I ask for leave to introduce a Bill "entitled an Act to provide for the licensing of bodies carrying on negotiations for fixing wages and other conditions of employment, to provide for the establishment of a tribunal having power to restrict the rights of organisation of trade unions, and for other matters connected with the matters aforesaid".
Trade Union Bill, 1941—First Stage.
Leave granted.
Bill read the First Time.
When is it proposed to take the Second Stage of the Bill?
After the Budget. We will put it down for this day fortnight, but we need not necessarily take it on that day.
When will the Bill be circulated?
Within the next couple of days.
Ordered: That the Second Stage be taken on Wednesday, 14th May.