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 address, which was duly executed and presented at an open meeting at Leeds.

The Delegate Meeting referred to above had elected a new Executive, which came into office on March 19th of 1893, the old Executive conducting business in the meantime, and meeting jointly with the new members in March.

Mr. Harry Parfitt was unanimously elected chairman, with Mr. J. Gough as vice-chairman. They decided to increase the payment of executive members to a more respectable figure, which they fixed at 8s. per day and expenses for distant members, and 4s. per day and no expenses for resident members. They had scarcely taken office when they had to cope with all the difficulties of the miners' strike of that year, and decided to meet the emergency of many of their own members, unemployed as a consequence of it, by making up a special grant to bring all wages up to 18s. weekly for those full members who did not earn so much, half-benefit members being allowed half that sum. The Society continued to make very satisfactory progress during this period. The Eleventh Annual Report, for the year 1891, showed a total of 84 branches, the twelve new ones opened that year being Trowbridge, Willesden, Wakefield, Southall, Horwick, Low Moor, Southampton, Hull, Crewe, Brighton, Carlisle, and Glasgow. There was an increase of 1,161 members, 874 of whom were for full benefits. The balance in hand stood at £20,730. We are also pleased to notice," said that Report, "that on several