TRADE UNION BILL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20069, 8 April 1927, Page 9

TRADE UNION BILL

FIRST LABOUR BROADSIDE. GENERAL STRIKE PROPOSED, (Prpifl Association—By Telt graph—Copyright.) LONDON, April 6. The National Minority Movement, in a vigorous attack on the Trade Union Bill, urges ‘‘the Labour Executive to express the workers’ will by calling a 24-nour general strike from midnight on June 1, thus most effectively challenging the Government.” It requests the Labour members in Parliament to resort to every conceivable form of obstruction.”—Argus and Sydney Sun Cable. SIGNAL FOR CLASS WAR. TRADE UNION CONGRESS MANII FESTO, LONDON, April 6. (Received April 7, at 11 p.m.) The Trade Union Congress, in a manifesto, denounces the new Bill as a violent assault on the workers’ rights and a violent and outrageous denial of the principles and practices to which the trades unions have been legally entitled for half a century. The Bill, it slates, strikes at the living spirit of trades unionism, and must be fought line by line inside and outside of Parliament. It is a signal for class war.—The Times.