Mr James Thomas: ...that the maximum efficiency was not being given. The statistics of drunkenness for the month prior to the calling into existence of the Board showed a weekly average for males of 1,287 in the Metropolitan area alone. The week before the Armistice that was reduced to 173. I quite admit it would be a reasonable argument to say that there was a large number of men out of the country, but I...
Mr Stanley Holmes: ...is not the only black spot in the record of the Board of Trade. In July last we had the Yorkshire coal strike, when the Board issued, in a panic, orders that export must cease and no one in the Metropolitan area must buy more than 3 cwts. of coal a week, orders which were withdrawn almost as quickly as they were issued. That strike was due to the fact that when the hours were reduced on...
Mr Alfred Short: ...have to be tackled by this Government, or if not by this Government by some Government quite soon if we are going to avoid many of the risks which have ever been associated with revolution. The policy was defended on the ground of economy, but in so far as public health is concerned, with the starvation of men and women and the stunting of children because of the impoverished and...
Mr James Wignall: ...is, nevertheless, a subject worthy of consideration. It is in regard to the position of the ranker-officer in the Army. What is that position to-day? What is his future to be to-morrow? What is the policy and attitude of the War Office regarding him? Ours is a democratic Army, or at least it ought to be. There should be a clear course for the young fellow joining as a private to reach, by...
Major Sir William Prescott: ...to have dealt with the housing problem. What did the right hon. Gentleman mean? Does he suggest that the Government ought to give financial assistance to private builders.… Is that the official policy of the unofficial members of the; Liberal party"—[OFFICIALREPORT, 30TH June. 1919. col. 713, Vol. 117.] I would like to ask what is the position now? The right hon. Gentleman has told us...
Mr James Dawes: ...next, thus throwing such persons on to the local rates; and whether, as the internment and repatriation of the above-mentioned aliens was a national and not a local measure, is it the Board's policy that the maintenance of their dependants should be provided by the Exchequer, particularly as the majority of such dependants will become chargeable on the poorer Metropolitan unions?
Mr Edward Shortt: The number of police who have refused duty has increased slightly, but not so as materially to alter the situation. The numbers are now 1,056 in the Metropolitan Police out of a force of 19,000, fifty-seven in the City of London Police out of a force of 1,170, 932 in Liverpool out of 2,100, 118 in Birmingham out of 1,256, 106 in Birkenhead, sixty-three in Bootle and one in Wallasey. No men in...
Viscount Curzon: ...are not approved. I strongly urge the First Lord of the Admiralty to give better and further reasons for the Admiralty's decision in these cases. Ho has told us that this is part of a great general policy, but I would point out that widows pensions and compassionate allowances for children are granted by the Metropolitan Police, and I believe also by the London Metropolitan Fire Brigade,...
...a great deal of weight. The societies in question are: The Commons and Footpaths Preservation Society, the Federation of Rambling Clubs, the Kyrle Society, the London Club Cricket Conference, the Metropolitan Public. Gardens Association, the London Playing Fields Society, London Society, the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest and Natural Beauty, the Society for the Promotion of...
Mr Arthur Steel-Maitland: ...weekly wage, but that they really have the right to take an interest in the industry, to understand what the industry is, and to have a share-in the management and a knowledge of and a share in the policy and control. If that is part of the new development, at any rate an appeal can be made on these grounds too, that there is a social obligation towards the commonwealth on their part as...
Sir Richard Cooper: ...But there are three other reasons which are in themselves important. First of all, it is an extraordinary thing that the Government should submit the Bill to the House, saying frankly, "We have no policy. We will take charge of all these great transport services for two years., and by that time we hope we shall manage to discover how they really ought to be worked, and then be able to...
Mr Samuel Hoare: ...reason to doubt what he says, and I should not dream of doing so—that is what the Government intended. Then why did they not make it clear at the time? I was an ordinary candidate standing for a metropolitan division in which the question of women's suffrage has taken a very prominent part in the past, and I, having followed the question as closely as I could, naturally followed with...
Mr Edward Shortt: ...the climax came. The circular was sent out, and it was sent to the Home Secretary. The executive committee of the National Union of Police and Prison officers hereby gives notice to the London Metropolitan authorities that hon. compliance with the above demands "—— this was their ultimatum— by twelve midnight the 29th August, 1918,will necessitate the suspension of Clauses (a), (b),...
Mr. JONES: Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the Metropolitan Railway manager, in a Committee-room, on Monday last, stated that they were not ordering new rolling stock and were not going to until the Government declared its policy as to railways?
Sir John Marriott: ...which the rents were fixed. There is no Member of this House who is not aware that in a very large number of cases—I think this is particularly true of some of the towns in or just outside the Metropolitan area—single rooms have been let at rents far in excess of the total rent received by the landlord. My hon. and gallant Friend opposite wants the 10 per cent. increase reduced to5....
Mr Herbert Fisher: ...little was heard of it, it was yet sufficiently general and sufficiently acute where it does occur to justify the extension of the principal Act. It exists in an acute form in certain areas of the Metropolitan district boroughs, and it exists in Glasgow and in centres like Swansea and Sheffield, where war industries have promoted a considerable influx of labour. While the Government have...
