The Executive of the American United Mine Workers were ordered
by the Federal Court at Indianapolis to cancel their order for he coal strike by Tuesday evening. They obeyed the Court rather than go to prison for contempt. Whether the miners will return to work is another question. Four hundred thousand idle men, many of whom are illiterate aliens, may not be so ready as their leaders to bow to the decision of a Federal Judge. The Government have summoned the coal-owner- and the miners' leaders to discuss a new agreement, failing which the Government may arbitrate between the parties and bring pressure to bear on the coal-owners to accept a fair com- promise. The situation has been complicated by the inters vention of Mr. Gompers and the Federation of Labour on behalf of the miners, and by the renewed threat of the railwaymen to strike. It is evident that the revolutionary party is trying hard to profit by these industrial disputes and to embitter the relations between employers and employed.
