The national centre of the Minority Movement collapsed in the strike itself. Ine role or its supporters was reduced i the run-up to the strike to that of a ginger group on the trade union bureaucracy During the strike they reverted to methods of militant trade unionism, heroic, but unable to provide a political perspective and an alternative line of struggle at the mom ent or betraval In the aftermath of the General Strike, with the right-wing bureaucracy firmly in the saddle, the TUC opened up an offensive against the Minority Movement. At the 1927 Congress a motion seeking to reverse the General Council's ban on trades councils associating with the Minority Movement received only 148,000 votes The following year a special inquiry was launched into the proceedings and meth ods of disruptive elements within the trade union movement our it was me decision norto resis the ves utimatum to trades councils to disattiliate trom the minority move ment which seapo its tate. between-T and 1926 over 50 trades councils had sent delegates to Minority Movement conferenBut to avoid a fight with the TUC the Minority Movement cut off one of its most important life-lines - the logical result of its capitulation to the lefts in ne general our ke. wenty years later J.T. Murphy wrote a fitting epitaph:
"So died the Minority wovement much as the General Strike had died Ernest Bevin and his colleagues had called off the General Strike to avoid open war fare with the Government; Harry Pollitt called off the Minority Movement to avoid open warfare with the TUC and many executives of trade unions.