APPLICATION TO INDUSTRIAL COURT FOR REFERENCE AS TO RECOGNITION OF SOLE BARGAINING AGENT

HC Deb 17 March 1971 vol 813 cc1541-99

	(1) An application may be made to the Industrial Court for the reference to the Commission, for examination by them, of the following two questions relating to the employees of an employer, or to the employees of two or more associated employers, that is to say—
5	(a) whether a specified group of those employees should, as a whole, be recognised (or, if already recognised, should continue to be recognised) by the employer or employers as a bargaining unit, or a part or parts of such a specified group should be so recognised (or should continue to be so recognised) as a separate bargaining unit or separate bargaining units; and
10	(b) whether, for any bargaining unit which is or should be so recognised, a sole bargaining agent should be recognised by the employer or employers and, if so, what organisation of workers or what joint negotiating panel (whether already in existence or to be formed for the purpose) should he the sole bargaining agent for that bargaining unit.
15	(2) Subject to the next following subsection, an application under this section relating to the employees of one or more employers may be made—
20	(a) by one or more trade unions, or
(b) by the employer or (as the case may be) by any of the employers, or
(c) by the employer, or (as the case may be) any of the employers, jointly with one or more trade unions, or
(d) by the Secretary of State.
	(3) Before making an application under this section with respect to a group of employees, the Secretary of State shall consult—
25	(a) their employer or employers, and
(b) any organisation of workers or joint negotiating panel appearing to him to be directly concerned in the matters to which the proposed application would relate.
30	(4) The Industrial Court shall not entertain an application made under this section otherwise than by the Secretary of State unless, before the application was made, notice of the proposal to make it had been given to the Secretary of State; and where such a notice has been given—
(a) the Secretary of State shall offer such advice and assistance to the party or parties giving the notice, and to such other parties as appear to him to be directly concerned, as he may consider appropriate with a view to promoting agreement

35	between them with respect to the matters to which the application would relate, and for that purpose may refer any question relating to those matters to the Commission for examination by them, but
	(b) nothing in the preceding paragraph shall prevent the party or parties giving the notice from making an application under this section at any time after the notice has been given.
40	(5) In this section and in section 43 of this Act 'group', in relation to an application relating to the employees of an employer or of two or more associated employers, means a group consisting either of all those employees or of such of them as fall within one or more descriptions specified in the application.—[The Solicitor-General.)

Brought up, and read the First time.

The Solicitor-General

I beg to move, That the Clause be read a Second time.

Mr. Deputy Speaker

I think that it would be convenient to discuss at the same time Amendmentrrrr,in line 1, leave out "to the Industrial Court for the reference"; Amendmentssss, in line 5, after "whether", insert "it would be appropriate if"; Amendmenttttt, in line 5, leave out "should" and insert "were"; Amendmentuuuu, in line 5, after "whole", insert "to"; Amendmentwwww, in line 7, leave out "should" and insert "were to"; Amendmentyyyy, in line 10, leave out "should" and insert "were to"; and Amendmentaaaaa, in line 27, leave out subsection (4). We will also discuss Government Amendments Nos.26 to 57, 228, 229 and 230.

The Solicitor-General

The consequential Amendments, going as far as Clause 45, are Nos. 27 to 44, with three additional groups—No. 45, Nos. 46 and 47 and Nos. 49 to 51.

The main object of the new Clause is to make more flexible and appropriate the provisions of Clause 42, which it will replace, and which contains a basic provision, whereby questions about recognition and the scope of a bargaining unit and the identity of a bargaining agent can be referred to the Industrial Court and, if appropriate, from the Court to the C.I.R. These are among the most important parts of the Bill, because they provide a new and peaceful machinery for the resolution of recognition disputes and for the establishment of effective bargaining arrangements and structures.

Clause 42 specifies rather narrowly the grounds for application, in slightly different form according to whether an application is by a union, an employer or the Secretary of State. I hope that the House will agree that the new Clause covers the same ground much more flexibly and effectively.

At the end, the word "group" is defined in this context, relating to the employees of an employer or of two or more associated employers, as meaning a group consisting of all of them or such as are described—in other words, in whatever way as is most appropriate to the particular question to be raised before the Court.

Subsection (1) is the subject of most of the Labour Party's Amendments. The shape and effect of subsection (1) of the Clause sets out the questions that can be the subject of disputes and that may arise in connection with recognition or bargaining disputes. First we have the question whether a specified group of … employees should … be recognised … as a bargaining unit, or a part or parts of such a specified group should be so recognised and then we have the question whether, for any bargaining unit which is or should be so recognised, a sole bargaining agent should be recognised by the employer The situation with which we are dealing here is where there is a dispute as to the group of employees in respect of whom a union or panel of unions should be recognised or where there is a dispute as to which union or which panel of unions should be recognised to bargain on their behalf.

Mr. Orme

If this is designed to get rid of friction which exists when difficulties arise between unions, may I ask the hon. and learned Gentleman to explain what the position will be when there are normal negotiations? Will those involved in those normal negotiations be brought within the ambit of this part of the Bill?

The Solicitor-General

I am glad that the hon. Gentleman has asked that question because it raises an important point with which I must deal.

The object of these proposals about bargaining structure and recognition disputes is to provide a machinery which is to be available when disputes arise. This is not intended to be an all-embracing new solution applied right across the board to disturb existing stable bargaining structures. That is far from being the intention of the Government. This is to provide a machinery by which either a union or employer, or a union and employer in a joint application, or the Secretary of State, can go to the court and, if the court accepts it, through the court to the C.I.R., to get recommendations in respect of the disputes and difficulties. It is not intended to be, and it is hard to see why anybody would want to use it as, a means for upheaving and disturbing existing arrangements which are working well.

The hon. Gentleman will know from experience that there are situations where there may be a competing recognition conflict—it may be a conflict that more intelligent management could resolve—which is producing strife for everyone concerned. It is, nevertheless, a conflict. There are occasions when a union is simply asserting its right to be recognised and a management is truculently refusing to recognise it, although the majority of people in the plant or factory want it to be recognised. That may not be described as a recognition dispute, but it is a real recognition dispute, though not between unions.

The House has discussed a number of examples of the kind where all that is necessary is for a union to be given an opportunity of going through the court and establishing its right to be recognised by the employer. That, again, is the sort of conflict with which these provisions are intended to deal. As I say, subsection (1) identifies the questions that can arise, and it refers to whether a group of employees should be a bargaining unit or whether a particular union should be recognised as the agent to bargain on their behalf.

Subsection (2) sets out the people by whom an application under the new Clause may be made, and it refers to a union or group of unions, an employer or associated employers, or there may be a joint application by the employer, or … any of the employers, jointly with one or more trade unions and the provision then refers to the Secretary of State. These are repetitions of the qualifying applicants who appeared in the original Clause.

A union can apply, if it wishes, to obtain its right in this way to be recognised. An employer can apply if he wishes to resolve a dispute. There can be a joint application, and I will come later to the probable circumstances in which a joint application would arise. On the other hand, the Secretary of State could seek to refer the question to the court through this machinery. The Secretary of State would, of course, come in if there was a situation running on critically from bad to worse with neither side apparently taking steps to refer it to the court and, hopefully, from the court to the commission.

Subsection (3) of the new Clause is a new provision—it was not in the old Clause 42—corresponding to a provision which is to be inserted in Clause 35 as a result of Government Amendment No. 21. Both the Amendment to Clause 35 and this, which is in effect an amendment to old Clause 42, are included as a result of points made by hon. Members opposite in Committee and of an undertaking which I then gave.

Hon. Members opposite said that it was right that, before the Secretary of State made a reference through this machinery, he should consult with the parties in respect of whom he was making the reference so that they should not, as it were, be taken by surprise by a reference to the Court in that way.

Mr. Sillars

I am not "nit-picking", as the phrase used by hon. Members opposite goes, but under subsection (3) is not the Secretary of State in duty bound to consult with the trade unions, although the words used are organisation of workers or joint negotiating panel", which cover unregistered organisations?

The Solicitor-General

Yes, that is right, but "organisation of workers" includes a trade union. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will accept that this is part of the machinery intended here. Although, at the end of this procedure, the right to enforce a recognition order is confined to a registered trade union, we think it right that in the early stages of the procedure the Secretary of State should consult with any organisation of workers, whether registered or not, which appears to be on the scene in a bargaining dispute situation. Moreover, we think it right, as I shall explain later, that the C.I.R. could recommend that the sole bargaining agent should be an unregistered organisation or a panel including an unregistered organisation, but for that to be effectively enforced the organisation should be registered. I think that the hon. Gentleman will understand that the intention here, from his point of view and from ours, is benevolent rather than anything else. An organisation of workers includes a trade union; a trade union is a registered organisation of workers.

As I say, the Secretary of State will have to consult before making a reference, and the same is true for a Clause 35 reference for enforceability.

Mr. Murray

I think that what the Solicitor-General has said is helpful, but may I press him a little further? Does he mean by his reply that "any organisation of workers" would cover all organisations or workers, whether trade unions or not? In other words, would the aim be to be comprehensive and interview all the organisations which might be concerned?

The Solicitor-General

As the hon. and learned Gentleman knows, an organisation of workers is defined as being any organisation of workers setting out to pursue the regulating of relations between employers and workers.

Mr. Orme

Staff unions?

The Solicitor-General

I shall come to that. Certainly, an organisation of workers may include an unregistered or a registered organisation or a company union. I know that hon. Members opposite, or some of them at least, have no enthusiasm for company unions, but they will see when I mention some of the other matters that we have taken account of the points which they made in this respect in certain other Amendments. But they will acknowledge that it is at least right for the Secretary of State, before he makes a reference, to consult any workers' organisation, even a company union, because it is on the ground representing workers and it is entitled to have its views taken into account, like an unregistered organisation. It would be absurd to disregard that kind of organisation in the circumstances.

Subsection (4) of the new Clause is an inclusion of what was subsection (5) of the old Clause, and the House will recall that subsection (5) of the old Clause was introduced by Amendment in Committee. Again, the intention was to require that any application which was on the way to the Industrial Court be notified first to the Secretary of State for him to have an opportunity to give conciliation, advice and assistance, in other words, to try to resolve the matter by a further attempt at voluntary agreement before it went on to the next stage of the court. That is a provision corresponding to that which appeared in the old Clause.

9.45 p.m.

These provisions are more flexible than those which they replace. For example, they allow a claim to be made by unions for inclusion in a joint negotiating panel, a union which had previously been excluded, but which was seeking concurrent bargaining rights. Under the old Clause, it could appear before the courts on that claim only if it were claiming sole rights, and that was an undue restriction. Here the union may seek to be included as part of the panel.

The Clause is more flexible in that it allows a joint panel to be suggested as a solution to a bargaining dispute even if it were not originally sought when the matter first came before the Court. The application, in other words, need not specify the kind of solution which has to emerge. The C.I.R. will have the maximum discretion, once the question comes before it, to propose any kind of solution which seems sensible.

Finally, the new provisions require and permit the C.I.R. in any situation of this kind to consider both questions: first, whether it is an appropriate unit for collective bargaining, whether it covers the right group or groups of people, and, secondly, what is the most appropriate bargaining agent to recommend in that situation.

Mr. David Mitchell

Can my hon. and learned Friend confirm that the C.I.R. also has the duty to consult organisations of workers and groups of workers, because there may well be a broad range of workers with a special interest which is different from the others and who ought, therefore, to be included?

The Solicitor-General

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that matter. He has followed these provisions with close care. The C.I.R. has an obligation to consult in that kind of way. He will see from Amendment No. 45 that an additional obligation is being imposed upon the C.I.R. in that respect, but that can be discussed later.

I continue to illustrate the additional flexibility conferred by this formulation of the Clause. It is now possible for a joint application to be made by employer and union for the resolution of a dispute. As I have already explained, the Secretary of State cannot refer an application without first consulting the people or organisations who appear to be concerned. The effect of the joint application provison will meet the point raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke (Mr. David Mitchell); perhaps not meet it, because it probably did not need to be met but make rather clearer the answer to the problem which he mentioned.

He asked earlier whether this procedure would be effective to meet what he called the simple case where the employer and union agreed that there was a bargaining unit and the question was whether that unit was sufficiently organised for the employer to be obliged on any sensible view to recognise a trade union claiming recognition, in other words, where the shape of the unit was agreed and the question in doubt was the support for the union.

That kind of situation would clearly be a case for a joint application of that kind. It would go in the first instance by way of notification to the Secretary of State under subsection (4) and it would be possible for him, through his Departmental officers, to give such advice and assistance for the resolution of that as was required, and no doubt such advice and assistance could be directed to the organisation of a simple ballot, as is already done in some cases. In that kind of simple way, that kind of simple dispute would be advanced towards resolution.

Mr. Gower

After an application has been made under the new Clause, at what stage and under what provisions will there be power for another union, or another group of employees, to ask to be associated, to join in?

The Solicitor-General

I do not think that there is an express provision for another group to arrive, as it were, to ask to be joined, but the C.I.R. has to consider whether there are any other organisations whose members appear to be affected and to consult them. I will give my hon. Friend the precise subsection in a moment. The intention is that there should be a wide-ranging power for the C.I.R. Plainly it would be pointless for the C.I.R. to emerge with a recommendation in ignorance of the existence of another competing union on the scene.

The two points are those affected by Amendments No. 46 and No. 47. They are Amendments to Clause 45 and, in particular, to Clause 45(3). Hon. Members opposite suggested that Clause 45(3) as it stood enabled the Commission to recommend for recognition an organisation of workers that was not independent. This is the point made by the hon. Member for Salford, West (Mr. Orme), that the C.I.R. could recommend the dreaded house union, if I may adopt his tone of voice. Clause 45(3) is now being amended, if these Amendments are accepted, so that any organisation that is recommended is an independent organisation of workers. That is the effect of Amendment No. 46. The C.I.R. has to be satisfied that the organisation, or, if it is a joint negotiating panel, every organisation represented on it, is an independent organisation of workers. That point has been met by those two Amendments.

Amendments Nos. 49, 50 and 51 are Amendments to Clause 46. Clause 46 states: Where in a report … the Commission have recommended that a particular trade union, or a joint negotiating panel of trade unions, should be recognised by an employer as sole bargaining agent … then, at any time before the end of the period of six months beginning with the date on which that report is transmitted by the Commission to the Industrial Court, either— (a) the employer, or … subject to the following subsection, the organisation of workers, or a joint negotiating panel, as the case may be, … may make an application to the Industrial Court under this section. The subsection which is written in is in Amendment No. 51: No application … shall be made—

1. (a) by an organisation of workers, unless at the time of the application it is a trade union, or
2. (b) by a joint negotiating panel, unless at that time it is a joint negotiating panel of trade unions."

The effect of that is to allow the C.I.R. to recommend recognition of an unregistered organisation if it finds one on the scene. It may be that there is some local group which has not acquired registration but which commands the full support of workers in a unit. If the C.I.R. reaches the conclusion that that is the right bargaining agent, and if it is endorsed by the subsequent ballot under these provisions, provided that the organisation seeks registration it can apply to enforce the recognition order against the employer in accordance with the recommendations. Those are the effects of this Clause.

Mr. Orme

The Solicitor-General has mentioned the joint negotiating panel. He has not told us very much about how this will operate. For instance, in an industry at present where there may be 20 unions working in a works committee but where the unions, for example, the A.S.T.M.S. or the A.U.E.W., want to negotiate separately on conditions affecting themselves, they may negotiate separately though they are in a works committee at present. In a joint negotiating panel, who does the negotiating, and are these separate negotiations possible?

The Solicitor-General

Suggestions have been made to the effect that we should here create some new magic machinery for resolving the sort of difficult balance which arises in the kind of case that the hon. Gentleman raises so as to produce a single union to sweep the field. That is not the intention. The idea is that the Commission should be able to recommend, if it seemed likely to produce an effective bargaining structure, a joint panel. Plainly such a panel might include the A.U.E.W. and the A.S.T.M.S., to which the hon. Gentleman has referred, but it would be effective only if it came into existence by agreement and was to represent all the work people in the unit concerned.

There is no power here for the Commission or anyone else to persuade two or more unions which are unwilling to make a joint panel negotiate together as one bargaining agent. But no doubt the Commission would try to produce that solution if it seemed likely to make sense. If at the end of the day it was not likely to produce a sensible bargaining structure and the more sensible solution was likely to be the A.U.E.W. for one group of workers and the A.S.T.M.S. for another group, the Commission would recommend those two unions being recognised in respect of those two bargaining units.

Mr. Orme

So that it would then be possible to have two sole bargaining units within one establishment?

The Solicitor-General

That is right. This represents the kind of arrangement which exists in some situations now, as hon. Gentlemen will appreciate. It depends to some extent on the traditional bargaining structure. There may be places where one union in effect has sole bargaining rights for process workers, another union for maintenance workers, and so on. There may be a dispute about the border, about where a category of workers comes. The Commission might well propose the reallocation or redistribution of the border to try to arrive at an acceptable solution. It may be that the best solution would be the construction of a joint panel whereby the border territory disppeared. But the intention is that the Commission, as it does already on references of this kind, should try to produce the most effective solutions for the problems in that plant. Those solutions should be capable of being enforced against the employer and of being supported by the restraining of what has been described previously as coercive action to disturb a recommended solution

Although we may differ on a number of other points, I hope that right hon. and hon. Members opposite will accept that this formulation of these matters at least provides a sensible foundation for the reference of this kind of question through the court to the Commission.

Mr. Heffer

I find myself in some difficulty because the list of Amendments which I have been given is not completely accurate. My list reads, "Government Amendments 26–57". In preparing for this debate, I referred to Amendments 26, 57, 228, 229 and 230, and discovered, meantime, that apparently I had missed a group of Amendments to which I should have referred. However, it does not alter what I am about to say very much. It merely puts me at a slight disadvantage in replying to the points that the Solicitor-General has made.

10.0 p.m.

It is quite obvious that although the Government, by substituting this new Clause for Clause 42, have made a number of concessions—and I am the first to accept that they have made a number of genuine concessions—they have not conceded the principle, and we are now discussing the same principle as we debated in Committee. Before dealing with specific points I want to repeat one or two arguments against the whole idea of the sole bargaining agency.

The Solicitor-General in an interesting speech said that the objective of the proposal was to sort out what might be called the overlapping situation that might arise even within the existing structure, where tension or competition arises between unions in respect of membership and bargaining rights. The hon. and learned Gentleman has completely ignored the whole policy now adopted by the Trades Union Congress and embodied in the Bridlington Agreement. We recognise that in our complex industrial society from time to time there is competition between unions for membership.

These conflicts arise particularly in respect of whether white collar workers—foremen and so on—should be in industrial workers' unions or in a union of their own. Many hon. Members opposite preach industrial unionism, but if we have industrial unionism we very largely eliminate the white collar workers, who end up in the same union as the industrial workers. The hon. Member for Basingstoke (Mr. David Mitchell) should not shake his head, because in the United States, which we are told he has visited, the automobile workers had precisely this problem, and overcame it by creating a special section for white collar workers within the same union.

The Solicitor-General has completely ignored how these problems are sorted out nowadays. The trade union movement itself solves them by applying the Bridlington Agreement. We argue that the Government's proposals do not help to solve this competition between unions but have the opposite effect. They will lead to competition between unions where it does not now exist. That is our basic argument.

The other point is that it must inevitably lead to unstable industrial relations. Union will be set against union—or could be. The experience of the United States proves beyond doubt that a tremendous amount of competition grows up between trade union organisations to enrol members into their own unions. That is why, for example, the Teamsters, outside the C.I.O. and the A.F.F.L., became the fastest-growing trade union in the United States for a time. Why? Because under the scheme there, similar to that proposed here, the Teamsters moved into all sorts of activities which had absolutely nothing to do with their industry. The same sort of thing could develop in this country.

Mr. Orme

It is happening now.

Mr. Heffer

It may be, but when there is any difficulty it is sorted out by the trade union movement. In America they go to the courts, and it creates great problems, many more than it solves. That is the basic difference between what is proposed by the Government and what happens now.

The other point is that this will lead to immense fragmentation of bargaining—

Mr. David Mitchell

indicated dissent.

Mr. Heffer

The hon. Gentleman keeps looking up and shaking his head. His head will come off if he keeps on doing it, with that expression of surprise on his face. The facts—he ought to know this if he has just been to the United States—prove this.

Take the post office industry, if it can be called that. In this country there are three Post Office unions catering for three or four different grades. In the United States, because of the sole bargaining agency system, there is practically a different union in every town. If there was a situation there when there was a great struggle over wages and conditions similar to that which took place here there would not be a complete turn-out of workers at one stage and a complete return at another. There would be a guerrilla warfare over the whole of the industry.

So when hon. Gentlemen opposite say, as they do so often, that this Bill will lead to strikes which are less fragmented, what they are looking for really is bigger and better strikes—not so frequent, but bigger when they do take place. With these proposals there is the possibility of more fragmented strikes through a whole series of unions being involved as sole bargaining agents when at present only one union caters for an industry. These facts have to be taken into consideration. This proposal is no panacea for achieving industrial peace and could be the very reverse.

The Solicitor-General said that he was much persuaded by the blandishments of this side on the question of the concept of consultation between the parties and the Secretary of State. I wish that he had been persuaded on other things, too. He went only part of the way. The argument we put in Committee was that consultations should be on the basis of an application to the C.I.R. and that the Industrial Court would be eliminated entirely, and application to the C.I.R. should be made only when there were recognition problems. The Solicitor-General says, "We have been persuaded by what the Opposition have said." The Government have not been persuaded. If they had been, they would have dropped the whole concept of the Industrial Court and would have accepted the principle that the matter could go to the C.I.R., as matters do now when there are recognition problems, to be looked at voluntarily by the Commission with recommendations to the parties concerned. I cannot accept the Solicitor-General's statement that we have persuaded him to accept our doctrine. I wish that he had been persuaded. If he had been, we could have accepted the new Clause because it would have been along the lines we have proposed.

The Solicitor-General said that the machinery would be used only when disputes arose and that it would not disturb stable arrangements. We constantly hear this said. In other words, all this paraphernalia of legal machinery is only a longstop. If it is to be only rarely used, why have it at all? Why not retain the existing trusted machinery which the trade union movement has to solve problems of internal competition; namely, the Bridlington Agreement? What is the object of the machinery? We have had no answer to that.

It is said that the Government have made another concession relating to the joint application. It is a concession in certain circumstances. The other day it was said that it was not possible to have an approved closed shop unless there was a joint application. On this occasion it is said that it is possible to have a joint application, but we can also have individual applications. The union can apply, but when it comes to the approved closed shop it cannot apply on its own; there must be a joint application.

When we say that the machinery is tilted in favour of the employers, that is precisely what we mean. Every proposition is definitely tilted in their favour.

The Solicitor-General stressed that in certain circumstances there would be consultation, not necessarily with trade unions but with what we call company unions. He said that Amendment No. 46 covered the point. I cannot understand what he means. The principle is this. The Secretary of State might have consultations with a company union. The matter could then be referred to the C.I.R. In certain circumstances, especially if there are no trade unionists on the C.I.R.—and there is none at the moment except the ex-chairman of the T.U.C.; others have left, and it might well be that in certain circumstances they will all leave—the C.I.R. could recommend that that body, after a ballot and if it got a majority, could become the sole bargaining agent if it was prepared to become a registered trade union.

But suppose that the majority of workers were in a bona fide trade union affiliated to the T.U.C. and said, "We are not prepared to continue to work alongside these people who may register and become a trade union under this Act but are still a company union."

10.15 p.m.

The Solicitor-General

Does the hon. Gentleman appreciate that such an organisation can register and become a trade union under the Bill only if it shows that it is independent and is not subject to employer domination or control? The object of Amendments Nos. 46 and 47 is to ensure that only an independent organisation — one which is not dominated and is not a company union —can be recommended. The hon. Gentleman must not look a gift horse in the mouth. We have met the point and made it clear that the house union which remains employer dominated cannot be recommended; to be recommended it must be registered and independent.

Mr. Heffer

The point I am making is that the hon. and learned Gentleman contradicted himself. He talked about the company union which the Secretary of State could consult, but on the other hand said that once the C.I.R. had looked at it, there had been a ballot and it registered, it could be a trade union in the accepted sense under the Bill.

I do not want to refuse a gift horse. Any crumb of comfort will be gladly accepted. A minor concession is better than none. I said in opening that there were concessions here that we gladly accepted, but we did not consider that they in any way altered the principle, and I argued against the principle. I hope that this matter will be cleared up in the reply to the debate.

We are opposed to the whole principle of the sole bargaining agency. Although there are a number of concessions in the Clause and the Amendments, the basic principle remains. The concessions in no way change it. They will not assist the industrial relations scene. Therefore, we cannot give the Clause a Second Reading.

Mr. David Mitchell

I was delighted by the frankness of the hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer) when he explained that he had been misled as to what was on the Orden Paper, that he had not had an opportunity to examine the Government's Amendments, but that that would make no difference to his speech. Clearly, it has not done so.

The hon. Gentleman started by explaining the dangers of industrial trade unionism and accusing me of being an advocate of it, which I certainly have not been. He then complained of the dangers of fragmentation. I find it difficult to understand how in the same speech he can expect the House to agree with him in attacking both those allegedly opposite evils at the same time.

Like the hon. Gentleman, when I was in the United States I noticed the dangers of industrial trade unionism. But in the case of the United Automobile Workers there was a pressure group of skilled men who felt that they did not have sufficient differential, that they were being lost in the mass of votes in support of the unskilled. They therefore put pressure on the union to give them a special separate part of the agreement. They were able to do that only because they had the power under the U.S. legislation to go to the N.L.R.B. and ask to be treated as a separate union, to seek separate representation. It was the hon. Gentleman's hon. Friends who opposed the Government when they provided a right for a new union to appear. They vigorously attacked the idea of democracy operating in trade unionism to the extent that new unions could break in.

Mr. Alex Eadie (Midlothian)

I am amazed by the hon. Gentleman's argument. Is he arguing that he is perfectly happy with the situation in America, which results from legislation similar to that which the Government are introducing, where there are more than 24,000 unions dealing with the post office structure? Does he want to see that position in this country?

Mr. Mitchell

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making that point, because I was coming to it next. In preparing the Bill my hon. and learned Friend has recognised that danger and, therefore, has not provided for the straight industrial democracy that there is in the United States, where any union has the right to put itself in for a ballot. Having shown that one-fifth of the workers in an area want it to appear on the ballot, it has an absolute right on a knock-out ballot, winner takes all, to secure representation.

But here, under the Bill, there must be a recommendation from the C.I.R. By putting in managed democracy, putting in the C.I.R. as a buffer, we ensure that we do not get 24,000 post office unions, one for each separate post office. The Government have taken into account the danger that the United States system could bring to this country, and have inserted the C.I.R. as a deciding factor to recommend which union should secure representation. That ensures that the danger foreseen by the hon. Gentleman does not arise.

I am glad that the Government have accepted the case for a simple resolution of a straight recognition claim. But I wish that the machinery were a little simpler than it appears on reading through the text of the Bill. I am most grateful that my right hon. Friend accepts my case that groups of workers with different interests should have the right to be excluded from a bargaining unit and to be heard in the decision as to what the bargaining unit should cover.

What is the exact meaning of associated employers in subsection (5)? Must they be companies associated financially, or can they be companies engaged in the same trade, in competition with each other but in the same locality? In the case of the Birmingham transport drivers there was an overwhelming problem of a union picking on individual small employers one by one. Had they been in a bargaining unit together, the employers would have been strong enough to stand up to the union there on more equal terms. I would be very anxious to see that nothing is done by the Bill to prevent small employers from getting together to ensure that a powerful union does not blackmail them by taking them one at a time. So I put that question to the Solicitor-General.

The second question that I wish to put to him is whether there will now be a right of an application for the defining of the bargaining unit and the defining of the sole bargaining agent to be withdrawn. I ask because I think the Solicitor-General will recognise that there may be circumstances in which once a competing union has started the machinery for the Bill it achieves a situation in which it is clear from the way the boundaries, the constituencies, have been drawn by the C.I.R. that the union is going to win. It may then be better that the parties should accept the status quo than agree under threat of what would happen if there were a ballot. It would be a more peaceful solution for that situation than if there were a ballot and one union which has many members is the sole agent. I should like an assurance that it will then be possible, even though the machinery has started, for an approach to be made to the C.I.R. to allow the matter to drop on the basis of its initial recommendation without going through the legally binding provisions in which the sole bargaining agent has been appointed and, with it, the danger that the aggrieved party will lose out.

Mr. Hugh McCartney (Dunbartonshire, East)

I want to raise a specific point which, so far as I am aware, has not been referred to at any time during the discussions on the Bill, on Second Reading or since. It is about the bargaining unit as referred to in the new Clause.

I wonder whether the Government have taken into account those industries in which large numbers of part-time employees are engaged. I wonder—for there is nothing that I can see about it, nor has there been anything which I have heard said about it—whether there is anything to indicate that there is any differentiation between part-time and full-time workers.

I am thinking of what happens, for instance, in the licensed catering industry and other sections of the catering industry where there are large numbers of part-time employees who are drawn from other industries and who look upon this occupation, their second occupation, as a means of getting pin money or extra earnings from which they can buy tobacco or cigarettes, or take their wives to the cinema, or, perhaps, improve the amenities of their homes to some extent.

Are these people to be allowed to decide the future and welfare of the permanent workers in the industry? Some of these part-time workers are trade unionists, members of other trade unions, but most of them do not in any way have any influence on or interest in the catering trade, and some of them may be non-unionists. Is it being said by the Government that these people, either individually or as trade unionists in one union, even though not having a direct interest in the catering industry, are to be allowed to influence decisions in relation to that industry?

The same applies to the transport industry, to both the public and the commercial sectors. The same applies, to some extent, to the building trades. Consider what happens at weekends at department stores like Woolworth's, where schoolgirls go for a few hours on Saturdays for pocket money. Is it suggested by the Government that these young people, in mini-skirts or hot pants, should be allowed to determine the well being or otherwise of the people permanently employed in department stores?

These are things which are worrying people who have full-time engagements in these occupations, and I should like to hear from the Government, before the end of the debate, what their intention is in relation to this group of workers.

10.30 p.m.

Mr. Gower

In this matter, as in other aspects of this legislation, the hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer) like a latter-day King Canute, seems to think that all is well and disregards all the danger signs—

Mr. Ronald Bell (Buckinghamshire, South)

My hon. Friend is a little unfair to King Canute. He was quite aware that he could not send the sea back, but he had bad courtiers, and that may be the trouble on the hon. Gentleman's side.

Mr. Gower

The matter under discussion is analogous to our earlier discussion on new Clause 5. We are all concerned about industrial strife, whatever its causation, but we recognise that there is some which is inevitable. We merely want to make less likely industrial strife which can be easily avoided, and this is one danger which can be minimised.

I hope the hon. Member for Walton will accept that, as the Solicitor-General said, this procedure is not designed to disturb existing bargaining arrangements. Rather is it designed to provide adequate machinery for dealing with disputes. The hon. Gentleman says, rather blithely, that we have the Bridlington agreement, but can he assert that this has always been perfect? From the hon. Gentleman's remarks one would imagine that our procedures are infinitely better than those of any other country, but anyone who thinks that must be very short-sighted. There are good features in our system, but there are also deficiencies.

Mr. Heffer

When we discussed Clause 43 I said—and it is worth reiterating—that in the past 30 years the T.U.C. had dealt successfully with more than 1,000 inter-union disputes through the application of the Bridlington Agreement.

Mr. Gower

Nevertheless, disputes may arise and, after careful consideration of the points made by the Opposition in Committee, the Government have produced machinery for the determination of recognition disputes. This is not lined up, as the hon. Member for Walton suggested, against the employee. Application can be made by a trade union, by other bodies of employees, by the employer, by employers jointly or by the Secretary of State. How he can describe it as biased I cannot imagine. I sincerely hope that the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends will look at it in that light and reconsider their attitude.

Mr. R. Carr

I shall try to answer some of the points which have been raised. First, in reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke (Mr. David Mitchell), an associated employer is indeed one who is associated in the financial sense. I believe that this is right.

Secondly, employers can join together in an employers' association for the purposes of collective bargaining. But what we are talking about is the use of special machinery to solve a demarcation or, rather, a recognition dispute. I do not believe that a recognition dispute can be solved across an employers' association consisting of entirely separate companies. So, concerning the use of this machinery, we envisage that it must be done either through an individual company or through associated companies, using the term "associated" in what I might call the Companies Acts sense. I shall certainly give further thought to my hon. Friend's point; but it would be wrong to say that and leave him feeling that I had much hope of meeting it.

My hon. Friend also asked whether it would be possible to stop a reference to the C.I.R. once it was under way. In the procedures which we envisage, the C.I.R., if it obtains the agreement of the parties to a particular course, can and would, I imagine, not make a report. I think that that is the most likely event in circumstances where the parties went to the C.I.R. and said, "We have agreed that this is what we would like to do." Since the whole purpose of the machinery is to solve a dispute, if the dispute were to cease to exist because the parties had reached agreement there would be no point in the C.I.R. going ahead with it.

The parties cannot force a withdrawal, but the C.I.R. can take the initiative in refusing to go ahead on its own. In the circumstances postulated by my hon. Friend, I think that the most likely course where there was agreement would be that the C.I.R. simply would not proceed.

If the C.I.R. proceeded, the parties could refrain from going to the court and seeking an order to enforce the C.I.R.'s recommendation. I do not think that my hon. Friend need have much fear of anything coming from the C.I.R., least of all being enforced, which the parties themselves do not wish to have. If the parties reach agreement the need to resolve their dispute ceases because, almost by definition, the matter has been solved.

The hon. Member for Dunbartonshire, East (Mr. McCartney) raised a point which has considerable force. Throughout the Bill in all these matters we have asked that the C.I.R. should be responsible, if not for actual supervision of the voting, at least for the ballot. We believe that there will need to be careful investigation not only in defining the area of the bargaining unit but in defining the workers eligible to vote. The best answer which I can give is that eligibility to vote is a matter which the C.I.R. will take into account in every case. However, I shall give the matter further consideration and write to the hon. Gentleman, because he has raised a point to which I am not prepared at this moment to give a categorical answer for permanent record.

Mr. Heffer

Is the Minister aware that the Opposition have some Amendments down relating to the hours worked by part-time workers which we think should be taken into consideration when considering eligibility to vote? Will the right hon. Gentleman give us an assurance that he will look at that as well?

Mr. Carr

I shall certainly look at that. There is a difficulty here if transient workers could come in and swamp the vote. On the other hand, where there are part-time workers with some real permanency and stake in the industry, if a ballot is provided it would be wrong to rule them out automatically.

Mr. McCartney

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for that answer and I appreciate his difficulty. But, assuming that he decided that there is need for a change in legislation, how will he promote this? What machinery is left for him now to do this?

Mr. Carr

If we decided that an Amendment was needed, it is oven not only for the Government but also—as I am sure hon. Gentlemen opposite are well aware—for the Opposition to move Amendments in another place. I undertake to write to the hon. Gentleman, and perhaps it would be convenient to send a copy to the hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer).

The hon. Member for Walton mentioned the company union. I believe that my hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor-General made this clear, but let me try again. We say in the new Clause that, initially, it is right that any organisation of workers, including a company union, can be brought in and consulted. Whatever one may think of company unions, they are real live organisations of workers, and we believe that their views should be heard. But we say—I should have thought that this would satisfy hon. Gentlemen—that an employer-dominated union cannot be recommended by the C.I.R. It would have to prove its independence, and if it could not do so, it could not be recommended.

Mr. Ted Fletcher (Darlington)

Why is it necessary to consult company unions or staff associations in the first place, when from what the right hon. Gentleman said it appears that they would in no circumstances get sole bargaining rights?

Mr. Carr

There are two reasons. First, such a staff association might decide to change its constitution and become independent and even registered: it may then satisfy the C.I.R. and the Registrar that it is independent and, therefore, put itself in the field for recommendation. But if it did not choose to do that, it could not be recommended.

The second reason is twofold. First, however much people may dislike staff associations, they will not get up and go away: they are a factor in the situation. So far as I know, the C.I.R. with its present procedures, would be prepared and able to take their existence into account. Second, the C.I.R. may decide, as the Bill allows, to make no recommendation about a sole bargaining agent if it cannot see a suitable agent to recommend.

10.45 p.m.

Mr. Heffer

How will one decide that it is not a company union and whether it is employer-dominated? The term "company union" means, in the trade union accepted sense, a union inside a company which receives financial assistance from that company. To that extent it is dominated by the company. If there is a union of that kind and it is obviously not independent, why consult it in the first place?

Mr. Carr

I thought I had dealt with the final part of that intervention, but I shall obviously have to repeat my remarks.

Such an organisation is a factor to be taken into account. Whether or not one likes it, if there is a staff association with a membership, then it is a reality. Its members are real live people working in the undertaking involved. Whether or not one agrees with their point of view, those people must be taken into account.

It is extraordinary to suggest that just because here is an organisation which one does not like the look of, it should be of no account and its views should not be considered. It is proper, and it meets a proper point made by hon. Gentlemen opposite, to say that if such an organisation chooses not to change its status and if the C.I.R. cannot see a more suitable body to recommend as a sole bargaining agent, then that body may be recommended.

The answer to the first part of the hon. Gentleman's intervention is that the meaning of "independent" is already defined in the Bill. In the normal circumstance when a union wishes to register, the registrar will have to determine whether it is independent, and in the case in point the C.I.R. will have to satisfy itself. If anybody is doubting the bona fides of a union which is claiming to be independent, then I cannot believe that its status as an independent will go unchallenged.

At some point one must trust somebody to be able to judge the circumstances of the case, and that is the whole principle of this combination of an adjudicating authority like the Court and an investigating and recommending authority like the C.I.R., both of which are industrially sophisticated and experienced bodies by virtue of their membership.

We believe that the C.I.R. will in this case be able to determine satisfactorily whether an organisation of workers is independent and whether it is employer-dominated, because if there is any doubt about it I am sure that those who wish to challenge it will not be backward in coming forward to put their point. I can only repeat that we are making it absolutely clear that an employer-dominated union cannot be recommended under this procedure as a sole agent.

Mr. John Prescott (Kingston upon Hull, East)

The right hon. Gentleman has pointed out that the C.I.R. will decide this point. It is relatively easy to see what an employer-dominated union is, particularly if it is a staff organisation, but of the many organisations some are more militant than others. The employer will have a clear preference for one type of organisation over another, and while a union may seem to be independent—certainly independent enough to meet the requirements about which the right hon. Gentleman has been speaking—it may not be so independent, and some such organisations may be more willing to meet the employers' demands than the more militant unions.

Mr. Carr

That could be the very nature of a dispute that requires a solution. We are here discussing the means of resolving disputes. If one type of solution has failed, we come on to the C.I.R., which will look into the matter not only with integrity but with knowledge and skill. I believe that one can trust a body like the C.I.R. to do that job faithfully and well, and certainly as faithfully and as well as any other institution of which one can think in this sphere. It will be not for the employer but for the C.I.R. to decide. The C.I.R. will, no doubt, have to listen to what the employer's preferences may be but it will have to listen also to what other people's preferences are, form its own independent opinion, and make its recommendation accordingly. That is the proper place to leave it.

Coming to the basic principle here, the hon. Member for Walton felt that the matter should be left entirely to the T.U.C. and the associated T.U.C. machinery. I believe that the T.U.C. and the machinery associated with it can, and, I hope, will, solve the great majority of problems about recognition when the recognition dispute is of an inter-union character. But I doubt that we can say with certainty, that it is capable of solving all of them.

The hon. Gentleman will recall, for example, that there was great difficulty a year or two ago in solving the recognition problems of the white-collar workers in the steel industry. Although that was eventually settled in an uneasy way, after a lot of batting to and fro, it certainly was not settled with ease or, I should say, with a real feeling of satisfaction on the part of at least one or two of the main white-collar workers' unions involved.

I do not want to do it in the way that, perhaps, it is sometimes done in our debates, but I feel that I must quote the views of the Labour Government when they were considering this matter. The right hon. Lady the Member for Blackburn (Mrs. Castle) recognised, and said quite clearly in "In Place of Strife", that certain machinery would be needed, and that there might be cases in which the T.U.C. could not persuade the parties, within a reasonable time, to accept a settlement. In such cases, she said the Secretary of State will refer the dispute to the C.I.R. In some cases the C.I.R. may only be able to produce a durable solution by recommending the exclusion of one or more unions from recognition. In such a situation the Government will look to all the parties involved to accept the recommendations of the C.I.R. If they do not, the Industrial Relations Bill will propose a power for the Secretary of State where necessary to give effect by Order to the C.I.R.'s recommendations. So at least we can claim, without, I hope, going into controversy about method, that the right hon. Lady and her hon. Friends realised, however keen they were to leave these sorts of dispute for resolution by the normal T.U.C. machinery, that there might be cases which failed to be resolved, or failed to be resolved in a reasonable time, by that machinery and there must be some additional machinery as well. We have put forward ours. She put forward hers. It is a matter of judgment between them. Naturally, we prefer our machinery. We have put it forward only after a great deal of thought. In our judgment, ours is the best machinery available which we can think of for dealing with this sort of matter.

I was very surprised to hear the hon. Member for Walton say—I think I heard him aright—that he was opposed to the whole principle of the sole bargaining agent. I thought that this was part of the analysis—not the prescription but the analysis—of the Donovan Commission about the desirability of moving towards

a situation in which there was one negotiating authority for each homogeneous and identifiable group of workers.

Surely, if one is to have good, effective and stable collective bargaining, we should move towards a situation in which there is one bargaining authority for one group of workers. We do not believe in, and have not tried to impose, the idea that the bargaining authority should always be a single union, because we consider that multi-unionism is so firmly established in this country that to try to reach a situation in which a number of established unions had to withdraw in favour of one would cause a great deal of strife.

We admit, therefore, the correctness and satisfactory nature of the possibility of having a single bargaining authority but as a joint panel of a number of unions. We believe that the ideal at which we must aim is one negotiating authority for one group of workers, and I find it difficult to understand why the hon. Gentleman should oppose that principle, although I understand that we can have differing views about how to arrive at it.

Question put, That the Clause be read a Second time:

The House divided: Ayes 289, Noes 243.

Division No. 252.]	AYES	[10.55 p.m.
Adley, Robert	Buchanan-Smith, Alick (Angus, N &M)	Dixon, Piers
Alison, Michael (Barkston Ash)	Buck, Antony	Dodds-Parker, Dougias
Amery, Rt. Hn. Julian	Bullus, Sir Eric	Douglas-Home, Rt. Hn. Sir Alec
Archer, Jeffrey (Louth)	Butler, Adam (Bosworth)	du Cann, Rt. Hn. Edward
Astor, John	Campbell, Rt. Hn. G.(Moray &Nairn)	Dykes, Hugh
Atkins, Humphrey	Carlisle, Mark	Eden, Sir John
Awdry, Daniel	Carr, Rt. Hn. Robert	Edwards, Nicholas (Pembroke)
Baker, Kenneth (St. Marylebone)	Chapman, Sydney	Elliott, R. W. (N'c'tle-upon-Tyne, N.)
Balniel, Lord	Chataway, Rt. Hn. Christopher	Eyre, Reginald
Barber, Rt. Hn. Anthony	Chichester-Clark, R.	Farr, John
Batsford, Brian	Churchill, W. S.	Felt, Anthony
Beamish, Col. Sir Tufton	Clark, William (Surrey, E.)	Fenner, Mrs. Peggy
Bell, Ronald	Clarke, Kenneth (Rushcliffre)	Fidler, Michael
Bennett, Dr. Reginald (Gosport)	Clegg, Walter	Finsberg, Geoffrey (Hampstead)
Benyon, w.	Cockeram, Eric	Fisher, Nigel (Surbiton)
Berry, Hn. Anthony	Cooke, Robert	Fletcher-Cooke, Charles
Biffen, John	Coombs, Derek	Fookes, Miss Janet
Biggs-Davison, John	Cooper, A. E.	Foster, Sir John
Blaker, Peter	Corfleld, Rt. Hn. Frederick	Fowler, Norman
Boardman, Tom (Leicester, S.W.)	Cormack, Patrick	Fox, Marcus
Body, Richard	Costain, A. P.	Fraser, Rt. Hn. Hugh (St'fford & stone)
Boscawen, Robert	Critchley, Julian	Fry, Peter
Bossom, Sir Clive	Crouch, David	Gardner, Edward
Boyd-Carpenter, Rt. Hn. John	Crowder, F. P.	Gibson-Watt, David
Braine, Bernard	Curran, Charles	Gilmour, Ian (Norfolk, C.)
Bray, Ronald	Dalkeith, Earl of	Gilmour, Sir John (Fife, E.)
Brewis, John	d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, Sir Henry	Glyn, Dr. Alan
Brinton, Sir Tatton	d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, Maj,-Gen. James	Godber, Rt. Hn. J. B.
Brocklebank-Fowler, Christopher	Dean, Paul	Goodhart, Philip
Brown, Sir Edward (Bath)	Deedes, Rt. Hn. W. F.	Goodhew, Victor
Bryan, Paul	Digby, Simon Wingfield	Gorst, John
Gower, Raymond	McLaren, Martin	Russell, Sir Ronald
Gray, Hamish	Maclean, Sir Fitzroy	St. John-Stevas, Norman
Green, Alan	McMaster, Stanley	Sandys, Rt. Hn, D.
Grieve, Percy	Macmillan, Maurice (Farnham)	Scott, Nicholas
Griffiths, Eldon (Bury St. Edmunds)	McNair-Wilson, Michael	Scott-Hopkins, James
Grimond, Rt. Hn. J.	McNair-Wilson, Patrick (New Forest)	Sharples, Richard
Grylts, Michael	Maddan, Martin	Shaw, Michael (Sc'b'gh & Whitby)
Glimmer, Selwyn	Madel, David	Shelton, William (Clapham)
Gurden, Harold	Maginnis, John E.	Simeons, Charles
Hall, Miss Joan (Keighley)	Marples, Rt. Hn. Ernest	Sinclair, Sir George
Hall, John (Wycombe)	Marten, Neil	Skeet, T. H. H.
Hall-Davis, A. G. F.	Maude, Angus	Smith, Dudley (W'wick & L'mington)
Hamilton, Michael (Salisbury)	Mawby, Ray	Soref, Harold
Hannam, John (Exeter)	Maxwell-Hyslop, R. J.	Speed, Keith
Harrison, Col. Sir Harwood (Eye)	Meyer, Sir Anthony	Spence, John
Harvey, Sir Arthur Vere	Mills, Peter (Torrington)	Sproat, Ian
Haselhurst, Alan	Mills, Stratton (Belfast, N.)	Stainton, Keith
Hastings, Steven	Miscampbell, Norman	Stanbrook, Ivor
Hawkins, Paul	Mitchell, Lt.-Col. C. (Aberdeenshire, W)	Steel, David
Hay, John	Mitchell, David (Basingstoke)	Stewart-Smith, D. G. (Belper)
Hayhoe, Barney	Moate, Roger	Stodart, Anthony (Edinburgh, W.)
Heseltine, Michael	Molyneaux, James	Stoddart-Scott, Col. Sir M.
Hicks, Robert	Money, Ernle	Stokes, John
Higgins, Terence L.	Monks, Mrs. Connie
Hill, John E. B. (Norfolk, S.)	Montgomery, Fergus	Stuttaord, Dr. Tom
Hill, James (Southampton, Test)	More, Jasper	Sutcliffe, John
Holland, Philip	Morgan-Giles, Rear-Adm.	Tapsell, Peter
Holt, Miss Mary	Morrison, Charles (Devizes)	Tayiur, sir Charles (Eastbourne)
Hooson, Emlyn	Mudd, David	Taylor, Frank (Moss Side)
Hordern, Peter	Murton, Oscar	Taylor, Robert (Croydon, N.W.)
Hornby, Richard	Nabarro, Sir Gerald	Tebbit, Norman
Hernsby-Smith, Rt. Hn. Dame Patricia	Neave, Airey	Temple, John M.
Howe, Hn. Sir Geoffrey (Reigate)	Noble, Rt. Hn. Michael	Thatcher, Rt. Hn. Mrs. Margaret
Howell, David (Guildford)	Normanton, Tom	Thomas, John Stradling (Monmouth)
Howell, Ralph (Norfolk, N.)	Nott, John	Thompson, Sir Richard (Croydon, S.)
Hutchison, Michael Clark	Onslow, Cranley	Thorpe, Rt. Hn. Jeremy
Iremonger, T. L.	Oppenheim, Mrs. Sally	Tilney, John
James, David	Orr, Capt. L. P. S.	Trafford, Dr. Anthony
Jenkin, Patrick (Woodford)	Osborn, John	Trew, Peter
Jessel, Toby	Owen, Idris (Stockport, N.)	Tugendhat, Christopher
Johnson Smith, G. (E. Grinstead)	Page, John (Harrow, W.)	Turton, Rt. Hn. R. H.
Jones, Arthur (Northants, S.)	Parkinson, Cecil (Enfield, W.)	Vaughan, Dr. Gerard
Joplin, Michael	Peel, John	Vickers, Dame Joan
Joseph, Rt. Hn. Sir Keith	Percival, Ian	Waddington, David
Kaberry, Sir Donald	Peyton, Rt. Hn. John	Walder, David (Clitheroe)
Kellett, Mrs. Elaine	Pink, R. Bonner	Walker, Rt. Hn. Peter (Worcester)
Kilfedder, James	Pounder, Rafton	Walker-Smith, Rt. Hn. Sir Derek
Kimball, Marcus	Powell, Rt. Hn. J. Enoch	Wall, Patrick
King, Evelyn (Dorset, S.)	Price, David (Eastleigh)	Walters, Dennis
King, Tom (Bridgwater)	Proudfoot, Wilfred	Ward, Dame Irene
Kinsey, J. R.	Pym, Rt. Hn. Francis	Weatherill, Bernard
Kirk, Peter	Quennell, Miss J. M.	Wells, John (Maidstone)
Kitson, Timothy	Raison, Timothy	White, Roger (Gravesend)
Knight, Mrs. Jill	Ramsden, Rt. Hn. James	Whitelaw, Rt. Hn. William
Knox, David	Rawlinson, Rt. Hn. Sir Peter	Wiggin, Jerry
Lambton, Antony	Reed, Laurance (Bolton, E.)	Wilkinson, John
Lane, David	Rees, Peter (Dover)	Wolrige-Gordon, Patrick
Langford-Holt, Sir John	Rees-Davies, W. R.	Wood, Rt. Hn. Richard
Legge-Bourke, Sir Harry	Renton, Rt. Kn. Sir David	Woodhouse, Hn. Christopher
Le Marchant, Spencer	Rhys Williams, Sir Brandon	Woodnutt, Mark
Lewis, Kenneth (Rutland)	Ridley, Hn. Nicholas	Worsley, Marcus
Lloyd, Ian (P'tsm'th, Langstone)	Ridsdale, Julian	Wylie, Rt. Hn. N. R.
Longden, Gilbert	Roberts, Michael (Cardiff, M.)	Younger, Hn. George
Loveridge, John	Roberts, Wyn (Conway)
McAdden, Sir Stephen	Rodgers, Sir John (Sevenoaks)	TELLERS FOR THE AYES:
MacArthur, Ian	Rossi, Hugh (Hornsey)	Mr. Hector Monro and
McCrindle, R. A.	Rost, Peter	Mr. Tim Fortescue.
NOES
Abse, Leo	Bennett, James (Glasgow, Bridgeton)	Callaghan, Rt. Hn. James
Albu, Austen	Bidwell, Sydney	Campbell, I. (Dunbartonshire, W.)
Allaun, Frank (Salford, E.)	Bishop, E. S.	Cant, R. B.
Allen, Scholefield	Blenkinsop, Arthur	Carmichael, Neil
Archer, Peter (Rowley Regis)	Boardman, H. (Leigh)	Carter-Jones, Lewis (Eccles)
Armstrong, Ernest	Booth, Albert	Castle, Rt. Hn. Barbara
Ashley, Jack	Bottomley, Rt. Hn. Arthur	Clark, David (Colne Valley)
Ashton, Joe	Boyden, James (Bishop Auckland)	Cocks, Michael (Bristol, S.)
Atkinson, Norman	Bradley, Tom	Cohen, Stanley
Bagier, Gordon A. T.	Brown, Hugh D. (G'gow, Provan)	Coleman, Donald
Barnes, Michael	Brown, Ronald (Shoreditch & F'bury)	Concannon, J. D.
Barnett, Joel	Buchan, Norman	Conlan, Bernard
Beaney, Alan	Buchanan, Richard (G'gow, Sp'burn)	Corbet, Mrs. Freda
Benn, Rt. Hn. Anthony Wedgwood	Butler, Mrs. Joyce (Wood Green)	Cox, Thomas (Wandsworth, C.)

Crawshaw, Richard	Jeger, Mrs. Lena (H'b'n & St. P'cras, S.)	Peart, Rt. Hn. Fred
Crosland, Rt. Hn. Anthony	Jenkins, Hugh (Putney)	Pendry, Tom
Crossman, Rt. Hn. Richard	Jenkins, Rt. Hn. Roy (Stechford)	Pentland, Norman
Cunningham, G. (Islington, S.W.)	John, Brynmror	Perry, Ernest G.
Dalyell, Tam	Johnson, Carol (Lewisham, S.)	Prescott, John
Davidson, Arthur	Johnson, James (K'ston-on-Hull, W.)	Price, J. T. (Westhoughton)
Davies, Denzil (Llanelly)	Johnson, Walter (Derby, S.)	Price, William (Rugby)
Davies, G. Elfed (Rhondda, E.)	Jones, Barry (Flint, E.)	Probert, Arthur
Davies, Ifor (Gower)	Jones, Dan (Burnley)	Rankin, John
Davis, Clinton (Hackney, C.)	Jones, Rt. Hn. Sir Elwyn (W. Ham, S.)	Reed, D. (Sedgefield)
Deakins, Eric	Jones, Gwynoro (Carmarthen)	Rees, Merlyn (Leeds, S.)
de Freitas, Rt. Hn. Sir Geoffrey	Jones, T. Alec (Rhondda, W.)	Rhodes, Geoffrey
Delargy, H.J.	Judd, Frank	Richard, Ivor
Dell, Rt. Hn. Edmund	Kaufman, Gerald	Roberts, Albert (Normanton)
Dempsey, James	Kerr, Russell	Roberts, Rt. Hn. Goronwy (Caernarvon)
Doig, Peter	Kinnock, Neil	Robertson, John (Paisley)
Dormand, J. D.	Lamond, James	Roderick, Caerwyn E.(Br'c'n & R'dnor)(
Douglas, Dick (Stirlingshire, E.)	Latham, Arthur	Roper, John
Douglas-Mann, Bruce	Lawson, George	Rose, Paul B.
Driberg, Tom	Leadbitter, Ted	Ross, Rt. Hn. William (Kilmarnock)
Duffy, A. E, P.	Lee, Rt. Hn. Frederick	Sheldon, Robert (Ashton-under-Lyne)
Dunn, James A.	Leonard, Dick	Shore, Rt. Hn. Peter (Stepney)
Dunnett, Jack	Lestor, Miss Joan	Short, Rt. Hn. Edward (N' c' tle-u-Tyne)
Eadie, Alex	Lever, Rt. Hn. Harold	Short, Rt. Mrs.Renée (W'hampton, N.E.)
Edwards, Robert (Bilston)	Lewis, Arthur (W. Ham. N.)	Silkin, Rt. Hn. John (Deptford)
Edwards, William (Merioneth)	Lewis, Ron (Carlisle)	Silverman, Julius
Ellis, Tom	Lomas, Kenneth	Skinner, Dennis
English, Michael	Loughlin, Charles	Small, William
Evans, Fred	Lyon, Alexander W. (York)	Smith, John (Lanarkshire, N.)
Fernyhough, Rt. Hn. E.	Lyons, Edward (Bradford, E.)	Spearing, Nigel
Fisher, Mrs. Doris (B'ham, Ladywood)	Mabon, Dr. J. Dickson	Spriggs, Leslie
Fitch, Alan (Wigan)	McBride, Neil	Stallard, A. W.
Fletcher, Raymond (Ilkeston)	McCartney, Hugh	Stewart, Rt. Hn. Michael (Fulham)
Fletcher, Ted (Darlington)	McElhone, Frank	Stoddart, David (Swindon)
Foot, Michael	Mackenzie, Gregor	Stonehouse, Rt. Hn. John
Forrester, John	Mackie, John	Strang, Gavin
Fraser, John (Norwood)	Maclennan, Robert	Strauss, Rt. Hn. G. R.
Freeson, Reginald	McNamara, J. Kevin	Summerskill, Hn. Dr. Shirley
Galpern, Sir Myer		Swain, Thomas
Garrett, W. E.	MacPherson, Malcolm	Taverne, Dick
Gilbert, Dr. John	Mallalieu, J. P. W. (Huddersfield, E.)	Thomas, Rt. Hn. George (Cardiff, W.)
Ginsburg, David	Marquand, David	Thomas, Jeffrey (Abertillery)
	Marsh, Rt. Hn. Richard
Golding, John	Mason, Rt. Hn. Roy	Thomson, R. Hn. G. (Dundee, E.)
Gordon Walker, Rt. Hn. P. C.	Meacher, Michael	Tinn, James
Gourlay, Harry	Mellish, Rt. Hn. Robert	Torney, Tom
Grant, George (Morpeth)	Mendelson, John	Tuck, Raphael
Grant, John D. (Islington, E.)	Millan, Bruce	Varley, Eric G.
Griffiths, Eddie (Brightside)	Miller, Dr. M. S.	Wainwright, Edwin
Griffiths, Will (Exchange)	Milne, Edward (Blyth)	Walker, Harold (Doncaster)
Hamilton, James (Bothwell)	Molloy, William	Wallace, George
Hamilton, William (Fife, W.)	Morgan, Elystan (Cardiganshire)	Watkins, David
Hannan, William (G'gow, Maryhill)	Morris, Alfred (Wythenshawe)	Weitzman, David
Hardy, Peter	Morris, Charles R. (Openshaw)	Wellbeloved, James
Harrison, Walter (Wakefield)	Morris, Rt. Hn. John (Aberavon)	Wells, William (Walsall, N.)
Hart, Rt. Hn. Judith	Moyle, Roland	White, James (Glasgow, Pollok)
Hattersley, Roy	Mulley, Rt. Hn. Frederick	Whitehead, Phillip
Healey, Rt. Hn. Denis	Murray, Ronald King	Whitlock, William
Heffer, Erie S.	Ogden, Eric	Willey, Rt. Hn. Frederick
Horam, John	O'Halloran, Michael	Williams, Alan (Swansea, W.)
Howell, Denis (Small Heath)	O'Malley, Brian	Williams, Mrs. Shirley (Hitchin)
Huckfietd, Leslie	Oram, Bert	Wilson, Alexander (Hamilton)
Hughes, Rt. Hn. Cledwyn (Anglesey)	Orbach, Maurice	Wilson, Rt. Hn. Harold (Huyton)
Hughes, Mark (Durham)	Orme, Stanley	Wilson, William (Coventry, S.)
Hughes, Robert (Aberdeen, N.)	Oswald, Thomas	Woof, Robert
Hughes, Roy (Newport)	Palmer, Arthur
Hunter, Adam	Parker, John (Dagenham)	TELLERS FOR THE NOES:
Irvine, Rt. Hn. Sir Arthur (Edge Hill)	Parry, Robert (Liverpool, Exchange)	Mr. Joseph Harper and
Janner, Greville	Pavitt, Laurie	Mr. William Hamling.
Jay, Rt. Hon. Douglas

Mr. Heffer

On a point of order. As you are aware, Mr. Deputy Speaker, we are labouring under a guillotine. The debate which has just concluded lasted 1 hour and 25 minutes. Of that time, Government spokesmen took 27 minutes and 24 minutes to open and close the debate, and, with the speeches of two hon. Members on the back benches opposite, the Government side took 1 hour and 1 minute of the total of 1 hour and 25 minutes. In view of that, I appeal through you to the Front Bench opposite—

Mr. Deputy Speaker

Order. I think that the House will be aware of the point that the hon. Gentleman is trying to make. He will be aware that it is not a point of order for the Chair. I am sure that his point will be taken.

Mr. R. Carr

Since the hon. Gentleman was allowed to get as far as he did, perhaps I might be allowed to remind the House that, in my reply, I did nothing but answer specific questions which had been raised in the debate. It took a long time, because I was interrupted on several occasions, and I thought that it was courteous to give way to hon. Members who wished to interrupt me.

Mr. Deputy Speaker

Order. All this goes to prove that leniency on the part of the Chair always results in delay. Mr. Orme.

Mr. Orme

I beg to move Amendment (vvvv) to the proposed Clause, in line 6, leave out '(or, if already recognised, should continue to be recognised)'.

Mr. Deputy Speaker

I understand that it is the wish of the House to discuss with it Amendment (xxxx), in line 8, leave out '(or should continue to be so recognised)'; and Amendment (zzzz), in line 17, after 'unions', insert or one or more independent organisations of workers'.

Mr. Orme

This Amendment carries a stage further the debate that we have just concluded. In effect, it removes the right of the Secretary of State, an ememployer or a union to make an application to the Industrial Court to recognise a sole bargaining agent if an agreement on it exists at the present time.

As I understood the Consultative Document and the speeches made at the time here and elsewhere, the Government's original intention was to work towards a sole bargaining agent in a plant. That was their idealistic approach. The purpose was to cut down the number of unions with bargaining power. The Government have found that, although many parts of the Bill are contradictory, this provision really is unworkable.

We have already pointed out that in a single engineering plant there can be the A.U.E.W. with skilled engineering workers, the Transport and General Workers' Union with semi-skilled or unskilled workers, and the A.S.T.M.S. with a membership of technical and supervisory staff. The original idea was that for all those unions, and perhaps others, there should be a sole bargaining agent. That is now recognised to be not possible and, as the Minister said, we shall be able to have two or more "sole" bargaining agents. All this is to be governed through the Industrial Court and administered by the Commission on Industrial Relations.

We as trade unionists say that this is absolute nonsense, and that the issue of collective bargaining and consultation in industry is a matter for discussion and voluntary agreement between unions and employers. We believe that it is quite ridiculous to have a situation in which, when there is an agreement between unions and the employer in a plant, the employer can himself, or jointly with a union which was not then a party to that agreement, seek in the Industrial Court to overturn the current agreement and create an entirely different sole bargaining agent.

There was a good deal of discussion between the Minister and my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer) about the company union. It is worth noting that the Minister said: "We have tried to close this door. The company union would be consulted though the C.I.R. would not have to take it into account, because of the Amendments made to Clause 46." The Minister tells us, "It does not matter whether the union is an organisation of workers, or a registered independent union or a company union; it must be taken into account. It cannot go away; we must recognise it."

11.15 p.m.

It is odd that the Government should take this attitude, because if we look at subsection (2) it says: Subject to the next following subsection, an application under this section relating to the employees of one or more employers may be made—(a) by one or more trade unions". That does not say "organisation of workers." We come back to what is a registered trade union? This is very important. The right hon. Gentleman said that the Government deliberately left this open so that an organisation of workers could be consulted and that that was justifiable, whether it be a registered trade union, an independent organisation or a company union.

When we look at Clause 52 we see that where it suits the Government only registered trade unions are to be consulted. There are different standards in different parts of the Bill to suit the Government's philosophy. It is absolutely contradictory; if they want a registered trade union they put that in; when they want to give preference to a non-registered union they leave others out, and if they want to bring in a company union they give power for that union to be consulted.

There will be conflict, with unions striving for recognition, and employers will try to get sole bargaining agencies from the militant union to the quasi-company union or the non-militant union. We all know of the problems there have been over recognition in the trade union movement. We know of the recent difficulties in the steel industry, and we recall the demarcation dispute in the shipbuilding industry some years ago. These have been ironed out without any industrial court, not by compulsion but by the good sense of the trade unions which, in ironing them out, have brought about better industrial relations, removing many of the frictions within industry. At the same time the T.U.C. has reduced the number of affiliated unions, through amalgamations, from something like 184 to 150, with amalgamations still going on.

I can remember the Secretary of State when he was in Opposition time and again criticising the proliferation of unions, saying that we needed fewer unions so that negotiations could be conducted in a more organised way. I could quote chapter and verse from HANSARD if necessary. When he gets into office he produces a Bill which will create strife on the factory floor and increase competitiveness. It will assist those unions bargaining on militancy, and in other cases it will assist those unions which will try to get recognition and which will be less militant.

These Amendments seek to delete the worst aspects, but we do not accept any of this Clause or its philosophy. It would be absolutely outrageous to allow unions which have come to proper collective bargaining arrangements on a freely negotiated basis to be dragged before the Industrial Court because a dispute may have arisen in a factory and a small group of workers in a small union are in a position, collectively with the employer, to ask the C.I.R. to rewrite the collective bargaining arrangements in that plant. Will that lead to good industrial relations? Is that the sort of situation which the Secretary of State wants?

Today at the Dorchester lunch the Secretary of State talked about misrepresentation and the industrial action taking place at the moment. Does he think that the proposals in the Bill will improve industrial relations? No. He hopes that by all this paraphernalia and all the obstacles and hoops which people w 11 be forced to jump through he will deter trade unionism, shop stewards and organisation on the shop floor.

This Clause, rather than improving the situation, makes it worse. To try to rewrite a bad Clause and a bad policy in the way proposed by the Solicitor-General and the Secretary of State does not help the situation. I therefore ask my hon. Friends to support the principles behind the Amendments.

Mr. R. Carr

The hon. Member for Salford, West (Mr. Orme) has enlarged the moving of his Amendments into one more speech of general principle and, by implication, has once more invited me to reply. This is the difficulty in which I constantly find myself. The hon. Gentleman knows that he has raised a number of points which call for a long speech in reply. If I make a long speech I am in trouble, and if I do not I am accused of not replying to the debate.

A point which the hon. Gentleman seems constantly to forget is that we are talking about machinery to resolve disputes. We are not talking about machinery for the general conduct of good industrial relations day by day. Let the general conduct of good relations day by day take place in the way recommended by the hon. Gentleman. If it does not throw up insoluble disputes, this machinery need never be used. Its purpose is to deal with disputes which fail to be resolved by the type of procedures and methods which the hon. Member advocates. As long as the methods he advocates continue to produce the results and do not throw up disputes which cannot be resolved, all will be fine and we shall all be happy.

Two of the Amendments have the same purpose. They seek to prevent the C.I.R., when looking into a recognition dispute, from considering whether any of the unions already recognised should continue to be recognised. It would be nonsense to get the Commission to look into a situation in which by definition there is a dispute or there is not harmony and to prevent it from looking at unions which are there already. Would the white-collar workers dispute in the steel industry have been resolved by tying the hands of the Commission and saying, "The one thing you cannot do is to consider the position of any union which is recognised?"

Nobody knew that better than the right hon. Lady the Member for Blackburn (Mrs. Castle), who said clearly in her White Paper: In some cases the C.I.R. may only be able to produce a durable solution by recommending the exclusion of one or more unions from recognition. That is what she felt when she was in my position. The overwhelming majority of hon. Members opposite—I except those who did not agree with their Government on this matter—have no right to vote for the Amendment, as presumably they will.

The second separate Amendment concerns subsection (2). It wishes the privilege of application for this machinery to be granted to an independent organisation of workers as well as to registered trade unions. In spite of what has been said, this is a principle on which we have been completely consistent throughout, that the principle of access to the new machineries and procedures which we are providing is only for trade unions, for registered bodies. When it comes to the question of who should be consulted, whose views should be taken into account, then an unregistered body should certainly be considered, and we have said so. But as for the right to use the machinery, it is our consistent view that this and the other machineries should he limited to a registered trade union, and I must ask the House to reject the Amendment.

Mr. Orme

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

Mr. Carr

I am afraid not, after the previous criticism. I ask the House to reject the Amendments.

Mr. Ted Fletcher

The Secretary of State's reply was most unsatisfactory. He has not answered directly the points raised by my hon. Friend.

Mr. Orme

He has not answered any points.

Mr. Fletcher

I ask the right hon. Gentleman to consider the position that will arise where agreements on recognition already exist. Let us get away from legal jargon and look at the situation in a factory where there is a company union or staff association, with 50 per cent. of the clerical staff being its members and the other half being in a trade union that has an agreement with the employers. It is possible under the Clause for a trade union—which would not in this case make an application—the employers or the Secretary of State to ask for bargaining rights for the company union or staff association. That cannot be denied. When we questioned the right hon. Gentleman closely about this he agreed that the Secretary of State would consult the staff association or the company union, but they would not be recognised in the last analysis unless they severed their connection with management—that is, there was no direct financial contribution. But at a time when he suggests that we have too many unions he is creating a situation in which new unions could arise. Our point with reference to the American system was that we are likely to have unions arising in dozens of establishments if the provision goes through. It seems to me inconceivable that in this situation the Government can press the Clause.

The Secretary of State says that it is a more flexible way of rewriting Clause 42. But the matter becomes more complex every time we listen to him or his hon. and learned Friend.

The trade union movement has resolved thousands of disputes on recognition between unions through its own Bridlington Agreement. This is done in an entirely voluntary way. The decisions are not agreeable to some unions, but they recognise that they belong to the trade union movement and accept any advice given them by the T.U.C.

11.30 p.m.

We may have a situation—I want the Secretary of State to listen to this, because this is another weakness in his new Clause—where there is a joint negotiating committee in a factory, a joint negotiating committee composed of a dozen individual unions, and this joint negotiating committee may negotiate on questions which have an overall effect on the employees, on questions affecting holidays, overtime payments, general working conditions, safety in the factory, and so on. Moreover, there may be 12 different procedural agreements affecting each individual union.

So we ask, what does the Secretary of State mean by "bargaining rights"? Under this new Clause we may have a situation where staff unions are given opportunities of becoming bargaining units, and those staff associations may evolve into trade unions in competition with existing trade unions but will not be affilated to the T.U.C. because the T.U.C. will not take them under its umbrella because it is catering for the same type of employees as the existing unions. In consequence, we shall find a proliferation of unions.

Mr. R. Carr

The hon. Gentleman is forgetting that these are all matters for the C.I.R. to consider and to take into account and to make recommendations about. These are exactly the points which the C.I.R. is there to consider and to make sensible recommendations about in the interests of good, orderly, voluntary industrial relations.

Mr. Fletcher

I am quite aware of that. I am saying that the application must be initiated either by the Secretary of State or a trade union or an employer, and I am saying that this machinery and this new Clause will be utilised by the employers for starting their own company trade unions. That is the point I am making. The Secretary of States does not seem to be convinced that this could possibly happen, but I know from my own experience that this does actually happen. There are many industries in which employers encourage staff associations, and unscrupulous employers do all they can to encourage staffs—clerical workers, foremen, and executives—to make breakaway unions, and they encourage their staffs to join company unions. I am saying that under this new Clause which the Secretary of State is proposing those employers will encourage their staff associations to get the same status as trade unions.

In these circumstances I hope that the House will accept the Amendment or reject the new Clause.

Mr. Heffer

Before we proceed any further, let me say that the admonition from this side of the House in relation to length of speeches in the last debate should not have led the right hon. Gentleman to be so brief as not to answer any of the points which were made by my hon. Friends.

Mr. Waddington

What points? There was nothing new to reply to.

Mr. Heffer

All we ask is that Government Front Bench speakers, particularly when making opening speeches, should keep their speeches to reasonable length. That is all. If they will look through the OFFICIAL REPORT of the speeches on this Bill they will find that the Opposition Front Bench speakers have consistently kept to a reasonable time [Interruption.] I am not filibustering, I am just getting the record straight. We are under the guillotine, and we have been restricted because of this guillotine situation. We have not been able to have a proper discussion on some of the most fundamental Clauses because of the guillotine. Yet today the right hon. Gentleman wonders why workers go on strike. I can tell him. It is the actions of the Government which are responsible for the outburst of industrial activity by the workers. If there is an upsurge of industrial activity, the responsibility lies firmly at the door of the Government and in particular of the right hon. Gentleman—

The Solicitor-General

Will the hon. Gentleman acknowledge one fact and answer one question? If he is talking about the length and frequency of speeches, he may recollect that he made 22 speeches in Committee—more than any other hon. Member on the Opposition side save the right hon. Member for Blackburn (Mrs. Castle)—at an average length of 23 column-inches per speech. Since the hon. Gentleman is accusing my right hon. Friend of being responsible for the industrial action now taking place, and in particular that taking place tomorrow, I ask the hon. Gentleman to say, one way or the other, whether he endorses the somewhat equivocal repudiation of his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition of tomorrow's strike. Where does the hon. Gentleman stand?

Mr. Heffer

The first point I should like to make is on the length of the hon. and learned Gentleman's intervention—[HON. MEMBERS: "Answer."] Every-one knows that in replying to or opening a debate I have spoken for only five or seven minutes, quite deliberately, so that my hon. Friends may make a contribution.

My main argument is that it is all very well the right hon. Gentleman going out into the country and being concerned about the strike, but the full responsibility for that strike rests on the Government and on the right hon. Gentleman—

Hon. Members

Answer.

Mr. Speaker

Order. I ask hon. Members to be orderly.

Mr. Heffer

It is the right hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends who, by curtailing democratic discussion on the Bill, are basically responsible for the frustration of the workers about the Bill. Do not let us have any hypocritical statements by the right hon. Gentleman on this matter. As I said yesterday, by the mere introduction of the Bill the right hon. Gentleman has created an industrial relations situation not known since before the second world war, and that is basically the responsibility of the Government.

Hon. Members

Answer.

Mr. R. Carr

Since the hon. Gentleman accuses me of a number of things, above all of being the cause of tomorrow's strike, will he say whether or not he agrees with his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition in condemning it, or does he support it? Let us have a clear "Yes" or "No" answer to that.

Mr. Orme

My hon. Friend is not in the dock; the right hon. Gentleman is.

Mr. Heffer

Exactly. The right hon. Gentleman is in the dock, not myself. The position is quite clear—[Interruption.] The right hon. Gentleman—[Interruption.]

Mr. Speaker

Order. Would it not be a good idea if the House got back to the Amendment?

Mr. Orme

It has nothing to do with the Amendment.

Mr. Heffer

Exactly. But it has something to do with the Amendment in the sense that right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite, by their proopsals, are basically responsible, I repeat, for the present industrial unrest.

Mr. Waddington

Does the hon. Gentleman support it?

Mr. Heffer

I am now going to reply to the points which have been raised in the debate.

Hon. Members

Answer.

Mr. Charles Fletcher-Cooke (Darwen)

Chicken.

Hon. Members

Answer.

Mr. Heffer

I should not make statements of that kind if I were the hon. and learned Gentleman, especially to me. The basic point is that right hon. Gentlemen will go out into the country constantly attacking workers who take industrial action and never accepting responsibility for it. It is the old trick, the old smear tactic, which we are not prepared to accept.

Mr. Norman Atkinson (Tottenham)

Does my hon. Friend agree with myself and the majority of hon. Members on this side of the House that we shall, like good democrats, endorse whatever decision is taken by the T.U.C. tomorrow?

Mr. Heffer

I understand that tomorrow's dispute is official. It has been called by the Amalgamated Engineering Union and by the shipbuilding unions. It is also officially backed by the lay executive of the Transport and General Workers' Union. These decisions were arrived at, as I understand it, on the basis of democratic action—[HON. MEMBERS: "Oh."]—and democratic machinery within the trade union movement.

I do not expect right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite to accept a position with which they do not agree. That is understandable. But I repeat my charge that if there is an outburst of activity by workers in this country the right hon. Gentleman is basically responsible for it. —[HON. MEMBERS: "Answer."] It is no use the right hon. Gentleman trying to duck it or get away from it. The right hon. Gentleman is responsible, his hon. Friend is responsible, and his hon. Friend is responsible, and his supporters are responsible for the present industrial unrest.

It is interesting to note that when people who support the Conservative Party take what might be considered political action there is no criticism by hon. Gentlemen opposite. I did not hear any hon. Gentleman opposite complain about the blocking of the roads by the farmers when they were involved in their dispute. No one said that that was irresponsible action and ought not to have taken place. Right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite have a double standard in these matters—[HON. MEMBERS: "Answer."] I am now going to deal with the points which have been raised—[HON. MEMBERS: "Answer."] My hon. Friend, in his excellent opening speech, made it quite clear that the Amendment is designed to do two things. First, it is designed to ensure that those trade unions which already have a bargaining agency, or are themselves the bargaining agents, should continue and that there is no necessity for them to come within the Clause. As my hon. Friend put it, our

object is to delete the worst aspects of the Clause.

The second important point is that trade unions which are not registered should have the right to make an application. Despite what the hon. Gentleman says, members of the T.U.C. will be deciding tomorrow whether to register under the Bill. Possibly the majority, perhaps all, will refuse to register. These bona fide unions, to which the working men and women of this country belong, have the right to continue to be the bargaining agents in their industries. But the hon. Gentleman said that they could have the so-called privileges of the Bill only if they register. On that basis, I ask my hon. and right hon. Friends to support these Amendments.

Question put, That the Amendment be made:—

The House divided: Ayes 242, Noes 283.

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Abse, Leo	Dalyell, Tam	Hannan, William (G'gow, Maryhill)
Albu, Austen	Davidson, Arthur	Hardy, Peter
Allaun, Frank (Salford, E.)	Davies, Dcnzil (Llanelly)	Harper, Joseph
Allen, Scholefield	Davies, G. Elfed (Rhondda, B.)	Harrison, Walter (Wakefield)
Archer, Peter (Rowley Regis)	Davies, Ifor (Gower)	Hart, Rt. Hn. Judith
Ashton, Joe	Davis, Clinton (Hackney, C.)	Hattersley, Roy
Atkinson, Norman	Dsakins, Eric	Healey, Rt. Hn. Denis
Bagier, Gordon A. T.	de Freitas, Rt. Hn. Sir Geoffrey	Heffer, Eric S.
Barnes, Michael	Delargy, H. J.	Horam, John
Barnett, Joel	Dell, Rt. Hn. Edmund	Howell, Denis (Small Heath)
Beaney, Alan	Dempsey, Junes	Huckfield, Leslie
Benn, Rt. Hn. Anthony Wedgwood	Doig, Peter	Hughes, Rt. Hn. Cledwyn (Anglesey)
Bennett, James (Glasgow, Bridgeton)	Dormand, J. D.	Hughes, Mark (Durham)
Bidwell, Sydney	Douglas, Dick (Stirlingshire, E.)	Hughes, Robert (Aberdeen, N.)
Bishop, E. S.	Douglas-Mann, Bruce	Hughes, Roy (Newport)
Blenldnsop, Arthur	Driberg, Tom	Hunter, Adam
Boardman, H. (Leigh)	Duffy A. E. P.	Irvine, Rt. Hn. Sir Arthur (Edge Hill)
Booth, Albert	Dunn James A	Janner, Greville
Bottomley, Rt. Hn. Arthur	Dunnett, Jack	Jay, Rt. Hn. Douglas
Boyden, James (Bishop Auckland)	Eadie, Alex	Jeger, Mrs. Lena (H'b,n & St. P' cras, S.)
Bradley, Tom	Edwards, Robert (Bilston)	Jenkins, Hugh (Putney)
Brown, Bob (N'c'tle-upon-Tyne, W.)	Edwards, William (Merioneth)	Jenkins, Rt. Hn. Roy (Stechford)
Brown, Hugh D. (G'gow, Provan)	Ellis, Tom	John, Brynmor
Brown, Ronald (Shoreditch & F'bury)	English, Michael	Johnson, Carol (Lewisham, S.)
Buchan, Norman	Evans, Fred	Johnson, James (K'ston-on-Hull, W.)
Buchanan, Richard (G'gow, Sp'burn)	Fernyhough, Rt. Hn. E.	Johnson, Walter (Derby, S.)
Butler, Mrs. Joyce (Wood Green)	Fisher, Mrs. Doris (B,ham, Ladywood)	Jones, Barry (Flint, E.)
Callaghan, Rt. Hn. James	Fletcher, Raymond (Ilkeston)	Jones, Dan (Burnley)
Campbell, I. (Dunbartonshire, W.)	Fletcher, Ted (Darlington)	Jones, Rt. Hn. Sir Elwyn (W. Ham. S.)
Cant, R. B	Foot, Michael	Jones, Gwynoro (Carmarthen)
Carmichael, Neil	Forrester, John	Jones, T. Alee (Rhondda, W.)
Carter-Jones, Lewis (Eccles)	Fraser, John (Norwood)	Judd, Frank
Castle, Rt. Hn. Barbara	Freeson, Reginald	Kaufman, Gerald
Clark, David (Colne Valley)	Galpern, Sir Myer	Kerr, Russell
Cocks, Michael (Bristol, S.)	Garrett, W. E.	Kinnock, Nell
Cohen, Stanley	Gilbert, Dr. John	Lamond, James
Coleman, Donald	Ginsburg, David	Latham, Arthur
Concannon, J. D.	Golding, John	Lawson, George
Conlan, Bernard	Gordon, Walker, Rt. Hn. P. C.	Leadbitter, Ted
Corbet, Mrs. Freda	Gourlay, Harry	Leonard, Dick
Cox, Thomas (Wandsworth, C.)	Gram, John D. (Islington, E.)	Lestor, Miss Joan
Crawshaw, Richard	Griffiths, Eddie (Brightside)	Lever, Rt. Hn. Harold
Cronin, John	Griffiths, Will (Exchange)	Lewis, Arthur (W. Ham, N.)
Crosland, Rt. Hn. Anthony	Hamilton, James (Bothwell)	Lewis, Ron (Carlisle)
Grossman, Rt. Hn. Richard	Hamilton, William (Fife, W.)	Lomas, Kenneth
Cunningham, G. (Islington, S.W.)	Hamling, William	Louglin, Charles
Lyon, Alexander W. (York)	Palmer, Arthur	Stewart, Rt. Hn. Michael (Fulham)
Lyons, Edward (Bradford, E.)	Parker, John (Dagenham)	Stoddart, David (Swindon)
Mabon, Dr. J. Dickson	Parry, Robert (Liverpool, Exchange)	Stonehouse, Rt. Hn. John
McBride, Neil	Pavitt, Laurie	Strang, Gavin
McCartney, Hugh	Peart, Rt. Hn. Fred	Strauss, Rt. Hn. G. R.
McElhone, Frank	Pendry, Tom	Summerskill, Hn. Dr. Shirley
Mackenzie, Gregor	Pentland, Norman	Swain, Thomas
Mackie, John	Perry, Ernest G.	Taverne, Dick
Maclennan, Robert	Prescott, John	Thomas, Rt. Hn. George (Cardiff, W.)
McNamara, J. Kevin	Price, J. T. (Westhoughton)	Thomas, Jeffrey (Abertillery)
MacPherson, Malcolm	Price, William (Rugby)	Thomson, Rt. Hn. G. (Dundee, E.)
Mallalieu, J. P. W. (Huddersfield, E.)	Probert, Arthur	Tinn, James
Marquand, David	Rankin, John	Torney, Tom
Marsh, Rt. Hn. Richard	Reed, D. (Sedgefield)	Tuck, Raphael
Mason, Rt. Hn. Roy	Rees, Merlyn (Leeds, S.)	Varley, Eric G.
Meacher, Michael	Rhodes, Geoffrey	Wainwright, Edwin
Mellish, Rt. Hn. Robert	Richard, Ivor	Walker, Harold (Doncaster)
Mendelson, John	Roberts, Albert (Normanton)	Wallace, George
Millan, Bruce	Roberts, Rt. Hn. Goronwy (Caernarvon)	Watkins, David
Miller, Dr. M. S.	Robertson, John (Paisley)	Weitzman, David
Milne, Edward (Blyth)	Roderick, Caerwyn E. (Br'cn &,R'dnor)	Wellbeloved, James
Molloy, William	Roper, John	Wells, William (Walsall, N.)
Morgan, Elystan (Cardiganshire)	Rose, Paul B.	White, James (Glasgow, Pollok)
Morris, Alfred (Wythenshawe)	Ross, Rt. Hn. William (Kilmarnock)	Whitehead, Phillip
Morris, Charles R. (Openshaw)	Sheldon, Robert (Ashton-under-Lyne)	Whitlock, William
Morris, Rt. Hn. John (Aberavon)	Shore, Rt. Hn. Peter (Stepney)	Willey, Rt. Hn. Frederick
Moyle, Roland	Short, Rt. Hn. Edward (N'c'tle-u-Tyne)	Williams, Alan (Swansea, W.)
Mulley, Rt. Hn. Frederick	Short, Mrs. Renee (W'hampton, N.E.)	Williams, Mrs. Shirley (Hitchin)
Murray, Ronald King	Silkin, Rt. Hn. John (Deptford)	Wilson, Alexander (Hamilton)
Ogden, Eric	Silverman, Julius	Wilson, Rt. Hn. Harold (Huyton)
O'Halloran, Michael	Skinner, Dennis	Wilson, William (Coventry, S.)
O'Malley, Brian	Small, William	Woof, Robert
Oram, Bert	Smith, John (Lanarkshire, N.)
Orbach, Maurice	Spearing, Nigel	TELLERS FOR THE AYES:
Orme, Stanley	Spriggs, Leslie	Mr. Alan Fitch and
Oswald, Thomas	Stallard, A. W.	Mr. Ernest Armstrong.
NOES
Adley, Robert	Cooke, Robert	Goodhart, Philip
Alison, Michael (Barkston Ash)	Coombs, Derek	Goodhew, Victor
Allason, James (Hemel Hempstead)	Cooper, A. E.	Gorst, John
Amery, Rt. Hn. Julian	Corfield, Rt. Hn. Frederick	Gower, Raymond
Archer, Jeffrey (Louth)	Cormack, Patrick	Gray, Hamish
Astor, John	Costain, A. P.	Green, Alan
Atkins, Humphrey	Critchley, Julian	Grieve, Percy
Awdry, Daniel	Crouch, David	Griffiths, Eldon (Bury St. Edmunds)
Baker, Kenneth (St. Marylebone)	Crowder, F. P.	Grylls, Michael
Balniel, Lord	Curran, Charles	Gummer, Selwyn
Batsford, Brian	Dalkeith, Earl of	Gurden, Harold
Beamish, Col. Sir Tufton	d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, Sir Henry	Hall, Miss Joan (Keighley)
Bell, Ronald	di'Avigdor-Goldemid, Maj.-Gen. James	Hall, John (Wycombe)
Bennett, Dr. Reginald (Gosport)	Dean, Paul	Hall-Davis, A. G. F.
Benyon, W.	Deedes, Rt. Hn. W. F.	Hamilton, Michael (Satisbury)
Berry, Hn. Anthony	Digby, Simon Wingfield	Hannam, John (Exeter)
Biffen, John	Dlxon, Piers	Harrison, Col. Sir Harwood (Eye)
Biggs-Davison, John	Dodds-Parker, Douglas	Harvey, Sir Arthur Vere
Blaker, Peter	Douglas-Home, Rt. Hn. Sir Alec	Haselhurst, Alan
Boardman, Tom (Leicester, S.W.)	du Cann, Rt. Hn. Edward	Hasting, Stephen
Body, Richard	Dykes, Hugh	Hawkins, Paul
Boscawen, Robert	Eden, Sir John	Hayhoe, Barney
Bossom, Sir Clive	Edwards, Nicholas (Pembroke)	Heseltine, Michael
Boyd-Carpenter Rt. Hn. John	Elliott, R. W. (N'c'tle-upon-Tyne, N.)	Hicks, Robert
Braine, Bernard	Emery, Peter	Higgins, Terence L.
Bray, Ronald	Eyre, Reginald	Hill, John E. B. (Norfolk, S.)
Brewis, John	Farr, John	Hill, James (Southampton, Test)
Brinton, Sir Tatton	Fenner, Mrs. Peggy	Holland, Philip
Brocklebank-Fowler, Christopher	Fidler, Michael	Holt, Miss Mary
Brown, Sir Edward (Bath)	Finsberg, Geoffrey (Hampstead)	Hooson, Emiyn.
Bryan, Paul	Fisher, Nigel (Surbiton)	Hordern, Peter
Buchanan-Smith, Alick (Angus, N & M)	Fletcher-Cooke, Charles	Hornby, Richard
Buck, Antony	Fookes, Miss Janet	Hornsby-Smith, Rt. Hn. Dame Patricia
Bullus, Sir Eric	Fortescue, Tim	Howe, Hn. Sir Geoffrey (Reigate)
Butler, Adam (Bosworth)	Foster, Sir John	Howell, David (Guildford)
Campbell, Rt. Hn. G. (Moray & Nairn)	Fowler, Norman	Howell, Ralph (Norfolk, N.)
Carlisle, Mark	Fox, Marcus	Hutchison, Michael Clark
Carr, Rt Hn. Robert	Fraser, Rt. Hn. Hugh (st'fford & Stone)	Iremonger, T. L.
Chapman, Sydney	Fry, Peter	James, David
Chataway, Rt. Hn. Christopher	Gardner, Edward	Jenkin, Patrick (Woodford)
Churchill, W. S.	Gibson-Watt, David	Jessel, Toby
Clark, William (Surrey, E.)	Gilmour, Ian (Norfolk, C.)	Johnson Smith, G. (E. Grinstead)
Clarke, Kenneth (Rushcliffe)	Gilmour, Sir John (Fife, E.)	Jones, Arthur (Northants, S.)
Clegg, Walter	Glyn, Dr. Alan	Jopling, Michael
Cockeram, Eric	Godber, Rt. Hn. J. B.	Joseph, Rt. Hn. Sir Keith

Kaberry, Sir Donald	Morgan-Giles, Rear-Adm.	Spence, John
Kellett, Mrs. Elaine	Morrison, Charles (Devizes)	Sproat, Iain
Kershaw, Anthony	Mudd, David	Stainton, Keith
Kilfedder, James	Murton, Oscar	Stanbrook, Ivor
Kimball, Marcus	Nabarro, Sir Gerald	Steel, David
King, Evelyn (Dorset, S.)	Neave, Airey	Stewart-Smith, D. G. (Belper)
King, Tom (Bridgwater)	Noble, Rt. Hn. Michael	Stodart, Anthony (Edinburgh, W.)
Kinsey, J. R.	Normanton, Tom	Stoddart-Scott, Col. Sir M.
Kirk, Peter	Nott, John	Stokes, John
Kitson, Timothy	Oppenheim, Mrs. Sally	Stuttaford, Dr. Tom
Knight, Mrs. Jill	Osborn, John	Sutcliffe, John
Knox, David	Owen, Idris (Stockport, N.)	Tapsell, Peter
Lambton, Antony	Page, John (Harrow, W.)	Taylor, Sir Charles (Eastbourne)
Lane, David	Parkinson, Cecil (Enfield, W.)	Taylor, Frank (Moss Side)
Langford-Holt, Sir John	Peel, John	Taylor, Robert (Croydon, N.W.)
Legge-Bourke, Sir Harry	Percival, Ian	Tebbit, Norman
Le Merchant, Spencer	Peyton, Rt. Hn. John	Temple, John M.
Lewis, Kenneth (Rutland)	Pink, R. Bonner	Thatcher, Rt. Hn. Mrs. Margaret
Lloyd, Ian (P'tsm'th, Langstone)	Pounder, Rafton	Thomas, John Stradling (Monmouth)
Longden, Gilbert	Powell, Rt. Hn. J. Enoch	Thompson, Sir Richard (Croydon, S.)
Loveridge, John	Price, David (Eastleigh)	Tilney, John
MacArthur, Ian	Proudfoot, Wilfred	Trafford, Dr. Anthony
McCrindle, R. A.	Pym, Rt. Hn. Francis	Trew, Peter
McLaren, Martin	Quennell, Miss J. M.	Tugendhat, Christopher
Maclean, Sir Fitzroy	Raison, Timothy	Turton, Rt. Hn. R. H.
McMaster, Stanley	Ramsden, Rt. Hn. James	Vaughan, Dr. Gerard
Macmillan, Maurice (Farnham)	Rawlinson, Rt. Hn. Sir Peter	Vickers, Dame Joan
McNair-Wilson, Michael	Reed, Laurance (Bolton, E.)	Waddington, David
McNair-Wilson, Patrick (NewForest)	Rees, Peter (Dover)	Walder, David (Clitheroe)
Maddan, Martin	Rees-Davies, W. R.	Walker, Rt. Hn. Peter (Worcester)
Madel, David	Renton, Rt. Hn. Sir David	Walker-Smith, Rt. Hn. Sir Derek
Maginnis, John E.	Rhys Williams, Sir Brandon	Wall, Patrick
Marples, Rt. Hn. Ernest	Ridley, Hn. Nicholas	Walters, Dennis
Marten, Neil	Ridsdale, Julian	Ward, Dame Irene
Maude, Angus	Roberts, Michael (Cardiff, N.)	Wells, William (Walsall, N.)
Maudling, Rt. Hn. Reginald	Roberts, Wyn (Conway)	White, Roger (Gravesend)
Mawby, Ray	Rossi, Hugh (Hornsey)	Whitelaw, Rt. Hn. William
Maxwell-Hyslop, R. J.	Rost, Peter	Wiggin, Jerry
Meyer, Sir Anthony	Russell, Sir Ronald	Wilkinson, John
Mills, Peter (Torrington)	St. John-Stevas, Norman	Wolrige-Gordon, Patrick
Mills, Stratton (Belfast, N.)	Scott, Nicholas	Wood, Rt. Hn. Richard
Miscampbell, Norman	Scott-Hopkins, James	Woodhouse, Hn. Christopher
Mitchell, Lt.-Col. C.(Aberdoenshire, W.)	Sharples, Richard	Woodnutt, Mark
Mitchell, David (Basingstoke)	Shaw, Michael (Sc'b'gh & Whitby)	Worsley, Marcus
Moats, Roger	Shelton, William (Clapham)	Wylic, Rt. Hn. N. R.
Molyneaux, James	Simeons, Charles	Younger, Hn. George
Money, Ernie	Sinclair, Sir George
Monks, Mrs. Connie	Skeet, T. H. H.	TELLERS FOR THE NOES:
Monro, Hector	Smith, Dudley (W'wick & L'mington)	Mr. Bernard Weatherill and
Montgomery, Fergus	Soref, Harold	Mr. Keith Speed.
More, Jasper

Amendment (zzzz) proposed to the proposed Clause, in line 17, after 'unions' insert: 'or one or more independent organizations of workers'.—[Mrs. Castle.]

Question put, That the Amendment be made to the proposed Clause:—

The House divided: Ayes 240, Noes 282.

Division No. 254.]	AYES	[11.58 p.m.
Abse, Leo	Brown, Ronald (Shoreditch & F'bury)	Crossman, Rt. Hn. Richard
Albu, Austen	Buchan, Norman	Cunningham, G. (Islington, S.W.)
Allaun, Frank (Salford, E.)	Buchanan, Richard (G'gow, Sp'burn)	Dalyell, Tam
Allen, Scholefield	Butler, Mrs. Joyce (Wood Green)	Davidson, Arthur
Archer, Peter (Rowley Regis)	Callaghan, Rt. Hn. James	Davies, Denzil (Llanelly)
Ashton, Joe	Campbell, I. (Dunbartonshire, W.)	Davies, G. Elfed (Rhondda, E.)
Atkinson, Norman	Cant, R. B.	Davies, Ifor (Gower)
Bagier, Gordon A. T.	Carmichael, Neil	Davis, Clinton (Hackney, G.)
Barnes, Michael	Carter-Jones, Lewis (Eccles)	Deakins, Eric
Barnett, Joel	Castle, Rt. Hn, Barbara	de Freitas, Rt. Hn. Sir Geoffrey
Benn, Rt. Hn. Anthony Wedgwood	Clark, David (Colne Valley)	Delargy, H. J.
Bennett, James (Glasgow, Bridgeton)	Cocks, Michael (Bristol, S.)	Dell, Rt. Hn. Edmund
Bidwell, Sydney	Cohen, Stanley	Dempsey, James
Bishop, E. S.	Coleman, Donald	Doig, Peter
Blenkinsop, Arthur	Concannon, J. D.	Dormand, J. D.
Booth, Albert	Conian, Bernard	Douglas, Dick (Stirlingshire, E.)
Bottomiey, Rt. Hn. Arthur	Corbet, Mrs. Freda	Douglas-Mann, Bruce
Boyden, James (Bishop Auckland)	Cox, Thomas (Wandsworth, C.)	Driberg, Tom
Bradley, Tom	Crawshaw, Richard	Duffy, A. E. P.
Brown, Bob (N'c'tle-upon-Tyne. W.)	Cronin, John	Dunnett, Jack
Brown, Hugh D. (G'gow, Provan)	Crosland, Rt. Hn. Anthony	Eadle, Alex
Edwards, Robert (Bilston)	Kinnock, Neil	Reed, D. (Sedgefield)
Edwards, William (Merioneth)	Lamond, James	Rees, Merlyn (Leeds, S.)
Ellis, Tom	Latham, Arthur	Rhodes, Geoffrey
English, Michael	Lawson, George	Richard, Ivor
Evans, Fred	Leadbitter, Ted	Roberts, Albert (Normanton)
Fernyhough, Rt. Hn. E.	Leonard, Dick	Roberts, Rt. Hn. Goronwy (Caernarvon)
Fisher, Mrs. Doris (B'ham, Ladywood)	Lestor, Miss Joan	Robertson, John (Paisley)
Fletcher, Raymond (Ilkeston)	Lever, Rt. Hn. Harold	Roderick, Caerwyn E. (Br'c'n&R'dnor)
Fletcher, Ted (Darlington)	Lewis, Arthur (W. Ham, N.)	Rodgers, William (Stockton-on-Tees)
Foot, Michael	Lewis, Ron (Carlisle)	Roper, John
Forrester, John	Lomas, Kenneth	Rose, Paul B.
Fraser, John (Norwood)	Loughlin, Charles	Ross, Rt. Hn. William (Kilmarnock)
Freeson, Reginald	Lyon, Alexander W. (York)	Sheldon, Robert (Ashton-under-Lyne)
Galpern, Sir Myer	Lyons, Edward (Bradford, E.)	Shore, Rt. Hn. Peter (Stepney)
Garrett, W. E.	Mabon, Dr. J. Dickson	Short, Rt. Hn. Edward (N 'c'tle-u-Tyne)
Gilbert, Dr. John	McBride, Neil	Short, Mrs. Renée (W'hampton, N.E.)
Ginsburg, David	McCartney, Hugh	Silkin, Rt. Hn. John (Deptford)
Golding, John	McElhone, Frank	Silverman, Julius
Gordon Walker, Rt. Hn. P. C.	Mackenzie, Gregor	Skinner, Dennis
Gourlay, Harry	Mackie, John	Small, William
Grant, George (Morpeth)	Maclennan, Robert	Smith, John (Lanarkshire)
Grant, John D. (Islington, E.)	McNamara, J. Kevin	Spearing, Nigel
Griffiths, Eddie (Brightside)	Macpherson, Malcolm	Spriggs, Leslie
Griffiths, Wiff (Exchange)	Mallaiieu, J. P. W. (Huddersfield, E.)	Stalfard, A. W.
Hamilton, James (Bothwell)	Marquand, David	Stewart, Rt. Hn. Michael (Fulham)
Hamilton, William (Fife, W.)	Mason, Rt. Hn. Roy	Stoddart, David (Swindon)
Hamling, William	Meacher, Michael	Stonehouse, Rt. Hn. John
Hannan, William (G'gow, Maryhill)	Mellish, Rt. Hn. Robert	Strang, Gavin
Hardy, Peter	Mendelson, John	Strauss, Rt. Hn. G. R.
Harper, Joseph	Millan, Bruce	Summerskill, Hn. Dr. Shirley
Harrison, Walter (Wakefield)	Miller, Dr. M. S.	Swain, Thomas
Hart, Rt. Hn. Judit	Molloy, William	Thomas. Rt. Hn. George (Cardiff. W.)
Hattersley, Roy	Morgan, Elystan (Cardiganshire)	Thomas, Jeffrey (Abertillery)
Healey, Rt. Hn. Denis	Morris, Alfred (Wythenshawe)	Thomson, Rt, Hn. G. (Dundee, E.)
Heffer, Eric S.	Morris, Charles R. (Openshaw)	Tinn, James
Horam, John	Morris, Rt. Hn. John (Aberavon)	Torney, Tom
Howell, Denis (Small Heath)	Moyle, Roland	Tuck, Raphael
Huckfield, Leslie	Mulley, Rt. Hn. Frederick	Varley, Eric G.
Hughes, Rt. Hn. Cledwyn (Anglesey)	Murray, Ronald King	Wainwright, Edwin
Hughes, Mark (Durham)	Ogden, Eric	Walker, Harold (Doncaster)
Hughes, Robert (Aberdeen, N.)	O'Halloran, Michael	Wallace, George
Hughes, Roy (Newport)	O'Malley, Brian	Watkins, David
Hunter, Adam	Oram, Bert	Weinman, David
Irvine, Rt. Hn. Sir Arthur (Edge Hill)
Janner, Greville	Orbach, Maurice	Wellbeloved, James
Jay, Rt. Hn. Douglas	Orme, Stanley	Wells, William (Walsall, N.)
Jeger, Mrs. Lena (H'b'n & St. P'cras, S.)	Oswald, Thomas	White, James (Glasgow, Pollok)
Jenkins, Hugh (Putney)	Palmer, Arthur	Whitehead, Phillip
Jenkins, Rt. Hn. Roy (Stechford)	Parker, John (Dagenham)	Whitlock, William
John, Brynmor	Parry, Robert (Liverpool, Exchange)	Willey, Rt. Hn. Frederick
Johnson, Carol (Lewisham, S.)	Pavitt, Laurie	Williams, Alan (Swansea, W.)
Johnson, James (K'ston-on-Hull, W.)	Peart, Rt. Hn. Fred	Williams, Mrs. Shirley (Hitchin)
Johnson, Walter (Derby, S.)	Pendry, Tom	Wilson, Alexander (Hamilton)
Jones, Barry (Flint, E.)	Pentland, Norman	Wilson, Rt. Hn. Harold (Huyton)
Jones, Dan (Burnley)	Perry, Ernest G.	Wilson, William (Coventry, S.)
Jones, Rt. Hn. Sir Elwyn (W. Ham, S.)	Prescott, John	Woof, Robert
Jones, Gwynoro (Carmarthen)	Price, J. T. (Westhoughton)
Jones, T. Alec (Rhondda, W.)	Price, William (Rugby)	TELLERS FOR THE AYES:
Judd, Frank	Probert, Arthur	Mr. Alan Fitch and
Kaufman, Gerald	Rankin, John	Mr. Ernest Armstrong.
Kerr, Russell
NOES
Adley, Robert	Body, Richard	Churchill, W. S.
Alison, Michael (Barkston Ash)	Boscawen, Robert	Clark, William (Surrey, E.)
Allason, James (Heme) Hempstead)	Bossom, Sir Clive	Clarke, Kenneth (Rushcliffe)
Amery, Rt. Hn. Julian	Boyd-Carpenter, Rt. Hn. John	Cockeram, Eric
Archer, Jeffry (Louth)	Braine, Bernard	Cooke, Robert
Astor, John	Bray, Ronald	Coombs, Derek
Atkins, Humphrey	Brewis, John	Cooper, A. E.
Awdry, Daniel	Brinton, Sir Tatton	Corfield, Rt. Hn. Frederick
Baker, Kenneth (St. Marylebone)	Brocklebank-Fowler, Christopher	Cormack, Patrick
Balniel, Lord	Brown, Sir Edward (Bath)	Costain, A. P.
Batsford, Brian	Bryan, Paul	Critchley, Julian
Beamish, Col. Sir Tufton	Buchanan-Smith, Alick (Angus,N & M)	Crouch, David
Bell, Ronald	Buck, Antony	Crowder, F. P.
Bennett, Dr. Reginald (Gosport)	Bullus, Sir Eric	Curran, Charles
Benyon, W.	Butler, Adam (Bosworth)	Dalkeith, Earl of
Berry, Hn. Anthony	Campbell, Rt.Hn.G. (Moray & Nairn)	d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, Sir Henry
Biffen, John	Carlisle, Mark	d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, Maj-Gen. James
Biggs-Davison, John	Carr, Rt. Hn. Robert	Dean, Paul
Blaker, Peter	Chapman, Sydney	Deedes, Rt. Hn. W. F.
Boardman, Tom (Leicester, S.W.)	Chataway, Rt. Hn. Christopher	Digby, Simon Wingfield

Dixon, Piers	Kershaw, Anthony	Rawlinson, Rt. Hn. Sir Peter
Dodds-Parker, Douglas	Kilfedder, James	Reed, Laurance (Bolton, E.)
Douglas-Home, Rt. Hn. Sir Alec	Kimball, Marcus	Rees, Peter (Dover)
du Cann, Rt. Hn. Edward	King, Evelyn (Dorset, S.)	Rees-Davies, W. R.
Dykes, Hugh	King, Tom (Bridgwater)	Renton, Rt. Hn. Sir David
Eden, Sir John	Kinsey, J. R.	Rhys Williams, Sir Brandon
Edwards, Nicholas (Pembroke)	Kirk, Peter	Ridley, Hn. Nicholas
Elliott, R. W. (N'c'tle-upon-Tyne, N.)	Kitson, Timothy	Ridsdale, Julian
Emery, Peter	Knight, Mrs. Jill	Roberts, Michael (Cardiff, N.)
Eyre, Reginald	Knox, David	Roberts, Wyn (Conway)
Farr, John	Lambton, Antony	Rossi, Hugh (Hornsey)
Fenner, Mrs. Peggy	Lane, David	Rost, Peter
Fidler, Michael	Langford-Holt, Sir John	Russell, Sir Ronald
Finsberg, Geoffrey (Hampstead)	Legge-Bourke, Sir Harry	St. John-Stevas, Norman
Fisher, Nigel (Surbiton)	Le Marchant, Spencer	Scott, Nicholas
Fletcher-Cooke, Charles	Lewis, Kenneth (Rutland)	Scott-Hopkins, James
Fookes, Miss Janet	Lloyd, Ian (P'tsm'th, Langstone)	Sharples, Richard
Fortescue, Tim	Longden, Gilbert	Shaw, Michael (Sc'b'gh & Whitby)
Foster, Sir John	Loveridge, John	Shelton, William (Clapham)
Fowler, Norman	MacArthur, Ian	Simeon, Charles
Fox, Marcus	McCrindle, R. A.	Sinclair, Sir George
Fraser, Rt. Hn. Hugh (St'fford & Stone)	McLaren, Martin	Skeet, T. H. H.
Fry, Peter	Maclean, Sir Fitzroy	Smith, Dudley (W'wick & L'mington)
Gardner, Edward	McMaster, Stanley	Soref, Harold
Gibson-Watt, David	Macmillan, Maurice (Farnham)	Spence, John
Gilmour, Ian (Norfolk, C.)	McNair-Wilson, Michael	Sproat, Iain
Gilmour, Sir John (Fife, E.)	McNair-Wilson, Patrick (NewForest)	Stainton, Keith
Glyn, Dr. Alan	Madel, David	Steel, David
Godber, Rt. Hn. J. B.	Maginnis, John E.	Stewart-Smith, D. G. (Belper)
Goodhart, Philip	Marples, Rt. Hn. Ernest	Stodart, Anthony (Edinburgh, W.)
Goodhew, Victor	Marten, Neil	Stoddart-Scott, Col. Sir M.
Gorst, John	Maude, Angus	Stokes, John
Gower, Raymond	Maudling, Rt. Hn. Reginald	Stokes, John
Gray Hamish	Mawby, Ray	Sutcliffe, John
Green, Alan	Maxwell-Hyslop, R. J.	Tapsell, Peter
Grieve, Percy	Meyer, Sir Anthony	Taylor, Sir Charles (Eastbourne)
Griffiths, Eldon (Bury St. Edmunds)	Mills, Peter (Torrington)	Taylor, Frank (Moss Side)
Grylls, Michael
Gummer, Selwyn	Mills, Stratton (Belfast, N.)	Taylor, Robert (Croydon, N.W.)
Gurden, Harold	Miscampbell, Norman	Tebbit, Norman
Half, Miss Joan (Keighley)	Mitchell, Lt.-Col. C(Aberdeenshir, W)	Temple, John M.
Hall, John (Wycombe)	Mitchell, David (Basingstoke)	Thatcher, Rt. Hn. Mrs. Margaret
Hall-Davis, A. G. F.	Moats, Roger	Thomas, John Stradling (Monmouth)
Hamilton, Michael (Salisbury)	Molyneaux, James	Thompson, Sir Richard (Croydon, S.)
Hannam, John (Exeter)	Money, Ernie	Tilney, John
Harrison, Col. Sir Harwood (Eye)	Monks, Mrs. Connie	Trafford, Dr. Anthony
Harvey, Sir Arthur Vere	Monro, Hector	Trew, Peter
Haselhurst, Alan	Montgomery, Fergus	Tugendhat, Christopher
Hastings, Stephen	More, Jasper	Turton, Rt. Hn. R. H.
Hawkins, Paul	Morgan, Geraint (Denbigh)	Vaughan, Dr. Gerard
Hayhoe, Barney	Morrison, Charles (Devizes)	Vickers, Dame Joan
Heseltine Michael	Mudd, David	Waddington, David
Hicks, Robert	Murton, Oscar	Walder, David (Clitheroe)
Higgins, Terence L.	Nabarro, Sir Gerald	Walker, Rt. Hn. Peter (Worcester)
Hill, John E. B. (Norfolk, S.)	Neave, Airey	Walker-Smith, Rt. Hn. Sir Derek
Hill, James (Southampton, Test)	Noble, Rt. Hn. Michael	Wall Patrick
Holland, Philip	Normanton, Tom	Walters, Dennis
Holt, Miss Mary	Nott, John	Ward, Dame Irene
Hcoson, Emlyn	Oppenheim, Mrs. Sally	Weatherill, Bernard
Hordern, Peter	Osborn, John	Wells, John (Maidstone)
Hornby, Richard	Owen, Idris (Stockport, N.)	White, Roger (Gravesend)
Hornsby-Smith, Rt. Hn. DamePatricia	Page John, (Harrow, W.)	Whitelaw, Rt. Hn. William
Howe, Hn. Sir Geoffrey (Reigate)	Parkinson, Cecil (Enfield, W.)	Wiggin, Jerry
Howell, David (Guildford)	Peel, John	Wilkinson, John
Howell, Ralph (Norfolk, N.)	Percival, Ian	Wolrige-Gordon, Patrick
Hutchison, Michael Clark	Peyton, Rt. Hn. John	Wood, Rt. Hn. Richard
Iremonger, T. L.	Pink, R. Bonner	Woodhouse, Hn. Christopher
James, David	Pounder, Rafton	Woodnutt, Mark
Jenkin, Patrick (Woodford)	Powell, Rt. Hn. J. Enoch	Worstey, Marcus
Jcssel, Toby	Price, David (Eastleigh)	Wylie, Rt. Hn. N. R.
Johnson Smith, G. (E. Grinstead)	Proudfoot, Wilfred	Younger, Hn. George
Jones, Arthur (Northants, S)	Pym, Rt. Hn. Francis
Jopling, Michael	Quennell, Miss J. M.	TELLERS FOR THE NOES:
Joseph, Rt. Hn. Sir Keith	Raison, Timothy	Mr. Walter Clegg and
Kaberry, Sir Donald	Ramsden, Rt. Hn. James	Mr. Keith Speed.
Kellett, Mrs. Elaine

It being after Twelve o'clock, Mr. SPEAKER proceeded, pursuant to Standing Order No. 43 (Business Committee) and the Orders [25th January and 15th March], to put forthwith the Question necessary to complete the proceedings on the new Clause (Application to Industrial Court for reference as to recognition of sole bargaining agent).

Question put, That the Clause be added to the Bill:—

The House divided: Ayes 281, Noes 239.

Division No. 255.]	AYES	[12.8 a.m.
Adley, Robert	Fowler, Norman	Maclean, Sir Fitzroy
Alison, Michael (Barkston Ash)	Fox, Marcus	McMaster, Stanley
Allison, James (Hemel Hempstead)	Fraser, Rt. Hn. Hugh (St'fford & Stone)	Macmillan, Maurice (Farnham)
Amery, Rt. Hn. Julian	Fry, Peter	McNair-Wilson, Michael
Archer, Jeffrey (Louth)	Gardner, Edward	McNair-Wilson, Patrick (NewForest)
Astor, John	Gibson-Watt, David	Maddan, Martin
Atkins, Humphrey	Gilmour, Ian (Norfolk, C.)	Madel, David
Awdry, Daniel	Gilmour, Sir John (Fife, E.)	Maginnis, John E.
Baker, Kenneth (St. Marylebone)	Glyn, Dr. Alan	Marples, Rt. Hn. Ernest
Batsford, Brian	Godber, Rt. Hn. J, B.	Marten, Neil
Beamish, Col. Sir Tuftcn	Goodhart, Philip	Maude, Angus
Bell, Ronald	Goodhew, Victor	Maudling, Rt. Hn. Reginald
Bennett, Dr. Reginald (Gosport)	Gorst, John	Mawby, Ray
Benyon, W.	Gower, Raymond	Maxwell-Hyslop, R. J.
Berry, Hn. Anthony	Gray, Hamish	Meyer, Sir Anthony
Biffen, John	Green, Alan	Mills, Peter (Torrington)
Biggs-Davison, John	Grieve, Percy	Mills, Stratton (Belfast, N.)
Blaker, Peter	Griffiths, Eldon (Bury St. Edmunds)	Miscampbell, Norman
Boardman, Tom (Leicester, S. W.)	Grylls, Michael	Mitchell, Lt.-Col. C. (Aberdeenshire, W)
Body, Richard	Gummer, Selwyn	Mitchell, David (Basingstoke)
Boecawen, Robert	Gurden, Harold	Moate, Roger
Bossom, Sir Clive	Hall, Miss Joan (Keighley)	Molyneaux, James
Boyd-Carpenter, Rt. Hn. John	Hall, John (Wycombe)	Money, Ernle
Braine, Bernard	Hall-Davis, A. G. F.	Monks, Mrs. Connie
Bray, Ronald	Hamilton, Michael (Salisbury)	Monro, Hector
Brewis, John	Hannam, John (Exeter)	Montgomery, Fergus
Brinton, Sir Tatton	Harrison, Col. Sir Harwood (Eye)	More, Jasper
Brocklebank-Fowler, Christopher	Harvey, Sir Arthur Vere	Morgan-Giles, Rear-Adm.
Brown, Sir Edward (Bath)	Haselhurst, Alan	Morrison, Charles (Devizes)
Bryan, Paul	Hastings, Stephen	Mudd, David
Buchanan-Smith, Alick (Angus, N & M)	Hayhoe, Barney	Murton, Oscar
Buck, Antony	Heseltine, Michael
Bullus, Sir Eric	Hicks, Robert	Nabarro, Sir Gerald
Butler, Adam (Bosworth)	Higgins, Terence L.	Neave, Airey
Campbell, Rt. Hn. G. (Moray & Nairn)	Hill, John E. B. (Norfolk, S.)	Noble, Rt. Hn. Michael
Carlisle, Mark	Hill, James (Southampton, Test)	Normanton, Tom
Carr, Rt. Hn. Robert	Holland, Philip	Nott, John
Chapman, Sydney	Holt, Miss Mary	Oppenheim, Mrs. Sally
Chataway, Rt. Hn. Christopher	Hooson, Emlyn	Owen, Idris (Stockport, N.)
Churchill, W. S.	Hordern, Peter	Page, John (Harrow, W.)
clark, William (Surrey, E.)	Hornby, Richard	ParKinson, Cecil (Enfield, W.)
Clarke Kenneth (Rushcliffe)	Hornsby-Smith. Rt. Hn. Dame Patricia	Peel, John
Cockeram, Eric	Howe, Hn. Sir Geoffrey (Reigate)	Percival, Ian
Cooke, Robert	Howell, David (Guildford)	Peyton, Rt. Hn. John
Coombs, Derek	Howell, Ralph (Norfolk, N.)	Pink, R. Bonner
Cooper, A. E.	Hutchison, Michael Clark	Pounder, Rafton
Corfield, Rt. Hn. Frederick	Iremonger, T. L.	Powell, Rt. Hn. J. Enoch
Cormack, Patrick	James, David	Price, David (Eastleigh)
Costain, A. P.	Jenkin, Patrick (Woodford)	Proudfoot, Wilfred
Critchiey, Julian	Jessel, Toby	Pym, Rt. Hn. Francis
Crouch, David	Johnson Smith, G. (E. Grinstead)	Quennell, Miss J. M.
Crowder, F. P.	Jones, Arthur (Northants, S.)	Raison, Timothy
Curran, Charles	Jopling, Michael	Ramsden, Rt. Hn. James
Dalkeith, Earl of	Joseph, Rt. Hn. Sir Keith	Rawlinson, Rt. Hn. Sir Peter
d' Avigdor-Goldsmid, Sir Henry	Kaberry, Sir Donald	Reed, Laurance (Bolton, E.)
d' Avigdor-Goldsmid, Ma).-Gen. James	Kellett, Mrs. Elaine	Rees, Peter (Dover)
Dean, Paul	Kershaw, Anthony	Rees-Davies, W. R.
Deedes, Rt. Hn. W. F.	Kilfedder, James	Ronton, Rt. Hn. Sir David
Digby, Simon Wingfield	Kimball, Marcus	Rhys Williams, Sir Brandon
Dixon, Piers	King, Evelyn (Dorset, S.)	Ridley, Hn. Nicholas
Dodds-Parker, Douglas	King, Tom (Bridgwater)	Ridsdale, Julian
Douglas-Home, Rt. Hn. Sir Alec	Kinsey, J. R.	Roberts, Michael (Cardiff, N.)
du Carni, Rt. Hn. Edward	Kirk, Peter	Roberts, Wyn (Conway)
Dykes, Hugh	Kitson, Timothy	Rossi, Hugh (Hornsey)
Eden, Sir John	Knight, Mrs. Jill	Rost, Peter
Edwards, Nicholas (Pembroke)	Knox, David	Russell, Sir Ronald
Elliott, R. W. (N'c'tle-upon-Tyne, N.)	Lambton, Antony	St. John-Stevas, Norman
Emery, Peter	Lane, David	Scott, Nicholas
Eyre, Reginald	Langford-Holt, Sir John	Scott-Hopkins, James
Fair, John	Legge-Bourke, Sir Harry	Sharples, Richard
Fenner, Mrs. Peggy	Le Marchant, Spencer	Shaw, Michael (Sc'b'gh & Whitby)
Fldler, Michael	Lewis, Kenneth (Rutland)	Shelton, William (Clapham)
Finsberg, Geoffrey (Hampstead)	Lloyd, Ian (P'tsm'th, Langstone)	Simeons, Charles
Fisher, Nigel (Surbiton)	Longden, Gilbert	Sinclair, Sir George
Fletcher-Cooke, Charles	Loveridge, John	Skeet, T. H. H.
Fookes, Miss Janet	MacArthur, Ian	Smith, Dudley (W'wick & L'mington)
Fortescue, Tim	McCrindle, R. A.	Soref, Harold
Foster, Sir John	McLaren, Martin	Speed, Keith
Spence, John	Thatcher, Rt. Hn. Mrs. Margaret	Weatherill, Bernard
Sproat, Iain	Thomas, John Strading (Monmouth)	wells, John (Maidstone)
Stainton, Keith	Thompson, Sir Richard (Croydon, S.)	White, Roger (Gravesend)
Stanbrook, Ivor	Tilney, John	Whitelaw, Rt. Hn. William
Steel, David	Traftord, Or. Anthony	Wiggin, Jerry
Stewart-Smith, O. G. (Belper)	Trew, Peter	Wilkinson, John
Stodart, Anthony (Edinburgh, w.)	Tugendhat, Christopher	Wolrige-Gordon, Patrick
Stoddart-Scott, Col. Sir M.	Turton, Rt. Hn. R. H.	Wood, At. Hn. Richard
Stokes, John	Vaughan, Dr. Gerard	Woodhouse, Hn. Christopher
Stuttaford, Dr. Tom	Vickers, Dame Joan	Woodnutt, Mark
Sutcliffe, John	Waddington, David	Worsley, Marcus
Tapsell, Peter	Walder, David (Clithcroe)	Wylie, Rt. Hn. N. R.
Taylor, Sir Charles (Eastbourne)	Walker, Rt. Hn. Peter (Worcester)	Younger, Hn. George
Taylor, Frank (Moss Side)	Walker-Smith, Rt. Hn. Sir Derek
Taylor, Robert (Croydon, N.W.)	Wall, Patrick	TELLERS FOR THE AYES:
Tebbit, Norman	waiters, Dennis	Mr. Walter Clegg and
Temple, John M.	Ward, Dame Irene	Mr. Paul Hawkins.
NOES
Abse, Leo	Dunnett, Jack	Lawson, George
Albu, Austen	Eadie, Alex	Leadbitter, Ted
Allaun, Frank (Salford, E.)	Edwards, Robert (Bilston)	Leonard, Dick
Allen, Scholefield	Edwards, William Merioneth)	Lestor, Miss Joan
Archer, Peter (Rowley Regis)	Ellis, Tom	Lever, Rt. Hn. Harold
Armstrong, Ernest	English, Michael	Lewis, Arthur (W. Ham, N.)
Ashton, Joe	Evans, Fred.	Lewis, Ron (Carlisle)
Atkinson, Norman	Fernyhough, Rt. Hn. E.	Lomas, Kenneth
Bagier, Gordon A. T.	Fisher, Mrs. Doris (B'ham, Ladywood)	Loughlin, Charles
Barnes, Michael	Fitch, Alan (Wigan)	Lyon, Alexander W. (York)
Barnett, Joel	Fletcher, Raymond (Ilkeston)	Lyons, Edward (Bradford, E.)
Beaney, Alan	Fletcher, Ted (Darlington)	Mabon, Dr. J. Dickson
Benn, Rt. Hn. Anthony Wedgwood	Foot, Michael	McBride, Neil
Bennett, James (Glasgow, Bridgeton)	Forrester, John	McCartney, Hugh
Bidwell, Sydney	Fraser, John (Norwood)	McElhone, Frank
Bishop, E. S.	Freeson, Reginald	Mackenzie, Gregor
Blenkinsop, Arthur	Galpern, Sir Myer	Mackie, John
Boardman, H. (Leigh)	Gilbert, Dr. John	Maclennan, Robert
Booth, Albert	Ginsburg, David	McNamara, J. Kevin
Bottomley, Rt. Hn. Arthur	Gordon Walker, Rt. Hn. P. C.	MacPherson, Malcolm
Boyden, James (Bishop Auckland)	Gourfay, Harry	Mallalieu, J. P. W. (Huddersfield, E.)
Bradley, Tom	Grant, George (Morpeth)	Marquand, David
Brown, Bob (N'c"tle-upon-Tyne,W.)	Grant, John D. (Islington, E.)	Mason, Rt. Hn. Roy
Brown, Hugh D. (G'gow, Provan)	Griffiths, Eddie (Brightside)	Meacher, Michael
Brown, Ronald (Shoreditch & F'bury)	Griffiths, Will (Exchange)	Mellish, Rt. Hn. Robert
Buchan, Norman	Hamilton, James (Bothwell)	Mendelson, John
Buchanan, Richard (G'gow, Sp'burn)	Hamilton, William (Fife, W.)	Millan, Bruce
Butler, Mrs. Joyce (Wood Green)	Hannan, William (G'gow, Maryhill)	Miller, Dr. M. S.
Callaghan, Rt. Hn. James	Hardy, Peter	Milne, Edward (Blyth)
Campbell, I. (Dunbartonshire, W.)	Harper, Joseph	Molloy, William
Cant, R. B.	Harrison, Walter (Wakefield)	Morgan, Elystan (Cardiganshire)
Carmichael, Neil	Hart, Rt. Hn. Judith	Morris, Alfred (Wythenshawe)
Carter-Jones, Lewis (Ecoles)	Hattersley, Roy	Morris, Charles R. (Openshaw)
Castle, Rt Hn. Barbara	Healey, Rt. Hn. Denis	Morris, Rt. Hn. John (Aberavon)
Clark, David (Colne Valley)	Heifer, Erie S.	Moyle, Roland
Cocks, Michael (Bristol, S.)	Horam, John	Mulley, Rt. Hn. Frederick
Cohen, Stanley	Howell, Denis (Small Heath)	Murray, R. K.
Coleman, Donald	Huckfield, Leslie	Ogden, Eric
Concannon, J. D.	Hughes, Rt. Hn. Cledwyn (Anglesey)	O'Halloran, Michael
Conlan, Bernard	Hughes, Mark (Durham)	O'Malley, Brian
Corbet, Mrs. Freda	Hughes, Robert (Aberdeen, N.)	Oram, Bert
Cox, Thomas (Wandsworth, C.)	Hughes, Roy (Newport)	Orbach, Maurice
Crawshaw, Richard	Hunter, Adam	Orme, Stanley
Cronin, John	Irvine, Rt. Hn. Sir Arthur (Edge Hill)	Oswald, Thomas
Crosland, Rt. Hn. Anthony	Janner, Greville	Palmer, Arthur
Crossman, Rt. Hn. Richard	Jay, Rt. Hn. Douglas	Parker, John (Dagenham)
Cunningham, G. (Islington, S.W.)	Jeger, Mrs. Lena (H'b'n & St. P'cras, S.)	Parry, Robert (Liverpool, Exchange)
Dalyell, Tam	Jenkins, Hugh (Putney)	Pavitt, Laurie
Davidson, Arthur	Jenkins, Rt. Hn. Roy (Stechford)	Peart, Rt. Hn. Fred
Davies, Detail (Llanelly)	John, Brynmor	Pendry, Tom
Davies, G. Elfed (Rhondda, E.)	Johnson, Carol (Lewisham, S.)	Pentland, Norman
Davies, Ifor (Gower)	Johnson, James (K'ston-on-Hull, W.)	Perry, Ernest G.
Davis, Clinton (Hackney, C.)	Johnson, Walter (Derby, S.)	Prescott, John
Deakins, Eric	Jones, Barry (Flint, E.)	Price, J. T. (Westhoughton)
de Freitas Rt. Hn. Sir Geoffrey	Jones, Dan (Burnley)	Price, William (Rugby)
Delargy, H. J.	Jones, Rt. Hn. Sir Elwyn (W. Ham, S.)	Probert, Arthur
Dell, Rt. Hn. Edmund	Jones, Gwynoro (Carmarthen)	Rankin, John
Dempaey, James	Jones, T. Alec (Rhondda, W.)	Reed, D. (Sedgefield)
Doig, Peter	Judd, Frank	Reee, Merlyn (Leeds, S.)
Dormand, J. D.	Kaufman, Gerald	Rhodes, Geoffrey
Douglas, Dick (Stirlingshire, E.)	Kerr, Russell	Richard, Ivor
Douglas-Mann, Bruce	Kinnock, Neil	Roberts, Albert (Normanton)
Driberg, Tom	Lamond, James	Roberts, Rt. Hn. Goronwy (Caernarvon)
Duffy, A. E. P.	Latham, Arthur	Robertson, John (Paisley)

Roderick, Caerwyn E. (Br'c'n & R'dnor)	Stewart, Rt. Hn, Michael (Fulham)	Weitzman, David
Rodgers, William (Stockton-on-Tees)	Stoddart, David (Swindon)	Wellbeloved, James
Roper, John	Stonehouse, Rt. Hn. John	Wells, John (Maidstone)
Rose, Paul B.	Strang, Gavin	Wells, William (Walsall, N.)
Ross, Rt. Hn. William (Kilmarnock)	Strauss, Rt. Hn. G. R.	White, James (Glasgow, Pollok)
Sheldon, Robert (Ashton-under-Lyne)	Summerskill, Hn. Dr. Shirley	Whitehead, Phillip
Shore, Rt. Hn. Peter (Stepney)	Swain, Thomas	Whitlock, William
Short, Rt. Hn. Edward (N'c'tle-u-Tyne)	Taverns, Dick	Willey, Rt. Hn. Frederick
Short, Mrs. Renée (W'hampton, N.E.)	Thomas, Rt. Hn. George (Cardiff, W.)	Williams, Alan (Swansea, W.)
Silkin, Rt. Hn. John (Deptford)	Thomas, Jeffrey (Abertillery)	Williams, Mrs. Shirley (Hitchin)
Silverman, Julius	Thomson, Rt. Hn. G. (Dundee, E.)	Wilson, Alexander (Hamilton)
Skinner, Dennis	Tinn, James	Wilson, Rt. Hn. Harold (Huyton)
Small, William	Torney, Tom	Wilson, William (Coventry, S.)
Smith, Dudley (W' wick & L'mington)	Tuck, Raphael	Woof, Robert
Smith, John (Lanarkshire, N.)	Varley, Eric G.
Spearing, Nigel	Walker, Harold (Doncaster)	TELLERS FOR THE NOES:
Spriggs, Leslie	Wallace, George	Mr. William Hamling and
Stallard, A. W.	Watkins, David	Mr. John Golding.

Clause added to the Bill.

Mr. Orme

On a point of order. I voted in the Division Lobby and my name was recorded but the Tellers had gone when I came out through the Lobby.

Mr. Speaker

I will direct that the hon. Member's name be added and the numbers corrected in the last Division.

Mr. SPEAKER

then proceeded to put forthwith the Question necessary for the disposal of the Business to be concluded at Twelve o'clock.