Some forecasts have- been published of the promised overnment Bills
to reform' trade union law. We can only hope that most of these forecasts are untrue. The teed for reform is admitted and as reform has also been promised there must- no doubt be Measures of some kthd. But there arc no conceivable circumstances.
o which a mistake .might do more harm. The balance of expert evidence among employers as well as among he unions seems to be strongly against.any attempt ) introduce a secret. ballot before a strike. On paper le Proposal looks. excellent, but nobody has yet sug- ested a satisfactory scheme for working it or for avoiding buses worse . than those which exist. The greatest nistake of all would be to try to make a general strike illegal. You 'cannot. by all ...the laws under heaven prevent a man from withholding his 'labour. Yet an attempt to do this impossible thing would cause a spurious outcry that the Government were trying " to kill the unions." The only certain losers in that ease would be the Unionist Party.
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