Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curtain figuratively rises, Attorney General Sir Douglas Hogg stands up and moves a second reading. Correspondents note his erect, judicial poise, wonder how long he will keep cool under the barrage of jeers which Laborites will soon make hot. Racing pencils jot names of major characters and their more and more pungent speeches as the drama plays on and upward to crescendo...
...Sir Douglas Hogg: ". . . The Government, then, rests its case for the bill upon four axioms: one, that the general strike is illegal...
...Sir 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...
...Sir Douglas Hogg (angry, flushed): ". . . Third axiom: the law must protect individual workers from compulsion to contribute to a political fund...
...Sir 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...