21 MAY 1927, Page 1
Sir John Simon, dissatisfied with the Government's amended definition of
an illegal strike, proposed a wording which seems to us to be more satisfactory than anything . yet suggested, yet even so not really satisfactory. His definition was :--- " Notwithstanding anything in the Trade Union Acts, any combination whether of eniploye!-8 or of persons employed the main object of which Is to coerce tie ClOvernment or Parliament as dis- tinguished from furthering a trade dispute by means of concerted and simultaneous refusal to continue employment or work is an unlawful conspiracy."
However clever a definition may be there arc bound to be weak spots in it, and we fear that much new responsibility will, in any case, fall upon the Courts.
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