A LABOUR BILL
REJECTED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
LONDON, May 9
A Bill introduced by Mr J. D. Shackleton, Labour member for Clitkeroe, to legalise peaceful persuasion and picketing in connection with strikes, and to prohibit action being taken against trades unions as such, was rejected in the House of Commons by 246 votes, .to 226.
The Government opposed-the Bill,'hut promised-’inquiry-into the matter. r; i Mr Balfour,-Prime Mini A ter, characterised the measure as fragmentary; idid ambiguous, and apparently alarmingly revolutionary, in regard to some aspects of vast and complicated questions going to the root of industrial life. • The Prime Minister added that since Parliament must shortly reconsider the whole position of combinations of workmen, employers and capitalists, it was advisable that a commission should investigate modern social economics and phenomena and throw light upon the principles and lines of future action. The majority which threw out Mr Shackleton’s Bill consisted entirely of Unionists. Many Ministerialists abstained from voting.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1628, 13 May 1903, Page 54
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160A LABOUR BILL New Zealand Mail, Issue 1628, 13 May 1903, Page 54
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