TRADE UNION BILL
DEBATE INT PARLIAMENT
LABOUR BITTERHfSS
"MEAN, MISERABLE BILL"
(A.P.A. and "Sun.") (Eeceived 6th May, 2 p.m.) .^
LONDON, sth May. ' Continuing the debate on the Trade Union Bill in the House of Commons' Mr. John Wheatlcy (Lab.) said that in response to Mr. Baldwin's appeal for the creation of an atmosphere in which they might secure industrial peace by negotiations the Labour Party had responded to the extent of facing humiliation. Their reward wa« a Bill not designed to secure peace by negotiation, but by the police, law' courts, and prisons. It was one ef the most shameful actions recorded of a British statesman.
Commander Hilton Young (C.) wclcorned the Bill as clarifying the law on general strikes, and enlarging tho workers' liberty. . X the Bill destroyed all hopes of indnstrial peace. Millions of decent trad* unionists resented it chiefly because they believed it was a mean, miserable attempt by the Government to injure its opponents, and that by a minority Government elected by a fraudulent
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 105, 6 May 1927, Page 8
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168TRADE UNION BILL Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 105, 6 May 1927, Page 8
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