Former MP for Southwark
Does this not show the justification for the suggestion which was urged, that this should be left to the industry itself to decide? Is it not likely that, if the Bill which was before the House had been passed, there would not have been anything like a satisfactory conclusion?
That is quite correct, but I think the House ought to understand that it was the employers who hung up negotiations and not the trade union.
I came to the Committee expecting that we should hear on this occasion, as we have heard so frequently on other occasions, a specific reference to the cost involved in this work. Tonight, we have had very few statistics. We have not heard much about finanical considerations, but we have heard a good deal about rehabilitation, not only as a useful economic activity but as something that...
Former MP for Southwark
Entered the House of Commons on 6 December 1923 — General election
Left the House of Commons on 18 September 1959 — General election
Also represented Southwark North; Gravesend
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