Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment. – in the House of Commons at on 6 February 1929.
Sir Percy Harris
, Bethnal Green South West
Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that, owing to the circumstances to which I have drawn attention, men living in Bethnal Green are deprived of advantages which go to men in Ber-mondsey, Poplar and Deptford, and that, in connection with many jobs for which they make application to the London County Council and other authorities, they are refused work, because they are supposed to live in a district where unemployment is low, although it is really higher than in some other boroughs?