Woolwich Dockyard and Chilwell Depot (Staff).

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — British Army. – in the House of Commons at on 5 August 1924.

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I do rot know what the hon. Member means by "thrown out on to the streets." The people have been employed, but when the work itself vanishes by effluxion of time it is impossible to keep the people there. That is a policy which, of course, has not been initiated by the present Government, and it was not done because of a double dose of original sin. It is simply because it is inevitable.