miners’ case, blamed them for not accepting arbitration, the editorials and all other correspondence were firmly behind the miners. One editorial blamed the coalowners for seeking such a large reduction in wages, describing their actions as ‘positive greed’ and ‘a wrong-headed policy on their part’. He continued by affirming the Connexion’s sympathy with ‘the miners, and with other classes of toilers in this country’. The miners deserved to be ‘well-paid’. The Government eventually interceded to