LORDS DEBATE THE TRADE DISPUTES BILL

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 89, 6 July 1927, Page 13

LORDS DEBATE THE TRADE DISPUTES BILL

SECOND READING PASSED SUPPORT AND CRITICISM By Cable.-—Press Association.—Copyright Reed. 12.5 p.m. LONDON, Tuesday. In the House of Lords, during the debate on the Trades Union Bill, Baron Askwith said he regretted that no provision had been made for a prestrike secret ballot. The Bishop of Durham said he believed that the Bill went some way in restoring the liberty of the workmen by restraining brutal tyranny concealed under the euphemism of “peaceful picketing.” Lord Parmoor (a Labour peer) condemned the measure generally. The Marquess of Reading described the bill as a' serious mistake in policy. He said it was strange the Ministry had not thought of getting the parties together in order to promote' goodwill. Instead of providing a better method of settling disputes the bill would create new offences, new penalties and sanctions. Nevertheless, it was not fair to say it would prohibit sympathetic strikes. But it was the most vague and indefinite and 'the least precise bill he had ever seen. It was partisan, punitive and retributive. The Bill passed the second reading by 152 votes to 26.—A. and N.Z. ; LIBERAL OPPOSITION {British Official Wireless .) RUGBY, Tuesday. Viscount Grey and Mr. Lloyd George, who have been identified with the rival wings ot the Liberal Party, appeared to-day, for the first time for many years, ou the same platform at the National Liberal Club meeting to oppose the Government’s plan for the reform of the House of Lords.