TRADE UNIONS BILL
NO GENERAL STRIKE DECISION OF NATIONAL CONFERENCE (A. & N.Z.) LONDON, April 29. The Trade Union Conference rejected an amendment instructing the General Council to prepare for a general strike. Six hundred; delegates, representing 4,000,000 trade unionists, attended the congress to plan a campaign against the Trades Unions Bill. Mr George Hicks, presiding, declared: “Just as the Covenanters of old bound themselves by oath to maintain their faith, we pledge ourselves to stand by the trades unions and fight the Bill to the bitter end.” The main resolution was a pledge of the conference to work to frustrate the attack and drive tho authors of the Bill from power.
Following complaints of the onesidedness of tho Bill the Daily Express understands that the Government iu tends to make a lockout as il legal aa a general strike. An amendment is being .drafted. The Conservative Central Office has issued over 3,250,000 leaflets expounding and defending the BilL
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19829, 2 May 1927, Page 7
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