Mr Robert McLaren: ...a most important thing that before deciding to put down any more bores the Geological Survey should be very certain they are boring in the proper measures, because if not, they will certainly not strike coal. There must have been a very large number of bores put down if £9,000 have been spent. I am very glad, indeed, that the Government are adopting this method of boring not only for coal...
Mr Winston Churchill: ...Force, the Yeomanry, and the Special Reserve, which we owe to Lord Haldane, which stood us in such good stead, and which would have served us better still if fully adhered to, or are we to strike out boldly for the organisation of a truly national Army which will gather together all the military experience that the civilian population of this country now possess, and provide a true unity...
Mr James Hogge: ...same thing—is that the disabled man in training has at the back of his head the notion that his labour is being exploited by the factory where he is being trained. There is, for example, to-day a strike in Dublin at the Government's instructional factory, affecting, I think, something like 250 disabled men who were supposed to be being trained in that factory to take up some further...
Sir Charles Edwards: ...those who were here representing Pacifists, Syndicalists, and Anarchists, when they found themselves defeated promptly said, "We will now resort to the direct method," meaning the weapon of the strike to enforce whatever might be their claims. [Hon. Members: "No!"] I am only quoting from speakers like the gentleman who used to sit for Leicester who is no longer here—
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: ...change certainly has been made. It is exemplified by the change in the governor of Wandsworth gaol. The Committee should understand that the conscientious objectors have a way of going on hunger strike to get out of prison. I do not know that I should like to go on a hunger strike myself, even to get out of prison, but possibly after two and a half years in gaol one does feel that way. All...
Mr Joseph Devlin: ...this publication—composed of extracts, if he likes, from speeches of members of the Government, including the present Lord Chancellor—was circulated to the extent of 37,000 copies in the recent strike in Glasgow, and is there any reason why it should now be censored as regards the rest of the country?
Mr Stanley Holmes: ...us, and public opinion then would not have assented to Conscription. Everything in this country, or almost everything, is in the end settled by instructed public opinion whether it is an industrial strike or whether it is Government legislation. In 1914 public opinion was not ready for Conscription, but by the beginning of 1916 it had been so far instructed as to assent to Conscription....
Mr Frederick Banbury: ...into the category. What happened in Coventry in May, 1917? The houses there belong to the Coventry Corporation, and on Sunday night effigies were burned of those tenants who would not join in the strike against the rent. The town clerk received an intimation from the Secretary of the Tenants' Defence League that the tenants at Stoke Heath had agreed to accept the offer to reduce the rent...
Mr Horatio Bottomley: 85. asked the Food Controller whether, in view of the possibility of a coal, railway, and transport strike, he is making arrangements for the distributon of food throughout the country when the ordinary means are not available?
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: 134. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that eleven conscientious objectors went on hunger strike on 16th February in Newcastle Prison as a protest against the action of the prison doctor; whether he is aware that this doctor used one rubber tube to forcibly feed all eleven men without washing it in between; and whether he will take steps to ensure that...
Mr James Lowther: We generally strike out references to former answers, but this refers to a question of last Session.
Mr Stephen Howard: 48. asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware of the discontent existing amongst agricultural labourers owing to their wages being below those prevailing in other industries, and that a strike is being organised in the Eastern Counties to occur at such a time that it will cause large areas of land to remain unsown and produce no crops this year, thereby causing heavy loss to the community...
Mr William Brace: ...in the most powerful way possible his complaints and grievances with a view to having them redressed. We should be in a very difficult position if we granted the men of the Navy the right to strike. I can quite understand that Members of this House would stand aghast if I were to suggest at this table that the men of the Navy should have a right to strike. [An Hon. Member: "And to a...
Tenters' Strike, Aberdeen.
Mr James Rowlands: I do not think it would be wise to strike out the whole of these words, because they give the Court a very strong power to see that before the occupation is taken away from the existing tenant that there must be available accommodation in the locality. I think what the right hon. Gentleman has said might be strengthened by putting another word in place of the word "including."
Mr Carlyon Bellairs: 3. asked the President of the Board of Trade if he has any information as. to the number of miners who were eligible to vote in the recent decision to strike and the number who voted for the strike; and whether the Board has at any time collected information as to the system of voting in this and other trades in order to see if the freedom of the men and women employed is safe guarded in a...
Captain COOTE: 47. asked the Prime Minister what is the position with regard to the draft Bill to restore the right to strike and keep up wages for six months, stated to have been submitted to a joint committee of employers and men?
Mr Donald Maclean: ...is all very well, but we are dealing with a measure which goes to the very root and foundation of our commercial prosperity and future. If you are going to shove it through on those lines, you will strike a blow and drive a hole in the fabric of our commercial structure which it will not be easy to repair. There is no factious opposition but a whole-hearted offer to assist the Government....
Captain COOTE (by Private Notice): asked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that the miners of many mines throughout the country came out on strike last Saturday, and many more on Monday; and what action the Government intend to take in view of this open refusal to await the finding of the Coal Commission, and implied refusal to abide by it unless the miners' demands are satisfied in full?
Mr Ernest Meysey-Thompson: ...of remunerative employment for a great many other people in the district who otherwise would find it difficult to get that employment which is so necessary in times of demobilisation. A great strike, or strikes, will cause unemployment for the time being to enormous numbers of people all over the country. I wish I could make hon. Member realise this point as well as I myself realise it. I...
