GREAT EVENTS

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18690, 13 May 1926, Page 9

GREAT EVENTS

MAY BE EXPECTED TO-DAY,

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(Received May I2tfc, 9.35 p.m.) LONDON,'May 12. Dramatic developments are expected to-day. When the General Council of the Trades Union Congress broke up early this morning, it was confessed that it wbb too tired to carry on the di'scussion, and required a few hours' sleep. It will resume as soon as possible, !

Mr Baldwin and other Cabinet members went to bed after an intimation that the Labour people had not finished their discussions.

Early last night the General Council and the miners sat together for several hours. About eleven miners sat separately till 12.30 a.m. When they emerged they gave a reply to the General Council It is understood the point of argument was the miners' unalterable attitude that there should be no decrease of wages or any increase in hours, no matter what compromise was effected regarding tho general strike. The General Council was still discussing the miners' reply when it adjourned. The miners had previously departed. Mr Herbert Smith shepherded his followers' as if he were afraid of losing any amidst the crowd of pressmen who surrounded the motor-cars.