TRADE UNION BILL

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 126, 1 June 1927, Page 9

TRADE UNION BILL

THE CIVIL SERVICE

MUST KEEP TO ITSELF.

(A.P.A. and, "Sun.")

LONDON, 30th Mar. .' In the House of Commons, in Cora* mittee, ;on the Trade Union Bill, oa the clause forbidding Civil Service unions affiliating with outside bodies; Leutenant - Commander Kenworthy (Lab.) moved to exclude those engaged in occupations analogous to outside •**"»' vices. He pointed out that Civil/iKr. ;; vice unions had been affiliated with the Trade Union Congress for thirty; years, without any untoward'result. . Mr. C. G. Ammon (Lab.) said n« Civil Service throughout the world, including* the Dominipj&iy imposed such an embargo. J Mr. W. 8.. Cha|<shiU (Chancellor , 6s. the ExchequerYjHahned that the claus* was likely, to Juecome increasingly po* pular. It aisled only at checking un« wholesome influences which had beeiii " creeping in during the past few years. The Civil Service ought not to bo, al« lowed to become entangled in party] politics. He wtt* glad thct only forty/ ' Civil Servants out of 120,000 had beck guilty of disloyalty during the genenit strike.-."- . " . ■'■'■.• -. '•.'- .- The amendment was defeated by M^j votes" to 109. .•', ' ' : ; The guillotine than fell, clause **4 passed, and iihe House adjourned. .;