Mr Alfred Short: ...for their labour. In my own Constituency in 1913 the standard rate of wages for labourers was 18s. per week and for eight weeks those men, with their families dependent upon them, went out on strike to secure an increase of a few shillings per week in those wages. I also recall that in 1911 and onward over 100,000 railway men in this country received less than £1 a week. Had the...
Mr Thomas Grundy: ...is weighed properly. It is merely a matter of equity and justice and one which the employers ought to be the first to welcome, because it is as much in their interest as in that of the workmen. It strikes me, as a new Member, that this long delay must, as it has done, always leave with the workman the idea that Parliamentary methods are slow and cumbersome and that they have to resort to...
Lieut-Colonel Charles McLean: ...matter which affects us. Public bodies like town councils have to submit their schemes to the Local Government Board. What guarantee are we going to have that if their plans are thorough-going and strike at the root of the problem, and are therefore likely to alleviate the evils of bad housing, what guarantee have we that the Local Government Board must accept those plans and see that they...
Mr Stephen Walsh: ..., if my remarks can carry any weight with them, to be very careful indeed about bringing this Ministry to an untimely end. I acknowledge that at this moment in my county the farmers are on strike against the milk prices. I am not going to say a single word as to the merits or demerits of the dispute between the local food committees and the farmers, because I know too little of the facts...
Mr Noel Billing: ...spoken and I myself have had occasion to call the attention of the House to the secrecy of the Home Office in all matters pertaining to German influences in this country. While I have no desire to strike what might be called a lighter note, I may say that in the course of travelling about this country, which I do pretty considerably, I have frequently heard that Department referred to as...
Captain William Benn: I beg to move, to leave out the words new import duties…12 This is an Amendment to strike out one of the lines of the Schedule of the Finance Act of 1915, which imposes special duties upon motor-cars and parts, watches, clocks, and musical-boxes, and I propose, without going into the whole question of Preference, which is out of older in this Debate, to give some reasons germane to this...
Mr Charles Bowerman: ...from Wales have to pay what I may term huge sums of money to the railway company, and I do not wonder that they are dissatisfied. They have not gone quite to the extent of threatening to declare a strike—I do not know what the effect upon the national industries would be if they decided to do that—but we do not want anything of that kind. I would, however, appeal to the representative...
Mr Joseph Devlin: .... Gentleman to do. He knows as well as I do that protests do not count on these benches. Let us have a rebellion. If my hon. Friend below me (Mr. Tillett) appealed to me, I would say let us have a strike. But we never can have a successful strike in Ireland. The only thing we can have is a rebellion. If the right hon. and learned Gentleman raises once again the standard of revolt against...
Sir Beville Stanier: ...been received, especially from the Western districts, and we would like to have some information as to what is about to be done? We would also like to know what has been done in regard to the milk strike in Lancashire? These are important matters which affect a very large section of the community, particularly women and children, and more especially invalids, and I hope that a full...
Mr James Wignall: 63. asked the Home Secretary if forty-three members of the Exeter City Asylum are on strike owing to the dismissal of an old servant of twenty-eight years' service, who is a trade union official, on a charge arising from a dispute between this servant, in the exercise of his duties as a trade union official, and the medical superintendent of the asylum; whether a public meeting of Exeter...
Mr William Redmond: ...this time with the right hon. and learned Member for Duncairn (Sir E. Carson), that we should have been left in Ireland in precisely the same position as was mapped out for England. Why not let us strike a 1d. in the £ in Ireland, and let the British Treasury come along and supply the deficit? They have done that in England, and, for one reason or another—I perhaps need not mention...
Mr William Adamson: ...; whether these circulars were in fact sent out; whether it is correct that the commanding officers were requested to supply information as to whether the troops under their command would assist in strike-breaking; whether they would parade for draft overseas, especially to Russia; whether there is any growth of trade unionism amongst them, and what effect outside trade unions have on...
Sir James Macpherson: Do you agree with the Limerick strike?
...by the War Office of a circular published in the Press directing officers in command of units to send in weekly reports as to whether the troops under their command can be trusted to assist in strike-breaking and as to whether there is any growth of trade unionism among the men; whether this circular really was sent out; if so, when it was sent out; and whether the War Cabinet were...
Captain William Benn: ...One gratifying feature of this deplorable occurrence has been the behaviour of many of the Egyptian officials. This observation had not reached Egypt twenty-four hours before there was a universal strike of protest by the Egyptian Civil servants. There was violence. At once let me say violence is a very wicked thing. People who use violence should be punished, and punished severely. I wish...
Oral Answers to Questions — Ship-Repairing Yards Strike (Liverpool).
Lieut-Colonel Leslie Wilson: ..., first to attend to the question of demobilisation and repatriation. I am glad to say that the repatriation of the Dominion troops is proceeding very satisfactorily. In spite of an unfortunate strike of ship repairers, which delayed the work for over two months, we hope, by 31st May, to have moved about 324,000, or nearly two-thirds of the total available for repatriation, and by the end...
Sir Francis Acland: ...extent to which we are now committed. He has not been able to make both ends meet out of the proper income of the year, and has not been able to find any fresh or new financial expedient which will strike people's imagination with the seriousness of the position in which we are at present existing. On the contrary, his Budget has given the general impression that the worst is over and that...
Oral Answers to Questions — Suez Canal Company (Strike).
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: ..., to a quarter of those who are able to read and write, and you are giving it to them on a property qualification. The working classes in Bombay, Cawnpore, and Calcutta, who have been desperately striking to put an end to the abominable conditions under which they live, a strike which has been put down with the help of the Government forces in Bombay, are entirely excluded from the...
