TRADES UNION BILL

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1913, Page 7

TRADES UNION BILL

THIRD READING CARRIED UNIONISTS' ATTITUDE NO OPPOSITION TO MEASURE. By, Telegraph.— Preaj Association.— Copyright. LONDON, Ist February. \ The Trades Union Bill was read a third time in the House of Commons. Mr. Bonar Law agreed that the Osborne judgment placed trades unions in an invidious position. It was only right that they should be 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 Com* mons 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 pblitical views among members, it was not desirable that trades unions should be identified with one party. Mr. Bonar Law said the Opposition would not oppose the Bill. The amendments had gone a long way to make protection for the minority real. Sir Rufus Isaacs denied that the Labour Party had not secured improve* ment in wages and conditions. BETRAYING INTERESTS. ATTACK BY Z~C. EDWARDS. (Received February 3, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 2nd February. During the debate Mr. A. C. Edwards (Glamorganshire) violently attacked Viscount Wolttier and Lord Winterton for betraying trades union interests. Lord Robert Cecil described Mr. Edwards's conduct as "tactics of the kind to make politics stink in the 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 drawn.