TRADES UNION BILL

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 April 1927, Page 7

TRADES UNION BILL

POLITICAL PARTY ATTITUDES.

(Australian * N.Z. Cable Abbd.)

LONDON, April 7.

The Parliamentary Liberal Party has passed a resolution which, while condemning the General Strike of 192 G, as an abuse of Trade Unionism, expresses the opinion that the admitted uncertainties of the pi J esent Trade Union law’ would, before any amendment, need elucidation by an impartial inquiry: at the same time regretting the introduction of the Government’s Trade Union Bill, which would hamper the efforts to promote industrial peace, and would divert Parliament’s attention from public economy and social reform.

The Metropolitan Division of the National Union of Conservative Associations adopted a resolution welcoming the Trade Union Bill, particularly its political levy provisions, and the Division undertook to support the passage of the Bill. The Executive Committee of the Trade Union Group of Members of the House of Commons carried a resolution describing the Government Trade Union Bill as “a declaration of class war,” and “a suppression of the workers’ rights which would foment industrial hostility.”