Major Gilbert McMicking: ...friend, who is wholly in his power, to suffer, and he ought not to attempt it. To carry out experiments on dogs is to sanction a principle which, if carried to its logical conclusion, would strike at the very roots of liberty, inasmuch that it attacks just those very qualities of justice, of mercy and of respect for the rights of the weak which alone stand between us and unmitigated barbarism.
Mr Noel Billing: ...of the House whether he is aware that the attitude of the Home Office with regard to the National Union of Police and Prison Officials has created a crisis which is likely to culminate in a general strike, and whether, having regard to the desirability of preventing such a national calamity, he will immediately set up a Committee upon which the police and prison officials shall have fair...
Sir Gerald Hohler: ...right hon. Friend who leads the Liberal Opposition is not quite happy about it, because he asks for an undertaking in regard to some other Ministry. Let us divide and take a strong line, and let us strike for economy. Everybody wants to patronise somebody else. It is the same in the country, and it is a great cause of unsettlement. How can we say that these demands are unreasonable and...
Mr William Coote: ...have effective administration in county and district council work in Ireland if you eliminate the district chairmen from the county council. I want the House to understand that the county council strike the whole of the local rate. The district council has nothing to do with it, but they have the control of the expenditure, or at any rate, a setting on foot the machinery for the...
Mr Neville Chamberlain: .... If they consider that these rents are unreasonable—and they generally do come to that conclusion—then they put up a notice in the window to the rent collectors: "Don't call here. Rent strike on." I do not know what the local authorities think of their proceedings. At any rate, they have the rates behind them. But what is going to happen to public utility societies if they are faced...
Colonel Josiah Wedgwood: 80. asked the Secretary for War whether he has yet countermanded the sending in of reports by officers commanding as to the influence of trades unionism and the capacity for strike-breaking of the troops under their control?
Mr George Wardle: ...be put up. But if they did so, who would be the first to complain if the national factories were to be set up with all kinds of unskilled or semiskilled men to make doors? There would probably be a strike of those who were entitled to say that they ought to be employed in making these doors. There are only so many skilled men in the country, and the amount of joiners out of work at present...
...the Government reversed its declared policy with regard to the liability for military service, the treatment of the conscientious objector to military service, and certain other matters, a general strike would take place; and will he, before be gives the Parliamentary Committee the answer of the Government, receive the Parliamentary Committee of the Middle Classes Union in order that he...
...to the Secretary of State. The points on which information was asked were— "(a) Will troops in various areas respond to orders for assistance to preserve the public peace?(b) Will they assist in' strike breaking?(c)Will they parade for draft to overseas, especially to Russia?(d)What has been the effect of Army Order XIV. of 1919 on the men? Do they consider the policy of dividing the...
Mr Charles Jesson: ...introduced its Bill setting up the Coal Commission, and I noticed that one medical Member after another rose in his place in the House and warned the Government of what would happen if there was a strike of colliers. I can well understand that if the people of this country had been deprived of coal at that particular time the death-rate from influenza alone would have been something...
Mr Noel Billing: Is he also aware that, owing to the reasonableness of that answer, no strike took place? [HON. MEMBERS: No, no!"]
Sir Frederick Young: ...Government. Under the Australian system the compromise, which is unfortunate, is something like this: Each State controls the industrial affairs which are strictly within its borders. That is, if a strike occurs in any one State, that State alone has the control of that strike, and can legislate in respect of it. The central Parliament can only intervene where a strike passes from one...
Captain George Ramsden: 24. asked the Home Secretary whether in the majority of cases the voting papers at the recent strike ballot of police were handed out to the men in open fashion and similarly collected by individuals connected with the police union; and if he will in future give every facility and protection to the police throughout the country on the occasion of a similar ballot to have their views recorded...
Mr Frank Briant: I wish to turn to quite another subject. The House has not had an opportunity of discussing the facts in connection with the strike which was threatened by the police. There is no one inside the House, and I hope there are very few outside, who are not very glad, indeed, that that strike was averted, all except that small minority of individuals who prefer revolution to redress. I am...
Lieut-Colonel Leslie Wilson: ...in consequence of labour troubles, with the necessary corollary that there has been severe congestion at the ports. Another reason undoubtedly has been the shortage of coal and the threatened coal strike had a very serious effect on the reconditioning of ships, because we had to prepare for any eventuality that might take place had such a strike occurred. Then, of course, there was the...
Sir John Pennefather: ...employed by the business men, and unless business men know what the policy of the Government is they cannot make ahead those plans which are going to find employment for the working classes. If you strike out the business men you also have to strike out the working men, and what is left of the general public? I do not think we can quite accept that. I maintain that this indecision and...
Hon. Waldorf Astor: ...House as a whole. It is, probably, partly because hon. Members do not wish on an occasion like this, on the last day when we appear here as officially connected with the Local Government Board, to strike anything like a note of hostility or criticism. It is also, I think, because of a recognition of the fact that we are already trying to deal with the points which have been raised. I am...
Oral Answers to Questions — Strike (Dusseldorf).
Lord Robert Cecil: ...to proceed to a Division on his Amendment, but I hope that that will not be the case, because, as has been pointed out by an hon. Member on the Labour Benches, it would be quite impossible to strike this Sub-section out of the Bill without reducing the whole Bill to an absolute unmeaning set of phrases. You could not take out the Sub-section without destroying the Bill. While I do not...
Major Alexander Farquharson: ...years and years been allowed 2s. 6d. for notifying an infectious disease. In 1916 some officious person said, "We will exploit the medical profession and save a lot of money to the State; we will strike out this miserable 2s. 6d. for giving a professional opinion upon a professional document and sending it to an official, and will make it Is. "I say that is an outrageous attitude to take...
