...The present agreement under the Board is admittedly 15 per cent. worse than the worst Sliding Scale we ever had.

We know something, too, of the difficulties of the rest of the Coalfield. We have a shrewd idea of what Mr. D. A. Thomas meant when he said , "He would readily give an undertaking to supplement low wages by allowance as is customary throughout the Coalfield"! We know also that your position has not been better, but rather worse, since we've been out. We know that you find our levies burdensome. But are you willing to have paid all these levies for less than nothing, that we should be worse off and you no better? Would you not far rather that we should win out and you also to get an assured wage when you've worked for it?

Well! fellow-workmen, there is A SURE AND A CERTAIN WAY, and that is not by voting us back to work and STARVATION AND EVERY INDIGNITY, as was and is unfortunately the lot of the Aberdare men through no fault of theirs, because we know they fought valiantly.

For your manhood's sake, DO NOT SEEK TO AVOID YOUR LEVIES BY THIS METHOD. See rather that you send a mandate to Cardiff, not to hound us back against our will, but with a solid mandate that SOUTH WALES SHOULD GO UNITEDLY TO THE CONFERENCE OF JUNE 14th AT LONDON, AND DEMAND THAT NATIONAL ACTION be taken on the resolution now before that Conference, for an 8s. Minimum for all Colliers and 5s. for all unskilled labourers below that point. By these means, and these only, can you save us, save the Aberdare men, and save yourselves.

If you send us back, then the national minimum wage may be shelved for years. But if, on the other hand (as we ask you in all sincerity), you do not send us back, then the Federation must take national action for the 8s. minimum for Wales, England, and Scotland, or they must put up the shutters. A Federation that cannot or will not protect us is not worth supporting.

Finally, avail yourselves of this opportunity on Saturday next at Cardiff, or it may be many years before we again get such a golden opportunity.

Yours on behalf of the Cambrian Combine Workmen,

WM. JOHN.
N.REES.
N.HARCOMBE.
J. IVINS.
J. HOPLA.
T. SMITH.