Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Palace of Westminster where Lords and Commons assembled beside the Thames. Players: all the chief Ministers of Premier Baldwin's Conservative Cabinet and virtually all the major protagonists of the Liberal and Labor opposition. Second act: the second reading of the Government's drastic Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Bill (TIME, May 9 et ante) ?a bill designed to put British labor into a legal straight jacket strong enough to prevent the recurrence of the General Strike (TIME...
...Douglas Hogg: ". . . The Government, then, rests its case for the bill upon four axioms: one, that the general strike is illegal...
...Douglas Hogg: ". . . The General Strike was illegal and the Government has therefore made the first axiom of this bill that no one must suffer for refusing to participate in a second general strike. . . . Two: intimidation of non-strikers was illegal and must be prevented...
Laborite John R. Clynes, generalissimo of the Labor party in the absence of onetime Labor Premier James Ramsay Macdonald in the U. S.: "I rise to protest that this bill would prevent workers on strike from doing anything to make their strike a success. . . . Why this Government solicitude for 'Blacklegs' ["Scabs"]? . . . This bill would make it illegal to even make faces at a 'Blackleg...
Right Honorable John Joseph ("Jumping Jack") Jones, Laborite wit: "It's a hog's bill...