TRADES DISPUTES BILL
AN IMPORTANT AMENDMENT. United Preea Association— B;r Electric Telegraph—Copyright. | (Received May 10th, 1.3 a.m.) LONDON, May 9. Mr T. P. Whittaker, in Grand Com* mittee, moved the withdrawal of the Trades Disputes Bill on the ground that it was ruined by an amendment providing that no strikers should wilfully obstruct, insult, or annoy by public picketing. Hβ remarked that such a clause would enable-a professional gang to lay themselves out to be annoyed. Lord Hugh Cecil declared that the'motion was an electioneering dodge. The motion was negatived by twentysix to twenty-two. The Liberal and Labour members left the Committee. ■ [The Trades Disputes Bill, as introduced last year, proposed t&e legalisation of peaceful picketing, and to relieve trades unions of the great'liabilities which they incurred under the Tail' Vale decision J ' '
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12190, 10 May 1905, Page 7
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