TRADE UNION LEVY.
LABOUR’S OPINION. A CHALLENGE TO THE PARTY. (Reuter.) LONDON, Feb. 23. Speaking at a meeting of the South Wales Association, the Labour member for Pontypridd, llr Hardy Jones. ALP., secretary of the Trade Union group, said the Tory Parly and many Liberals favoured a Trade Union Political Levy Bill as a means of undermining Labour politically, but were afraid to support it. fearing the consequences at tin’ next general election. Lord Birkenhead headed a section of the Tory Party, who knew that the Pill, if it became law, would inaugurate the greatest political crisis the country had over witnessed, it being a challenge to the Labour Party industrially and politically, and would do more fur the return to power of a Labour Government at the next election than anything else.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 16425, 24 February 1925, Page 4
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