Bill to Restrict Use of Trade Union Funds to Industrial Purposes Thrown Out London, Mar. 6, The House of Commons. to-day rejected the 'Trade Union Political Levy Bill introduced by Bir, Mus fquisten (Conservative), and carrie by 825 votes to 153 an amendment by Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, approving" the principle of political liberty bodied in the bill, but' expressing the opinion that a measure of such far-reaching importance should not ntroduzed as a private member's wil Mr. Muequisten's bill aimed at separating the political and indus-ini funds of trade unions, and nizking illegal political Tevies withject the specific agreement of the members, instead of the presen system which merely gives members the right to contract out, The House of Commons was unusually crowded and animated for a Friday for the debate, There 4 full attendance of the Lavit Members, Mr. Baldwin said that the Conservatives, while they believed that. the bill was just, to push their political advantage home at the present, because they stood for peace in the country and the abolition of suspicion (loud general cheers, expecially from the Labour Members).
The Liberals supported the Government's amendment, which the apporters of the bill accepted
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