Mr John Burman
Former MP for Birmingham Duddeston
Former MP for Birmingham Duddeston
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I would like to make a very earnest appeal for this very modest attempt to safeguard the button trade. As a matter of fact, buttons may seem a very small matter among some of the great industries of the country, but I would point out that the button industry is almost the first of the great essential industries of Birmingham. According to tradition, it has been established there since the...
The promoters of the Bill do not feel that they can accept this Amendment. The figure of £15 is a compromise figure. At the Joint Select Committee which originally considered this question, a figure of £15 was accepted and, when the Bill came to be drafted, the figure of £15 applied to every member of a partnership firm in addition to every address at which the partnership carried on...
This proposal is one to transfer the granting of a certificate of good character to a moneylender from the petty sessional court to the county court. I submit that that alteration would be very difficult to carry out. For one thing, the county courts have no facilities for this kind of work, and, moreover, they are unsuitable in a variety of other respects. The granting of certificates of...
Former MP for Birmingham Duddeston
Entered the House of Commons on 6 December 1923 — General election
Left the House of Commons on 10 May 1929 — General election
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