THE WAR BILL
AMENDMENT BY KEIR HARDIE MILITARY *VND STRIKERS. (Received Last Night, 10.15 o'ck>ck.) LONDON, April 11. In tlie House of Commons, during .the discutssiion on the Anmy Annua.l Bill, Mr Jv-eiir Hardie moved an araendiment that a recruit should have the right, under contract, to refuse to assist a civil power during a. trade dispute. He stated that many youths were not enlisting because they might have to fire on their relatives and comrades.. Colonel Seely, Under-Secretary for War, said that only'cruel,' had soldiers would believe that t'liey were engaged to shoot strikers. The amendment was rejected by 168 rotes ,to 23.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10606, 12 April 1912, Page 5
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104THE WAR BILL Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10606, 12 April 1912, Page 5
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