§ Sir WILLIAM BULLasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if the Trade Unions (No. 2) Bill is to be construed as providing that a member of a trade union who is expelled from his union without reason assigned, or for a reason which the expelled person regards as insufficient or unjust, will be freed in any legal proceedings he may take to obtain his restoration to membership of the union or for recovering benefits for which he has a claim against the union from any disability which may, under the law as it at present stands, be held to attach to him on the ground that the trade union, as operating in restraint of trade, cannot be held to the fulfilment of its engagements, or some of them, towards its members?
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§ Mr. CHURCHILLUnder the Bill, a member of a trade union who is expelled from his union in breach of Clause 3 would, I am advised, have a right of action in the Courts of Law to restrain the trade union from expelling him. That is the law as laid down in the recent decision of the Court of Appeal in Osbornev. Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants and a former decision of the House of Lords (Yorkshire Miners v. Howden.)