Mr David Lloyd George: I should like to associate myself with the very well-deserved congratulatory references made by the two right hon. Gentlemen who have just sat down to the speeches of the Mover and the Seconder of the Address. With a very long experience of this House I do not know that I have ever heard speeches which gave more general satisfaction. Both Gentlemen have taken a part in the fiery struggle out...
Mr William Brace: I beg to move, at the end of the Address, to add the words, But regrets the absence of any mention of definite proposals for dealing with the present causes of industrial unrest and for securing, as regards wages and working hours, conditions of labour that will establish a higher standard of life and social well-being for the people. In moving this Motion on behalf of the Labour party I do...
Sir John Harmood-Banner: As I am one of the few Members who are coal-owners, and no owners have spoken up to the present, it is just as well to put forward one's views. I am very puzzled still to know what are the views of hon. Gentlemen opposite. Do they say they will have a strike under any circumstances if they do not get what they want on the 15th? Do they say that unless we consent to nationalisation they will...
Mr Herbert Fisher: I make no complaint of the questions which have been asked me, and I am very glad to have this opportunity of giving a further explanation to the Committee upon a matter which neces- sarily is of very great interest and importance. This scheme is the outcome of a Report made by a Committee under the chairmanship of Sir Alfred Keogh, a Committee winch was appointed by the Presidents of the...
Sir Robert Horne: The question of officers has been raised, and perhaps the Committee would like to hear what I have to say on the question of officers. What is really covered by the Vote before the Committee concerns a different Department of the Ministry of Labour altogether—the Department known as the Appointments Department, which deals with the training on demobilisation of officers and men. I say...
Mr James Rowlands: None of us have, but those are the majority of the cases. All I want to do is to discount the right hon. Gentleman's illustration. His illustration has the whole of our sympathy, but I say it is the exception and not the rule. The Bill that is before the House is, as we who have been following this question during the past four years know, one of an exceptional character that has been called...
...so soon after taking my seat, but, finding the House in Committee on the Navy Estimates, I make bold to think that I may be able to contribute something to the discussion. I am happy in the honour of being a representative of one of the greatest mercantile ports in the world, and I venture, on behalf of the Royal Navy, to associate myself wholeheartedly with the world wide admiration for...
Sir Henry Craik: My hon. Friend has made a speech full of weight, bold outlook, and first-hand knowledge, above allof wide and alert sympathy, and one which is worthy of a larger audience than he has had. I hope it will find an audience beyond the walls of this House. There can be no question but that our administration in Egypt at this time is at a very critical point. My excuse for intervening now is...
Sir Halford Mackinder: I rise to second the Resolution moved by my hon. Friend. I do so in the hope of drawing from the Government a statement of a more definite character than any which we have yet had. We had a promise in the King's Speech. We had an interim statement from the Minister for Reconstruction in regard to the policy of the Government up to the 1st September. We who stand behind this Motion feel that...
Mr Walter Smith: I am in agreement with the greater part of what has been said in this Debate. I do not think that anyone who has any knowledge of the present position of the Board of Agriculture can feel that its condition is in any way satisfactory having regard to the great importance of the industry. The accommodation that is provided for it, so scattered and so inefficient, is evidence that up till now...
Mr Thomas Brown: Taking part in this, my first Debate in this House, I must own to a feeling of very great disappointment because when we came to discuss questions that affect Ireland I had hoped that the old routine which we have had so often, and which has so often been discussed in this House and out of it, would have been dropped and that some of the really material and vital issues which are affecting...
Mr Thomas Whittaker: I should like to congratulate the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the very clear and able statement he made to us yesterday. For twenty-seven years I have had the honour and pleasure, of listening to Budget statements, but I never listened to a clearer and more businesslike one than we had yesterday. It has always been recognised that the present occasion is one, not so much for detailed...
Mr Joseph Devlin: I thought the right hon. Gentleman and myself had a sufficiently wide field day last Friday without either his offering the invitation or my accepting it to have another one to-day, because on a matter so vital as the education of the people one necessarily must have strong views. There is not the slightest necessity to-day for either him or myself to engage either in placid or in violent...
Mr William Ormsby-Gore: ...it, but I am merely stating what I saw myself in Egypt, and I am not going into the question whether the punishments were justified or not, or as to who were responsible for that particular scale of punishments. Personally I heard very little complaint, and it is a very easy thing to work up a sentimental agitation on this subject. In Egypt, however, I did not hear from the natives any...
Sir William Adkins: I do not know whether the House is glad or sorry that my hon. Friend who has just spoken should have started another hare which has brought into this controversy already sufficiently important, conflicting new ideas as to the slicing of England. For my own part I hope that Members in all parts of this House who were prepared before the hon. Member spoke to support the Resolution will not be...
Sir J. D. REES: The tributes which have been paid in the House to the merits of the Indian Civil Service are pleasant hearing to the only member of that Service in this House, and I wish to thank the Secretary of State, whose speech I did not misunderstand, because he made a most handsome acknowledgment of the position of the Civil Service, and I should like, on behalf of the Indian. Civil...
Mr William Graham: I desire to associate myself, and I think other hon. Members of the Labour party also desire to associate themselves with the view which has been repeatedly expressed that we should try to deal with this problem broadly, without passion or prejudice, and certainly, as far as possible, with an absence of political bias. We are confronted this afternoon with a great economic issue which is not...
Viscount Curzon: I only wish to ask for a few moments' indulgence in order to deal with the question of pay. The First Lord of the Admiralty, in introducing the Vote on Account, took credit for the fact that no less a sum than £10,000,000 additional money has been granted to the Navy as a result of the concessions in the Halsey and Jerram Reports. I think that this shows the measure of injustice from which...
Mr Francis Mildmay: I do not wish to depreciate the importance of what we have just heard. I remind the Committee, as the right hon. Gentleman has reminded us just now, that there was a tacit agreement of the Service Members of the House of Commons to take no part in the discussion when the Army Vote was last under consideration, with the view of leaving to the two sections of the Opposition a fair field, so...
Lieut-Colonel Leo Amery: I hope I shall have the indulgence of the Committee in my first attempt to deal with so vast and complicated a range of subjects as those which are covered by this Vote. In the limited time at the disposal of the Committee it will be hardly fair to hon. Members who have many points of importance to raise if I endeavoured to do so in any comprehensive or detailed fashion. I would rather, if I...
