TRADES DISPUTES BILL

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1826, 6 August 1906, Page 2

TRADES DISPUTES BILL

BANNERMAN GOVERNMENT NARROWLY ESCAPE DEFEAT. PREMIER ALLEGED TO HAVE BROKEN FAITH. fcgr.-je* PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 4.41 p.m , August 5. London, August 4. In the House of Commons during the disou«sion in the committee stage of the Trades Disputes Bill, on tbe clause allowing peaceable nnd reasonable pick ting, Sir Charles Dilkc moved to add that -t----tendance for tbe purpose of picketing should not be held as a nuisance. Govornm.nt resisted the amendment, on 'he g'ound that it was unnecessary.

Tae HLneudujent was negatived by 127 to 122

Mr Balfour and about a score of Union ists saved the Government from defeat by voting with the majority. The House agreed to Mr J. Walton’s the newest version of clause 4 of the Bill, which is now bilateral aud referssto both workmen’s and employers’ unions. No action can be brought against unions, but is does not repeal seotion 9 of the Aoi of 1871, under which trustees cf unions and their funds are liable for certain acts therein. Sir Edward Osrson declared tho clause to be farcical. It would be better to have said, " The King can do no wrong—neither can a trades union."

At a later stage Lord Robert Ceoil protested against the Government breaking the promise not lo.prolcog tho debate. Sir H. Campbell Bannerman denied making such a promise.

Mr Balfour aud all Unionist; then lei the House.