A Contentious Measure
Received Monday 12.30 a.in. LONDON, Dec. 20. The text of the Government’s Trades Disputes Bill has been issued. It abolishes the safeguards introduced in the 1927 Act against a repetition of the general strike. Sympathetic strikes arenow legalised if the object is industrial as apart from political and there is nothing in the clause to limit the number of sympathetic strikes. The High Court, however, lias power to declare a strike of lockout illegal because the purposes arc other than the furtherance of a trade dispute, but only it tho Attorney-General is party to the proceedings. The Bill restores tho trades union right to make a political levy with a contracting-out clause for members but contribution to a political fund shall not be a condition for admission to a union. Peaceful picketing is allowed. Civil servants are entitled to be mem-
hers of an organisation affiliated to trade unions or the Labour party.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7413, 22 December 1930, Page 7
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156A Contentious Measure Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7413, 22 December 1930, Page 7
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