Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Civil Defence. – in the House of Commons at on 1 February 1940.
Mr William Gallacher
, Fife Western
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will take steps to amend the Emergency Powers (Defence) Regulations, Nos. 12 to 15, concerning protected places, with a view to ensuring that nothing in these regulations shall be operated to prevent duly-accredited trade union officials from entering the protected places or their vicinity while engaged on trade union business, and that nothing in the regulations shall be used to make peaceful picketing in the vicinity of protected places an offence?
A group of workers who have united to promote their common interests.
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
A group of workers who have united to promote their common interests.
