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Show Debate Opens on Trade Union London On tho anniversary of hist year's general strike and with the echoes of the great May day demonstrations demon-strations of labor sounding in lis ears, the house of commons will begin Ihe debate on the tno.;t Important bill submitted to parliament since the war. I!y this bill tho government contemplates contem-plates milking u general strike forever Impossible, and at the same time liopes (o cut the teeth of tho trade union un-ion powers. Tho bill hnd its genesis in tho wave of Indignation which swept the country u your ago ,id broke the general strike. Doubtless the government counted on tho surge of that wave to carry the present bill but apparently. In making the bill dras-' tic as it has at tho behest of party extremists, ex-tremists, the ministers failed to "take into consideration ,h(, H(1r W()llM rase In tho whole labor world, and tho parllamontnry contest over the measure meas-ure promises to be sueh i has not convulsed the political atmosphere of f.reat Ihltaln for a decade. Dut f ,,,, Btroni was unforeseen when the bill was drafted. |