Oral Answers to Questions — Police Strike.
Mr John Clynes: (by Private Notice) asked the Home Secretary whether he can make a statement as to the present position arising out of the police strike; whether the strike has assumed more serious dimensions than those outlined by him last week; whether he is aware that the strike has been precipitated by the introduction and passage of the Police Bill so far as certain of its provisions are concerned; that...
Major William Murray: ...that is no argument against giving what there is. Let the matter be decided by the casting of lots or by ballot. Nobody pretends that it will solve the problem, but will the settlement of a dock strike settle the industrial problem in the whole of England, or even in Yorkshire? This will settle one aspect of the question, and that is all we claim for it. Another argument that Lord...
Oral Answers to Questions — General Strike.
Commander Hon. Joseph Kenworthy: 17. asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he can now state what extra pay and allowances will be paid to the naval officers and ratings sent to the mines in connection with the mining strike; and by whom will the expenses incurred be borne?
Oral Answers to Questions — Horbury Junction Wagon Works (Strike).
Oral Answers to Questions — Liverpool Police Strike.
Mr Edgar Jones: ..., of the whole commuted value of all these life interests. The Tithe Bill of 1918 struck at the root of that. We protested at the time, and pointed out that if that Tithe Bill were carried it would strike at the root of the Welsh Act as it stood, but we could not prevent the Bill passing. Therefore, the position is this: If the Church chooses, and takes up the option offered in the Bill,...
Oral Answers to Questions — Police Strike (Discharged Soldiers).
Mr. DOYLE: 49. asked the Prime Minister if his attention has been called to the danger to the community caused by threats of direct action and lightning strikes on the part of a number of officials of certain organised trades whereby the nation's food and essentials of life will be greatly imperilled; and if he is prepared to consider the introduction of a Bill providing that, before a direct...
Yorkshire Strike.
Oral Answers to Questions — Liverpool Police Strike.
Mr Henry Croft: I should like to take the opportunity of congratulating my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Brighton on striking the first blow for the restoration of Parliamentary government in this country, and the removal of the dictatorship under which we have been suffering for so long. The times are so serious that I think the Government would not desire that private Members in the House should...
Mr Vernon Hartshorn: ...must be settled, and that direct action must be destroyed, but nothing goes through this House by argument or reason. We should not have had this Bill at all but for the threat of a direct strike. There is nothing creates unrest and discontent so much among the workers as the existence of anomalies, and wherever you have an anomaly, wherever you have amongst a large body of men even a...
Mr James Hogge: ..., and which in the future—particularly the immediate future—is more likely to be concerned with acute industrial problems than the Ministry of Labour. Every morning we get up there is a fresh strike, before lunch-time there is a second, and before we dine there is a third. That is the general experience of the average member of the community to-day. You rise in the morning to breakfast...
Mr William Briggs: In view of the fact that a Manchester group of trade unionists have threatened to strike unless they are satisfied that the figures in the "Labour Gazette" are correct, and shown to be based upon actual practice, will the Minister of Labour publish his reply to my question in the next issue of the "Gazette"?
Oral Answers to Questions — Police Strike.
Mr James Gilbert: asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the exact number of constables and officers in the Metropolitan Police force who have been dismissed owing to the recent strike; if it is proposed to consider the special cases of any men who may ask for re instatement in the force; and, if so, can he give any indication of the kind of special cases that the Chief Commissioner will consider?
Oral Answers to Questions — Yorkshire Coal Trade Strike.
Mr Herbert Fisher: ...which has now been granted to teachers in elementary and secondary schools, there is still considerable unrest, and this unrest has been giving me very serious consideration. There have been strikes here and strikes there, and the work of the local educational authorities, whose attention ought now to be engaged in tackling the very difficult problems created by the Education Act, is...
