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Mr Thomas Williams: ...to bias the mind of any County Court judge. If only from that point of view, it ought to be made obligatory upon the coroner in such cases to empanel a jury, so that the whole case can be gone into. The right hon. Gentleman said that this matter was going to be inquired into, but it seems to me that there is no need for inquiry at all. Where fatal accidents have occurred—and we know that...
Viscount Curzon: 6. asked the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been called to the prosecution in Liverpool, on 15th April last, of the master of the coasting vessel "Jenny" for allowing the ship to be so heavily loaded that the load, or Plimsoll, line was submerged; and, seeing that this vessel was allowed to sail from Garston on 7th February in an unsea-worthy condition, whether he...
Viscount Curzon: ...and this cannot be done when a ship is going to sea. The suggestions which I would make are (1) that the Board of Trade should issue some strong caution to the men—a special clause should be put into the articles relating to discipline; (2) that there should be a little more help in these matters from the civil police; (3) that the scale of fines should be revised in accordance with the...
Sir Archibald Sinclair: ...was untrue, but, like many other mariners, though not usually mariners so experienced as himself, who set out on the stormy seas of oratory, he found that the contrary winds of fact drove him into a harbour which was by no means the destination which he had hoped to reach. He said that the reason why the soldiers only received the ordinary benefits was that the Departments guaranteed the...
Reverend James Barr: ...exceptions he would have been the first to criticise it on the ground— as to part of it— that it would be unworkable, and that there would be a great many occupations which could not really fit into it at all. Then the hon. Gentleman went on to speak of the United States of American as a place where there was no dispute about the hours of labour. The hon. and gallant Gentleman for...
Mr Henry Charleton: ...and very close together, and merely for the sake of self-preservation, the City Fathers in Leeds have had to pull down blocks of these houses and clear them away, in order to let sunlight and air into these congested districts. The reason for that, of course, is that contagious diseases commencing in these districts have a very bad knack of going to the other districts. The Minister has...
Dr Thomas Watts: ..., the most reckless and ridiculous electioneering stunt that has ever been tried. It will be noted that the right hon. Gentleman's proposed remedy carries with it the condition that he must he put into office as Prime Minister. Supposing a doctor was convinced that he had a sure and certain remedy for cancer, what would the country and the world think of him if he would only produce that...
Mr John Colville: The proof of what I say is that it fell to the party below the Gangway here to put the nationalisation of mineral royalties into the Coal Bill. Now for rationalisation. That is taking place in the industry at the present time, and the immediate results of it, as hon. Members opposite know, are the displacement of men—1,000 men at Penistone, 600 men at Parkhead, and I could name other...
Reverend James Barr: ...right down through education, even in the elementary schools. It came up in the fixing of holidays; for some you gave six weeks, and to others two months. It came up in the matter of putting into operation the powers which we have in Scotland for the extension of age to 15, and in the opening up of evening classes, because there was a considerable element which did not believe that...
Dr Christopher Addison: ...Amendment. He saw in this £1,000,000 some deep-laid plot which had been hatched somewhere in my grey matter, whereby the State, for £1,000,000, is going to evolve some sinister system to bring into its hands all the agricultural land of Britain and the production, distribution and exchange of all agricultural products. He certainly has a lively imagination. I do not think, however, that...
Lieut-Colonel Sir Walter Smiles: ...the exports and imports of your country, and we propose to do the same on this side. In future we want the trade to be on a fifty-fifty basis, and if you want to send £32,000,000 worth of goods into this country, we expect you to take the same from us." I understand that there are something like 160,000,000 people in Russia and that hardly one of them has a second pair of boots. I am sure...
...be maintenance. Therefore 2s. has never been related to maintenance or to the amount required to maintain a child. Hon. Members opposite know that just as well as I do, because most of them trooped into the Lobby behind the hon. Member for Chester-le-Street (Mr. Lawson) in the last Parliament against an Amendment moved by Miss Jenny Lee to raise the amount to 5s. Let us get that out of our...
Mr James Maxton: ...a weapon, while the lady arrived with empty hands. As she was making historic associations for Edinburgh I should have thought it might have been proper for her to carry in the ancient weapon of Jenny Geddes, without any intention of using it upon any opponent whom she might not like. I congratulate them both. I know they will not expect me to accept the political philosophy contained in...
Sir Francis Fremantle: ..., even among those who are hard put to it to find enough food to eat; or by bad eating and the bad choice of food. Hunger to a certain extent is a very good thing. The medical profession, looking into these matters, are finding it difficult to generalise, while those who are attacking the Government find it easy to do so. I am very much afraid of money being poured out, in consequence of...
Mr James Griffiths: ..., after a Debate of a day or two, approved by a Vote the first Regulations issued by the Unemployment Assistance Board. In the interval between their passing through this House and their coming into operation, Members on both sides went to their divisions and were questioned as to the real effect of the Regulations. Unemployed people came to them and asked, "How do they affect me?" They...
Hon. Oscar Guest: ...a very good speech on foreign trade. I would suggest that what made our foreign trade in the past was the inventive genius of our race, as shown in the invention of the steam engine, the spinning jenny, and so on. I would like to see the Government encouraging invention in every form of industry and business. That could be done by some remission of taxation on firms engaged in research or...
Mr Walter Elliot: ...through schemes which have long been dear to their hearts; but taking the places by and large, it is true to say that water supply is not an insoluble problem. The difficulties have been taken into account and they can be overcome. I should like to make it clear that when we speak of evacuation we do not mean an indiscriminate movement of all sorts of adults, but the orderly evacuation of...
...H. Smith, Sir R. W. (Aberdeen) Munro. Nicolson, Hon. H. G. Snadden, W. McN. NOES. Adams, D. (Consett) Gallacher, W. MacLaren, A. Adams, D. M. (Poplar, S.) Gardner, B. W. Maclean, N. Adamson, Jennie L. (Dartford) Garro Jones, G. M. Mainwaring, W. H. Adamson, W. M. George, Megan Lloyd (Anglesey) Mander, G. le M. Alexander, Rt. Hon. A. V. (H'lsbr.) Gibson, R. (Greenock) Marshall, F....
Mrs Jennie Adamson: ...may be—whether they have young children or not—to try and find work outside their homes. In my constituency I have a large number of owner-occupiers—people who have been compelled to go into building societies in order to acquire a roof over their heads. There have been hundreds of letters sent to the building societies asking them to withhold the payment on the capital. I have had...
Mrs Jennie Adamson: Before the hon. Gentleman proceeds, will he say something regarding the position of housewives under the scheme? In a former Debate, he said that he would look into certain points which I raised in this respect.
