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 but no sooner had the delegates left for home than the following two letters were despatched to the Government by the General Council:—

"1st May, 1926.

"Yours faithfully, ""

"1st May, 1926.

"Yours faithfully, ""

I had arranged to keep in constant touch with the T.U.C., and to be at my office ready to give any information that was needed. To my surprise and alarm I heard quite by accident, on Saturday evening, at about 9 p.m., that the Negotiating Committee of the T.U.C. were closeted in Downing Street with the Prime Minister.

I could feel no other than apprehension, seeing I had not been informed, and they were there presumably discussing the miners' case in the absence of the miners' representatives. It