PARLIAMENT TO OPEN
j Strike Debate Expected
(80. M pjn.) LONDON, June 7. The new British Parliament will ■wet today in the shadow of the worst l Indaatrial crisis in a generation, but its eely business will be the election ot the Speaker. The Queen will not open Parliament until Thursday. The traditional ceremonial drive to the Houses of Parliament has been cancelled so as to avoid the dislocation of the emergency traffic plan operating for the rail strike.
The Queen will drive in a car instead at the usual State coach. Hew members will be sworn in on Wednesday, and the real business will not start until Thursday, when the Queen makes her speech on Government policy, which is expected to be followed by a debate on the industrial crisis.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27679, 8 June 1955, Page 13
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131PARLIAMENT TO OPEN Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27679, 8 June 1955, Page 13
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