PUBLIC ORDER BILL
THIRD READING IN COMMONS SEVERAL AMENDMENTS ACCEPTED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, December 7. The House of Commons read a third time the Public Order Bill. The Government accepted amendments excluding from the operation of the Act a stage or screen actor portraying a Communist or a Fascist, limiting the period in which a procession may bo banned in any area to three months, and limiting the restriction on flags and banners to those likely to lead to a breach of the peace. During the debate Mr W. Gallacher (Com.) said people had been marching to Whitehall shouting “ For the King,” but if they had been 7 shouting for bread the police would have been there and smashed iham to pieces.
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Evening Star, Issue 22517, 9 December 1936, Page 11
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208PUBLIC ORDER BILL Evening Star, Issue 22517, 9 December 1936, Page 11
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