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Attorney General Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg, sponsor of the Trade Unions Bill, was called during the final debate, "You blackguard! You liar!" by Laborite James Maxton, whom the Speaker forthwith suspended...
...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...
...Douglas Hogg (angry, flushed): ". . . Third axiom: the law must protect individual workers from compulsion to contribute to a political fund...
...Douglas Hogg: "Fourthly and finally, the Government considers it axiomatic that the bill must afford protection to Civil servants who must not be intimidated from unswerving loyalty to the State...
...similar clause punishing employers who lock their men out with similar effect. Originally the Government contended, rather lamely, that employers simply do not lock put their men against the public interest; but when the partisan aspect of this view was flayed on all sides in open debate, Sir Douglas Hogg was obliged to promise redrafting of the bill...