IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 167, 24 October 1910, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

THE "WALT HA MS TOW ELECTION. THE OSBORNE JUDGMENT. By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright. London, October 21. Walt ha ms tow trade unionists are thoroughly dissatisfied with the reply of Mr. .J. A. Simon to their questions as to what the Government proposed to do about the Osborne judgment, and announce a determined campaign against the Government. Mr. Simon, speaking at Ley ton, said that he was unwilling that the proper and reasonable functions of trade unions should be curtailed, but did not believe in doing evil that good might come. Whatever the solution was, they must not do injustice to large bodies of men whose opinions were entitled to as much respect as his own. Mr. John Ward, Labor M.P. for Stoke-on-Trent, in an interview, said that he preferred the payment of members to the reversal of the Osborne judgment. A FREE TRADE COMPARISON. Received 24, 1.22 a.m. London, October 9. The Right Hon. Alexander Ure, K.C., Lord Advocate of Scotland, speaking, at South Shields, enumerated France's, Germany's and Russia's deficits and borrowing, and eulogised* Britain's achievements under free-trade finance.