Mr. Baldwin's Plan of Measureg to Shackle the Tyranny of Communists London, Dec. 1f.
The first intimation of the Government's intentions as regards the Trades Unions, which the Cabinet has been discussing for some ime, was given in a letter from Mr.
the Premier, to Mr Mare shall. Pike, the Conservative' Came didate in the Smethwick by-election Mr, Baldwin says that': the cruel' and callous policy the communists to. promote: me dustrial unrest and to drive the workers from sheer despair into Joining the revolutionaries must, be stopped. "We must prevent. them from misusing the powers of the trades unions," he writes, "We must, strengthen and protect the Trades Unfon and make it a real industrial organization, which, as the repre sentative of the workers, can voice their legitimate grievances and meet, their employers, without a sinister purpose behind their By a majority of over 11,000 votes the National Union of Seamen today declared against afflation with political "organizations, The result means that the Union is not now connected with the Labour Party or with any other party,—Wireleas through Reuter
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