Former MP for Ebbw Vale
42. asked the Minister of Health if he can now inform the House if it is his intention to introduce legislation in the near future to carry into effect the declared intentions of the Government to abolish boards of guardians throughout the country?
I should not have intervened in the Debate but for the fact that the whole thing appears to me to be very unsatisfactory. The Minister of Labour has made a display of his sympathy with the working classes of the country throughout the whole course of the discussion. I come from an area which is constantly affected by unemployment. I am satisfied that the purpose of the Amendment is to meet a...
It is not my intention to do more than bring to the mind of the House the fundamental fact that there are large numbers of men unemployed and that hon. Members opposite do not appreciate or understand the fact. I represent an area where at this moment, in one particular valley, there is a population of 16,000, and only 100 men are employed in the collieries, because the other collieries have...
A little piecer in a cotton mill.
I rise to support the Motion for a very special reason. I have been rather surprised at the two speeches to which we have just listened. The hon. Members who have brought forward the Amendment have made it perfectly clear, especially to those who have some experience, that they have simply been skirting the subject and have made no attempt to deal with the fundamentals which have some...
Two downcasts and one upcast shaft, of sufficient dimensions to take the air from the other two. That would keep a colliery as practically free from gas or danger as it is possible to keep it. I do not wish to charge any person with any responsibility for what has happened, but in a general sense I want to say this, that our men complain generally that the Inspectors of the Mines Department...
I do not think that in the speech I made I challenged the inspectors, beyond stating that our men were under the impression that they were much more rigid on them than on the employers.
90. asked the President of the Board of Education how many tons of coal are used for experimental purposes per month by the Fuel Research Board?
