New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 6, 1927, Page 13

COMMONS FAVORS ANTI-STRIKE BILL' Laborites Fall to Defeat Passage | of Measure l London, May 6 (A—The Arml(s‘ union bill, born of last year's gen- | eral strike, passed the second | ing in the house of commons t | night, and today was in the hands of the commiitee of the White House, instead of the usual small committee. The measure, the object of which 1s to prevent general strikes and strikes of a coercive nature, was the subject of acrimonious debate throughout the week. Up to the very end of last night's session the laborites made every cffort to de- | feat the bill. ties and created new ones. There | | was not one clause in it, in his opin- |ion, that would prevent a general | | strike, but many which would pro- | Tong a gencral strike.” The committee stage of the mea- | | sure will begin next Tuesday. The | | laborites already have submitted | | hundreds ot amendmenls HONEST POLICEMAN SHOT BY RUM MAN Killed Him Because He Refused | $300 Bnbe Cuicago. May 6 (UP)—Because | he was “an honest cop” i W't take a bribe of | Cottey shot and killed Sam Ma | Michigan state policeman, —Cotfey | confessed today. Alleged to be the recognized boot- Jt passed the second reading after 1 & motion by John Robert Clynes to | l€gs! reject it, was defeated 366 to 171. |iest drink: Coffey admitted he Closure had to be invoked to pre- shot Mapes at Sturgis, Mich., after| vent the laborites from persisting |the motorcycle officer had stopped with the debate beyond the custom- |a machine in which Coffey was ary hour, and the speaker had to |bringing liquor to Chicago. reprimand the lahorites for singing | “He was an honest cop and a “John Brown's Body" and ‘“Glory | brave one,” Coffey said. “I'm sorry Hallejuah” while the voting was |I killed him. T offered him $300 to| proceeding. {let me get away and he wouldn Yesterday's session was not as | teke it. Then I shot.” boisterous as some of the preced Information on which Coffey ing debates. Former Premier Llyod |arrested was obtained from George, for the libe! and Philip [bert Trese, Michigan sta ‘ Snowden, former chancellor of tie |tective, who learncd Cofte exchequer, for the laborites, voiced |tity through a Detroit boot police said. of some of Chicago's wealth- sted late yester quad had forced , the communist nounced the government of conspirators and forge H. Thomas, deputy labor the house the miners ra ed the measure cripple the only bargaining power | the workers possesscd if any me ber of the government or ative party thought the bill would | prevent strikes, he declarcd, he was living in a fo aradise. Speaking directly to the minis- | Mr. Thomas shouted, “You |ing company. Worms wer ion, abused | bait, according to the story your majesty struck a |local nimrod. What brook? blow at those desiring peace in in- |a 17 INCH TROUT t trout of th ho rlv:m ib- attempt to nowden contended that the nuine method of climinating | provide machinery [ Charles St i strial disputes could la prominent v f the son, rather than by | field county ion and | tified with king in- While refraining from golng into | terests and with the local demo- details, Mr. Lloyd George based his ¢, died at his home here | on what he termed the un- today. He was born in this city in wisdom of the measure at a time 1533 and ls survived by a wife and when the Mest relations between | two children. capital and labor were needed to| Mr. Canfield was one of th restore dwindling trade. Admitting | founders of the Bridgeport Bar as. that the trade union law nceded |sociation and a member clarifigation, he asserted that the 'grievance committee of t measure only muddled old ambigui- "cuunly bar for twenty | 7 Ond Plenty of CREDIT ¢ ALl : » The Price Tags Tell = The Story Folks! 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