Mr John Simpson: Have these disturbances ceased all over India, or are they still continuing in other parts?
Mr John Simpson: How many houses were sold?
Mr John Simpson: May I draw your attention to the commencement of Clause 2, where it says: Subject to the provisions of this Act, Agricultural Wages Committees shall fix minimum rates of wages for workers employed in agriculture for time-work"— If one of these Amendments were included, then, subject to the provisions of that Amendment, the committees would fix wages still in accordance with the provisions...
Mr John Simpson: I want to reinforce what my hon. Friend the Member for the Isle of Ely (Mr. Mond) has said. Hon. Members on the Committee will remember that among the Amendments of our party there was one which retained to the central wages board the power to interfere if a local committee had not acted in accordance with the law. The object of that Amendment was that, in cases where a minimum wage had not...
Mr John Simpson: How many are there of these Assyrians?
Mr John Simpson: Is this appointment made by the Government of India without reference to the Secretary of State, and has the Secretary of State any power of confirmation or refusal of confirmation?
Mr John Simpson: Are the cells disinfected after the tuberculosis patients have left left them?
Mr John Simpson: In all quarters of the House there is the feeling that we are not certain that the statements of the Prime Minister or the Leader of the Opposition are definitely looked upon as certain, and none of us are willing to give up the Debate unless we are certain. For this reason I beg to move the Adjournment of the Debate in order to get some assurance that this, Measure will be discussed. I hope...
Mr John Simpson: Is it a fact that it is now only with great difficulty that these processions are organised at all?