You are, I understand, you five, a committee appointed by the Labour Party to confer with me as to the best means of promulgating our beliefs.

You have each told me your views.

You would each, apparently, like me to devote myself to your particular district for the purpose of propagating a strike which shall result in a trifling increase of wages." "And a coal strike, I say," Peter Dale interrupted, "is the logical first course.

We've been threatening it for two years and it's time we brought it off.

I can answer for the miners of the north country.