§ MR. CUNINGHAME GRAHAMI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department under whose orders the police, in the neighbourhood of Spitalfields, where a tailors' strike is going on, used their batons in dispersing the pickets who were on duty on 1st June?
§ MR. MATTHEWSI am informed by the Commissioner of Police that no orders were given to use truncheons on the occasion in question, and that as a matter of fact truncheons were not used.