Show TIlE MINERS CONGRESS The news comes from Paris that the leaders of the recent miners congress are contemplating tho appointment of a general strike executive committee It is to he made up equally of representatives of the French German English and Belgium miners It would seem indeed that tho recent re-cent miners congress is beginning already to bear fruit Tho German miners have decided that in the event of a strike in Belgium Bel-gium to strike also if there is any attempt on the part of tho German colliers to supply sup-ply Belgium with coal The English miners have agreed to do the same and if an attempt should be made to break down this combination of the miners by the importation im-portation of coal from the United States the executive committee will open communications with the American labor unions with a view to getting their support We have come to look upon international congresses of various kinds and international interna-tional exhibitions as the natural outgrowth of our progressive age but an international interna-tional strike which comes up as one of the possibilities of our times has not perhaps entered into the dreams of our philosophy Yet hero it is and it one of the things that will confront the industrial world |