Former MP for Newton
The voice of Durham has been heard often and long this evening, and, that being so, I think it is high time that one should have an opportunity of voicing the views of Lancashire, and particularly South Lancashire. I congratulate the Secretary for Mines upon having tackled this problem and introduced this Bill. I desire to associate myself with my hon. Friend who said, "Let us leave all that...
Certainly, the hon. and gallant Member can find the figures in the Ministry of Mines Report for 1933, and they are figures that have been prepared for me by persons interested in the coal industry who were well able to get them out. I made quite sure that they were correct before giving them to the House.
I can assure my hon. and gallant Friend that these figures, so far as I can ascertain, are correct. I said that the price at the power-station, delivered, was 13s. 7½d. a ton. Hon. and right hon. Members will realise how much it costs to get the coal there. Let us take, first of all, the charges for conveyance. From the Clyde to Liverpool the freightage is 2s. 9d. per ton. The charge at...
May I point out that the average week for a Scottish miner is six shifts per week, whereas the average week for a Lancashire miner is four shifts?
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The opportunity has been given to my hon. Friend the Member for Morpeth (Mr. G. Nicholson) to introduce a particularly good piece of workmanlike and statesmanlike legislation, and I congratulate him on the very able and lucid manner in which he has presented it to the House. While hon. Members have raised several points dealing particularly with the Workmen's Compensation Act, we must...
I was not here when my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Norwood (Sir W. Greaves-Lord) addressed the House but I am certain that he explained with his usual clearness the meaning of this Bill. For that reason I do not propose to go into the question of common employment further than to give one example of how this doctrine may operate most unfairly against a certain class of people....
The property may not have been empty, but the rents have not been recovered.
