TRADE UNIONS BILL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1640, 6 January 1913, Page 5

TRADE UNIONS BILL.

ACCEPTANCE UNDER PROTEST* , THE OSBORNE JUDGMENT By TelsKraph—Preeo Association—Oocrrliilit ' London, January 8. At the Labour Conferonoo, which was attended by flv» hundred, delegates (representing two million trad® unionists), Mr. 'Arthur Henderson (Labour member for Durham.), moved the adoption of a report rtoommenddng th!o aooeptanco of thfi Trade Unoona Bill, under protest, as an installment. Ho .urged that the BillV powers should bo used In strengthening the Labour party's position, and, when minorities wore converted into trade unionists, to go with ft united front to Parliament and obtain a reirmflal of the Osborne Judg? ment. -'.v Mr.: Stephen Walsh (Labour M.P. for Lancashire B.W.j, ■ in seconding. the modeclared that the Bill restored in. a substantial dtegreo the position held before,the judgment. < Mr. Start. (Postmen's Federation) said thatli the Bill w ore accepbed the Government would not reverse the judgmont. Labour was always getting instalments, but nover its full domand9. ■ r Mr.'Smilie feared that the acceptance of instalments would retard tho reversal of the judgment for many yc&rs. The Trade Unions Bill provod that the Government distrusted tho Labour iprty. ' . >• '. Tho inotioa wag tarried by 818 to 70. 1