UNIONIST CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 October 1926, Page 13

UNIONIST CONFERENCE.

TRADES UNION LAWS. AMENDMENT URGED. MR. BALDWIN’S SPEECH. By Telegraph—-Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Oct. 8, 7.50 p.m. London, Oet. 7. The Conservative Party conference at Scarborough unanimously adopted a resolution demanding legislation to make strikes without preliminary secret ballots, also mass picketing illegal. Dame Bridgeman, wife of the First Lord of the Admiralty, who presided, declared that if, as a result of the coal dispute, they dealt Communism a blow in the neek, the millions lost would have been well spent. The Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, addressing the conference, said that the Imperial Conference programme would be a heavy one. Gfeat Britain would enter the conference with the single object of promoting to the utmost wise development on the political side, consistent with progress economically and in relation to British communities throughout the Empire. The Premier did not refer to the coal strike beyond saying: “It is still with us, marking one of the setbacks to the hopes of social progress entertained before the strike was declared.” He added that the Government would consider the conference’s resolution in favour of altering the Trade Union laws and subsequently introduce legislation.