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Yet there is obviously nothing shameful in a Bill which

aims at restoring to millions of trade unionists the right of private judgment. A leading article in the Timex recently put this very well when it said that if the clauses of the Bill were already upon the Statute Book it would be Impossible to make out a just case for removing any One of them. Our own objections to the Bill, as our readers know, are that it may injure the hope of industrial peace, which is mm-h more important to the country Om any- thing else, and that its language is so vague that it will he difficult to enforce. No doubt 1 he Bill will be consider- ably altered in Committee ii not, the magistrates, On whom the task of interpretation will ultimately fall. will deserve the deepest sympathy.

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