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 Trade Union would have control of its funds— in other words the principle that every Trade Unionist should automatically contribute to the political levy unless he contracted-out would be restored ; and the Treasury would have unfettered discretion over the political conduct of Civil Servants. On the Attorney- General's own statement the instigators of another strike just like that of 1926 would undoubtedly consider that they, were acting within the law. They would say that their object was purely " industrial," and yet the method of bringing the Government to its knees by inflicting unendurable hardship upon the whole nation could not possibly avoid being " political," because if the strikers won there would be no Government left but the General Council of the Trades Union Congress.
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