7 MARCH 1931, Page 2

The Trade Disputes Bill We have written elsewhere about the

issue of the Trade Disputes Bill, but may mention here that before the Bill was abandoned on Tuesday there were many comings and goings between Cabinet Ministers and the Liberal leaders. All of them wanted the same thing. The Prime Minister took the line that it would be desirable to go on with the Bill as amended, and see " what it looked like " when it had been further worked upon. He said that some of the later clauses of the Bill were valuable in themselves. Mr. Lloyd George and Sir Herbert Samuel tactfully pointed out that in Standing Committee the Liberal representatives had simply wanted to establish a principle, and had been entirely willing to consider various formulas and devices for expressing it.