GREAT BRITAIN: Shaken Symbol

Arthur Horner, Communist general secretary of the non-Communist National Union of Mineworkers, was once a power in British labor. Last week, at the Trades Union Congress in the seaside town of Margate, Arthur Horner was nervous, frustrated, shattered. Lifting his sherry glass with a shaking hand, watching the proceedings with watery eyes, Horner was a symbol of the straits to which Communism in British labor has fallen.

Side-Aisle Stuff. In other years the Commies had fraternized with the other lads, drinking, gossiping and partying with them and staying at the same hotels....

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