THE OSBORNE JUDGMENT.
IGNORED BY BRITISH LABOR PARTY .IGNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT.] * (Received April 2, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April 1.. In the House of Commons Captain Claud Lowther asked whether the trades unions had financed forty members of the House at the recent election, despite the Osborne judgment. Mr Asquith declined to make a definite statement on the subject. < - Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, interviewed regarding Captain Lowther’s question, said that it tvas generally true. Tho Labor party was not breaking the law, but simplv ignoring it. No injunction had been placed upon the trades unions, and they would continue doing as they had before. They declined to recognise things which were admitted to be unfair. 0 and which were about to be removed. They were holding the fort while the House of Commons considered the remedy.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3185, 3 April 1911, Page 5
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134THE OSBORNE JUDGMENT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3185, 3 April 1911, Page 5
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