- The Council passed a resolution demanding early legislation and
another resolution demanding the abolition of the Trade Disputes Act of 1906. We agree that it is necessary to recodify the laws in connexion with trade unions, but we trust that the Government will not act in haste. There is a better opportunity now than any of us can recall of securing industrial peace, but the surest way of discarding that opportunity would be to give Labour the impression that the Government wanted to make war on the trade unions. That would certainly re-endow the trade unions, which now scarcely know where they stand, with a common front. There is no doubt that a great many trade unionists have -serious grievances against their executives and are pain- fully conscious of the absurdities and disadvantages of many trade union practices. There is thus a large body of opinion within the trade unions which is ready for reform.
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