TRADE UNION BILL

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 138, 15 June 1927, Page 9

TRADE UNION BILL

PROGRESS OF DEBATE

POLITICAL PURPOSES

lAEPLICATION OF FUNDS

' (A.P.A. and'-Sun.") " ; '"' ■•• : LONDON, 13th Juno. * In the House of Commons, in Committee on the : Trade Union Bill, Mr. A. Henderson (Lab.) moved an amendment to-the definitions clause providing that the expression' "tTade union" 'should include associations of employers and workmen which were trade unions,-and should be placed on the »amefooting,, as it would be unreason- . "'able'.to''place employers' associations, which were: not trade unions, under .obligations; applying only to trade ■unions, — Labour 'members contended that 'bodies like the Brewers' Society; and the Federation of-Employers/ which 'dispensed large funds for political purposes, ought to be oh the same footing as trade unions rcjarding" political. ' 'The 'amendment was defeated by 190 "rote's t0.77; ■'.;...i ' / EMOTION EXPENSES. Colonel Gretton (C.) moved an amend- ■ ment classing as' political fund money used to pay the election expenses'of members of the House .of Commons and '. municipalities, and •to finance mewspapers. •' ;': •■■■■■■■ ■U The'Solicitor-General, Sir Thomas Inskip, said that while he did not view the amendment' unsympathetieally, the Government did not desire needlessly to 'open up a wWeiaeld of controversy. [ 1 Sir Henry: Blesser ■ (Lab.)' said the 'ameiidnieiit showed .the real nature of the .^pppsitiioa to trado unions' activi-

The amendment vms withdrawn,