IN PARLIAMENT
BALFOUR ON THE STRIKE
"MOST TRAGIC BBVOLUTION."
(Australian-New Zealand Cable Awn.) LONDON, 4th May. Viscount Haldane blamed the Government for not continuing negotiations, even in tho face of the general strike threat. Tho situation was ominous, but he did not despair of the parties being brought together again; Lord Balfour said that if Parliament handed over its responsibility to the trade unions in the guise of settling a trade dispute in a particular fashion, the most tragic revolu* tion in history would be accomplished. The trades unions did not seem to understand they were upsetting the slow labour of centuries by which the people had built up their \ liberties. Lord Baubury introduced a Bill to repeal the Trades Disputes Act of 1906, and it was read a first time. Lord Banbury urged that the Act was to put trades unions above the law.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 107, 6 May 1926, Page 9
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