COOK GOES TO MOSCOW

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12621, 4 December 1926, Page 2

COOK GOES TO MOSCOW

REPORTING TO HIS MASTERS Bv Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON. December 2. Mr A. J. Cook, secretary of the Miners’ Federation, has ieft London for Moscow. Interviewed by the “Daily Express’’ he said: —“Bussia wants an' answer to various questions, and I will tell exactly what I know, namely, that the miners’ defeat was duo to the policy of the Trades Union Congress, firstly in calling off the general strike: secondly, in refusing to enforce the embargo on foreign coal. Finally, the trade unions in England left the miners tp fight alone. I will tell them that the inaction and opposition of the British leaders, particularly Mesirs Bromley and Thomas, prevented a levy on the workers’ earnings being made. “Bussia will regard the absence of a delegate from the Trades Union Congress as a rebuff to the Russian workers. Nevertheless, I will tell Russia that, despite Britain’s trade union leaders, the rank and file are heart and soul with the Russians, and that also the increased bitterness of the Government is duo to the £1,250,000 sent to England. EMERGENCY ENDED COMMONS WILL DEBATE STRIKE Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, December Si. In the House of Commons, the .Home Secretary, Sir 'William Joyn-son-Hicks, announced that the Coal Emergency Regulations, except those preventing export, would be lifted at midnight. The Prime Minister announced that Wednesday would lie set apart for the Labour Party’s censure motion on the coal crisis, the terms of which complain of disregard of the Royal Commission’s findings, the Ministry’s partiality to the owners, and the owners* imposition of harsh terms. It says that the only remedy for the trouble consists in nationalisation of the industry.