 On 12 May 1926, the TUC General Council visited 10 Downing Street to announce its decision to call off the strike if the proposals worked out by the Samuel Commission were respected and the government offered a guarantee there would be no victimization of strikers.The government stated that it had "no power to compel employers to take back every man who had been on strike".However, the TUC agreed to end the dispute without such an agreement.