Sheffield Independent May 9, 1927

Trade Union Bill

Industrial Serfdom

“This bill is designed to rob the workers of 9/10 of the power they have strived three quarters of a century to obtain,” declared Mr Tom Williams, MP for the Don Valley at a mass meeting held at the Miners Welfare Hall, Great Houghton yesterday.

The meeting was presided over by Coun J Potts.

At the conclusion, a resolution expressing wholehearted approval of the action of the Label Party in its opposition to the Bill was carried with applause.

Mr Williams, in a striking denunciation of the Bill, declared that if it were allowed to remain on the Statute Book industrial serfdom would be the lot of the common people.