WORTH UNTOLD VOTES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 9 May 1927, Page 5

WORTH UNTOLD VOTES

TRADE UNION BILL.

SAYS MR. BALDWIN.

STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY

HY CABLE—PEES? ASSOCIATION- —COPYRIGHT. LONDON, May 6. Millions of primroses were worn in the buttonholes of 10,000 members of the Primrose League who attended the demonstration at Albert Hall. The Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, Grand Master, emphasised- the neoesstiy for the Trades Union Bill. He said': “During the debate I have been buoyed up by the thought that, however tiring it might be to those present, it was worth untold rote® throughout the country, and I believe prolongation 'will secure us further support. I would have told Mr Clynes so when I refused an extension of time, but it would have .been called provocative.” The Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill) declared that the Empire had survived the fiercest storms that had ever beaten the globe, whereby it had been unified' and consolidated and more renowned* than > ever. Socialists were challenging the citizens’ freedom. The resulting struggle was likely to occupy the remainder of our lives in order to preserve the interests of the commonwealth and the unity of the Empire. Accordingly the whittling down of the main principles of the Trades Union Bill was impossible.—Aus. Press Assn, and “Sun.”

GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS.

ILLEGALITY OF LOOK-OUTS

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 6. Two important Government amendments; to the Trade Unions Bill were issued; to-day, both dealing with Clause 1, which defines an illegal strike. The clause originally declared a strike illegal if it is designed or calculated “to coerce the Government or intimidate the community or any substantial .portion of the community.” The clause now declares a strike illegal if it is designed or calculated “to coerce the Government either directly oir by inflicting hardship upon the community.” The affect of the alteration is that hardship inflicted on the community, and not intimidation, is the governing factor, and as at is pointed out in official circles that hardship may be inflicted without necessarily intimidating the community, the clause is regarded as having been strengthened. Tihe second amendment make® a lock-out illegal on the same grounds and prohibits the application of money to .support- such a lock-out.