...method by which any member of the public may obtain information as to the expenditure of unregistered trade unions and the proportion of expenses incurred in salaries other than working expenses, strike pay and other benefits?
Mr William Joynson-Hicks: ...throughout the country, it is desirable that these Emergency Regulations should be continued. I can only say, and I am delighted to be able to say, that since the conclusion of the general strike the coal stoppage has, not resulted in any very great trouble, but there have been minor troubles in different parts of the coalfield, and under these Regulations I am doing, in conjunction with...
Mr Francis Broad: Because they were on strike.
Mr Joseph Batey: Would that apply to the Durham prison, where the commissioner preached a sermon against the general strike and against the miners?
Mr. CHAMBERLAIN: As far as the first question is concerned, the position of people who are on strike is not the same as that of people who are not on strike. It is governed by the Merthyr Tydvil judgment, and I have no power to interfere in that matter. With regard to the second question, it does not arise out, of the question on the Paper.
Mr Arthur Samuel: ...regarding the cancellation of contracts for the export of coal to Russia, but His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires in Moscow has reported in a telegram, dated 22nd July, that before the coal strike broke out the Soviet Government were negotiating for the purchase of 1,000,000 tons of British coal Sir Robert Hodgson also refers to a statement in the Russian Press to the effect that 650,000 tons...
Colonel Herbert Woodcock: 72. asked the Minister of Labour if he can state the amount of strike funds held by the unions comprised in the Miners' Federation of Great Britain at 31st December, 1925; the amount of strike pay available per head of the membership of the unions; and the strike or other similar benefit paid by the respective unions to their members per head during the present mining stoppage?
Mr John Scurr: ..., English and Russian trade unionists. He opposed that all the way through. He is a most moderate man. But the Home Secretary had heard that he had been connected in some way with the general strike—he had not, because, so far as the international Labour movement had any connection with the general strike, that work was carried on by the English Secretary, Mr. Brown, and Mr. Oudegeest...
Mr Arthur Steel-Maitland: I am having inquiries made, and will let the hon. Member know the result as soon as possible. I am trying to get the cases expedited as much as I can. As a result of the strike and what occurred afterwards, the work has been abnormal.
Oral Answers to Questions — General Strike.
Sir Smedley Crooke: 25. asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that some of the juniors employed on the railways were instructed by their seniors to withdraw their labour at the time of the general strike; that these juniors have not been reinstated; and will he use his influence on behalf of these young people, who were influenced to act, as has been shown, against their own individual interests?
Colonel Sir Walter De Frece: ...his Department of cases where trade unions have imposed, or threatened to impose, penalties of fines, expulsion, or refusal of benefit to their members on account of their action during the general strike; and, if so, whether he will state the number and the action taken in each case?
Mr Joseph Westwood: .... I hope, if there be any difficulty with these authorities, we shall have the whole-hearted support of hon. Members opposite. I am reminded of an incident which took place in 1912, when I was on strike —if you like to put it that way. We were fighting for a minimum wage. I played in a strike band which went round, and which reached a place called Strathvithie, where we saw what was a...
Oral Answers to Questions — General Strike.
Mr James Sexton: ...have been sent to Labour magistrates from the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster asking for an explanation as to their conduct as trade union officials and representatives during the general strike; and if, in view of the fact that there is no representative of the Duchy of Lancaster in this House, he will state why this action was taken?
Mr Robert Waddington: ...Postmaster-General whether he has now completed his inquiries into the allegations of disloyalty made against the Union of Post Office Workers in connection with their activities during the general strike; if so, what is the result of such inquiries; and what action he proposes to take?
Sir Park Goff: 67. asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether Proofkovski, Communist, who has several times been convicted in this country and who, during the general strike, was again convicted and sentenced to be deported, has yet been deported to Russia?
Captain Walter Shaw: ...of the unions who are not in favour with their union. I bring this specially to the notice of the House because I have had considerable intercourse with men in the railway world during the big strike. I was intensely surprised to find that, though we adopted, under the Act of 1921, railway departmental committees, man after man came to me pointing out that those committees were clearly...
Milk Pool (General Strike).
Mr Arthur Samuel: ...may reach £150,000,000, or even a larger sum. These figures include the losses suffered by the coal mining industry (which may be estimated at about £40,000,000) and those caused by the general strike.