ABSTRACT
The General Election which had taken place from December 2 to 19, 1910, was productive of hardly any change in the Party composition of the House of Commons and to this extent seemed to justify in its result the strictures uttered by Hilaire Belloc and by various Labor Members on the Liberal and Tory leaders whose behavior throughout the summer and autumn of 1910 had brought upon the country the vain and ineffectual turmoil of a General Election. The Cambrian Combine lockout and strike came to be inextricably mingled in the outlook of the strikers with the question of abnormal places and minimum wage. The South Wales coal-owners, on “fundamental principle,” refused arbitration: but were willing to meet to discuss the dispute. The South Wales miners have, in common with the Yorkshire Miners, appealed for the 20th Rule on the Question of a Minimum Wage for all Colliery Workmen.
