HOMELAND POLITICS

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 February 1931, Page 7

HOMELAND POLITICS

LABOUR-LIBERAL RELATIONS

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LONDON, February 26.

Among the political developments is that the General Council of the Trades’ Union Congress met and expressed strong resentment against hostile Liberal amendments to the Trades’ Dispute Bill. The Council insisted on the restoration of the position before the General Strike in 1926. The Bill comes before the Standing Committee of the House again to-day. If the Liberal • amendment for making big strikes illegal is carried, the Bill will be withdrawn. So also will be the Electoral Bill, which is part of the Labour bargain for Liberal support for the Trades’ Disputes Bill. An unofficial meeting of the Labour Parliamentarians showed feeling against the ten per cent revenue tariff. The resignations of Sir Oswald Mosley and Mr Brown from the Labour Party are delayed. The former is ill with influenza, and the latter with pleurisy.

THE BILL KILLED.

RUGBY, February 26.

The Commons Standing Committee on the Trades Disputes Bill adopted by 37 to 31 votes, a Liberal amendment to the first clause defining as illegal a. strike. The Committee adjourned, and the Government will now drop the Bill. The General Council of the Trades Union Congress declared the amendment was so unacceptable that its adoption would render further progress of - the Bill of little or no interest.

LEGALISING SUNDAY SHOWS.

LONDON, February 26.

The Government has decided to introduce a Bill to amend the Sunday Observance Act of 1780. This will make legal Sunday performances at the theatres and other forms of amusement, as well as cinemas.