SECRET VOTING
SECOND READING CARRIED. (Press Assn.—lmperial News Services.) LONDON, April 25. The House of Commons read a second time, by 83 to 77, the Bill providing for secret voting at Trade Union ballots. The mover explained that tee Trade Union leaders would conduct tlie ballots. Mr Raeburn said the workmen had appealed to him to do something to deliver them from the hands of tlie extremists who even ruled tlie leaders of tlie Labour Party.
Messrs Brace and Clynes opposed the Bill, Mr Brace declaring tiiat the trades unions would not use the bill, the genesis of which was war. His belief was tiiat trades unions official* were uutrustworthv.
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Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14348, 27 April 1920, Page 5
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