§ 25. Mr. Parkerasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in view of the recent strikes in Selangor and Negri Sembilan, it is intended to permit the coolies on the rubber plantations and the mine workers in the Federated Malay States to organise in trades unions; and whether, as the agitators arrested by the police in Selangor were trying to organise such trade unions and as strikes are in fact legal in Selangor, he will state by what authority in the past organisers of strikes have been banished from Selangor by the British Resident under the provisions of the Banishment Enactment?
§ Mr. Ormsby-GoreThe association of labourers in trade unions in the Federated Malay States is, and has for many years been, permitted. Unions and guilds of labourers can be, and are, established by registration under the Societies Enactment. As regards the second part of the question, I am not aware of any cases of expulsion simply in respect of the organisation of strikes, but there have been cases in which expulsion has been ordered where industrial disputes have been misused for the purpose of incitement to violence and disorder.