The main points of attack on the Bill are that
though ftstriets the power to Strike it does not mention lock- that it protects: blackteg,ts and make picketing lolost impossible ; that it refuses the legal right to raise htleal funds ; - that • it prevents civil servants from !iling with their fellow trade unionists ; that it prevents 4.,eal authority from requiring all its servants to be trade "011ists; and that it allOws. the Attorney-General to interfere with the administration of trade union funds. These points obviously beg several questions. We feel sure that the trade unions would commend themselves more to public sympathy (of which they already enjoy a good deal though they might enjoy much more) if I hey judiciously Mingled reason with their denunciations. Mr. Ramsay Maellonald's declaration even before he knew what was going to be in the Bill that it. would be " fought line by line ' in the House of Commons created a bad impression. When the contents of the Bill beeame known, lw stated that it would be the first object or a Labour Government to remove such a shameful Act from the Statute Book.
