbury published a statement which
had been drawn up in collaboration with leaders of the Christian Churches. The signatories expressed their conviction that a real settlement would be achieved only in " a spirit of fellowship and co-operation," and pointed out that the longer the struggle persisted the greater would be the suffering and loss, and they therefore earnestly requested all parties to agree to resume negotiations. They suggested as a means to this end that there should be a return to the position of Friday, April 3oth ; that the T.U.C. should cancel the general strike ; that the Government should renew their offer of I help to the coal industry for a short period, and that the mineowners should withdraw their new wages scale. " We cannot but believe," they added, " in the possibility of a successful issue." • • •
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