Former MP for Rossendale
Mr Robert Waddington is a former MP for Rossendale.
Former MP for Rossendale
Entered the House of Commons on 14 December 1918 — General election
Left the House of Commons on 10 May 1929 — General election
Is the hon. Member not aware that it is overseas trade that Lancashire wants, not home trade?
I cannot accept the statement that Japan, for example, is an undeveloped industrial country. I know, and the right hon. Gentleman knows, that we in Lancashire are suffering from unemployment in the cotton trade from the very fact that Japan's cotton industry is highly specialised. That the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Preston (Mr. T. Shaw) as a representative of the cotton trade should...
The right hon. Gentleman, as one of the framers of the Convention, accepted an article which makes it obligatory upon us to exclude Japan, where the workers work 57 hours per week against our 48. Why is the right hon. Gentleman so eloquent in asking for this Convention to be ratified now? I recall a period in 1924 when the right hon. Gentleman was Minister of Labour and when, burning over...
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