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Mr John Simon: ...Friends and I have not tabled a Motion to reject this Bill on its Second Reading. That is not because we are satisfied with the Bill as it stands, but because the Bill is so framed as to be capable of extensive amendment, and the rejection at this stage of this Bill outright, when no other or broader measure can immediately take its place, will necessarily aggravate the situation and delay...
Mr John Newbold: ...me great pleasure to be able to support in the most whole-hearted way possible the principle which is embodied in the Labour party's Bill. I am intensely keen for the recognition in this country of the principle of the right to work. The working classes in this country will not obtain work at times when the employing class cannot make a profit out of them, unless there is some drastic...
Lieut-Colonel Leo Amery: The hon. Member for Motherwell (Mr. Newbold) will pardon me if I do not go into the questions he raised in his speech, but direct myself at once to the clear issue raised in the Motion of the hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Snowden), and raised again in almost identical terms by the right hon. Member for Platting (Mr. Clynes) and the right hon. Member for East Newcastle (Mr. A. Henderson)....
Mr John Clynes: I beg to move, at the end of the Question, to add the words But it is our duty respectfully to submit to Your Majesty that Your Majesty's present advisers have not the confidence of this House. No Member of the House will question the importance or, indeed, the gravity of this Amendment, nor will anyone underrate the variety and the substance of the speeches which the House has already heard...
Mr Austin Hopkinson: ...Member who gets up next should congratulate him in set terms. I forget what those set terms are, therefore he may take the usual conventional compliment as paid. Having listened to the greater part of the Debate, and having very carefully read the OFFICIAL REPORT, the one thing which strikes me is the lack of seriousness of most of the speeches. That lack of seriousness was initiated by...
Mr Thomas Shaw: You will find them, I think, in Clause 1 (3). Let me say definitely, and lay stress on it if I can, that in the interests of the workmen themselves it is essential that the Unemployment Insurance Fund should not be drawn upon except by genuinely unemployed and genuinely employable men and women. There is nothing that could do more harm to my suggestion than the suspicion that the Unemployment...
Mr Frederick Martin: ...holdings and should then either few them to the small landholders or help the small landholders to acquire them. At all events, the State was to become the landlord in the meantime. On the question of afforestation, I think State purchase will be necessary in some cases. In Scotland, at all events, if you will examine the record of the Forestry Commission, you will find that the amount of...
Sir Percy Harris: We have heard a very interesting speech, with most of which I entirely agree, and which represents, I think, the right kind of attitude that ought to inspire the President of the Board of Education. Before the last speaker intervened we had a very harmonious atmosphere—perhaps in some ways too harmonious. Any stranger who wandered into the place might have thought that controversy was quite...
Major Hon. Sir Edward Cadogan: I, for one, would have been very disappointed if the hon. Member for Bow and Bromley (Mr. Lansbury) had omitted to make his usual appeal on behalf of the youth of the country. We have come to regard him as the champion of the youth of the country. I think it was in the course of the Debate on the Address that he delivered himself of a speech which created a very favourable impression on this...
Mr Noel Buxton: I think, before the House proceeds to the Third Reading, it is fitting that a word should bo said, particularly on the attitude of. the Labour party towards this Bill, seeing that, we have been spoken of as its authors last autumn. Our view is not the same, not at all the same, as the prevalent view on the other side of the House. I suppose that most hon. Gentlemen on the other side would...
Hon. Oliver Stanley: ...Amendment which, I hope, will commend itself particularly to the hon. Members who sit below the Gangway on the Opposition side, whose numbers to-night have suffered a temporary reduction. The tinge of Socialism about this Resolution must be peculiarly repugnant to hon. Members opposite who have shown themselves so fiercely individualist. Is it not a fact that they have among their reputed...
Major-General Sir Richard Luce: I wish to narrow down the Debate and to raise a few points with regard to the future of medicine in India. Hon. Members will remember that medicine is one of those services which are described as transferred, that is to say, it has passed out of the control of the Government of India to that of the Provincial Governments. Up to the present time the personnel of those services have remained...
Lord Eustace Percy: My task this afternoon is not an easy one, partly, I am afraid, because I do not want to take up too much time, but mainly because, after eight months in office, I am still a novice and during those eight months I have had to confront two grim dwellers on the threshold in the shape of salaries and superannuation, and I have only just got over that encounter. My time this afternoon is very...
Mr George Lansbury: That matter, I understand, will be dealt with later, but I am not going to let the right hon. Gentleman ride off in that way. The Russian Government and the late British Government came to an agreement which was to have been put to this House for ratification. The present Government have refused to put that treaty to the approval of this House, with the result that the debt question, which is...
Mr Shapurji Saklatvala: ...the Home Secretary to realise the great principle involved—that with your anti-Russian bias, with your Communist bogey, with your Bolshevik slogans, you are undermining the fundamental right of British citizenship, which has existed from 1847, to form international associates-hips for the purpose of propagating Socialist ideas. That is the main point. The other point is one which I am...
Mr Shapurji Saklatvala: In referring to the gracious speech of His Majesty, the right hon. Gentleman the Deputy-Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Clynes) has already pointed out the incorrectness of the first sentence, where Ministers of the Crown take credit for friendly relations with foreign Powers. The attitude of the present Ministers towards Russia is certainly notorious, but apart from that, it is high time that...
Mr Stephen Walsh: I am sure hon. Members have heard with much satisfaction the very interesting statement which has been made by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, for he has given us information which all of us desired to have, and I am sure it will be of much interest to the people outside the House. With regard to the Speech from the Throne, I do not think any hon. Member will recollect...
Mr William Hirst: As the hon. Member for Shipley says, the dividend figure was twice as much as the wage figure. It is a sad thing, even under a capitalist system of society, that we should have to admit a case where the ratio of profit earned by an establishment is greater than the wage which is being paid to the employes. That ought not to be tolerated in a country which professes to have any regard for the...
Mr John Simon: I should like to add my voice to the others which have urged the House of Commons to give_ a Second Reading to the Bill. I listened carefully to nearly all the speeches and I have been particularly concerned to weigh up and do my best to judge the arguments put. forward against the Bill. The hon. and learned Member who moved the Amendment made a very powerful and persuasive speech and he...
Sir Percy Harris: London has been under the control for the last 18 years of an authority which is entirely in sympathy with the President of the Board. It has had a majority that has been most careful in its administration. The right hon. Gentleman was a member of the Council for a good many years himself, and I think he could bear witness that there was not a suspicion of extravagance. On the contrary. in my...
