TRADES UNION BILL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1665, 4 February 1913, Page 7

TRADES UNION BILL.

THIRD READING CARRIED. By Telenraph-Presa Association-Copyright i London, February 1. The Trade-Union Bill was read a third time In the House of Commons. The Bill permits trades unions to devote their funds to political objects. .. •. Mr. Bonar Law, Leader of the' Opposition, agreed that the Osborne judgment placed trades unions in an .invidious position. \lt was only tight that they should bo at liberty to engage in politics. It was not true that the Unionists were opposed to .trades unions. The latter's efforts in the House of Commons to improve social conditions and .wages had,been a lamentable failure, so bad that the Socialists had captured their organisation. Trades unions could only be successful if the men acted as a. solid union.; Owing to differences in political views among members, it was not desirable that .trades union? Should be identified with one party. The Opposition would not oppose the Bill. The amendments had gone.a long way to make protectibn for the minority .real. .' Sir Rufus: Isaacs,. Attorney-General,' denied that tho Labour party had not secured improvement in wages and conditions. ' Mr. A. C. Edwards, Liberal.member for Glamorganshire, violently attacked Lord Wplmer and Lord Winterton for betrayI ing' trades union interests.

•Lord Robert Cecil. described Mr. Edwards's, conduct as "tactics of the,kind to make politics-stink.in tho nostrils of honest men." No prudent man could accept Mr. Edwards's statement without verifying the source from which it was supposed to have been drown. .'