21 MAY 1927, page 1

The Voluntary Amendments 'of The - Government Which C...

week were followed on Thursday, firSt . .da.Y. of the Bill in Committee —by her unportint conceision. Captain O'Connor had proposed the day before that in the case of a strike......

Mr. Sidney Webb Pointed Out That A Strike For A

shorter working day in the mines could logically he called an 'attempt at coercing the Government now that miners' hours arc fixed by law. Yet no sane person could pretend that......

Sir John Simon, Dissatisfied With The Government's...

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 :--- "......

On Monday The Prime Minister Moved The Time Table For

the Bill. He admitted that for six years the guillotine had not been used, but the choice now was between the prevention of obstruction and the destruction of Parlia- mentary......

News Of The Week

HE amendment of the Trade Unions Bill is proceeding in the right direction. Partly through the voluntary etion of the Government in amending their own Bill, al partly through......

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