Mr. Cremer, whose expulsion from the Trades' Union Con- gress
for bringing charges which appeared to be quite without foundation, against certain members of it for betraying the cause *from corrupt motives, we reported last week, wrote to the Con- gress, publicly withdrawing and apologising for those charges, which he said he had believed to be well founded, but which he could not substantiate when the time came to do so ; and the 'Congress accepted his apology, and passed a resolution that Mr. Cremer, if returned as a delegate to any future Congress, should be accepted, as any other delegate would be. Mr. Cremer has done well, and the Trades' Union Congress has done wisely to accept his withdrawal, rash and culpable as his imputations were. Mr. Cremer is not himself a tyro in politics, but the class to which he belongs, to some extent is, and has yet a good deal to learn in the way of controlling suspicion and distrusting rumours of treachery. It will learn its lesson all the sooner for not being too stringent in its penalties at first. Mr. Cremer's attack was unwarranted, but his retractation will teach him and others all the more candour for the good-humour with which it was accepted.
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