MR COOK’S SET-BACKS

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3493, 1 November 1926, Page 15

MR COOK’S SET-BACKS

NO BOY AH RECEPTION. BITTERNESS BETWEEN MINERS. LONDON, Oct. 29. Mr. A.J. Cook, the miner’s secretary, has postponed his Leicestershire visit because the Leicestershire Miners’ Association telegraphed refusing to meet him_ A telegram from the miners’ war council reached him at Basford, Nottinghamshire, where he prophesied he would have a royal reception. His arrival, however, caused less o.f a stir than that of an insurance canvasser. Even while the. war council was sitting at Basford, loads of outcrop coal passed. The safety men arc working in every Nottingham pit. "The embittermentt of social relations on the coalfields recalls the Home Rule crisis of 1886,” says the British Weekly”but it has spread wider and more cruelly. Lifelong friends become strangers, because some have resumed work, and families belonging to the same congregation never speak. If a returned miner enters a room where church functions are being held the others quit.” ____