BIG DEBATE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 30 April 1927, Page 5

BIG DEBATE

TRADE UNION BILL.

PREPARATIONS BEING MADE. POSITION OF LIBERALS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, April 29. The Government has allotted an exceptionally lengthy period for the second reading debate on the Trade Unions' Bill, namely, tlireo and a halt Parliamentary days, beginning on Monday, when the Attorney-General opens the discussion. , Mr J. R. Clynes will immediately move the rejection of the Bill. The Liberal attitude is still somewhat obscure. It will be no surprise if Sir J. Simon commends the Bill, but it is exoected that rather more than half of the Liberal members of the House of Commons will vote against it on the second reading. In the meantime the Unionist organisation's are not allowing the Labour Party to have matters alt its own way. In the country thousands of indoor and outdoor meetings in support of the Bill have already been arranged. Ten Cabinet Ministers, including, Mr Winston Churchill and Lord Birkenhead, have undertaken, to address mass meetings. Mr A. Henderson and, Mr Citrine, of the Labour Party, are . appealing for campaign funds. T.U.C. CONFERENCE. REJECTS PROPOSAL FOR GENERAL STRIKE. Received 10.50 a.m. to-dav. LONDON, April 29. The T.U.C. Conference rejected! ar. amendment instructing the general council to prepare for a general strike. —A. and N.Z. and Svdnev Sun.