Letter from William Amelius de Vere Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans to Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire

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The Duke writes that should Government dissolve after the "Lords wrecked the Employers' Liability Bill" by "sticking to Dudley's amendment" then he believes "they would get a majority in these parts". He also writes that Mr Birkin who is a "large employer of labour both here and in Scotland" said the "[House of] Lords ought to give way". He further writes that if "Dudley's amendment" was supposed to go too far, then something like "McLaren's amendment" be tried for "3 or 5 years". Sent from: Bestwood Lodge, Arnold, Nottinghamshire.

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Arranged in accordance with ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description, Second Edition, Ottawa 2000 and The Devonshire Collection Cataloguing Guidelines.

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