OSBORNE BILL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10253, 1 June 1911, Page 5

OSBORNE BILL

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ARE THE COURTS BIASED?

(Received Last Night, 11.40 o'clock.)

LONDON, May 31

In the House of Commons, the Osborne Bill was read a second time. The motion for the second reading was carried by 219 votes to 18.

Mr F. E. Smith, K.C., Unionist M.P. for Liverpool, Walton, said the Bill would satisfy nobody. The protection for minorities was illusory. Mr Ramsay Maedonald complained regarding the rights given to minorities, but he said he believed that the Bill was amendable. Mr Winston. Churchill evoked a de-montsi-ation of disapproval by expressing the opinion that the Courts were biased, doubtless unconsciously, in dealing with questions involving dlass or party issues. The Government was erecting a bulwark between the Courtis and the Unions. The Chronicle draws attention, to the danger lurking in the Government's Osborne Bill. It recalls the fact that trades unions are not necessarily workmen's combinations. Masters, it says, may be registered as trade unionists. If the principal object of the Bill be the regulation, of relations between masters and workmen, the present Bill authorises masters to raise a political fund to pay candidates' expenses.