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revival in the fortunes of the Party, records its gratitude for the constructive leadership of the AJresKleiit, and pledges itself to use its utmost en- deavour to bring about the realisation of the great policies of reform wliich his genius has inspired. The new Welsh Nationalist Party, at its Summer School at Llangollen, August 8th-13th. is going to face the question of Welsh Nationalist candidates at the next general election. The leaders of the W.N.P. believe that the general election is likely to be upon us before the end of the year. Without funds the Welsh Nationalist Party cannot, of course, fight, as it would desire, for every seat. It must content itself with an attempt to capture, for Welsh Nationalism, the counties of Carnarvon and Car- marthen. In all the other constituencies the attempt will be made to persuade "every Welshman and every man who loves his nation to boycott the election." There is an appeal for a contribution of a penny or fourpence or a shilling a week or a fort- night for the funds of the W.N.P. "In its wealth," says the Editor of "Y Ddraig Goch," "is the hope of the Liberal Party which looks witH envious eyes upon the tendency of all the ablest young people in Wales to join the Welsh Nationalist Party. Money can no longer buy the youth of the Welsh Univer- sity." INDUSTRIAL. The balance sheet of the South Wales Miners' Federation shows the cost to the Federation of the coal stoppage. Up to the end of last year £ 416,000 was spent, of which over 4:320,000 went in grants for unemployment. Conferences cost nearly £ 6000, while political funds and litigation required £ 20,000. The fund had a balance from 1925 of £ 50,000 and contri- butions from members amounted to £ 38,000, which was considered a very low figure. The main source of income was a grant from the Miners' Federation of Great Britain of £ 300,000. It is announced that the bands which toured the country for contri- butions made £ 5,000 after paying out all expenses. The Federation was left solvent. The number of members in the Federation is given as nearly 140,000, showing that during the stoppage of seven months each member received about £ 2 5s. At the acinual conference of the South Wales Miners' Federation on July 2nd resolutions were adopted (1) to demand immediately a substantial higher wage for day wage men; (2) to declare the Miners' Federation ineffective, and to urge the call- Correspondence. SUMMER SCHOOL OF THE WELSH NATIONAL PARTY. Dear Sir,-May one of us "petty patriots" (a la yourself a number or two back) plead for a wide membership and a full attendance at the second Summer School of the new Welsh National Party, to be held this summer at Llangollen during the second week in August-immediately following upon the National Eisteddfod. Membership of the School does not implv membership of the Party. That be- ing so, the "scholars" will of course be at liberty to indulge in destructive criticism to their heart's content. There are many who think that our cause does not justify the establishment of a new political party. They tell us that the question whether the Welsh nation, "old and haughty, proud in arms," and, we may add, proud in the record of unaggressive and clean lives, and with her trifle of two million (odd) .souls,-the question whether the Welsh nation should be recognised as having the right and ability and capacity to manage her own more immediate affairs is too "petty" a question to take first place in the minds of any section of Welsh electors. First ing by the M.F.G.B. of an immediate meeting of the Anglo-Russian Miners' Committee with a view to the formation of an all-inclusive Miners' International. During the last lortnight in June several South Wales collieries closed uown, other collieries were working slack time, and many were contemplating termination. The railway sidings outside Cardiff were filled with coal trucks waiting to be taken to the docks. The depression was said to be due to ¡tie fact that there did not exist a demand for the coal cut, and that the French coal embargo was gradually beginning to take effect. THE GREGYNOG PRESS. The following paragraph is taken from "The Observer" for July 10th, 192" "To the excellence of the work of the Gregynog Press in black-and-wnite we have referred more than once. But this Press is now adventuring on a more beautiful attempt, coloured like a medieval missal. The subject is The Life of St. David,' translated from an early Welsh manuscript, and edited by Mr. Ernest Rhys. Red and blue lettering mingle in the main stream of a noble black character. The illuminating wood-cuts by Mr. R. A. Maynard and Mr. H. W. Bray glow like old stained-glass. We cannot but pronounce it a gem of a thing, remark- able amongst all British printing achievements of to-day, and probably of its kind, as a Welsh national achievement, the top-notch 'whateffer' SOME SUMMER SCHOOLS. Welsh Language Society-Summer School at Aber- vstwyth, August 8th-20th. Secretary: Mr. J. Ellis Williams, "Brynaraul," Graigwen Road, Pontypridd. Welsh Hblida^ Sohool.-Llanwrtyd Wells, August 8th-19th. Secretary and Director: Mr. Roland Thomas, Gelli Aur, Rhvmney, near Cardiff. Welsh School of Social Service.-Coleg Harlech, August 22nd-26th. Subject. "The Adolescent in Wales." Speakers: Dr. Olive Wheeler, Major E. T. Davis, Mr. William King, Rev. Malcolm Spencer, Prof. David Phillips, Sister Emily Briggs, Rev. Joel Davies, Miss Edith Thomas and the Rev. Herbert Morgan. Full pro- grammes of The Warden, Coleg Harlech, Har- lech, North Wales. Welsh Nationalist Partv. — Simmer School, Llan- gollen. August 8th-13?h. Secretary: Mr. H. R. Jones, Office of "Y Ddraig Goch," Aberystwyth. place, we said, for we allow other matters to take a subordinate, but not an equal, and by no means a premier place. The other class of Welsh patriots, the grand (as opposed to petty), or shall we say grandiloquent patriots, are content for Welsh liberty to occupy only an equal and even a secondary position. Ulster (not to mention the Isle of Man), with a population much less than Wales, and much less of a nation, and with no distinctive language, has a full- blown Parliament, with an Upper and Lower Cham- ber, and is to have a Parliament-house erected partly at the expense of Welsh taxpayers, while Wales is to be content with a committee on Welsh education, and that an advisory committee merely Mr. Lloyd George (going as far as he dare), and his brother, Mr. William George (wishing he could go further), and our other Liberal friends, have risen to the point of demanding a Welsh National Educational Council. They are willing to leave health and agri- culture and transport and licensing and judicature and industrial and commercial matters to an absentee Parliament. By the way, how are those weak-kneed Liberals who are afraid a Welsh Parliament would be doonin-