Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier (as ever, imperturbable): "I believe that the more this bill is known to the country, the more it will be supported. . . . Any bill passed just after the General Strike might have been vindictive, but this bill is not. . . . We have waited...
Laiborite Thomas Griffiths of Pontypool (shaking his fist at the Ministerial Bench): "You wasters! . . . You blackguards! . . . You rotters! . . . You thieves! . . . Your kind put my father in jail during the big strike...
...Premier: (after rehearsing the background and the bill at length) : "... The Government's mandate for introducing this bill was tha General Strike. . . . Things have drifted too far. The activities of the trade unions are shifting from the industrial to the political sphere, in which some of them are controlled by the Communist party...
David Lloyd George (launching the serious Liberal attack upon the bill): "The details of this measure are dangerous and in some in stances obscure [proceeding to review them]. ... It is my final conviction that had this bill been law last year, it would not have shortened the General Strike by one hour...
...effective. . . . But there is no politi cal immorality in attempting to coerce a government by a general strike. [Barking his words] Governments exist to be coerced! . . . As for this bill?Hrr! ?it is a loud needle for the Communist gramophone. ... It will help the Communists to breed sedition, and gag a appeal to the better natures of everyone else...