31 JANUARY 1931, page 1

In Some Sense The Question Is, Of Course, An Academic

one for everybody, for if all the wage-earners in the country decided to strike simultaneously, no law how;- ever strict could cope with them.- That consideration however, does......

The Debate On The Bill In The House Of Commons

began on Thursday, January 22nd. The Attorney- General explained that he proposed mere ly to restore to Trade Unions rights which had been , nurtured from 1871 onwards but were......

He Reduced The Main Consequences Of His Bill To Four

: revolutionary and political strikes would be illegal but sympathetic industrial strikes would not ; no one would be charged with intimidation if he had acted legally ; every......

News Of The Week

The Trade Disputes Bill THE Government have survived the first crisis of the 4 1 ; Trade Disputes Bill with a majority of 27 in the division on the second reading debate in the......

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Nobody Can Foresee How Long The High Court Would Take

to reach a decision. And the promised injunctions would be of little use. The Court could not possibly - lend itself to whatever might be the interpretation of the , strike by......