Former MP for St Pancras North
It is gratifying that the Bill indicates the desire of the Government to exploit to the full our national inventive genius. It is in keeping with Socialist policy that the Bill ensures that public interest and not private enterprise or selfish interests should acquire the benefit of these national assets. It is inevitable in the extension of Government research that advances should be made in...
Why should not all the natives vote?
Is my right hon. Friend aware that tilers and steel erectors often travel from 10 to 20 miles a day to find work for themselves, at a cost of perhaps £I a week? Will he look into this matter?
Having regard to the violence that occurred at the Fascist demonstration last Saturday, would the Minister not think it wise to prohibit future open-air demonstrations by Fascists?
Is the Minister aware that the estimate of 33⅓ per cent. error is far too modest in that there are thousands of young persons whose eyesight would be strengthened by exercises rather than by wholesale prescriptions by opticians for the use of glasses?
asked the Minister of Labour the total number of working weeks lost through unemployment over the two and a half years immediately following World War I and World War II, respectively; and the total combined number of working weeks covering the same periods lost through strikes and lock-outs.
They were not closed down on the ground of inefficiency: they were closed down on the basis of profits.
The hon. Member for Louth (Mr. Osborne) made reference to trade union practices. In regard to that, I would say that if the workers were exposed to unlimited competition by the employers their affairs would be in a sorry state indeed. It is natural that the workers should seek protection from the exploitation of firms and others involved in restrictive practices. The workers, through their...
