THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17318, 2 December 1921, Page 8

THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE.

EVIDENCE IN LIBEL ACTION. (By Cable—Press Association-*Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cabto Association.) (Received December Ist, 11.45 g.nu) LONDON, November 30. Mr J. H. Thomas under cross-examin-ation said he believed that on April 6th a Triple Alliance strike would have meant a new Government—not a Parliamentary Government. Replying to Mr Justice Darling, Mr Thomas said ho visualised a Soviet but he would not be a party to such a Government. Mr Justice Darling: "If the Triple Alliance had found themselves opposed to the Government and it had meant a bloody revolution then you would have had to withdraw from the Alliance?" Mr Thomas replied : "That would have been my attitude." Replying to defendant's counsel, Mr Thomas stated that by retaining his position as the railwaymen's leader he had saved the country from a revolution. [Mr J. H Thomas M.P., general secretary of the National Union of Railwavmen, has brought an action _ for libel against the Labour Press Limited, and the editor and publisher of the newspaper "Communist." Counsel for Mr Thomas said that by words and cartoons the paper had alloged that Mr Thomaft wa9 a traitor to the movement which he professed to lead, and that he Was deliberately trying to betray those who true ted him. Tlio alloged libela related to the coal strike negotiations.]