{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-15", "file": "debates1921-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6b5f88eb4b9aeb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-15a.4.7", "colnum": "4", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "preceding_text": "I desire to oppose this Sessional Order. I do so on the ground that it is obsolete, and that for nearly forty years it has been absolutely contrary to the established law of the land. Perhaps the House will bear with me for one moment whilst I explain exactly what is my point. It will be remembered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-15a.4.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-15", "file": "debates1921-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6b5f88eb4b9aeb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-15a.43.5", "colnum": "43", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "think the House of Commons will agree that that was a wise decision. I considered it very carefully with, my colleagues in the Cabinet and our reasons were these. Supposing you have a truce. There is no doubt the heads of this conspiracy are being very hard pressed. I should point out what a difference has been effected in Ireland by the administration, more notably in the last five or six months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-15a.43.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-15", "file": "debates1921-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6b5f88eb4b9aeb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-15a.46.10", "colnum": "46", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down,\" and \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "I want to put this point, that for six months we have heard statements here which have been distinctly disproved, and I say so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-15a.46.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-15", "file": "debates1921-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6b5f88eb4b9aeb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-15a.46.12", "colnum": "46", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "wife to his home, shots were fired from the railway station without any warning. The shots must have been fired by somebody who must have seen him and who must have seen that he was accompanied with his wife. There were several shots fired recklessly, without any regard to the fact that there was not merely the officer there, but that there was a woman with him. She was killed, and he was wounded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-15a.46.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-15", "file": "debates1921-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6b5f88eb4b9aeb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-15a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Traitor!\" and \"Disgraceful!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I am glad to hear that, because I can see now the spirit which animates the hon. and gallant Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-15a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-15", "file": "debates1921-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6b5f88eb4b9aeb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-15a.52.3", "colnum": "52", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I will look up the right hon. Gentleman's speeches, and give them to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-15a.52.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-15", "file": "debates1921-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6b5f88eb4b9aeb11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-15a.52.3", "colnum": "52", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I will look up the right hon. Gentleman's speeches, and give them to him. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"] I am going to justify another thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-15a.52.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-16", "file": "debates1921-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "643aa39d826d3c6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-16a.95.2", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is no law in Ireland!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "uestion, I may say that a very considerable number were neither wounded nor shot, but were available to give evidence at the inquiry. As to the first part of the supplementary question, I must point out that the representatives of a trade union of railwaymen, as such, are not, any more than representatives of bakers' or any other societies in any privileged position before these courts of inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-16a.95.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-16", "file": "debates1921-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "643aa39d826d3c6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-16a.103.10", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "own to the House and say that it is not a matter on which any good can be done by legislative action. The Government, we are told, is doing all that it can. What is it doing? If what it is doing is all that can be done is it not time that the Government recognised its absolute inability to deal with what is the nation's most pressing problem, and gave somebody else the opportunity to deal with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-16a.103.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-16", "file": "debates1921-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "643aa39d826d3c6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-16a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "the essential trades, and if my friends of the building trades operatives really mean to translate their sentiments and aspirations into action, they will come over and help us to give these men an opportunity. They say they will not, and I desire to say, on behalf of the Government, that it is our intention to do all that is humanly possible to carry out our pledges to these ex-service men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-16a.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-16", "file": "debates1921-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "643aa39d826d3c6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-16a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "in consultation, and have been on several occasions last week, and I trust shall continue them in the endeavour to meet this undertaking. But I confess I cannot go beyond that at this moment. I say again, here are the men, to whom we are under a most profound obligation, and it is our duty to do everything in our power, with co-operation, if we can get it, of course, to carry out this undertaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-16a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-16", "file": "debates1921-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "643aa39d826d3c6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-16a.155.3", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bring their wages down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "preceding_text": "round? In my own trade to-day I could either run full time a week or stop a week, but I am employing one batch of men one week and another batch of men the other week. They are perfectly satisfied, and would sooner have that than all to be out for a whole week. I would ask hon. Members on the Labour Benches to come down from the clouds to earth. There is no royal road to do away with unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-16a.155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-16", "file": "debates1921-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "643aa39d826d3c6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-16a.155.3", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "preceding_text": "the part of the consumer against these high prices, which have been ca-used by high wages, restricted hours of labour, and restricted output. This country has to live by its export trade, and until the workers in this country realise that to keep the neutral markets of the world we have to produce cheaper than any other country in the world, you will never get full work for any man. This is A.B.C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-16a.155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-16", "file": "debates1921-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "643aa39d826d3c6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-16a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "eing brought in, we are to have unemployment intensified tenfold in this country, because if employers who fail to make both ends meet are going to close down their collieries without any sort of agreement, there is nothing but additions to our roll of unemployed workmen in all the coalfields of Britain. If the Government will see to it that before decontrol takes place a national agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-16a.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-16", "file": "debates1921-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "643aa39d826d3c6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-16a.179.0", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Will it cut? Have you tried it? How much did you pay for it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "n broad principles, and in a way which will do employment real and lasting good. My right hon. Friend the Member for Norwich happened to mention in his speech the question of goods which had been imported from Germany at the present time. I had given to me this morning a safety razor which I have got in my hand, and which is made in Germany. This safety razor is being sold to retailers for 2s. 9d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-16a.179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-16", "file": "debates1921-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "643aa39d826d3c6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-16a.195.0", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel BUCKLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel BUCKLEY", "preceding_text": " in the shipping industry and in the food industry, and to talk in these days, with all this experience, of finding a remedy for unemployment by instituting Government control of industry on a scale which is infinitely colossal is to place confidence in a fallacy. If you are going to admit the right of every man to work, surely you have to admit also the right of the State to insist that he works.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-16a.195.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-17", "file": "debates1921-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f631ec7ee20d3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-17a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ireland!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "y seaport where they send troops away to some of our little wars, and you will see processions of the unemployed with their banners going down the streets, and another procession of troops going away— very largely cause and effect. It is not only actual money expended, but our general policy in Russia, Mesopotamia, Palestine, Egypt, is a heavy charge; turn where you will you will find it so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-17a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-17", "file": "debates1921-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f631ec7ee20d3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-17a.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. BARLOW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Part time, you mean!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. BARLOW", "preceding_text": "That is another matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-17a.340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-17", "file": "debates1921-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f631ec7ee20d3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-17a.345.0", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WIGNALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEKS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WIGNALL", "preceding_text": "his House we are only voicing something of the great volume of sorrow and misery there is in the world at the present time. I do hope and sincerely trust that the outcome of this two days' Debate will at least meet the needs of the present moment and evolve a far greater and better scheme for dealing with this matter. The present state of unemployment is unprecedented in the history of our nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-17a.345.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-17", "file": "debates1921-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f631ec7ee20d3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-17a.350.2", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WIGNALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WIGNALL", "preceding_text": " increased, and I fully expect to hear, before the Debate is ended, that it is going to be increased, but not to 40s. We are not satisfied, however, unless you realise that that 40s. has been put down, not as a maximum, but as a minimum that is required for the maintenance of all. It has been said, and may be said again, that it is encouraging those people who would rather receive doles than work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-17a.350.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-17", "file": "debates1921-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f631ec7ee20d3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-17a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sack the lot!\" \"Ask your uncle!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member suggests that we should wipe the ^National Debt out completely. He suggests also, no doubt, that we should wipe out capital entirely and completely. In that case labour also would be bound to be wiped out. If there were no capital, there would be no need for labour either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-17a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-17", "file": "debates1921-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f631ec7ee20d3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-17a.413.5", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " opposite (Mr. Clynes) has got an Amendment upon which I presume we will vote in a very short while. What is his Amendment? It regrets there is no mention of legislation recognising the right of the genuine unemployed to work or to adequate maintenance. The right to work. What does it mean? Does it mean everybody's right to work, or does it mean simply the right to work if the trade unions permit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-17a.413.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-17", "file": "debates1921-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f631ec7ee20d3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-17a.413.9", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "Take what is happening in the building trade at the present moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-17a.413.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-17", "file": "debates1921-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f631ec7ee20d3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-17a.414.2", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the million unemployed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "should insist upon a fair proportion of the ex-service men being employed upon these building contracts. If the building trade refuses the Government will stand behind the builders in their action That is in order to carry out practically—not in the Division Lobby—but practically the Resolution which is moved by my right hon. Friend opposite. I am here as a supporter of this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-17a.414.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-17", "file": "debates1921-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f631ec7ee20d3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-17a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"It was there before the War, and \"Capital.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ot buy. One hon. Friend in a very interesting speech asked why? \"There,\" he said, \"is the demand, and here is the supply.\" He forgets there is something else, and that is you must be able to pay. You may have a starving man in front of a baker's shop. There is the demand, and there is the supply, but you must be able to pay for your goods. It is purely the inevitable consequence of a terrible war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-17a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-17", "file": "debates1921-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f631ec7ee20d3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-17a.420.0", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN WALSH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN WALSH", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman resumed his seat I was reminded of a famous occasion when a great statesman, referring to another, said, \"We have all been under the wand of the enchanter tonight.\" I think that, great as have been the oratorical successes of the right hon. Gentleman, they have been exceeded by the magnificent effort that he has made to-night.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-17a.420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-17", "file": "debates1921-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f631ec7ee20d3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-17a.420.0", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN WALSH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN WALSH", "preceding_text": "asion when a great statesman, referring to another, said, \"We have all been under the wand of the enchanter tonight.\" I think that, great as have been the oratorical successes of the right hon. Gentleman, they have been exceeded by the magnificent effort that he has made to-night.—[ Interruption. ]—However much my hon. Friends behind me may disagree with the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-17a.420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-17", "file": "debates1921-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "6f631ec7ee20d3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-17a.426.0", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "preceding_text": "tial to the State —not necessarily key or pivotal industries, but industries essential to the maintenance of the State itself. If we are to have a new world, if this awful spectre of unemployment is to be finally laid, if there is to be real hope for the generation to come, it can be done only by turning our backs on the old traditions. Private enterprise has failed, and failed disgracefully", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-17a.426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-18", "file": "debates1921-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "69d182301e3e8f1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-18a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Coal!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": " tried to explain that gold is out of the question. The total amount of gold in the world is only £1,500,000,000 odd, so what is the good of considering gold when discussing large figures? Then there is service. I am sure none of us wants the Germans over here to work for us. Then there is kind. We can get a certain amount of raw material, such as potash, from Germany into this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-18a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-18", "file": "debates1921-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "69d182301e3e8f1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-18a.471.1", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is no reversal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "Exactly, but it is because the policy of the Government is such a reversal of the statement on which it was elected that we want a General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-18a.471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-18", "file": "debates1921-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "69d182301e3e8f1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-18a.471.1", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The same story!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "ts, that we were going to hang the Kaiser. These things you said! Have you done them? What is your policy now? Do you now talk about hanging the Kaiser, about making Germany pay every penny, about searching her pockets? You recognise now that you cannot simply do the things you said you could. Our policy here is to try to get you before the country so that you may be able to tell your story again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-18a.471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-18", "file": "debates1921-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "69d182301e3e8f1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-18a.504.0", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBKRS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "I do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-18a.504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-18", "file": "debates1921-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "69d182301e3e8f1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-18a.504.1", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. COATES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Certainly not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. COATES", "preceding_text": "n order to meet these difficulties of the £4,000,000 caused by a rise in price? I maintain the Government are taking the right course in putting up the price to the user of of the telephone. If there is to be a £4,000,000 loss and you have to pay your wages, where is it to come from? There are only two sources, either the user or the taxpayer. Are you going to ask the taxpayer to pay it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-18a.504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-18", "file": "debates1921-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "69d182301e3e8f1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-18a.507.0", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Gordon Hewart)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Gordon Hewart)", "preceding_text": "n you speak to a superviser, you are put on at once, and on inquiry you find that the number said to be engaged has not been called. It is very annoying to business men who have trains to catch and appointments to keep to be treated like this. I hate making complaints, especially about employés, but there is a limit to one's endurance. 4.0 P.M. That, it will be agreed, is a typical complaint.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-18a.507.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-21", "file": "debates1921-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0c3ccce98ac6dc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.607.8", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": " and his property destroyed. The right hon. Gentleman appears to dissent, but what other inference can we draw from his speech? It is not a very pleasant point to bring out, but that is absolutely the only conclusion that we can draw and which shows the mind of the right hon. Gentleman upon the matter. Take this statement. \"Those men who acquiesce in murder have no right to complain of reprisals.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.607.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-21", "file": "debates1921-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0c3ccce98ac6dc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.611.2", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I have explained that was under the Proclamation setting up martial law in the province of Munster; that on a certain date—after martial law had been proclaimed—all those who illegally held arms and explosives and those who harboured notorious murderers would be liable to the capital penalty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.611.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-21", "file": "debates1921-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0c3ccce98ac6dc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the name?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ave come upon Ireland during the past few years, and especially since the 1916 Rebellion. But this is issued to French papers. It is issued by an old colleague of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Paisley. It is part of propaganda carried on by official Liberalism, out to destroy this Government, and in that attempt they besmirch the name of this country, which should be a pride to everyone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-21", "file": "debates1921-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0c3ccce98ac6dc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And shot?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "o do something, I think, different to what this is. The Irish in effect having captured hundreds of constables and soldiers (including an English general) have always treated them humanely and courteously, and after a little time have released them, whereas the English Government, for its part, when it captures Irish rebels, loses no time in hanging them. Up to the present we have hanged one only.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-21", "file": "debates1921-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0c3ccce98ac6dc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.626.4", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOWARD GRITTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Another patriot!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOWARD GRITTEN", "preceding_text": "They always did hate their own country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.626.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-21", "file": "debates1921-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0c3ccce98ac6dc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.636.5", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "and let me here pay tribute to her—a most heroic English housemaid in service for one of these officers who was murdered. She identified the murderer, and she was threatened with death and hounded out of her place. We had to take charge of her in Dublin Castle. She gave her evidence, and was not shaken. What is the result? To save her life she has had to change her name and to leave Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.636.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-21", "file": "debates1921-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0c3ccce98ac6dc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.641.4", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I am a very sincere member of the Church of England, not a political member or a talking member. I wonder if His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, speaking in the House of Lords to-morrow, could survey his black army of clergymen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.641.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-21", "file": "debates1921-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0c3ccce98ac6dc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.642.3", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "#244;t gets sixteen pairs. Hence the number sent to the depôt of the Royal Irish Fusiliers. They are issued to all infantry units, quite irrespective of where they are stationed. They were originally introduced in 1917. In the Labour Report they suggest that these masks were specially made; and issued so that the Forces of the Crown could disguise themselves and go about on a murder campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.642.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-21", "file": "debates1921-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0c3ccce98ac6dc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.643.5", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How can you tell?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "e authority of the Crown in local administration. They got their Irish Republican Army ready, and it continued to intensify its campaign of murder and arson. The County Council elections were swept by the Sinn Feiners, exactly in the same way as they defeated the Nationalists in the General Election of 1918—by intimidation. Anyone who did not vote Sinn Fein was terrorised from voting at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.643.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-21", "file": "debates1921-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0c3ccce98ac6dc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.645.3", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\" \"Disgraceful!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "an independent Ireland and to help the Germans to defeat the allies of America. The late Prime Minister's treatment of the rebels encouraged every enemy in Ireland just as his attitude encourages them to-day. He does not intend it, I know, but because of his attitude every assassin in Ireland looks upon him as a friend, and every law-abiding citizen in Ireland looks upon his speeches with despair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.645.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-21", "file": "debates1921-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0c3ccce98ac6dc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.648.0", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "and I ask the House to mark this, because they will really find an indication of how these things were done—what they would have done was this. They would have taken the resident magistrate back, put him against a wall and shot him, and then they would have said the next day, \"We came along, we saw the resident magistrate shot by this priest and by this citizen, and we then shot the priest.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.648.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-21", "file": "debates1921-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0c3ccce98ac6dc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.648.0", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\" and \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "oing so. I complain, also, that the Chief Secretary for Ireland never replied to a single question put by my hon. and gallant Friend, and that he never dealt with a single one of the cases. I see the right hon. Gentleman (Sir H. Greenwood) has just come in. May I point out to him that I am compelled, against my will, to take up the time of hon. Members in repeating to him what I have already said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.648.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-21", "file": "debates1921-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0c3ccce98ac6dc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.660.0", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "I am very glad that this merciful spirit has taken hold of the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.660.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-21", "file": "debates1921-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0c3ccce98ac6dc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.677.3", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They would be shot!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "are other instances. I do venture to appeal to the Government even now to throw aside this passion for concealment. Let us have a full searching inquiry into these things. It is the only thing which can possibly restore confidence in this country. Why not appoint a really strong commission of three persons of undoubted reputation—an English judge, an English general, and a Member this House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.677.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-21", "file": "debates1921-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0c3ccce98ac6dc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BARNES", "preceding_text": "as marched out to the back of the Union yard and there shot. I admit that there are several instances showing that there is some improvement. For instance, I suppose that the Sinn Fein courts do not operate now. They had superseded the ordinary courts a few months ago, and they are now-suppressed. I suppose too, that murder, in spite of these terrible cases reported this morning, is less frequent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-21", "file": "debates1921-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0c3ccce98ac6dc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General COCKERILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is it signed by Mr. Arthur Griffith?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General COCKERILL", "preceding_text": "ry conditions\"— that is an important point— between representatives of the British Government and Dail Eireann. If these proposals are accepted by the British Government, Dail Eireann will accept them and a cessation of all activities which might hamper the assembly and sitting of such a conference could be speedily arranged. I believe that letter came from Mr. Arthur Griffith himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-21", "file": "debates1921-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0c3ccce98ac6dc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.706.5", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You were not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "s character, it is more injurious and dishonouring, when these methods are borrowed and pursued by those who are responsible for the pure, ovenhanded, and impartial administration of the law. But that is only a personal matter; it does not affect me very much. I have been called in my day a pro-German and I still live. I have been called a Bolshevik and I still live. Now I am called a Sinn Feiner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.706.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-21", "file": "debates1921-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0c3ccce98ac6dc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.706.5", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who sent it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "mpant when he took the reins, has now been, so the Prime Minister told us, if not driven underground, at any rate driven to obscure refuges in the hills. What are the facts? At the very moment when the Prime Minister was speaking an hon. Friend of mine sitting here put in my hands a telegram that had come from Ireland that day which described how, within a very few miles of the city of Cork—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.706.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-21", "file": "debates1921-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0c3ccce98ac6dc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.706.5", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "and Bandon Railway two trains had been ambushed and a number of soldiers and civilians had lost their lives. If you look in the newspapers only to-day you will see that in the city of Cork, not in the hills, not in those remote outlying regions, within the last ten days—I am reading from the \"Times\" of to-day— five citizens of Cork have been shot dead in the most terrible circumstancs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.706.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-21", "file": "debates1921-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0c3ccce98ac6dc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.713.0", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\" and \"Shut up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I hope they are quoted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.713.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-21", "file": "debates1921-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0c3ccce98ac6dc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.714.3", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "It was said constantly by the Nationalists when Lord Spencer was carrying out the government of Ireland, and it was said constantly by the Nationalists, plus Mr. Gladstone and his followers, when my right hon. Friend the President of the Council was trying to carry out the same work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.714.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-21", "file": "debates1921-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0c3ccce98ac6dc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.715.0", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Insult!\" \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "The reason why we will not listen to you is that yours is a duller speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-21a.715.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-22", "file": "debates1921-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e54d2623639be05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-22a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "The CHIEF SECRETARY for IRELAND (Colonel Sir Hamar Greenwood)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'Why!'", "preceding_speaker": "The CHIEF SECRETARY for IRELAND (Colonel Sir Hamar Greenwood)", "preceding_text": "judice to any future disciplinary action if found guilty. He at once instituted a Court of Inquiry into the whole of the circumstances which is now proceeding. The cadets have not been allowed to return to their own unit, and there is no question under any circumstances of allowing them to do so. They are now awaiting the finding of the Court. The Commanding Officer and the Adjutant have resigned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-22a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-22", "file": "debates1921-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e54d2623639be05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-22a.742.6", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "rose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-22a.742.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-22", "file": "debates1921-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e54d2623639be05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-22a.742.6", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They always do!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "rose. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"] It is all right; I am standing up, too. May I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether other criminals, where a conflict of evidence arises, can be given the benefit of the doubt in the same way as these gentlemen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-22a.742.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-22", "file": "debates1921-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e54d2623639be05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-22a.769.0", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF MUNITIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "fully recognise, and it is because I do recognise, the seriousness of these charges that I have said it is obviously not enough to make them without primâ facie evidence. If the House of Commons has not confidence that the Minister is incapable of such action as is stated, surely the least that can be done is that primâ facie evidence should be placed before- this Departmental Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-22a.769.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-22", "file": "debates1921-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e54d2623639be05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-22a.814.0", "colnum": "814", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "fore, the Government ought to do its utmost to meet the wishes of private Members. I gather from this Motion that until the end of the financial year, Government business shall have precedence at every sitting. I presume that that does not cut out Motions for the Adjournment. Supposing at question time someone moves the Adjournment of the House: I take it that that question would not be ruled out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-22a.814.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-22", "file": "debates1921-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e54d2623639be05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-22a.817.0", "colnum": "817", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "preceding_text": "The various sectional opposition has had a good innings, four representatives in succession having spoken. The points raised by Members of the Labour party with regard to dealing with questions of unemployment were hardly germane to this Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-22a.817.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-22", "file": "debates1921-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e54d2623639be05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-22a.817.0", "colnum": "817", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So it was!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "preceding_text": "ls at an early period and before the end of the financial year. They cannot control the fact that we have double the number of Supplementary Estimates. The right hon. Member for Peebles said that it was lack of foresight. One might as well say that it was lack of foresight for the Liberal Government not to anticipate the War, in which they have spent £7,000,000,000 of Supplementary Estimates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-22a.817.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-22", "file": "debates1921-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e54d2623639be05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-22a.824.0", "colnum": "824", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": " about finance. We are asking that a definite amount of Parliamentary time shall be allocated, so that matters of great public importance can be raised, if necessary, owing to the changing circumstances which develop from day to day. We are to have an Amendment of the Unemployment Insurance Act. We were informed the other day that we would not have an opportunity of moving Amendments to that Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-22a.824.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-22", "file": "debates1921-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e54d2623639be05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-22a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or the Key Industries Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "Oh, no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-22a.837.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-23", "file": "debates1921-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "085c5f7d8d835906", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-23a.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"If guilty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "discipline. It is not a fact that mere discharge or dismissal from the force is a punishment for looting or any crime outside the domestic economy of the force itself. In this particular case I can assure the House that everything will be done to bring to justice these men who are accused of a very serious crime, and no one would be more pleased than I would be to see them most summarily punished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-23a.931.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-23", "file": "debates1921-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "085c5f7d8d835906", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-23a.1069.0", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT (1920) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BARKER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BARKER", "preceding_text": " unemployment. The Government should endeavour to open up trade with the countries of Europe. They should endeavour to place trade on a pre-war basis. It has been said here, and by hon. Members on the other side, that there is no hope in trade from Russia. Are we to understand from that that Russia is never going to recover? That is a most ridiculous and impossible hypothesis. Russia will recover.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-23a.1069.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-23", "file": "debates1921-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "085c5f7d8d835906", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-23a.1069.0", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT (1920) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BARKER", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Why do they not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BARKER", "preceding_text": "other side, that there is no hope in trade from Russia. Are we to understand from that that Russia is never going to recover? That is a most ridiculous and impossible hypothesis. Russia will recover. [An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"] She is recovering now, and if you legalise trade with Russia the great co-operative movement in this country would soon show you how to solve the problem of trading with her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-23a.1069.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-23", "file": "debates1921-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "085c5f7d8d835906", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-23a.1075.5", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT (1920) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. INSKIP", "cue_text": "MR. BARKER: 'Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "e is more sweetly reasonable in the arguments he addresses to us. I adhere to what I have said on a former occasion as to the ideal at which we have to aim. It is to reduce this spectre of unemployment, which does surely touch the question of employment at many points. If we can get rid of this spectre of unemployment we shall not have such ridiculous situations as now exist in the building trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-23a.1075.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-23", "file": "debates1921-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "085c5f7d8d835906", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-23a.1081.1", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT (1920) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "then of this fine morality. And then, with the humbug that we have in our composition, after all, when another set of people began to revolt—which I do not attempt to justify—we said, \"Oh, no, we are too moral a people to recognise you.\" We swallowed the camel and strained at the gnat. The Government ought to recognise the simple fact that the Russian people is a people like ourselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-23a.1081.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-23", "file": "debates1921-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "085c5f7d8d835906", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-23a.1081.1", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT (1920) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Are we lovable?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "RS: \"No!\"] Every authority who knew Russia before the War tells the same story. It is told in every book on the subject that I have read, and I have tried during the last two years to read as much as I could. If anyone can find a book written by any authority on Russia in which the fact is not admitted that the Russian people is the most lovable people in the world, I should like to see that book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-23a.1081.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-23", "file": "debates1921-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "085c5f7d8d835906", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-23a.1083.1", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT (1920) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON MEMBER: \"Where from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "urrounding State is suffering. There are immense potentialities in the East of Europe and in Central Europe, and those potentialities it is the business of a wise Government to help to develop. There is a chance for our men who are now walking the streets to make ploughs, locomotives, clothes, boots, and in return to get agricultural produce, wood, and other materials that we need in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-23a.1083.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-24", "file": "debates1921-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "5099efd51a45108b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-24a.1123.4", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have asked for it half a dozen times.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I have tried to answer the question as well as I could. If the hon. Member will put his supplementary question down I will endeavour to get him an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-24a.1123.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-24", "file": "debates1921-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "5099efd51a45108b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-24a.1131.7", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There was!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "Yes, without trial, on the ground of unsuitability for the force. If there be a charge of crime against him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-24a.1131.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-24", "file": "debates1921-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "5099efd51a45108b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-24a.1133.3", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "In view of the desirability of avoiding precedents of this kind, will it not be possible to take the discussion on one of the Supplementary Estimates early next week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-24a.1133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-24", "file": "debates1921-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "5099efd51a45108b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-24a.1139.2", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PEACE TREATIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does the right hon. Gentleman know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I really do not think it is my business to answer questions of that kind. It would make the House ridiculous if I did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-24a.1139.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-24", "file": "debates1921-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "5099efd51a45108b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-24a.1141.7", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PEACE TREATIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. WILLIAMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too late!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. WILLIAMSON", "preceding_text": "I do not know that any such forms have been sent out, but I will inquire into that matter. With regard to a discussion, of course there is every opportunity of discussing these matters when the Army Votes come up in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-24a.1141.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-24", "file": "debates1921-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "5099efd51a45108b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-24a.1231.0", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT (1920) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": " but during the time I have been in this House this Session everybody has been so sympathetic about the ex-soldier that in my humble judgment the State ought to bear that obligation and take that number from the Unemployment Fund, and if you did that then you could pay even more than 18s. I know it is quite hopeless, and we might as well talk to a brick wall. You have all made up your minds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-24a.1231.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-24", "file": "debates1921-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "5099efd51a45108b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-24a.1235.0", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT (1920) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TYSON WILSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TYSON WILSON", "preceding_text": "ed he is a long way out, and if instead of 10 per cent, he calculated only on 7 per cent, there would be a far larger income and much less expenditure than he anticipates. I hope, therefore, before the Division is taken, the Government will make some declaration with regard to what it proposes to do. One of the hon. Members just now spoke of 12s. per week as being too much for an unemployed woman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-24a.1235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-24", "file": "debates1921-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "5099efd51a45108b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-24a.1285.0", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 3.—(Amendments as to conditions for receipt of benefit.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOLES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOLES", "preceding_text": "nce. That is what I was coming to. I frankly recognise that he has not the power at the moment. I was speaking of the position which would be created on the assumption that the Bill goes through. I think I have rightly interpreted his mind that if that happens, and the Committee of experts which he suggests makes the recommendation that he contemplates, he would meet it. Am I correct in that view?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-24a.1285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-25", "file": "debates1921-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "53de411631bdf138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-25a.1345.0", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS' SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1920–21.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. M0ND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There are more to come.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. M0ND", "preceding_text": "I think the time is opportune when I may make some reply to a number of speeches which have been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-25a.1345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-25", "file": "debates1921-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "53de411631bdf138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-25a.1351.3", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS' SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1920–21.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "there has been a considerable rise in prices since that day. Therefore, over the year there will be a considerable increase, something like 25 per cent, on the original Estimate. I was asked a question about the barriers in Downing Street. They come into the item of maintenance. I do not know how much they actually cost, but it cannot amount to very much in money. It was considered very necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-25a.1351.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-25", "file": "debates1921-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "53de411631bdf138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-25a.1352.0", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS' SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1920–21.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-25a.1352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-25", "file": "debates1921-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "53de411631bdf138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-25a.1363.0", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS' SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1920–21.", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNETT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNETT", "preceding_text": " Park is the one lung and breathing space, and every square foot that is taken from Regent's Park and utilised for any other purpose is an intolerable interference with the rights of the people. We have had criticism in this House of the commandeering of hotels and public buildings. It would be a thousand times better to commandeer every hotel in London than to take a square yard of Regent's Park.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-25a.1363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-25", "file": "debates1921-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "53de411631bdf138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-25a.1368.0", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS' SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1920–21.", "cue_speaker": "Sir COURTENAY WARNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir COURTENAY WARNER", "preceding_text": "I do not want to delay this Debate, for I should like to see it closed as quickly as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-25a.1368.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-25", "file": "debates1921-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "53de411631bdf138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-25a.1371.3", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS' SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1920–21.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"This is the Stationery Office Vote.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "discussion was some detail of the Vote which is before the Committee, because it is obvious that it is impossible for me to know the details of every Vote or to stand at this table to give the Committee the explanation in regard to such details which it has a right to demand. That must be done by the Minister in charge of the Vote or by other Ministers whose Departments are particularly concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-25a.1371.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-25", "file": "debates1921-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "53de411631bdf138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-25a.1372.1", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS' SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1920–21.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member for Hampstead (Mr. G. Balfour) rose.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "Because not one speaker rose to their support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-25a.1372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-25", "file": "debates1921-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "53de411631bdf138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-25a.1378.2", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS' SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1920–21.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer has invited the Committee to co-operate with him in saving money. These Estimates show very clearly that the Government are not alive to the urgent necessity for economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-25a.1378.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-28", "file": "debates1921-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "c5abe390ec721e16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-28a.1420.2", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\" and \"Wait and see!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. and gallant Member will wait for the Minister of Agriculture's return.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-28a.1420.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-28", "file": "debates1921-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "c5abe390ec721e16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-28a.1476.1", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS' SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1920–21.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "In all probability what applies to one applies to all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-28a.1476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-28", "file": "debates1921-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "c5abe390ec721e16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-28a.1477.1", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS' SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1920–21.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "mmons, the right hon. Gentleman said: The (Railway) Executive Committee have done a work of which they are justly proud, and for which the country should be grateful.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 17th March, 1919; col. 1770; Vol. 113.] Some of them are not showing their gratitude in a very pleasant way at the present moment when they suggest that bargains which have been entered into should be varied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-28a.1477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-28", "file": "debates1921-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "c5abe390ec721e16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-28a.1482.1", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS' SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1920–21.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I am going to assert this, and I am going to prove what I say, because it is a remarkable fact that when wages were referred to many Members of this House applauded the sentiment that the real cause of the trouble was the abnormal increase in wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-28a.1482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-28", "file": "debates1921-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "c5abe390ec721e16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-28a.1482.1", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS' SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1920–21.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Some HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " to prove what I say, because it is a remarkable fact that when wages were referred to many Members of this House applauded the sentiment that the real cause of the trouble was the abnormal increase in wages. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Then I am correct in interpreting that to mean that many Members of the Committee really and honestly believe that the statement made by these chairmen was true?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-28a.1482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-02-28", "file": "debates1921-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "c5abe390ec721e16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-28a.1490.0", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS' SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1920–21.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They want to give us no agreement at all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "ipulated for in the Regulation of the Forces Act, 1871, I feel that, as Sir Alexander Butterworth has said, it is one of those questions upon which 20 lawyers would give you 20 different opinions. If you are going to settle the legal rights which are involved in this kind of question, do not let there be any mistake about it, you are in for a prolonged, costly, and, I am afraid, bitter litigation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-02-28a.1490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-01", "file": "debates1921-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "76cf09590c91b393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1665.4", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "the present time except to say this: I suppose I shall be asked to refer to the future of the Air Ministry, and I shall refer to it by saying it is a matter which ought to be dealt with by the Prime Minister or by my right hon. Friend (Mr. Bonar Law) rather than by me. I do not wish to seem to be making out a case for myself. To begin with, it would be difficult to do justice to the subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1665.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-01", "file": "debates1921-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "76cf09590c91b393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1699.1", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENNISS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENNISS", "preceding_text": "ps. The others are getting obsolete. The United States are building 18 warships at a cost three or four times as great as each of our warships. They may be building on wrong or on right designs, but in the war in 1812 we were beaten by America with frigates, and America may become the great naval power in the future. The right hon. Gentleman may remember what appeared the other day in the \"Times.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-01", "file": "debates1921-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "76cf09590c91b393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1704.0", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. HARMSWORTH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": ";as much as by the fighting forces in France, and it is essential for this country to husband its financial resources for any similar occasion. As regards these Estimates, the point I should like to criticise is the fact that they are bigger than last year's. I have listened to a great number of speeches this evening, and every Member has advocated more expenditure, in either one way or the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-01", "file": "debates1921-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "76cf09590c91b393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1718.4", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WARD", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Member is much more in that way than I am. I have always dealt with an opponent perfectly fairly so far. There is a slight variation between impudence and impertinence, and probably the hon. Member would be able to explain on which side he is. The whole of the speeches to-day have been devoted to the idea that we ought to spend more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1718.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-01", "file": "debates1921-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "76cf09590c91b393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1736.4", "colnum": "1736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT. [28TH FEBRUARY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOULD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOULD", "preceding_text": "or a month, and in the meantime we cannot afford to run the risk of further acts of indiscipline such as the one we have now under consideration. What is the Government going to do? I would prefer to leave this task to the Regular forces, in whom our confidence is unshaken. As to the Chief Secretary and General Tudor, I agree with my hon. and gallant Friend that they should resign their positions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1736.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-01", "file": "debates1921-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "76cf09590c91b393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1744.1", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT. [28TH FEBRUARY.]", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "were not returned to duty; they were not put into their old company; they are not now doing any police duty whatever. They are suspended from all police duty pending the inquiry now proceeding. That inquiry automatically follows any charge made against any member of the police force. It is an inquiry conducted in this case by Brigadier-General Barron, C.B., D.S.O., and Lieut.-Colonel Price, D.S.O.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-01", "file": "debates1921-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "76cf09590c91b393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1751.2", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT. [28TH FEBRUARY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman who has just sat down has perorated with his accustomed vigour, this time on the theme of the importance of maintaining discipline in the forces of the Crown in Ireland—a very appropriate subject. It is curious that we should, for the first time, I think, have heard him deal with this matter with such energy and even vehemence of language.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1751.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-01", "file": "debates1921-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "76cf09590c91b393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1751.2", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT. [28TH FEBRUARY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": " his accustomed vigour, this time on the theme of the importance of maintaining discipline in the forces of the Crown in Ireland—a very appropriate subject. It is curious that we should, for the first time, I think, have heard him deal with this matter with such energy and even vehemence of language. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] With more vehemence and vigour. It is the only case, so far as I know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1751.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-01", "file": "debates1921-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "76cf09590c91b393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1751.7", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT. [28TH FEBRUARY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No,\" and \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "It is the only case, I think—certainly it is one of very few cases—in which an actually proved instance of misconduct on the part of the Auxiliary forces in Ireland having been examined by the General in command of that force and visited by him, with the approval of his superior officer, with condign punishment, his action has been disavowed and is now overruled by the Chief Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1751.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-01", "file": "debates1921-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "76cf09590c91b393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1751.7", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT. [28TH FEBRUARY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "ceeded to hold an investigation. He declares he went minutely into all the facts of the case and had every one of these men before him, and the conclusion he arrived at was this—that there were five ringleaders who had actual concern in the looting, and who had appropriated the spoil. As regards the remainder, he spent a great deal of time in company with his adjutant and the other officers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1751.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-01", "file": "debates1921-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "76cf09590c91b393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1755.0", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT. [28TH FEBRUARY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "saying anything against him, or of referring to him in any way, except to the extent that the clear evidence justifies. My right hon. Friend (Mr. Asquith) has been Prime Minister and Secretary of State for War, and yet he actually told us to-night that there was nothing irregular in a General Officer communicating his opinions to the Press before his resignation had been received by his superiors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-01", "file": "debates1921-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "76cf09590c91b393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1763.1", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT. [28TH FEBRUARY.]", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "re are only two sides I recognise in Ireland in a matter of this kind, the sides of right and wrong, and everybody who commits a murder, or loots, or commits an act of lawless violence, whether in the police or in Sinn Fein or anywhere else, is the enemy of God and of this country. I care nothing for those claptrap appeals which the Government are never tired of making to stand by brave men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-01", "file": "debates1921-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "76cf09590c91b393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1763.1", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT. [28TH FEBRUARY.]", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give us an example!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "ight and wrong, and everybody who commits a murder, or loots, or commits an act of lawless violence, whether in the police or in Sinn Fein or anywhere else, is the enemy of God and of this country. I care nothing for those claptrap appeals which the Government are never tired of making to stand by brave men—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"]. They are dishonouring the country over which they preside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-01", "file": "debates1921-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "76cf09590c91b393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1763.1", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT. [28TH FEBRUARY.]", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "ap appeals which the Government are never tired of making to stand by brave men—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"]. They are dishonouring the country over which they preside. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Give us an example!\"] No, I will not give an example. What I care about is the vindication of God's Commandments in this case. I certainly do not want to make anything which would in any case be an unfair attack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-01a.1763.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1921-03-02", "file": "debates1921-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0079030e154d3efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-02a.1795.5", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "An apology!", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL for IRELAND (Mr. Denis Henry)", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has asked me to answer this question. My right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary has already called the attention of the House to the article referred to, and he made a subsequent statement to the House which will be within the recollection of hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-02a.1795.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-02", "file": "debates1921-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0079030e154d3efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-02a.1915.1", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1920–21.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I agree with you. Speaking personally, I think one of the worst examples this House could show would be to add to the salaries or allowances of Members in the present state of affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-02a.1915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-02", "file": "debates1921-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0079030e154d3efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-02a.1958.0", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1920–21.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel AMERY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel AMERY", "preceding_text": "iving the best men away from England, I would ask them to remember that \"the best\" is a very relative term. It is not only a question of the best in blood, but in condition and chances and circumstances. The War showed how splendid the average of our country was; and I believe that people who are called \"not the best\" in this country are very often so only because they have not had an opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-02a.1958.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-03", "file": "debates1921-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5f5907494344d57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.1976.5", "colnum": "1976", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MURRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Penistone!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MURRAY", "preceding_text": "As the hon. and gallant Gentleman cannot answer, Why is not the Minister of Pensions here? Is he electioneering? Could he not choose another day for that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.1976.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-03", "file": "debates1921-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5f5907494344d57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.1978.1", "colnum": "1978", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman think it just in a case of admitted murder by a policeman that the rates should be charged with the compensation to the relatives? Has he not enough humanity to award some compensation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.1978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-03", "file": "debates1921-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5f5907494344d57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.1988.4", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Be careful!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Does the Act apply here? May I have an answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.1988.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-03", "file": "debates1921-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5f5907494344d57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.1992.7", "colnum": "1992", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister whether in view of the fact that a universal feeling prevails in the country that many innocent men are being executed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.1992.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-03", "file": "debates1921-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5f5907494344d57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.1994.0", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "e Restoration of Order in Ireland Bill was passing through this House he stated that the infliction of the death penalty would require some further authority from this House, and, secondly, in such a case as that of the man James Allen, who was shot for being in possession of a revolver and a military book, where there is no evidence of complicity to murder but simply the possession of arms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.1994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-03", "file": "debates1921-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5f5907494344d57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.1994.3", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite seem to resent the putting of a most serious question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.1994.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-03", "file": "debates1921-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5f5907494344d57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.2108.1", "colnum": "2108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT (1920) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "preceding_text": " to the Labour Exchanges, and I would suggest that hon. Members who are interested in their work should at least attend an occasional meeting of an unemployment committee. Then I am certain there are Members of the House who would come down to the realities of the case. In the first place the managers of the Labour Exchanges are the very last persons in the world to be favourable to the men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.2108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-03", "file": "debates1921-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5f5907494344d57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.2111.3", "colnum": "2111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT (1920) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "I want to go further. I did not refer to the inspectors until the second time that I tried to ex- plain this. Since I call the inspector a man who checks this decision, I have been looking at his powers under the Act and they are very extensive indeed. It may very well be that we have not got enough inspectors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.2111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-03", "file": "debates1921-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5f5907494344d57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.2112.0", "colnum": "2112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT (1920) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "The whole difficulty which the right hon. Gentleman has dealt with is what is suitable employment. The right hon. Gentleman has pointed out that it might be necessary to employ a great many more inspectors, and if that were necessary to ensure that no injustice was done, of course, we should all agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.2112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-03", "file": "debates1921-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5f5907494344d57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.2140.2", "colnum": "2140", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1920–21.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The taxpayers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ld like to know how many of these officials travel first class and how many of them stay at the best hotels, and what grade of official comes into these huge expenses. That is what the Committee wants to know. My right hon. Friend says, \"The House of Commons need not bother at all. I am going to get all these expenses back.\" When is he going to get them back, and at whose expense? The ratepayer's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.2140.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-03", "file": "debates1921-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5f5907494344d57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.2142.0", "colnum": "2142", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1920–21.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "preceding_text": "s they have either to pay the money over to private individuals or to the Department over which the right hon. Gentleman (Sir A. Mond) presides. It is a remarkable fact, but it is true, that these schemes which he is conducting all over the country will carry all those expenses included in this Vote, and that he can carry out a cheaper job than if the same work had been done by private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.2142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-03", "file": "debates1921-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5f5907494344d57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.2142.0", "colnum": "2142", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1920–21.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "preceding_text": " right hon. Gentleman (Sir A. Mond) presides. It is a remarkable fact, but it is true, that these schemes which he is conducting all over the country will carry all those expenses included in this Vote, and that he can carry out a cheaper job than if the same work had been done by private enterprise. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"] All the evidence and facts available have proved that beyond question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.2142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-03", "file": "debates1921-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5f5907494344d57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.2145.0", "colnum": "2145", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1920–21.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LORDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LORDEN", "preceding_text": "ke eating its own tail. I understand we are not entitled to go into the principle or the policy that enables the Office of Works to start on a Department which is nationalising building by a back door, to which I very strongly object. I object to it in toto ; I think it is a mistake. It is always known that the Government and municipalities cannot do building work anything like private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.2145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-03", "file": "debates1921-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5f5907494344d57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.2157.1", "colnum": "2157", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1920–21.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry if the right hon. Gentleman objects to my saying that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-03a.2157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-03-04", "file": "debates1921-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "e6bb3625f155a095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-04a.2174.1", "colnum": "2174", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "methods adopted by the Government for doing their business. During the whole time that I have been in this House, I have been absolutely opposed to doing business after 11 o'clock at night. I have brought the question before the members of our party on more than one occasion, and I have told my constituents that I absolutely refuse to sit in this House or in other houses after 11 o'clock at night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-03-04a.2174.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-04", "file": "debates1921-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5e0b1fd6060b201d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-04a.27.4", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister to take this matter seriously, as it may mean a renewal of war, with all war's horrors?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-04a.27.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-04", "file": "debates1921-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5e0b1fd6060b201d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-04a.28.3", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBEBS: \"A strike!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "It is not a strike; it is a lock-out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-04a.28.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-05", "file": "debates1921-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8338d00579fad234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. BRAMSDON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More electors! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. BRAMSDON", "preceding_text": "al.of it might have been avoided. If I show that my friends of the Labour party can fight successfully on a third or a quarter of the money which others spend, there, again, there need be no trouble whatever as regards expense. I have fought Portsmouth as a whole on four occasions, and I did not spend any more money on those occasions than I did on the last occasion, when I stood for a part of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-05", "file": "debates1921-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8338d00579fad234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. BRAMSDON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. BRAMSDON", "preceding_text": "ow beyond the first win of the favourite. I am afraid I do not understand horseracing but if I do the analogy will be this, that there are other places to be obtained, and their friends may or may not get a place. I understand that there is to be a determined opposition to my Bill. I am very glad to hear it, because it shows there is something very good in it. Let us go back a little into history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-05", "file": "debates1921-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8338d00579fad234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.624.0", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major HENDERSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about coupons?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "l representation it is possible for two minorities to come to an agreement by which each will transfer its surplus votes to the other on the understanding that they will thereby each achieve their own object. I am convinced, although I have not been in politics very long, that any system of election by which you will encourage bargaining is bound to degrade the whole political life of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.624.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-05", "file": "debates1921-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8338d00579fad234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.648.0", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": " support to principles and measures, not merely to parties. Why am I not in the official Labour party to-day? Because of the fact that on some points I am out of harmony with them. I should be possessed of perfect freedom whereby I could support that party which I deem to be right on a particular matter and at the same time give support to other parties bringing forward measures in which I concur.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.648.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-05", "file": "debates1921-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8338d00579fad234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "on in the speech made by the hon. Member for Westminster (Mr. Burdett- Coutts)—I am afraid it was the only one—with which I found myself in hearty agreement. He said proportional representation was not amusing, and that is evidently the opinion of the overwhelming majority of the Members of this House who have taken the very necessary precaution of absenting themselves from the Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-05", "file": "debates1921-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8338d00579fad234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "who is more rigidly practical or more determined to guide himself by what the Germans call, \"Wahr politik.\" I do not think you could select anyone who would fulfil those characteristics better than my right hon. Friend. Then I may include the name of my right hon. Friend who moved the Bill as that of a man of a very practical character, and I do not know whether I am to be regarded as unpractical?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-05", "file": "debates1921-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8338d00579fad234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": " do not think anybody in this House now, whatever his opinion on the subject, regards that measure as having brought about a near approach to revolution. May I say a word about the other argument, so constantly used, that this measure, by increasing the size of the constituency, would destroy the personal relations between the Members and their constituents. Surely that is a most exaggerated view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-05", "file": "debates1921-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8338d00579fad234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.681.3", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do they call you Bob?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "I happen to sit for a constituency where I have a great deal of personal relationship with my constituents for various reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.681.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-05", "file": "debates1921-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8338d00579fad234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.681.5", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "Speaking seriously, everyone who is honest to himself knows that with the present size of the constituencies the personal relationship has very largely disappeared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.681.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-05", "file": "debates1921-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8338d00579fad234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.681.5", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "y done. In a constituency consisting of two or three hundred members the personal relations are totally different to those existing in a constituency consisting of 20,000 or 30,000. Look at the result of any General Election! Look at a group of constituencies and you will find that they follow a general current, and are very little deflected by the personality of the candidates one way or another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.681.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-05", "file": "debates1921-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8338d00579fad234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.681.5", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "ny General Election! Look at a group of constituencies and you will find that they follow a general current, and are very little deflected by the personality of the candidates one way or another. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"] Very little! As a matter of fact the change would not be material in that respect. A man who is well known in one division of a great town would be well known in the whole of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.681.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-05", "file": "debates1921-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8338d00579fad234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.681.5", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"What about Yorkshire?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "ttle deflected by the personality of the candidates one way or another. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"] Very little! As a matter of fact the change would not be material in that respect. A man who is well known in one division of a great town would be well known in the whole of it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] A man who was well known in one division of a county would be well known in the whole of that county.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.681.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-05", "file": "debates1921-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8338d00579fad234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.681.5", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "another. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"] Very little! As a matter of fact the change would not be material in that respect. A man who is well known in one division of a great town would be well known in the whole of it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] A man who was well known in one division of a county would be well known in the whole of that county. [An HON MEMBER: \"What about Yorkshire?\"] I am sure I am right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.681.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-05", "file": "debates1921-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8338d00579fad234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "COAL NEGOTIATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You know better!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "preceding_text": "e Crown now serving, and I have therefore advised His Majesty that a situation has arisen in which he is justified in sanctioning the issue of a Proclamation calling up the reserves of the Army and Navy and Air Force. The cause of the present dispute is being represented in some quarters as a deliberate attack upon the wages of the worker. There is no justification of any kind for this suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-05", "file": "debates1921-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8338d00579fad234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.699.0", "colnum": "699", "heading": "COAL NEGOTIATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN (Leader of the House)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To-morrow!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN (Leader of the House)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That His Majesty's Most Gracious Message be taken into consideration upon Monday next.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.699.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-05", "file": "debates1921-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8338d00579fad234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "COAL NEGOTIATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Thomas!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "ng to the House the fact that the Labour Members have taken part in a discussion, and that a certain suggestion was made. He read in part of a letter that a suggestion of a two-fold character had been made. The fact is that two separate suggestions were made. No Labour Member suggested that the Conference should be contingent upon discussing, and deciding first, the issue in regard to the pumping.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-05", "file": "debates1921-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8338d00579fad234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "COAL NEGOTIATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "r. Thomas) that this question of returning to work the pumps should be taken as the first subject of discussion. My right hon. Friend made the suggestion to that extent, as far as I know to that extent only. It was the Prime Minister who made the suggestion, and who has since repeated the statement that that question must be disposed of by any conference, before any other subject was entered into.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-05", "file": "debates1921-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8338d00579fad234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "COAL NEGOTIATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "hy not?\"] Why not? That is a matter for debate. So far as I am concerned, it is not a matter for de- bate—I am speaking now of the attitude of the Miners' Federation. The point I want to put, after having tried to make that matter clear is that as far as information is to hand, the damage to the mines, so often referred to, and which I deplore as much as anybody can, is comparatively slight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-05", "file": "debates1921-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8338d00579fad234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "COAL NEGOTIATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not agree then?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "o often referred to, and which I deplore as much as anybody can, is comparatively slight. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Well, now, hon. Members may murmur and dissent, but I am sure they are doing that in ignorance of the facts. For I am assured that, in the great majority of cases, the mines are taking no hurt at all, and it is only in a comparatively small number of cases where any damage is being done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-05", "file": "debates1921-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "8338d00579fad234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.700.3", "colnum": "700", "heading": "COAL NEGOTIATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": " in that time we might have a settlement, and in order that some gradual reduction of wages might be arranged on a par with the decrease in the cost of living, it is that money cannot be found, and that subsidies can no longer be tolerated. The House is now facing a further problem of expenditure from a wrong standpoint, and it would be better to spend your State money in the way I have suggested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-05a.700.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-06", "file": "debates1921-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "9d19bae54cda6032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-06a.275.3", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": "I have seen a newspaper report of the competition referred to. Legislation would be required to make such competitions illegal, and, much as I regret that the law tolerates this cruel practice, I fear that the Government cannot possibly undertake legislation at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-06a.275.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-06", "file": "debates1921-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "9d19bae54cda6032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-06a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" They are purified.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "#8212;it does not state against whom, but I presume against the Government—is committing a crime. That Regulation seems to be taken from some of the more ancient despotisms of the East, rather than Great Britain. The idea that you may not attack the Government, even in private, is one that will hardly appeal to the Coalition Liberals on those Benches, if there is any Liberalism left in them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-06a.315.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-06", "file": "debates1921-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "9d19bae54cda6032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-06a.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Shortt)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Shortt)", "preceding_text": "rnment to preserve the liberty of the individual and to uphold the traditions of our country with regard to our legal procedure, our legal constitution, and our great traditions of liberty. I quite agree with all that, but the Government owe to the community other duties as well, and, surely, one of the primary duties of the Government is, at any rate, to see that women and children do not starve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-06a.334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-06", "file": "debates1921-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "9d19bae54cda6032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-06a.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "w they are attempting to introduce into this country. We know exactly what is in their minds. The Prime Minister says, \"The time has come when the country is to be divided into two camps\"—the Prime Minister and his friends, with Labour on the other side, and there is to be a class war between the two. The Prime Minister is arming himself with the necessary powers to carry out that class war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-06a.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-06", "file": "debates1921-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "9d19bae54cda6032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-06a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": " majority of the employers have more money invested in undertakings from which they can derive great profit from low-priced coal than they have in the coal-mining industry. Most of them are iron and steel owners, railway directors, shipbuilders, and shipowners. Their money is invested in all forms of industrial undertakings, and it makes no difference to them whether the pits are destroyed or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-06a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-06", "file": "debates1921-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "9d19bae54cda6032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-06a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the condition?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": " the pits are destroyed or not. [Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"] Let me qualify that. It is not of as much importance to them as to the miner. The miner depends entirely upon the livelihood he can extract from the coal mines and the employer does not, and it is not good enough for the Prime Minister or anybody else to suggest that the miners are careless of the well-being of the pit itself. They are not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-06a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-06", "file": "debates1921-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "9d19bae54cda6032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-06a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "attempt to force us back into 1914 conditions. We are quite prepared t6 meet the Prime Minister, as I have already said, at 11 o'clock to-morrow morning and if he is not prepared to accept this, then it can go on as it is. We have been asked to meet him and we agreed to meet him, but the employers have laid down conditions which you have not told the House and we refuse to accept those conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-06a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.423.0", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "conflict of evidence. I have a strong feeling one way, and the right hon. Gentleman may have opinions the other way, and the relatives of these murdered people have a strong opinion which is rather against the impression suggested by the right hon. Gentleman. Is not the fair way in which to test the evidence to have a really judicial tribunal? There is no necessity for a jury. A County Court Judge", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.492.3", "colnum": "492", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruptions.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "Yes, verbatim.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.492.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.493.2", "colnum": "493", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "ides may have blundered in this respect; and in the interests of the community as a whole, and in view of the danger to which the community will be exposed within a few hours possibly, is it not wise—and the Prime Minister to my knowledge has done this more than once in grave disputes and it has resulted in a settlement—to say to both these parties, \"Leave your conditions on one side.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.493.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.498.0", "colnum": "498", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOTTOMLEY", "preceding_text": "At the Bar of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.498.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.498.6", "colnum": "498", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In the meantime the mines will be killed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "I am a member of the British Miners' Executive, and I am not stating my personal opinion, but the opinion of the British Miners' Executive, that they are prepared to go into a conference unconditionally. If a conference is held, the employers will be entitled to put forward their claim, we shall be entitled to put forward ours, and the result of the discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.498.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.499.0", "colnum": "499", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has really not answered the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.499.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.499.1", "colnum": "499", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": " reached, it is those decisions which separate the parties, and it is in some way or other a changing of the decisions that have been reached on both sides that must take place if a settlement is to be effected. Why not let these people meet this afternoon? Surely no harm can ensue. If there is a determination on the part of the Prime Minister to put this obstacle in the way of that meeting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.499.1", "colnum": "499", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "? Surely no harm can ensue. If there is a determination on the part of the Prime Minister to put this obstacle in the way of that meeting—[ Interruption ]—I do not want to be offensive, and do not desire to import any friction into the discussion. I am simply referring to a fact. Yesterday afternoon, both sides were prepared to come together. The condition was to be imposed afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.504.0", "colnum": "504", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir ROBERT WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir ROBERT WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " nation are being dissipated and wasted while the dispute is going on. I hope they have got that in their mind. I am very glad we have two Members of the Miners' Executive to answer my question if they can. The Prime Minister, if I rightly remember, stated quite clearly that the condition on which he would ask the mineowners and the men to come together was that the pumpmen were allowed to return.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.512.0", "colnum": "512", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Your conditions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "8212;the return to work of the pumpmen. That is the Government's position. Very well! The miners' representatives say, \"In answer to that one condition we offer you two. If you insist upon the return of the pumpmen as a condition of approaching the question of general settlement, we say you must accept two of our conditions before we go into a general discussion on the whole of the wage question.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.512.0", "colnum": "512", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the pits\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "hing to do to deal with the general question? The Prime Minister speaks of a truce. That is exactly what the miners' leaders ask for, but not a truce limited to the return to work of one group of workmen. Let it be a complete truce. The miners' leaders say: \"Yes. We shall have a truce, but it must be a truce under which all the men will come back to work on the terms existing before the stoppage.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why only the miners?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "I want the masters to look at this question of the pumps from the standpoint of the miners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "standpoint of the other side. How does the miner look at this? He argues that it was not he who took the first step to cause the stoppage. Secondly, he says the pumpmen are part of the general army of mining labour; that they were as subject to the threatened reduction of wages as anybody else, and that the stoppage of the pumpmen is a strategic advantage to the miners in this particular struggle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS. \"No,\" and \"The nation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "e arranged until the two parties are able to come to terms. Again, I approach the point of what is to be the financial profit or loss from any such action. If right hon. and hon. Members are to attach so much importance to the question of pumping on the ground that it seriously affects the value and the condition of property, if they are to look at this matter always from the angle of money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The life of the nation,\" and \"The industrial life of the country.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "so much importance to the question of pumping on the ground that it seriously affects the value and the condition of property, if they are to look at this matter always from the angle of money—[HON. MEMBERS. \"No,\" and \"The nation.\"]— I fear that I have failed to make myself clear. There is no life at stake. What is at stake is the property value and the property condition of the mines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "nt of its value in terms of property, and the conclusion we reach is, that if the action of the Government in relation to pumping is the cause of the continuance and extension of this damage, its continuance and extension will have involved the nation in greater loss of property and money than the nation would incur in even making a permanent contribution of money to the solution of this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" \"Yes!\" and \"Will they come?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "h the Prime Minister that there is a great disadvantage and there may be a certain danger in a conference when you have already been warned that one of the parties is going to take up what I must at any rate call an inadmissible attitude, still will it really do any harm to have such a conference? Is not there some chance, even if it is a hundred to one chance, that it may conduce to a settlement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.519.0", "colnum": "519", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The safety men.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "aid, I wish to say that if any statement was to be read to this House the whole statement should have been read, and, if it had been, one or two misconceptions might have been removed from the minds of certain of the Members of this House. You imagine, for instance, that you are going to save the mines if the pumpmen are allowed to work, but you are not. The pumpmen are not the most essential men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.519.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.519.2", "colnum": "519", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "s. He immediately makes that a cause of trouble, and now takes the side of the employer, I suppose quite naturally. I want to be quite frank and fair. I voted in favour of meeting the Government with the object of paving the way to a meeting with the employers, but if this House decides to prejudge the case, and that is evidently what is the intention of the Government, they are not convincing me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.519.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.519.2", "colnum": "519", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "dge of mining conditions or represents a mining constituency knows, that when the time comes for us to advise the men to resume work, we have not a very pleasant job. I do not think it is fair on the part of the Government and the employers, and particularly on the part of the Government, having the influence and the power they have, to load the dice against us. That is exactly what is being done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.519.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.528.0", "colnum": "528", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir COURTENAY WARNER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are taking ours now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir COURTENAY WARNER", "preceding_text": "n the side of the mineowners, and I have never attached to property anything like the value that I attach to human lives and human happiness. But I do look upon it as a crime to destroy a mine, not because it is the destruction of property, but because it is the destruction of the happiness and the prosperity of the miners of the future. You are taking their bread away when you destroy a colliery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.528.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.532.0", "colnum": "532", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "May I repeat my appeal to the House to allow me now to withdraw my Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.532.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.535.1", "colnum": "535", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have denied.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT THOMAS", "preceding_text": "us demand made by all sections of the House that the Government should take steps to re-open these negotiations. I represent a mining constituency where there is no flooding of the mines, where there is no question of any damage being done. I do think, before it is too late, that an opportunity should be given to the owners and the miners to meet face to face, apart altogether from the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.535.1", "colnum": "535", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is nothing to stop them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT THOMAS", "preceding_text": " be done again. We have had speeches to-day from representatives of the Miners' Federation saying that they are perfectly willing to enter a conference with a clean slate. Why not let the Government retire in the meantime, and withdraw, not only the conditions which they have put forward, but withdraw themselves, and let the miners and the coalowners meet face to face to discuss their differences?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WIGNALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WIGNALL", "preceding_text": "mind, \"That settles the whole job; there will be no conference.\" I am absolutely convinced that the attitude the Government has taken up in insisting on this condition is due to the fact that the mine owners have made it a condition of meeting under any circumstances, either with the Government or without the Government, and the Government felt itself unable to go against the mine-owners' demands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.539.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.548.0", "colnum": "548", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "There is none.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "e Mining Association, \" So far as we are concerned, we leave you entirely at liberty to invite Mr. Herbert Smith and Mr. Frank Hodges and his executive to meet you to-morrow morning and to get to business to see if you can do anything.\" I can quite see that there may be some difficulty about the Government standing in in this business, but there ought to be no difficulty now that control has gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.549.0", "colnum": "549", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are putting the case of the coalowners!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "e moment blinding themselves to its importance. The matter of pumping the mines has been referred to throughout this Debate as if it were an ordinary counter in the play upon industrial disputes between employer and employed. It is nothing of the kind. It has been talked about this afternoon as the miners' natural weapon in a strike, but it has never been so regarded by the miners of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.549.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.555.3", "colnum": "555", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " statement that the Miners' Federation are introducing a new weapon, and I say it is not true because never before were the pumpmen given notice. The right hon. Gentleman follows it up by saying, \" What about those who were offered full wages?\" I reply by saying that the implication underlying that interruption is that those who were not offered full wages were at least entitled not to go to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.555.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.557.2", "colnum": "557", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Major HAMILTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Do not use that phrase ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HAMILTON", "preceding_text": "Let me finish my point. Surely the right hon. Gentleman realises that some of the more ignorant men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.557.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.557.4", "colnum": "557", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Major HAMILTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh, oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HAMILTON", "preceding_text": "I am referring to the right hon. Gentleman's point about the formal notice. That notice about terminating their employment was purely formal in order that they could open discussion about wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.557.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.559.0", "colnum": "559", "heading": "WAGES DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE ROBERTS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Hear, hear! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "ai; we can give to them, and I say in their own interests, unless they are able to withstand the policy to which I have referred, it must result to the detriment of their party. On the other hand, the main consideration is that of the well-being of our people as a whole, and I do very sincerely hope that wiser counsels will prevail. I know that it is little use my offering to be of any assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.559.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-07", "file": "debates1921-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "8bf744ecf1cbb0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.585.2", "colnum": "585", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Major MALONE", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major MALONE", "preceding_text": "e and the other part from the local rates? That is the reason why this Bill is introduced. It simplifies the whole thing and instead of charging on a double basis we shall be able to charge the consumer in a proper way. Therefore I sincerely hope the Bill will be read a Second time, and I would like again to point out that it will not increase the cost to the ratepayers or the consumer in any way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-07a.585.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1921-04-11", "file": "debates1921-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "761d57adf6e7c5bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-11a.766.2", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESERVE FORCES (PROCLAMATION).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Another Government blunder,\" and \"This is your lead off in your new office.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "Get on with the challenge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-11a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-11", "file": "debates1921-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "761d57adf6e7c5bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-11a.796.2", "colnum": "796", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander YOUNG", "preceding_text": "h would give the impression that I do not welcome any possible criticism and every assistance in the effort after economy, I would seek to remove that impression. I do hold now, as always, most firmly the conviction that while much has been achieved in the direction of economy in the economy campaign carried on by the Government in the course of the last two years, yet much remains to be achieved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-11a.796.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-11", "file": "debates1921-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "761d57adf6e7c5bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-11a.796.2", "colnum": "796", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander YOUNG", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Do without them then!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander YOUNG", "preceding_text": "nd do not come as fast as could be desired, it is not wholly because of the inability or inefficiency of this, or any other Government, but partly because of the reluctance, and the very natural reluctance, in the public mind fully to face the consequencies of the War. This country is not now so rich a country as before the War. The same things cannot be had for the same money, or as many of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-11a.796.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-11", "file": "debates1921-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "761d57adf6e7c5bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-11a.848.4", "colnum": "848", "heading": "ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WIGNALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WIGNALL", "preceding_text": "I desire to support this Clause, upon the principle that every man has a right to fight for his life to the very last day. Every speech that we have heard to-night in support of the present condition of affairs in courts-martial has been made from the opposite standpoint", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-11a.848.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-11", "file": "debates1921-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "761d57adf6e7c5bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-11a.850.0", "colnum": "850", "heading": "ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOHLER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOHLER", "preceding_text": "has told in its favour. I cannot believe for one moment that any officer sitting on a court martial would take more lightly the grave responsibility of eon-signing a prisoner to death because there is someone to supervise his decision. I could have understood the argument if it had been said that immediate punishment is required. We know all these sentences are reviewed and come home for revision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-11a.850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-11", "file": "debates1921-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "761d57adf6e7c5bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-11a.854.2", "colnum": "854", "heading": "ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEDDON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By giving him another chance!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEDDON", "preceding_text": " will challenge that statement, that when it comes to giving legal advice to the Commander-in-Chief whether a man shall lose his life or his life shall be saved, he has access to as great authority upon law as he would have if the case went to the Court of Criminal Appeal. If that is true, then you are doing a very great disservice to the ordinary soldier if you impose upon him this further appeal", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-11a.854.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-11", "file": "debates1921-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "761d57adf6e7c5bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-11a.867.2", "colnum": "867", "heading": "ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "preceding_text": " say so without offence, his feelings in this matter to carry him away. My hon. and gallant Friend persisted that this particular officer overruled the other courts-martial officers. As a matter of fact, he does nothing of the kind. He was not, during the War, given powers to do anything of the kind and he never did so. He stands in exactly the same position as the clerk stands to the magistrates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-11a.867.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-11", "file": "debates1921-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "761d57adf6e7c5bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-11a.887.0", "colnum": "887", "heading": "ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rot!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": "d to any man with a spark of self-respect. During the War it was my lot to travel on very long journeys with men who had returned from the Front, and I heard their stories; and Field Punishment No. 1, if their stories were to be believed, was often inflicted for very minor offences. Men were strapped to wheels in all kinds of humiliating positions, or were manacled, for very small offences indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-11a.887.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-11", "file": "debates1921-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "761d57adf6e7c5bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-11a.887.0", "colnum": "887", "heading": "ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very rotten!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": "and I heard their stories; and Field Punishment No. 1, if their stories were to be believed, was often inflicted for very minor offences. Men were strapped to wheels in all kinds of humiliating positions, or were manacled, for very small offences indeed. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Rot!\"] I say that any man who believes that a fit punishment for a British soldier is to tie him to a wheel, is rotten himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-11a.887.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-12", "file": "debates1921-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "ca572e32aa6cad8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-12a.967.3", "colnum": "967", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FISHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"National wages.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FISHER", "preceding_text": "r the tact, judgment, and patience with which he has presided over this Committee, and to the members of these Committees for their public spirit in undertaking a very difficult and thankless task. I hope that the Committee will agree that the establishment of some organ for the purpose of negotiating on a national plane for rates of salary appropriate to separate areas is a great step in advance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-12a.967.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-12", "file": "debates1921-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "ca572e32aa6cad8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-12a.997.0", "colnum": "997", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. IRVING", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. IRVING", "preceding_text": ". I know there are hon. Members opposite who think we are not fit to govern anything—not even ourselves. They too are not fit to govern themselves and never will be until they are prepared to take their share in making the whole people fit, irrespective of where they come from. What hon. Members opposite who represent roughly the classes while we represent the masses do not understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-12a.997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-12", "file": "debates1921-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "ca572e32aa6cad8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-12a.997.0", "colnum": "997", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. IRVING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So they are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. IRVING", "preceding_text": "m. What hon. Members opposite who represent roughly the classes while we represent the masses do not understand— [ Laughter ]—It is so. At any rate that is my opinion, and I am entitled to it. I want to abolish the so-called classes because after all it is an inhuman thing that they should belong to such an organisation, I want to make them part and parcel of the whole community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-12a.997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-12", "file": "debates1921-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "ca572e32aa6cad8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-12a.1004.0", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "consulted, the Act that the Minister of Education has to administer would ever have been the law of the country. I think it would have been strenuously resisted, and I believe with the mass of the people of the country no Act is more unpopular. Its corresponding Act in Scotland has excited the greatest possible indignation, especially in the rural districts. I read from an eminent Scottish farmer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-12a.1004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-12", "file": "debates1921-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "ca572e32aa6cad8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-12a.1005.1", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Laughter and cheers.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": " agriculture will be affected by the raising of the school age. He says: If bairns are not taught to work till they are 15, they will never learn. If they have to attend continuation classes in town centres till they are 18 they will be a long way above doing any manual labour. I never knew one who got a secondary bursary and attended classes till that age that ever came back to work on the land.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-12a.1005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-12", "file": "debates1921-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "ca572e32aa6cad8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-12a.1005.1", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not they use brains?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "y will demand a maintenance dole as a right. When they meet the slightest difficulty, instead of setting a stoot hert tae a stey brae, they will clap themselves down, curl up the whites of their een, and rax oot their loof for another gratuity. 7.0 P.M. Then again he says—we must understand that the vast majority of mankind expresses itself in the work of their hands and not in words at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-12a.1005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-12", "file": "debates1921-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "ca572e32aa6cad8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-12a.1005.1", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So stupid\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "o earn our living by preaching yin another's bairns.\" He sums it up in our immortal Scots poet's lines, where the latter sums up the whole question of so-called secondary education in six lines. It applies to all classes, because the education of a great many of what you might call the comfortable classes is just as futile as the education of the poorer. That is why you find so many of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-12a.1005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-12", "file": "debates1921-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "ca572e32aa6cad8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-12a.1005.1", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Translate!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": ", because when the Scots father sends his son who has misbehaved abroad he does not remit him anything, and he recovers his manhood and prospers. The poet Burns sums the matter up in these lines: What's a' your jargon o' your schules, Your Latin names for horns and stules, If honest Nature made you fules, What sairs your grammars? You'd better taen up spades and schules Or nappin' hammers. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-12a.1005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-12", "file": "debates1921-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "ca572e32aa6cad8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-12a.1005.1", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I am glad you are saying it. I did not know it before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "school board authorities enforced attendance until they were fourteen years of age. Now they do not like farming. You take them out at 14 and they are terrified at a cow. They will not go and cultivate the land; they all want to go and sit at a desk and drive a quill. It is very lamentable, and that is what our system of education is bringing us to. It is very demoralising. I am not a reactionary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-12a.1005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-12", "file": "debates1921-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "ca572e32aa6cad8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-12a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "Might I point out —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-12a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-12", "file": "debates1921-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "ca572e32aa6cad8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-12a.1038.6", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major GRAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite enough\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major GRAY", "preceding_text": "nt of the Committee of Council on Education, paid at a time when the Board of Education dealt with nothing whatever but elementary education, and that in a very restricted form. Now the responsibilities of the Board have increased in every direction. It has become one of the large spending Departments of the State, and yet the salary of the President remains at the miserable figure of £2,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-12a.1038.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-12", "file": "debates1921-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "ca572e32aa6cad8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-12a.1052.0", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "cue_text": "hon. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "preceding_text": " our national system of education at the present time we are carrying out the function of developing the mind, the body and the spirit? If that elementary fact by some means or other could be got into the heads of the education authorities throughout the country, how great are the possibilities! The health statistics in the year 1914 showed us that 40 percent, of the manhood of the nation were C3.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-12a.1052.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-13", "file": "debates1921-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1157310f9900d812", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-13a.1089.6", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. NORTON-GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He says they are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. NORTON-GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman satisfied that aliens are not drawing unemployment benefit now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-13a.1089.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-13", "file": "debates1921-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1157310f9900d812", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-13a.1094.5", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "preceding_text": "We have never had it; never mind them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-13a.1094.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-13", "file": "debates1921-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1157310f9900d812", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-13a.1224.3", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "BANKS (OFFICIAL AUDITING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENNISS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENNISS", "preceding_text": "ent have refused now to spend the money it is quite clear that the Bill must be a failure. I am going to appeal to the hon. Member (Mr. Forrest) to withdraw it. I must, however, make one observation on Clause 2, which contains a principle that I am sure no self-respecting business community would ever assent to— These officers shall have access to all books, documents and papers in the bank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-13a.1224.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-13", "file": "debates1921-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1157310f9900d812", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-13a.1227.2", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "BANKS (OFFICIAL AUDITING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FORREST", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FORREST", "preceding_text": "Having heard expressions of opinion from all sections of the House, I would like to say that the principle involved in the Bill is of far more importance to me than anything else, and having regard to the sympathetic attitude taken by the representative of the Government, I should like to beg leave to withdraw the Motion and the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-13a.1227.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-13", "file": "debates1921-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1157310f9900d812", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-13a.1231.4", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "IMPORTATION OF PLUMAGE (PROHIBITION) (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Could I ask the hon. Member a question, because I am really anxious to know? How is he going to protect these birds? Suppose England started—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-13a.1231.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-13", "file": "debates1921-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1157310f9900d812", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-13a.1235.2", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "IMPORTATION OF PLUMAGE (PROHIBITION) (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENNISS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bead it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENNISS", "preceding_text": "policy is based on the belief that these beautiful and valuable birds are a source both of public and private income, and that their multiplication is an object of national concern. In the maintenance of this policy the interests of the State and of the private landowners go hand in hand. He goes on to give a description of the heronries where the birds build their nests and bring out their young.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-13a.1235.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-13", "file": "debates1921-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1157310f9900d812", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-13a.1249.1", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "IMPORTATION OF PLUMAGE (PROHIBITION) (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEE", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS:\"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEE", "preceding_text": "on. Members know, up to Alaska, which is in the North of America. I have myself seen them in Brazil, and there are, as hon. Members know, myriads and myriads of these birds, I think, the largest is about 8 inches long and the smallest 2 inches. They belong to the tribe known as the Trochilidae. There is one very interesting fact I ought to mention about them. The hen bird only lays two eggs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-13a.1249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-13", "file": "debates1921-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1157310f9900d812", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-13a.1249.1", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "IMPORTATION OF PLUMAGE (PROHIBITION) (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEE", "preceding_text": " as 1760. Linnaeus mentions it as having been imported in 1760. It was known as the Apoda, because, at that time, they thought it had got no feet. The reason was that the Indians cut the feet off before sending the birds to Holland, or wherever they were sent, and so it was called the Apoda, or \"without feet.\" This is a most interesting bird. In the first place, it is not a polygamous bird at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-13a.1249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-13", "file": "debates1921-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1157310f9900d812", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-13a.1252.1", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "IMPORTATION OF PLUMAGE (PROHIBITION) (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEE", "preceding_text": "ey have to be very skilled. Therefore the licences are only taken out by skilled hunters. The licences are issued marked in consecutive order by the head of a local Government. Whatever hon. Members may say about certain South American Governments it cannot be said that the Dutch Government is not as particular about its laws as the British Government. There are several pages of these regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-13a.1252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-13", "file": "debates1921-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "1157310f9900d812", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-13a.1252.1", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "IMPORTATION OF PLUMAGE (PROHIBITION) (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEE", "preceding_text": "are only taken out by skilled hunters. The licences are issued marked in consecutive order by the head of a local Government. Whatever hon. Members may say about certain South American Governments it cannot be said that the Dutch Government is not as particular about its laws as the British Government. There are several pages of these regulations. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Read!\"] They are too long to read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-13a.1252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-14", "file": "debates1921-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "73c725640aa0ad10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-14a.1302.2", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "This is a very grave situation. I am assured that the right hon. Gentleman wishes to do whatever he can to promote any possible peace, and I should be the last person in the world to put any obstacle in that direction. I think that the House of Commons ought to be kept fully informed in these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-14a.1302.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-14", "file": "debates1921-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "73c725640aa0ad10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-14a.1352.1", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "should all these officials not be housed in the cheaper suburbs? Why should the right hon. Gentleman, in his capacity as Head of the Board of Works, purchase houses, as we know from the Supplementary Estimates, where they are most expensive, in the neighbourhood of this House and the West End of London, and so on, when he could get them much cheaper in the suburbs of Hoxton, Hounsditch, and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-14a.1352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-14", "file": "debates1921-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "73c725640aa0ad10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-14a.1357.0", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. L. PARKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. L. PARKINSON", "preceding_text": " if you wanted to tender for the Office of Works you should work out your tender on the usual lines and then double it and add half again, and you might make a profit, because the red tape made it almost impossible for a contractor to carry out the work. I do not know if the right hon. Gentleman was at the Office of Works then, or if the same thing exists to-day which prevailed at the office then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-14a.1357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-14", "file": "debates1921-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "73c725640aa0ad10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-14a.1410.2", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRANT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRANT", "preceding_text": "There have been many applications made by these public utility companies which have done good work in these districts which the county council of Durham have refused. I believe that this Bill is brought forward not so much in the interests of the travelling public as to foist socialistic schemes on the public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-14a.1410.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-14", "file": "debates1921-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "73c725640aa0ad10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-14a.1425.1", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Four Members!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "r the Bill than that a Private Bill Committee, consisting of four Members, should turn down the Bill of so important a council. For imagine what would be said at the next meeting of this Durham County Council if the Bill were turned down by Committee upstairs! Imagine the Socialist members making speeches of the most violent character to the effect that five Members of the House of Commons —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-14a.1425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-15", "file": "debates1921-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "a2182cc849b19fef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1463.1", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CORN SALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "preceding_text": "That is not my information, I understand that the grain is actually landed and paid for in quarters, but on resale is translated into centals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-15", "file": "debates1921-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "a2182cc849b19fef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1477.1", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEGOTIATIONS WITH MINERS.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ward by the mine owners. Last night there was a very remarkable gathering upstairs, in the course of which the miners' secretary, a man of singular ability, placed the case of the miners with his well-known skill and lucidity before a very large body of the Members of this House. After the meeting had proceeded for about two hours, I hear that he submitted a proposal which on the face of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-15", "file": "debates1921-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "a2182cc849b19fef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1477.1", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEGOTIATIONS WITH MINERS.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "that you were now prepared to discuss with the owners the question of wages, without raising the controversial issue of the pool, provided the arrangements to be made were of a temporary character, and without prejudice to a further discussion of proposals for a National Pool, when a permanent settlement comes to be dealt with— That was the impression left on my mind by what Members told me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-15", "file": "debates1921-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "a2182cc849b19fef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1477.1", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEGOTIATIONS WITH MINERS.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They went back on it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ered your letter, and ask me to state that the only condition upon which a temporary settlement can be arrived at is one that must follow the concession of the two principles already make known to you, namely, a National Wages Board and a National Pool. In these circumstances, my Committee feel that no good purpose would be served in meeting the owners to-day on the basis suggested in your letter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-15", "file": "debates1921-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "a2182cc849b19fef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1483.0", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEGOTIATIONS WITH MINERS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I think this is rather important. We have actually proposed that. We have gone to the extent of saying that we would recommend the House of Commons to come to the aid of an arrangement of that sort, and that was part of the written proposals which we submitted to the miners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-15", "file": "debates1921-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "a2182cc849b19fef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1485.0", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEGOTIATIONS WITH MINERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not try to be funny.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": " union leaders. The political party leader, placed in the possession and exercise of personal power, usually amounting to a form of individual autocracy, can decide anything, confident in the assurance that his decision will be respected and obeyed. Not so the trade union leader! There is no leader in any activity or walk of life compelled more to follow than is the leader of a trade union.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-15", "file": "debates1921-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "a2182cc849b19fef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1488.3", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEGOTIATIONS WITH MINERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "That announcement created an atmosphere which made negotiations towards a peaceful settlement and compromise almost impossible. As a matter of fact, I do not accept the statement of the Prime Minister that the Government has not taken sides on the question of wages—for the reason that the Pool is part of the wage question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1488.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-15", "file": "debates1921-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "a2182cc849b19fef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1488.3", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEGOTIATIONS WITH MINERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\" and \"No!\" and \"It never was before!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "as not taken sides on the question of wages—for the reason that the Pool is part of the wage question. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Let us by a little examination see how this stands. The Prime Minister's case is that he has not taken sides on the wages question. He confesses he has taken sides on the question of the Pool. My point is that the Pool is inseparable from the general question of wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1488.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-15", "file": "debates1921-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "a2182cc849b19fef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1488.3", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEGOTIATIONS WITH MINERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "is the question of pooling, it is clear that the Prime Minister has gone a long way to take sides in the substance of the dispute. I can assure the Prime Minister and also my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who is present, that for one reason or another they both have been suspected of having put themselves in the position of mineowners' advocates in connection with this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1488.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-15", "file": "debates1921-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "a2182cc849b19fef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1493.0", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEGOTIATIONS WITH MINERS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "preceding_text": "Might I ask the Leader of the House whether he has seen an announcement on the tape that to-night's strike has been officially declared off—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-15", "file": "debates1921-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "a2182cc849b19fef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1493.3", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEGOTIATIONS WITH MINERS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1493.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-15", "file": "debates1921-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "a2182cc849b19fef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1494.1", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEGOTIATIONS WITH MINERS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is off!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " their powers, and as a last resource in the few hours that are left, to propose to both parties to this dispute that, for 30 days, the same conditions of work which prevailed last month should be continued? Has that idea been explored in any way by the Government? If this suggestion could be accepted and carried out, and if it were well received by the men, it would be possible even now to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-15", "file": "debates1921-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "a2182cc849b19fef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1494.1", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEGOTIATIONS WITH MINERS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is off!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "f work which prevailed last month should be continued? Has that idea been explored in any way by the Government? If this suggestion could be accepted and carried out, and if it were well received by the men, it would be possible even now to—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It is off!\"]—Hon. Members say it is \"off,\" and it is possible that the intimation on the tape about the transport workers is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-15", "file": "debates1921-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "a2182cc849b19fef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1494.1", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEGOTIATIONS WITH MINERS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": ", and if it were well received by the men, it would be possible even now to—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It is off!\"]—Hon. Members say it is \"off,\" and it is possible that the intimation on the tape about the transport workers is—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It is off!\"]—A paper has just been handed to me stating that the strike of the transport workers is off, but I am now trying to find a way out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-15a.1494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-18", "file": "debates1921-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "061771a5be79f0a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1503.4", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNES", "preceding_text": "Are we to under stand from the answer of the hon. Gentleman that, while the Government are prepared to use the forces of the Crown to bring down wages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1503.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-18", "file": "debates1921-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "061771a5be79f0a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1529.3", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "r Cabinet. I agree that all this has been going on for the last two or three years. All these communications of secret infor- mation of the Council recently published purported to be got from the highest official sources within 24 hours afterwards, and there are letters published in that book from some of the high officials. If there is to be a prosecution, it must be a prosecution of all of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1529.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-18", "file": "debates1921-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "061771a5be79f0a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1565.0", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Threats!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": " so deaf to repeated appeals made to it to avoid the calamity which it was foretold would occur, and the Government has blundered into one of the greatest and most disastrous industrial conflicts with which the country has ever been faced. They were told it would happen. In speeches of great force and great warmth made from different sides of the House they were warned that this was sure to occur.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-18", "file": "debates1921-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "061771a5be79f0a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1591.1", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BARKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Are they pumping the mines?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BARKER", "preceding_text": "cated by the men, who made a collection for the distress fund of the town. Therefore the hon. Member for Horsham entirely missed the point when he cast an aspersion upon the town by saying that they resented the defence forces of this country. They resented the motive that sent the force there, and they resent it now because there is absolutely no reason why that force should have been sent there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-18", "file": "debates1921-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "061771a5be79f0a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1591.1", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BARKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BARKER", "preceding_text": "der. I have put questions on the Paper asking the Home Secretary to furnish cases of disorder, but he says that the information is not available. It is not available, because there is no evidence of any disorder. Therefore there is no reason why this force should have been mobilised at the present time. We believe on this side of the House that this force has been mobilised for a sinister purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-18", "file": "debates1921-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "061771a5be79f0a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1591.1", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BARKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BARKER", "preceding_text": " there is no reason why this force should have been mobilised at the present time. We believe on this side of the House that this force has been mobilised for a sinister purpose. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Those are our opinions. We believe that the force has been mobilised in order to cause resentment amongst the members of the force so that they will blame the miners because they have been called up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-18", "file": "debates1921-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "061771a5be79f0a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1591.1", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BARKER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BARKER", "preceding_text": " We believe that the force has been mobilised in order to cause resentment amongst the members of the force so that they will blame the miners because they have been called up. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] We may be wrong, but that is our opinion. We cannot see any reason why the force should be called up. We are driven to that conclusion, and we hold to it whether we are wrong or whether they are right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-18", "file": "debates1921-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "061771a5be79f0a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1598.2", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"If they deserve it, give it to them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "rther. I do not know that recrimination is of any value now. What I want most urgently to impress upon the House is that they should take into serious consideration the industrial position in the country. We cannot afford to have these perpetually renewed industrial crises. It is impossible. I have said nothing in criticism of the action of the Government, and I do not want to do so at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1598.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-18", "file": "debates1921-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "061771a5be79f0a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1608.0", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They were locked out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "the first time, a dispute which put in the forefront of its demands a reversal of a decision arrived at by Parliament. That constituted a very serious new departure in the character of the dispute. The second new element, and a very dangerous element, with which we had to deal was the decision taken by the Miners' Federation for the first time not to adopt the necessary measures to save the mines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1608.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-18", "file": "debates1921-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "061771a5be79f0a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1614.1", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "Unless I am mistaken, my hon. Friend is coming to the national pool.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-18", "file": "debates1921-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "061771a5be79f0a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1614.1", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sidney Webb.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "est a cumbrous and awkward piece of economic machinery. It has many of the defects, with none of the advantages, of nationalisation. The very phrase I used— If the miners are entitled to interfere at all with the internal and financial organisation of their industry, then they are entitled to demand nationalisation—a much more defensible demand. That comes from a great Socialist organ.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-18", "file": "debates1921-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "061771a5be79f0a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1616.1", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\" and \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "But a national pool is really that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-18", "file": "debates1921-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "061771a5be79f0a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1616.1", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "But a national pool is really that. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No\" and \"Yes.\"] You may argue round and round it, but what it really does mean is exactly what the \"New Statesman\" says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-18", "file": "debates1921-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "061771a5be79f0a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1617.0", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " and so on, in the country. No one objects to that. But I have always said that if the police are insufficient to do that duty, and the Special Constables are insufficient, then the troops must be brought in if it is necessary to resort to force. No one can object to it, and the Government that does not do its duty is not fit to govern. But the Navy is in an entirely different position to the Army", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-18", "file": "debates1921-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "061771a5be79f0a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1617.0", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ich have nothing to do with their proper functions. The first time the bluejackets were used, to my knowledge, since the War, at this particular work was when they were sent to pump the mines in Yorkshire last year. May I inform the Prime Minister, if he does not know, that on that occasion the pumpmen were withdrawn? There was no Defence Force and the bluejackets were sent to do the pumping work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-18", "file": "debates1921-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "061771a5be79f0a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1635.0", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. MURRAY", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. MURRAY", "preceding_text": "to take the decisions, to use the same conscientious scrupulousness as has distinguished them throughout. I ask for no particular change of policy, but I ask them to be on their guard, now that circumstances have changed, against tardiness in taking new decisions that may be necessary. The Prime Minister in his speech said that in the end this is going to be a dispute about wages and nothing else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-18a.1635.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-19", "file": "debates1921-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "5ed964c4716e6081", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-19a.1689.3", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "It is obvious that in a large number of these cases the outrages which are perpetrated on the Forces of the Crown, the preparation for those outrages, must be within the knowledge of the inhabitants of the districts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-19a.1689.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-19", "file": "debates1921-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "5ed964c4716e6081", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-19a.1692.6", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not direct.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I made an explanation by your permission, Mr. Speaker, yesterday at the end of questions that I had had no communication of any sort from Michael Collins.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-19a.1692.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-19", "file": "debates1921-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "5ed964c4716e6081", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-19a.1741.1", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "preceding_text": "t the rat pest all over the country. We have had rat weeks with immense casualties. I have not been able to ascertain the entire casualty list, but it is very long. We have been able through our technical staff to give advice to private individuals and to local authorities and have accomplished a great deal. In addition to that we have got our own rat bait factory at a place called Mount Pleasant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-19a.1741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-19", "file": "debates1921-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "5ed964c4716e6081", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-19a.1741.3", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "preceding_text": "I can tell hon. Members what the factory does. It manufactures destructive media for use in Government offices, because, I am sorry to say that our Government offices are infested with rats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-19a.1741.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-19", "file": "debates1921-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "5ed964c4716e6081", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-19a.1757.1", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROYCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROYCE", "preceding_text": "r into consideration. We are not out of the wood so far as regards unemployment; and I hope, with the summer coming and favourable conditions prevailing, the question of land reclamation may again receive consideration, and I trust the right hon. Gentleman will press this upon the Government. I have a request from my constituency to bring forward the question of the importation of Canadian cattle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-19a.1757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-19", "file": "debates1921-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "5ed964c4716e6081", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-19a.1766.3", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": " go gently with the agricultural committees. The first thing that an agricultural committee is asked to do is to appoint another official, at about £1,000 a year, I suppose. Some of them have objected to it, and rightly so. I would be a passive register myself. The farmers may be fools, but they are not such great fools at farming as are county committees of Ministry of Agriculture officials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-19a.1766.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-19", "file": "debates1921-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "5ed964c4716e6081", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-19a.1769.5", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "our own Act of Parliament. You have got to meet that point, because the taxpayer will have to meet it next year, and I hope my right hon. Friend will be able to give us some information regarding it. I wish to ask him another question. There is a subsidy I believe this year of 5s. per quarter to guarantee the price of wheat. Where is that money coming from? Is there to be a Supplementary Estimate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-19a.1769.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-20", "file": "debates1921-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "e2029a1a84360a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-20a.1864.1", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANTON", "preceding_text": "They are here—Ken-worthy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-20a.1864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-20", "file": "debates1921-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "e2029a1a84360a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-20a.1864.2", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Lord Privy Seal whether he realises that it was not the miners' Representatives in Parliament, but an invitation to an outside representative of the miners which brought about the success of last week? In view of his answer to-day does the Government disapprove of the meeting called last week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-20a.1864.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-20", "file": "debates1921-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "e2029a1a84360a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-20a.1992.0", "colnum": "1992", "heading": "DISBANDMENT OF BRITISH CAVALRY REGIMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEE", "preceding_text": " cavalry in the past have always attracted a somewhat superior class of man, more intelligent, perhaps, because he comes from a better-off class who have been able to give a better education, and so on. I do not mean to say for a moment that the cavalryman is a bit braver or better than his infantry brother, but he is, as a rule, deived from a more intelligent class, perhaps, than the infantryman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-20a.1992.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-20", "file": "debates1921-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "e2029a1a84360a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-20a.2024.0", "colnum": "2024", "heading": "HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, KING'S BENCH DIVISION.", "cue_speaker": "Captain THORPE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain THORPE", "preceding_text": "dicial office he is entirely beyond a suggestion of that kind. There is no longer any inducement of a practical kind to a man who is making large emoluments as a leader at the Bar to accept this honour. To be one of His Majesty's Judges is one of the highest honours to which a man 'can aspire, and, when it means changing a salary of perhaps £30,000 or £40,000 a year inside the Bar—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-20a.2024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-20", "file": "debates1921-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "e2029a1a84360a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-20a.2025.1", "colnum": "2025", "heading": "HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, KING'S BENCH DIVISION.", "cue_speaker": "Captain THORPE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain THORPE", "preceding_text": "e, inasmuch as in my part of the country they spend a considerable amount of time in advocating the principle that a man should get every penny that he earns and at the same time that he should earn every penny that he gets. That is the position of the Judges. No one can say that they are not hard-working. No one can say that the British judiciary, while the worst paid, I believe, in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-20a.2025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-20", "file": "debates1921-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "e2029a1a84360a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-20a.2025.2", "colnum": "2025", "heading": "HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, KING'S BENCH DIVISION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir COURTENAY WARNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Civil servants!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir COURTENAY WARNER", "preceding_text": "or on the prospects of our having cases carried on in the Long Vacation. That is a most hopeful proposal. As to the salaries of Judges, I hope that their salaries, like all fixed salaries, will have less taxation upon them before many years are over, and that they may be better. At the present time it is quite impossible for the Government or any body else to suggest increases of salary all round.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-20a.2025.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-20", "file": "debates1921-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "e2029a1a84360a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-20a.2027.0", "colnum": "2027", "heading": "HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, KING'S BENCH DIVISION.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "and at the way the personality of whoever was to fill the vacancy was discussed in the political papers. Naturally I make no criticism on the appointment of the distinguished judge who has been appointed. I am not in a position to criticise him in any way. I certainly have not the will. But the general impression has been created that the appointment has rested largely on political considerations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-20a.2027.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-21", "file": "debates1921-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83823f686579923b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-21a.2068.3", "colnum": "2068", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is your fault!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THORNE", "preceding_text": "Are you going to allow the present state of things to continue and thousands and thousands of men and women to be thrown out of employment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-21a.2068.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-21", "file": "debates1921-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83823f686579923b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-21a.2219.1", "colnum": "2219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES ESTIMATES, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "vote against the Government and defeat the Government. I am a political opponent of the Government but I should never imagine it to be the duty of the Government to resign their whole functions because they had been defeated in Committee on Supply. I should think it was the last thing in the world for them to do, although I should gladly see them out of power altogether, from other points of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-21a.2219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-21", "file": "debates1921-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "83823f686579923b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-21a.2219.1", "colnum": "2219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES ESTIMATES, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"£5,000.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "2;the case of Brighton—he will see that for the adaptation of new premises for employment exchange the original sum estimated is £4,000. Then the original sum estimated for the alterations and extensions of huts at East Ham is £3,725 or £275 less than the adaptation of a permanent building. Surely that is ridiculous—that in Brighton it is going to cost £4,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-21a.2219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-22", "file": "debates1921-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6eb6b0dfa4b51006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-22a.2261.0", "colnum": "2261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROAD", "preceding_text": "new life and new value to all these redundant licences throughout the country. A licence away in some moorland place may not be worth £100, but that licence could be removed into some thickly populated district and become of exceeding great value. In all our new housing schemes in the development of our suburbs we are seeking as far as we can to keep these new areas free from licensed houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-22a.2261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-22", "file": "debates1921-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6eb6b0dfa4b51006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-22a.2270.0", "colnum": "2270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " hours daily for selling drink. Now we have six and a half hours. This Bill seeks to double the War hours of sale. The trade wants it, but not the public. The Bill would allow public-houses to open at 5 a.m. instead of at noon. That means that at a moment when the cry is for greater output and more efficiency, in order that we might compete in the markets of the world, drinking can start at 5 a.m.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-22a.2270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-22", "file": "debates1921-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6eb6b0dfa4b51006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-22a.2270.0", "colnum": "2270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "rter hours with a break at mid-day, and by experience during the War that has been shown to be a great blessing to the country. My house is in the centre of a large industrial district, and there are hundreds of homes in this locality much improved places since the restrictions, and have no desire to go back to the old times or to anything approaching them. This Bill does go back to the old times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-22a.2270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-22", "file": "debates1921-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6eb6b0dfa4b51006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-22a.2270.0", "colnum": "2270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ters of the Bill propose to make working men's clubs and public-houses shut at a certain time, but I do not think you will find West End restaurants and clubs prepared to close at the same time. I am going to leave the technical points to people who are better able to deal with them than I am, but I want to emphasise the big issue which is before the House. England is the centre of a great Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-22a.2270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-22", "file": "debates1921-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6eb6b0dfa4b51006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-22a.2270.0", "colnum": "2270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "s are bound to sell as much as they can without getting a man drunk. That is their job, and if they do not do it, out they go. But when is a man drunk? I have often wondered. This Bill literally threatens the homes of thousands of men and women in this country, and, as a House of Commons, we should be more interested in ideal homes than in ideal public-houses. I should like to read another letter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-22a.2270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-22", "file": "debates1921-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6eb6b0dfa4b51006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-22a.2270.0", "colnum": "2270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Members say in the Lobby that the nation is bankrupt. If they mean it, they had better see whether they can afford all this non-productive expenditure. If they think it would mean the loss of revenue, let them think rather of the waste to get that revenue, the waste in efficiency, and the moral waste. It is claimed that this Bill makes drink respectable, but you cannot make drink very respectable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-22a.2270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-22", "file": "debates1921-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6eb6b0dfa4b51006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-22a.2270.0", "colnum": "2270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "r, we should take the convictions for drunkenness against men. But let us take the women. In February this year there were 420 per week. The Prime Minister once told us that for every person convicted there were ten who had taken too much, and who were not convicted. That means that in February, on the Prime Minister's estimate, there were 4,200 women every week badly under the influence of drink.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-22a.2270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-22", "file": "debates1921-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6eb6b0dfa4b51006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-22a.2270.0", "colnum": "2270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ike to impress on them that it is not a question of this Bill or prohibition. That is not the question. This Bill makes it almost impossible to get on with true temperance reform. Nobody can force prohibition on a country, and nobody wants to—that is the red herring—not to force it, but give the people a chance to vote on it. They will soon have that chance. Are you frightened of that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-22a.2270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-22", "file": "debates1921-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6eb6b0dfa4b51006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-22a.2284.1", "colnum": "2284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\" and \"British!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "rpose of getting revenue. The Government in the old days ran about trying to find out where they could tax the subject, and they discovered that there was one thing that men in all parts of the world would not do without, and that was some form of alcoholic refreshment. They settled upon that, and they then proceeded to legislate on it, and with the usual muddle-headedness of the Englishman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-22a.2284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-04-22", "file": "debates1921-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6eb6b0dfa4b51006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-22a.2284.1", "colnum": "2284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "posal at all. We have all been used to coupons during the War. What is to hinder everyone when he reaches majority—and in all probability that is soon enough, except for medicinal purposes—18, I think, is rather a minor age—what is to hinder the ordinary elector or the ordinary citizen having issued to him at the Labour Bureau something like a passport, with his photograph on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-04-22a.2284.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-24", "file": "debates1921-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "a94fc3a2453b5681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-24a.99.2", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "in the least agree with him in regard to his criticism of the coastguard service. I know of a case of a coastguard station which has been demobilised on the south coast. I am told that its personnel has been taken away, and if you go into any of the public-houses in the locality and you ask about the milk trade coming over from France, you can get champagne, duty free and pretty much all you want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-24a.99.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-25", "file": "debates1921-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "eae0d11b458758ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-25a.130.0", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Does not that appalling recital give the lie to the right hon. Gentleman's statement that his policy has succeeded?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-25a.130.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-25", "file": "debates1921-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "eae0d11b458758ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-25a.150.2", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Is not this practice not a rule but a change which was made by Mr. Speaker Lowther himself, and therefore is it not within your power to change that practice in accordance with your discretion? When the questions do not take up the full hour, would it not be to the advantage of the House and the country to have these questions called on the second round?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-25a.150.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-25", "file": "debates1921-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "eae0d11b458758ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-25a.209.0", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MBMBEES: \"Hear hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "ieties may I make this very general statement to-day, in the hope that when the real conflict comes, as it will come in the Committee stage of this Bill, we may get consideration of a kind different from the consideration that was given to this subject in the House of Commons a year ago? On that occasion many hon. Members pleaded that the co-operative societies were not making a fair contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-25a.209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-25", "file": "debates1921-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "eae0d11b458758ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-25a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ame policy to the Departments. The remedy does not lie in the Departments, but in the policy of the Government. There is one sentence in the document which sums up the pious aspirations of this remarkable document. It says, My Lords earnestly trust that all Departments will co-operate in effecting the maximum reductions possible in their own expenditure. A little higher up on the same paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-25a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-25", "file": "debates1921-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "eae0d11b458758ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-25a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "here is one sentence in the document which sums up the pious aspirations of this remarkable document. It says, My Lords earnestly trust that all Departments will co-operate in effecting the maximum reductions possible in their own expenditure. A little higher up on the same paper—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"]—this matter is of vital importance because people are being ruined—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-25a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-25", "file": "debates1921-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "eae0d11b458758ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-25a.260.2", "colnum": "260", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "Printing is cheaper than it was last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-25a.260.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-26", "file": "debates1921-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "f40768242b5f85a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-26a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Single line or double line?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "I do not think it will be very helpful for my right hon. Friend to interrupt. Through a variety of causes the costs of our railways are very high from a capital point of view. The French railways cost £30,000 per mile of line equipped. That includes everything which goes to make a running railway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-26a.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-26", "file": "debates1921-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "f40768242b5f85a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-26a.349.3", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "hat was the proposal that I made. I proposed that as the rates were abnormally high the company which scored very heavily, say on its coal rates, should help the company which did not score because its passenger rates had not been raised to the same extent. The companies objected to that proposal. They said: \"We cannot settle on that basis. It was a difficult basis. It was the national pool basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-26a.349.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-26", "file": "debates1921-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "f40768242b5f85a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-26a.383.0", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only once?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "to provide that link between rural England and the markets of the world it will have failed; but there is no reason on earth why it should fail. That is a very valuable document, and I will not lose it. There are in it some statements by other Ministers, which I might want to use in future. So much for the possibilities of the future as outlined by the right hon. Gentleman. He has been wrong once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-26a.383.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-27", "file": "debates1921-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "632cc59f2492f3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-27a.524.1", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE (CONVENTIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. D. REES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"GO on!'", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. D. REES", "preceding_text": "Then will my right hon. Friend just explain why his Motion refers to the League of Nations? I do not pretend, and cannot, to anything like an intimate acquaintance with this White Paper, but at any rate I have read the first line of the first page, which runs \"League of Nations.\" Now if I am in order, and I am not going on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-27a.524.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-27", "file": "debates1921-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "632cc59f2492f3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-27a.548.4", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE (CONVENTIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw, withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "ourn for the summer holidays, because they disagree with the policy of the Government in regard to the ratification of the Washington Conventions. I am surprised that the right hon. Gentleman should come to this House, and, with the kind of people who sit behind him—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw, withdraw!\"]—I shall certainly not withdraw, because my observation is perfectly in order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-27a.548.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-30", "file": "debates1921-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c504f89c59f8c5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-30a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL ARMAMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "May I have an answer to the second part of the question—whether it is advisable to pass a similar Resolution?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-30a.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-30", "file": "debates1921-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c504f89c59f8c5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-30a.619.4", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": " some reduction through amalgamation, and I think he put it at £25,000,000 a year. That, however, is a fleabite compared with the £183,000,000 the rates have gone up since 1913. The railways are placed to-day, or will be placed under this Bill, in a very privileged position. The net receipts in 1913 were the highest in the history of the railway companies, and these are to be guaranteed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-30a.619.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-30", "file": "debates1921-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c504f89c59f8c5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-30a.625.3", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "It is still to go on. The Minister of Transport will be leaving, to our great regret.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-30a.625.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-30", "file": "debates1921-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c504f89c59f8c5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-30a.625.5", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": " was one of the members of the Board of Admiralty. Does he really compare a fighting force, which must be under the control of the Crown, with this industry? Let him remember, too, that were it not for industry the money could not be found for the Admiralty. Let those gentlemen who want nationali- sation show me a single nationalised railway system in the whole world equal to our own, even to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-30a.625.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-30", "file": "debates1921-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c504f89c59f8c5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-30a.633.3", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HEWART", "preceding_text": "edient in this Bill, an ingredient which is a commonplace and common form, that the right hon. Baronet permits himself to say that this measure is one to subvert the control of the country and the laws which Parliament has made. He makes another appalling accusation against my right hon. Friend the Minister of Transport. He said that my right hon. Friend has revoked, and that he has revoked twice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-30a.633.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-30", "file": "debates1921-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c504f89c59f8c5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-30a.715.2", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "preceding_text": " has only been one hon. Member who has spoken against one of its principal features—grouping—the hon. and gallant Gentleman (Colonel Gretton). Everyone else, even including my right hon. Friend the Member for the City of London, has spoken in favour of grouping or else has not spoken against it, and, generally speaking, compulsion in the last resort appears to be accepted as essential.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-30a.715.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-30", "file": "debates1921-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c504f89c59f8c5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-30a.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is too much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. GEDDES", "preceding_text": "I am dealing with the association as a whole. That is the sum we have arrived at, to wipe off the whole of the State's liability for this period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-30a.722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-30", "file": "debates1921-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c504f89c59f8c5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-30a.750.1", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS TRADE [CREDITS AND INSURANCES].", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "It extends to any areas over which the British Government has a mandate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-30a.750.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-30", "file": "debates1921-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c504f89c59f8c5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-30a.762.2", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS TRADE [CREDITS AND INSURANCES].", "cue_speaker": "Captain EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEM BERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain EVANS", "preceding_text": " in business just as it will benefit by economies on the part of Departments and public authorities. Anything that will assist business and its economic administration at the present time will be helpful. Now we have this export credit system. It was first started because it was realised that one of the most important necessities of the country at the present time is the re-establishment of trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-30a.762.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-30", "file": "debates1921-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c504f89c59f8c5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-30a.772.0", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS TRADE [CREDITS AND INSURANCES].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Member knows me very well by this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-30a.772.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-30", "file": "debates1921-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c504f89c59f8c5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-30a.778.0", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE [CONSOLIDATED FUND].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether hon. Members have quite caught the drift of the remarks, but if they have they will be equally surprised with myself to know that, among other sums involved, was one for £23,000,000. I must begin with an emphatic protest against this being taken at two o'clock in the morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-30a.778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-30", "file": "debates1921-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c504f89c59f8c5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-30a.790.2", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE [CONSOLIDATED FUND].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMES WILSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMES WILSON", "preceding_text": "I am astounded at the flippant way in which this proposed expenditure of £23,000,000 has been presented. It does appear to me that the spending of a few millions here or there to cloak the failures of the present Government, of which you are the tied voters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-30a.790.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-30", "file": "debates1921-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c504f89c59f8c5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-30a.790.4", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE [CONSOLIDATED FUND].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. WILSON", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. WILSON", "preceding_text": "t the supporters of the Government when it comes to be a Government Vote are prepared to vote any amount of money at the public expense, quite regardless of the public interest, so as to cloak the failures of the present Government to whom they are the tide allies and the bound supporters. But I do not think this Committee is entitled on a question like this, and at this hour, of the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-30a.790.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-31", "file": "debates1921-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "d46de12aaba4eb09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.838.10", "colnum": "838", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (\"PLAIN ENGLISH NEWSPAPER\").", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. With regard to the Notice of Motion standing in my name on the Paper, I wish to ask a question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.838.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-31", "file": "debates1921-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "d46de12aaba4eb09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.871.1", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [11TH MAY]", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNES", "preceding_text": ", say 'three'.\" That is not the method we have employed. The Government themselves are dealing here with two Resolutions. In the first Resolution, dealing with key industries, they have taken a period of five years, while in the other Resolution, dealing with collapsed exchanges, they are taking a period of three years. Our desire is that the whole of their policy shall really hang together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-31", "file": "debates1921-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "d46de12aaba4eb09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.896.0", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [11TH MAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course it is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "se to base my remarks on a statement which fell from the hon. Member for Leith (Captain W. Benn) when he taunted Ministers by saying this was a protective measure rather than a measure for the safety of the country. It does not matter very much what duty you put upon optical glass, and when I say that, I hope the House will understand that the glass from which spectacles are made, is not included.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.896.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-31", "file": "debates1921-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "d46de12aaba4eb09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.896.0", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [11TH MAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "nd dispersions. The total amount of optical glass made for the use of the whole world at the present moment does not amount annually in weight to 50 tons, or in value much more than £50,000. It will never pay any firm in this country to produce a commodity which in the whole year for whole world only represents £50,000. Perhaps hon. Gentlemen will say, \"Then why safeguard this industry?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.896.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-31", "file": "debates1921-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "d46de12aaba4eb09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.973.4", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [11TH MAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the point of Order\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Would the right hon. Gentleman explain why we have to subsidise Austria, if it has nothing to do with the terms of peace?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.973.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-31", "file": "debates1921-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "d46de12aaba4eb09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.973.5", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [11TH MAY]", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "en if that were so, I do not see how it affects the exchanges of France, Belgium and Italy. Really hon. Members might go a little more deeply into this subject. As I said, we have waited three years and there is no improvement. I am the last person in the world who would ask to artificially interfere in these matters, but I have deliberately come to the conclusion that that we cannot afford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.973.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-31", "file": "debates1921-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "d46de12aaba4eb09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [11TH MAY]", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "Certainly I do, or I would not be advocating it. I certainly think it will increase employment. It may raise prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-31", "file": "debates1921-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "d46de12aaba4eb09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.978.5", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [11TH MAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is killing our industries!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "preceding_text": "ficulties arising from the policy Germany is now pursuing are due much more to Germany's position with regard to the payment of the indemnity than to the fact that it is a country with a bad exchange. Then, as he very rightly says, the policy which Germany is pursuing is suicidal. But if that is so—and I think it is—why on earth need we take these precautions against Germany's suicide?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.978.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-31", "file": "debates1921-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "d46de12aaba4eb09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.978.5", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [11TH MAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "preceding_text": " the exchanges right is to ensure the maximum amount of trade in and out with the fewest possible restrictions of any sort at all. I do not believe that you will remedy the exchange with Belgium, Italy, and France by restricting trade. I do not believe we should remedy at all the rates of exchange between ourselves and the United States of America if they were to put up a tariff against our goods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.978.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-31", "file": "debates1921-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "d46de12aaba4eb09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.978.5", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [11TH MAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Just recently!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "preceding_text": "trade in and out with the fewest possible restrictions of any sort at all. I do not believe that you will remedy the exchange with Belgium, Italy, and France by restricting trade. I do not believe we should remedy at all the rates of exchange between ourselves and the United States of America if they were to put up a tariff against our goods. [HON. MEMBERS: \"They do it!\"] Very well, a heavier tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.978.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-31", "file": "debates1921-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "d46de12aaba4eb09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.980.0", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [11TH MAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Coal!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "ribed as a quack remedy, and in order that we may see in what way the ultimate prosperity of this country is going to be damaged by this particular measure, it is essential that we should consider how in the long run the inhabitants of this island are going to earn their daily bread. We have an island in which there are practically no natural resources of any sort as compared with other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.980.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-31", "file": "debates1921-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "d46de12aaba4eb09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.988.4", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [11TH MAY]", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "d, are below the prices at which similar goods can be profitably manufactured in the United Kingdom. I like the word \"profitably.\" One of the countries with the worst possible exchange is Russia. I really do not know what the Bolshevik rouble is at, but it is almost out of history altogether. Obviously the immediate result of passing this must be to prohibit any sort of produce coming from Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.988.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-31", "file": "debates1921-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "d46de12aaba4eb09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.988.4", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [11TH MAY]", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"We do not buy manufactured goods from Russia!", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ted Kingdom. I like the word \"profitably.\" One of the countries with the worst possible exchange is Russia. I really do not know what the Bolshevik rouble is at, but it is almost out of history altogether. Obviously the immediate result of passing this must be to prohibit any sort of produce coming from Russia. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"] I do not know what other reading can be given to this Resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.988.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-31", "file": "debates1921-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "d46de12aaba4eb09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.1002.1", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [11TH MAY]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ipping, and our shipping is going to suffer. There is great unemployment in all our ports to-day, and it is on the increase. There is a terrible slump in shipping, and this ridiculous legislation is going to make it worse. The first thing, of course, is that while we are preaching to these new States of Europe—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"]—while we are preaching to the Czechoslovaks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.1002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-05-31", "file": "debates1921-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "d46de12aaba4eb09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.1002.1", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [11TH MAY]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " financial difficulties of Europe, and they advocated —when they asked for their remedy for the present state of affairs—peace, economy, reduction of expenditure on armaments, and, above all, the greatest possible freedom of trade between the countries. The Brussels Committee of experts was set up by the Allied Governments and the ex-enemy countries to consider the financial situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-05-31a.1002.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1044.4", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw! Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Gentleman ought not to make allegations of that kind in a supplementary question, which would not be allowed, according to the rules of the House, to be put on the Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1044.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1045.2", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "preceding_text": "I understand there is no doubt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1045.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1051.2", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY DISPUTE (GERMAN COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "preceding_text": "Before this question is answered, may I draw your attention, Mr. Speaker, to a misstatement of fact? It refers to a \"lockout.\" Surely it is a strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1051.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1052.5", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY DISPUTE (GERMAN COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption, and an HON. MEMBER: \"It is dirty; it is not playing the game!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "I think everybody recognises the duty of coal being found for the services which are vital to the existence of the people of this country and it is my intention to carry out that duty to the best of my ability —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1052.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1098.2", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (EXPENSES).", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "House. I think the proper course to have taken, as they have come to the conclusion that the first pro- posal with regard to deduction of Income Tax could not be defended under the present condition of the finances of the country, was to withdraw it. But the right hon. Gentleman relies upon my hon. Friends and colleagues on this side belonging to the Labour party to help him out of the difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1098.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1099.10", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (EXPENSES).", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "Therefore I shall proceed to argue the question of the exemption from Income Tax. The first point I make is that there is no real relief offered to those Members of the House who need it most. Whatever exemption is to be allowed, the facts as demonstrated in the White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1099.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1099.10", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (EXPENSES).", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "Therefore I shall proceed to argue the question of the exemption from Income Tax. The first point I make is that there is no real relief offered to those Members of the House who need it most. Whatever exemption is to be allowed, the facts as demonstrated in the White Paper—[ Interruption. ] I am determined to go on in the discharge of my duty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1099.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1099.10", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (EXPENSES).", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is conceded!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " help them. There are 89 Members who only pay £6 15s. Income Tax. There is, therefore, a total of 168 Members who either pay no Income Tax at all, or pay the minor sum of £6 15s. My next point is that it is against public policy for any Members of this House to adopt any means whereby they exempt themselves from the impact of taxation which falls upon the ordinary citizen of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1099.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1108.6", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (EXPENSES).", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Agreed, Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "I wish to say a few words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1108.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1110.1", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (EXPENSES).", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "Is that not the same thing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1111.0", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (EXPENSES).", "cue_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "preceding_text": " properly liable to Income Tax. The right hon. Gentleman in making this proposal was only putting right a matter of Income Tax collection which was wrong in the first instance. The Committee must frankly face the position that the main opposition to the Government proposals comes from certain people who are anxious to bring back again the representation by this House of the leisured classes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1120.2", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (EXPENSES).", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "preceding_text": "If the Amendment moved by the hon. and learned Member is carried, a smaller amount will be granted for travelling expenses. Will that not shut out the views of other hon. Members?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1120.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1120.2", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (EXPENSES).", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "preceding_text": "unt will be granted for travelling expenses. Will that not shut out the views of other hon. Members? [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"] Because a fresh grant will be required, and no private Member can move that the amount be increased, in which case, if this Amendment be carried, will the Government interpret the spirit of the Committee aright in moving an increased sum if that be the desire of the Committee?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1120.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1121.3", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (EXPENSES).", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "preceding_text": "Before the question be put—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1121.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1121.3", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (EXPENSES).", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "preceding_text": "n and the constituencies or between London and the homes of Members. The question which the Committee is being asked to decide, I think, is reasonable, and I feel sure that the Committee, having come to a unanimous decision on the larger question, would best consult the permanent interests and dignity of the House of Commons if it could get some general agreement and save a Division on this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1121.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1122.0", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (EXPENSES).", "cue_speaker": "Major HAMILTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have done so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HAMILTON", "preceding_text": "eave it as it is, and, secondly, to put all Members on the same footing—that is, to give them a pass between their constituency and London, and to give it in the form, not of a voucher which you have to fill up, and vouchers only while Parliament is sitting, but in this form: That the Government should go to the railway companies and say to them, \"We are amongst your biggest clients.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1124.0", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (EXPENSES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is there anyone doing it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANTON", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order—and I ask for the sake of the majority of Members of this House who voted in favour of the Motion before the House for free tickets and passes. May I inquire whether it will not always be open to any hon. Member who can afford it to buy his own ticket, to say that he will not use the pass? Is there anything to deter him doing that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1126.2", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (EXPENSES).", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": " must pay them in such a way as will fulfil the purposes for which you give them the money. I think that is clear, and that sooner or later, in my view, you will have greatly to increase the salaries of Members, if prices remain as they are. I am not sure you will not have to go further than that. I think it is very likely that you will have to have some system of pensions and things of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1126.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1127.1", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (EXPENSES).", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "Table of the House, and we shall be able to see exactly what it means. I accept everything my right hon. Friend says, but I certainly understood him to say, in answer to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Miles Platting (Mr. Clynes), that in view of the ruling which he read out from the Paper, the position would be the same as if you proposed to exempt the salaries of Members from Income Tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1133.0", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (EXPENSES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PENNEFATHER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PENNEFATHER", "preceding_text": "mputed. I am sure none of us desire to exclude my hon. and gallant Friend or men like him from this House. If we vote against this proposal it is not for the reasons he has suggested, but because we have regard for the credit of this House and we feel that nothing would more lower its prestige than that at a time like this we should take money out of the taxpayers' pockets and put it into our own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1133.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1135.2", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (EXPENSES).", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. BUTCHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Third class?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. BUTCHER", "preceding_text": "I very often do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1135.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1135.3", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (EXPENSES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or water!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "ome of the wealthy constituencies the electors would never think of doing that, and I should have to pay for the reply myself. I found, when talking with a great many of the working men, that while they thought that the Income Tax sould not be remitted they were of opinion that it was right to allow travelling expenses. They see me go up and down every week and they know that I do not live on air.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1135.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1141.0", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (EXPENSES).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!'", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "preceding_text": "ht to bear in mind, in considering this question of railway fares, that the Leader of the House has told us, as far as I can make out, that under the ordinary law we can practically get our £400 a year net. The public will realise that fact, and will realise, therefore, that Members of this House are £100 per annum better off than they were when they were elected at the General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1142.1", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (EXPENSES).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to differ from the hon. Member, for whom I have the greatest admiration, but I tell him there are thousands of people who have sufficient brains to make £50, £60, or £100 by other pursuits than Members of Parliament who would be glad of the hon. Member's job at £400 a year net. But it does not seem to me that that is the point at issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1142.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1183.4", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY OPERATIONS, IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I have no doubt that the regiment was marching according to rule in an area such as Youghal. I have no evidence to the contrary. With reference to the officers of the police and the military, I am responsible for them and their conduct, and I am sure the House will agree with me that if things are wrong I must take the blame, which I do cheerfully, and I am proud of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1183.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1186.5", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY OPERATIONS, IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I will deal with that. This Order shows that the right hon. and gallant Gentleman is in error when he says that the Government has not issued any Order. The Government has. I have said at this Box time and again, in reference to reprisals, that no one has tried more strenuously than I have to put them down, and I think that I have succeeded in doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1186.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1189.2", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY OPERATIONS, IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry to interrupt the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1189.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1190.0", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY OPERATIONS, IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What do you know about them? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK", "preceding_text": "Why not try Liberal principles for a change?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1191.4", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY OPERATIONS, IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has no right —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1191.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY OPERATIONS, IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "preceding_text": "a few days ago. There was a Proclamation issued officially by the military in Cork. The Chief Secretary says that the policy of reprisals is merely the burning of houses as a military operation. This is the Proclamation in Cork: Owing to the burning of the houses of two loyalist farmers, three farm houses of active Sinn Feiners were burned as a military operation. That is not a military operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY OPERATIONS, IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "preceding_text": "oman and her child had a marvellous escape from a bomb which destroyed the piano and ceiling in a room in which they were. I do not desire to read touching instances. Heaven knows there are such instances on both sides. The Chief Secretary has read one of the most touching documents I ever heard in my life. That is the tragedy of it. The policy of the Chief Secretary produces heroes on both sides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY OPERATIONS, IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They should stop the murders!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "preceding_text": "ry has read one of the most touching documents I ever heard in my life. That is the tragedy of it. The policy of the Chief Secretary produces heroes on both sides. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"] The right hon. Gentleman is exciting feeling in this country by reading that letter, but other people in Ireland are exciting feelings of the people there and we are getting no nearer a solution of the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1196.0", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY OPERATIONS, IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I want to ask the right hon. Gentleman a question with regard to the burning of the house and grocer's shop of Mr. Honan, the Chairman of the Ennis Urban Council, as to which we have his own admission. It has been impossible", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-01", "file": "debates1921-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b43b5ee1645c2890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1196.2", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY OPERATIONS, IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ises when the ambush occurred. In spite of protests, her house was destroyed for military necessities. If that is the policy that the Government have adopted in Ireland, I consider they are damned before the civilised world. We have heard nothing worse than this in the trials of the German War criminals at Leipzig. If hon. Members are prepared to justify war on women and children and widows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-01a.1196.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1921-06-02", "file": "debates1921-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b09dbfe39a7fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1199.15", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Object!", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for consideration, as amended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1199.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-02", "file": "debates1921-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b09dbfe39a7fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1208.7", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "This was the answer prepared for me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1208.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-02", "file": "debates1921-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b09dbfe39a7fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1210.3", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No,\"and \"Withdraw! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "Reports have no doubt been received, and in about 40 other cases of a similar kind embodied in questions to-day by the hon. Member and his Friends, all of them based on Sinn Fein propaganda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1210.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1921-06-02", "file": "debates1921-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b09dbfe39a7fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1279.0", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ere within his jurisdiction I advise my fellow countrymen to resist to the end, even if it comes to using violence. I tell him more than that. I advise my fellow countrymen, even although it may never be necessary, and please God it never may be necessary to use them, to arm themselves as well as they can to beat back anybody who dares to filch from them the elementary rights of their citizenship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1277.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-02", "file": "debates1921-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b09dbfe39a7fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1290.1", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMESON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMESON", "preceding_text": "with the greatest caution and discrimination. You could not possibly rule out Regulation 19 altogether, because it is directed also to the maintenance of the means of transit and locomotion and other things. We hope the danger has passed, but after all we are not yet out of the wood. The fight is still going on. It is not the general community that called the fight, but this big trade union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-02", "file": "debates1921-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b09dbfe39a7fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1291.0", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": "in vain, that this Regulation be taken away, and that the Government will not give way to an attack of nerves by prosecuting people for making statements that do not hurt anybody. Even the last speaker admitted that these soap-box orations do not cut any ice. Why go running around the country trying to find out if Bill Smith or Jack Jones is saying that the Government is not all that it should be?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-02", "file": "debates1921-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b09dbfe39a7fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1291.0", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": "k of nerves by prosecuting people for making statements that do not hurt anybody. Even the last speaker admitted that these soap-box orations do not cut any ice. Why go running around the country trying to find out if Bill Smith or Jack Jones is saying that the Government is not all that it should be? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"] I must beg pardon. There is, after all, more than one Jack Jones.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-02", "file": "debates1921-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b09dbfe39a7fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1295.3", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": "neral state- ment of that sort was based. On the night of the 21st or the 22nd of May, just at the time when incendiary fires were going on in that district, a constable saw two men running from a haystack which was near a colliery. He gave chase but could not catch them, and on returning to the stack he there found a bottle of inflammable substance. It was wrapped in a copy of the \"Daily Herald.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-02", "file": "debates1921-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b09dbfe39a7fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1297.2", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite right!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": " company shall not print or distribute any literature for any persons, whether the Communist party or others, who are known to hold such views and objects as are expressed in the literature which is the subject of the proceedings above mentioned, and which are in advocacy of revolutionary violence, sedition and disaffection. I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether really it is fair to require that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1297.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-02", "file": "debates1921-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b09dbfe39a7fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1304.1", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "ut the Chair has permitted a rather large indulgence upon general views on the whole of the other Regulations, and it would not help our purpose to put separately to the House any other Amendment with a view to provoking Divisions or consuming time. In the last observation, then, I ask the Home Secretary to say whether the time has not now arrived when these Regulations are absolutely unnecessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-02", "file": "debates1921-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b09dbfe39a7fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1304.3", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Captain BOWYER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BOWYER", "preceding_text": " no settlement has yet been found. Then the right hon. Gentleman—and this is my last point—seemed to evince almost an affection for Communist views. He said he preferred to be governed under a Communist régime than under a Tory régime. The only meaning I can read into that is that he would prefer to see a Communist Government established instead of the present Administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-02", "file": "debates1921-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b09dbfe39a7fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1375.4", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "ll not go into the question of grouping, because I think it would be out of order to do so, and it can be done when the Bill comes before the House. I will only deal with the question of the £60,000,000. The hon. Gentleman who has moved the reduction is apparently under the impression that the Government are giving too much. I am under the impression that the Government are giving too little.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1375.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-02", "file": "debates1921-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b09dbfe39a7fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1376.5", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nothing!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "o in 1914. That being so, what is the result from the point of view of the taxpayer? If we were to leave the decision to the Courts of Law—and, after all, the decision of the Courts of Law even now are decisions on which everybody can depend as being given in the interests of right and justice—if, I say, we were to depend upon the Courts of Law what would the railway companies receive?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1376.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-02", "file": "debates1921-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b09dbfe39a7fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1376.5", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But it did not say they would get it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "ice—if, I say, we were to depend upon the Courts of Law what would the railway companies receive? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Nothing!\"] That is a matter of opinion. Take the Colwyn Committee, which the right hon. Gentleman has just cited—a hostile Committee. The Colwyn Committee said the railway companies might claim a sum of £150,000,000, and possibly another £50,000,000 in addition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1376.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-02", "file": "debates1921-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b09dbfe39a7fccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1393.6", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS TRADE [CREDITS AND INSURANCES].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "but which is still open for negotiation, was used for two or more years to prevent the general trade agreement being signed. I am surprised the hon. and gallant Gentleman brought out this moth-eaten, discredited argument. Since the last Debate it may interest the hon. and gallant Gentleman to know that I took the opportunity of waiting upon the head of the Russian trade delegation to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-02a.1393.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-03", "file": "debates1921-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "0f506abec10fbcf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-03a.1413.4", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERFORMING ANIMALS (PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "of Cruelty to Animals. He was very highly thought of, and, I believe, a very reliable man in every way. For twenty years he was engaged to check cruelty by inspection. His statement has been sent to every hon. Member. He speaks very strongly of the great difficulty of getting admission to see the training. The inspector gets known very quickly, and the moment he appears scouts herald his approach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-03a.1413.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-03", "file": "debates1921-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "0f506abec10fbcf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-03a.1427.3", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERFORMING ANIMALS (PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAUTLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAUTLEY", "preceding_text": "If this had been a sensible Bill I should have voted for the Amendment. I agree with the hon. And gallant Member opposite (Colonel P. Williams) that licensing is to be deprecated, but as I read the Bill it would have the effect of prohibiting the Waterloo Cup—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-03a.1427.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-03", "file": "debates1921-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "0f506abec10fbcf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-03a.1428.4", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERFORMING ANIMALS (PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BOWYER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BOWYER", "preceding_text": "Amendment, for a reason which is perhaps rather different from any that has yet been given? To my mind animals are given to us for companionship or for shooting purposes or for purposes such as those for which the sheep dog is used. If you are going to have them taught and exhibited, you are bound to have cruelty in one or two ways sooner or later—either in the exhibition or in the training.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-03a.1428.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-03", "file": "debates1921-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "0f506abec10fbcf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-03a.1428.4", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERFORMING ANIMALS (PROHIBITION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BOWYER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BOWYER", "preceding_text": "e given to us for companionship or for shooting purposes or for purposes such as those for which the sheep dog is used. If you are going to have them taught and exhibited, you are bound to have cruelty in one or two ways sooner or later—either in the exhibition or in the training. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] I say sooner or later. Does any hon. Member deny that there is cruelty in the exhibition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-03a.1428.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-03", "file": "debates1921-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "0f506abec10fbcf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-03a.1458.0", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CORN SALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "preceding_text": "I only want to say a word or two to explain why I feel it to be my duty to oppose this Bill. It has been represented to me in my constituency that there are other interests besides those of the agriculturists. I do not profess to speak with detailed knowledge, but it seems to me that any interference of this kind would have a seriously detrimental effect upon the import trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-03a.1458.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1921-06-03", "file": "debates1921-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "0f506abec10fbcf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-03a.1470.1", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACT (1910) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "He is here!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "It is amazing to me that the outstanding supporter of the Bill and the champion of dumb animals should run away when he gets an opportunity of saying a word in favour of that cause. If he were here, I should say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-03a.1470.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-03", "file": "debates1921-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "0f506abec10fbcf3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-03a.1474.0", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HEALTH (OFFICERS) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\" and \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I understood, Mr. Speaker, on the Amendment which my hon. Friend has just moved, that you put the Question and collected the voices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-03a.1474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-06", "file": "debates1921-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "d72209e0948a3afd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-06a.1556.0", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FRANCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When was the speech made?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FRANCE", "preceding_text": "st that it will be said afterwards I have always believed in tariffs, and unless, when the time comes, you have a tariff we part company.' He made it perfectly clear that in his part of the bargain there was no intention whatever—while doing something to safeguard this country against being deprived of things required in time of war—to embark upon or rely upon tariffs for that purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-06a.1556.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-06", "file": "debates1921-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "d72209e0948a3afd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-06a.1638.0", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BARKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the difference?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BARKER", "preceding_text": " is responsible for the evils we are experiencing to-day. Those who uphold the present system are being challenged very severely. As a party we believe in the establishment of an international commonwealth, an industrial commonwealth. We do not believe in producing things for profit, but in producing them for use, and that producing them for profit is at the root of the evil of the present system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-06a.1638.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-07", "file": "debates1921-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "d9c5c7d1af0d81e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-07a.1717.0", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GODFREY COLLINS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That has got nothing to do with the exchange. It is because of the coal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GODFREY COLLINS", "preceding_text": "nited Kingdom of steel blooms, billets and slabs for the year 1913 were about 500,000 tons. In 1920 the import had fallen to half that figure, 251,000 tons. Belgium has a depreciated exchange and her exports to this country fell from 108,000 to 37,000. America, on the other hand, has an appreciated currency and her exports to this country increased from 64,000 tons in 1913 to 146,000 tons in 1920.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-07a.1717.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-07", "file": "debates1921-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "d9c5c7d1af0d81e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-07a.1722.3", "colnum": "1722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman tell the House how long?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-07a.1722.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-07", "file": "debates1921-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "d9c5c7d1af0d81e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-07a.1732.0", "colnum": "1732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Herbert Fisher)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Herbert Fisher)", "preceding_text": " you are going to take to counteract it are not likely to do more injury than would be the case if you allowed it to exist. Those are the two conditions upon which Free Traders are quite prepared to deal with dumping.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 10th May, 1921; col. 1727, Vol. 141.] Those are the views of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Paisley. Those views are embodied in the Bill before us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-07a.1732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-07", "file": "debates1921-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "d9c5c7d1af0d81e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-07a.1770.1", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What Measure?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "I suggest no imputation against the hon. Member personally, but I do suggest that there have been cases when such Measures as I mention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-07a.1770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-07", "file": "debates1921-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "d9c5c7d1af0d81e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-07a.1794.0", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major-General Sir NEWTON MOORE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General Sir NEWTON MOORE", "preceding_text": "ange alters does not seem to me a practical solution. It is bad enough to follow all those fluctuations so far as one particular country is concerned, but the suggestion that you should adopt the same principle for every country is one that may be put aside for consideration after the next war. The Minister of Health seems to me to be the one man of the Government who knows this Measure backwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-07a.1794.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-07", "file": "debates1921-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "d9c5c7d1af0d81e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-07a.1808.2", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "preceding_text": "212;it would be different. Two or three cases, however, in which individual persons will continue to go on buying the foreign article in spite of the extra price will not have any effect in getting a key industry more firmly established in this country. In the schools and one or two university colleges they will go on having to buy their chemical glass from Germany because it is better in quality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-07a.1808.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-07", "file": "debates1921-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "d9c5c7d1af0d81e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-07a.1808.2", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "preceding_text": "w suffering because of an enormous flood of foreign goods coming into this country and making it impossible for us to produce. Our industries are really suffering because other countries are not able to buy our goods, and that is the real cause of unemployment. What you have to do in order to really prove a case for this Bill is to show there is a tremendous expansion of manufactures of all kinds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-07a.1808.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1921-06-07", "file": "debates1921-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "d9c5c7d1af0d81e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-07a.1821.5", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Give an example.", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "preceding_text": "indicated dissent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-07a.1821.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-09", "file": "debates1921-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "60baa792bdf62062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-09a.2028.0", "colnum": "2028", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "en to furnish a list of their members? Was it made by the Regional Director when that body intimated its intention of submitting evidence to the inquiry? Was consent for these men to be present made contingent on their supplying a list of their members and did not the Union consider that the demand was out of all proportion for the purposes of the inquiry and therefore decline to furnish the list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-09a.2028.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-09", "file": "debates1921-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "60baa792bdf62062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-09a.2114.1", "colnum": "2114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLAWAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLAWAY", "preceding_text": " those lines to make up this deficit would land us in financial difficulties of the gravest possible character. What is the explanation of the deficit in the Post Office business? It can be put into two words: \"War bonus.\" Every examination of these accounts, examine how you please, leads to the same conclusion—that the deficit in the Post Office Estimate is principally due to the war bonus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-09a.2114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-09", "file": "debates1921-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "60baa792bdf62062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-09a.2132.0", "colnum": "2132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "erience how valuable such an expedient was, and I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman-on having recourse to it. I should like to make a few observations upon his proposals. It has always been the experience of the Post Office that Press telegrams have never yet paid, and having regard to the fact that the Press is now a very well established and I believe prosperous corporation as a whole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-09a.2132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-09", "file": "debates1921-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "60baa792bdf62062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-09a.2148.1", "colnum": "2148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WIGNALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Daily Herald \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WIGNALL", "preceding_text": "nt., the Press service has only increased 25 per cent. On one occasion it was declared that the Press service was run at a loss to the country of about £20,000 a year, and it is being run at a loss to-day. I do not know what the loss is at the moment, but it is considerable. Whether it is just that the nation should bear it, I do not know; whether we should subsidise wealthy newspapers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-09a.2148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-09", "file": "debates1921-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "60baa792bdf62062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-09a.2148.1", "colnum": "2148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WIGNALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do not depend upon money from Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WIGNALL", "preceding_text": "s at the moment, but it is considerable. Whether it is just that the nation should bear it, I do not know; whether we should subsidise wealthy newspapers—[HON. MEMBERS: \"The Daily Herald \"]—is a matter you know more about than I do, but I think the wealthy syndicates of newspapers should not have greater privileges granted to them than the ordinary and poorer sections of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-09a.2148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-09", "file": "debates1921-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "60baa792bdf62062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-09a.2193.0", "colnum": "2193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no!\" and \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINS", "preceding_text": "ower in any way whatever. If the counties of Banff and Moray do want to develop electric power with the waters of the Spey, it has many tributaries, quite as important as the Upper Spey, which have a good fall in their territory and can be used to develop a very considerable amount of power. It appears to me that the House should entirely reject this Clause, which is, in effect, a wrecking Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-09a.2193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-09", "file": "debates1921-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "60baa792bdf62062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-09a.2207.1", "colnum": "2207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Profiteering!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "ch he might well adopt, namely, postal cheques. The system of postal cheques has been adopted on the Continent in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, France, and other countries, with a great deal of advantage to the people of those countries. I understand that in 1917 the transactions in Germany amounted to no less than £5,000,000, and that upon that a profit of £1,000,000 was made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-09a.2207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-09", "file": "debates1921-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "60baa792bdf62062", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-09a.2217.0", "colnum": "2217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GIDEON MURRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order,\" \"Speech\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GIDEON MURRAY", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend whether it is to be the permanent policy of the Department to charge 1½d. for the postcard, in other words, to pay for the handling of the postcards? In former days it was always understood that the postcard did not pay because the poorer people were able to use it. I represent a constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-09a.2217.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-10", "file": "debates1921-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "5ed58c204d6b7a89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-10a.2239.3", "colnum": "2239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF PLUMAGE (PROHIBITION) (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. NEWMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. NEWMAN", "preceding_text": "As a humble back bencher I support the remarks of the right hon. Baronet protesting against Bills coming here and the House being told that we must accept them because an arrangement has been made upstairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-10a.2239.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-10", "file": "debates1921-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "5ed58c204d6b7a89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-10a.2289.4", "colnum": "2289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION BALLOT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They want to imitate the Bolsheviks!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "nd the meaning or sense of the interruption. Some hon. Members told us that the Bill was inexpedient and that it will cause irritation. To whom will it cause irritation and how will it cause it, seeing that it provides one of the finest elements of democratic government—freedom of conscience and freedom of action by secrecy of the ballot, the things which our fathers struggled for for years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-10a.2289.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-10", "file": "debates1921-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "5ed58c204d6b7a89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-10a.2291.3", "colnum": "2291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION BALLOT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. RAEBURN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. RAEBURN", "preceding_text": "e a true example of what is going on. The statement has also been made that thousands of voters in the miners' ballot were under 16 years of age. That statement was challenged at the time. A few months afterwards the coal strike took place, and statement after statement was made from authoritative sources as to the number of boys who voted. Here is a newspaper with which we are all quite familiar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-10a.2291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-10", "file": "debates1921-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "5ed58c204d6b7a89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-10a.2291.3", "colnum": "2291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION BALLOT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. RAEBURN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. RAEBURN", "preceding_text": "as also been made that thousands of voters in the miners' ballot were under 16 years of age. That statement was challenged at the time. A few months afterwards the coal strike took place, and statement after statement was made from authoritative sources as to the number of boys who voted. Here is a newspaper with which we are all quite familiar. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"] I am not allowed to name it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-10a.2291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-10", "file": "debates1921-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "5ed58c204d6b7a89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-10a.2296.3", "colnum": "2296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION BALLOT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "preceding_text": "There is provision for the Committee that is set up to institute a ballot and to frame the regulations under which the ballot shall be taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-10a.2296.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-10", "file": "debates1921-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "5ed58c204d6b7a89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-10a.2296.3", "colnum": "2296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION BALLOT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "preceding_text": " ballot and to frame the regulations under which the ballot shall be taken. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"] If good feeling between employers and employed, which often gets lip service in this House, is to have any possibility of fructifying a vastly different spirit from that in this Bill must be shown. The spirit behind this Bill is the combative spirit, the spirit that says, \"Well, we are out to fight.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-10a.2296.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-10", "file": "debates1921-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "5ed58c204d6b7a89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-10a.2296.4", "colnum": "2296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION BALLOT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about your own?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "atter do so because they know that under it their little days of tyranny would be numbered. In any community a small band of violent extreme men can \"boss the show.\" A French author has shown, in one of the world's great novels, \"The Three Musketeers,\" how four men can dominate a community if they are determined to do it. I am not going into what I have heard about happenings in some trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-10a.2296.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-10", "file": "debates1921-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "5ed58c204d6b7a89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-10a.2302.0", "colnum": "2302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION BALLOT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SWAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SWAN", "preceding_text": " be a spirit of resentment created against that class, and you produce an atmosphere for the dissemination of ideas which makes strikes more likely to arise than if employers approached these questions in a more magnanimous manner. The working classes have the same right to have all the essentials of life as the wealthy. They have the right to have sufficient food and decent housing accommodation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-10a.2302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-13", "file": "debates1921-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "611fb7c0cdc3f38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-13a.34.6", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PEACE TREATIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "Is he aware that the Chief Secretary for Ireland, in answer to a question a few moments ago, said that in Ireland military necessity decided such cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-13a.34.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-13", "file": "debates1921-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "611fb7c0cdc3f38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-13a.85.4", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — (1) COMMITTEE STAGE.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why avoid it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " to put some term to their sufferings. The justification for the Motion is of two kinds. It rests, first, upon general Parliamentary practice and precedent, and, secondly, upon the special circumstances of this particular Bill, and of the present Session of Parliament. I would like the House to consider for a moment the time which we have at our disposal if we are to avoid an Autumn Session—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-13a.85.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-13", "file": "debates1921-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "611fb7c0cdc3f38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-13a.85.4", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — (1) COMMITTEE STAGE.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "he time which we have at our disposal if we are to avoid an Autumn Session—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why avoid it?\"]—and how we should allocate the time for the Measures which are under discussion. Hon. Gentlemen, in confident expectation that I shall stand firm, challenge me to say why there should be no Autumn Session. They would be the first to be disappointed if there were an Autumn Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-13a.85.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-13", "file": "debates1921-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "611fb7c0cdc3f38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-13a.105.0", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — (1) COMMITTEE STAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "ebate, and they know that it destroys the House as a deliberative assembly, and yet they are proposing it in this particular case. In this House there is a very small minority. I do not know what the number of the Opposition may amount to, but it is under a hundred. That is much the smallest minority that has ever existed, so far as we know. I am not quite sure whether the first Reform Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-13a.105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-13", "file": "debates1921-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "611fb7c0cdc3f38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-13a.123.3", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — (1) COMMITTEE STAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "e effective and good as a governing machine. Therefore we should be particularly jealous of any attacks upon the liberties of the House of Commons. I do not wish to say anything offensive, but the very mode of the last election in itself cast a certain—I will not say slur—but suspicion upon the House of Commons. It resulted in a House of Commons largely nominated by the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-13a.123.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-13", "file": "debates1921-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "611fb7c0cdc3f38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-13a.123.3", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — (1) COMMITTEE STAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "ur to represent today. Then the liberties of the House were considerably curtailed by Standing Order 37 which confers upon the Chair, on the application of the Government, certain very drastic powers. Further we have an absentee Prime Minister. At present, unfortunately, he is absent for reason which we all deplore. Still he has made a practice of being absent; he is like a sort of quasi President", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-13a.123.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-13", "file": "debates1921-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "611fb7c0cdc3f38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-13a.123.3", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — (1) COMMITTEE STAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Twice a week!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "tee Prime Minister. At present, unfortunately, he is absent for reason which we all deplore. Still he has made a practice of being absent; he is like a sort of quasi President [ Interruption ]. It is not my province to defend the Prime Minister; that is an event which is deferred for a short time. In any case, we have a Prime Minister who only comes down here twice a day to answer questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-13a.123.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-13", "file": "debates1921-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "611fb7c0cdc3f38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-13a.142.0", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — (1) COMMITTEE STAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " such agreement, but then we must be clear as to the kind of agreement that is possible. There are so many people to consider in making the agreement. There are at least two parties representing the Opposition and, covering, I am not quite certain, how many different points of view; not to speak of the one party which forms the Coalition, and which also covers certain differences of opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-13a.142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-14", "file": "debates1921-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "04d851da67717a64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.213.2", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "Are we to understand that this policy of Governmental assassination, which is the policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.213.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-14", "file": "debates1921-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "04d851da67717a64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.215.0", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On both!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "I hope every, hon. Member will have an opportunity of seeing the article referred to. May I ask whether the article described as making an attack upon the Royal Irish Constabulary was not an attack on the Black-and-Tans?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-14", "file": "debates1921-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "04d851da67717a64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.239.8", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Gentleman be surprised to know that I have received a letter from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.239.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-14", "file": "debates1921-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "04d851da67717a64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.292.5", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS V.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name, name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": " called upon to fulfil responsibilities greater than it has ever been called upon to fulfil before. It has had to deal with, and stop, the faults committed in the past by other Members of His Majesty's Government. Those were not the faults of the right hon. Gentleman, but of other Members of the Government, some of whom, unfortunately, do not sit in this House any longer. I wish they did sit here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.292.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-14", "file": "debates1921-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "04d851da67717a64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS V.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the 'Morning Post!'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "preceding_text": "uestions from the point of view of its responsibilities. I know it has responsibilities as the representative of the British taxpayer, but still more, to my mind, it is responsible as the guardian of a far greater responsibility than that of the taxpayer, namely, the honour of the British Empire. That is why I resent the type of article you see in the \"Daily Mirror\" and the Anti-Waste Press—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.311.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-14", "file": "debates1921-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "04d851da67717a64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.350.0", "colnum": "350", "heading": "CROWN FORCES, BELFAST.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. TOWNSHEND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. TOWNSHEND", "preceding_text": " worked by wire from Dublin. If one of these generals found his neighbour in trouble, then he marches down to the assistance of General Jones in the province on his border. He will endeavour to do the best that can be done somehow or another. If I were there I might have to stand my trial afterwards, but I would have to chance that, and to my mind that is the only way we can have peace in Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-14", "file": "debates1921-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "04d851da67717a64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.352.0", "colnum": "352", "heading": "CROWN FORCES, BELFAST.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": " He desired to be far worse than the Government and to transcend the iniquities of the Chief Secretary for Ireland. In the programme which he sketched to the House he fell lamentably short of his ideal. My hon. and gallant Friend was merely modelling himself upon the high command behind the lines in the recent War. The iniquities of the Chief Secretary for Ireland far transcend, far surpass—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-14", "file": "debates1921-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "04d851da67717a64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.352.0", "colnum": "352", "heading": "CROWN FORCES, BELFAST.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Liar!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "e are facts which cannot be refuted, facts which the right hon. Gentleman dare not take before a judicial impartial inquiry conducted by judges of that English Crown. These are facts which he has been forced to acknowledge, and which have been extracted reluctantly from the Government Bench in Debates in this House. These are facts which cannot be repudiated by an impartial and just investigation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-14", "file": "debates1921-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "04d851da67717a64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.352.0", "colnum": "352", "heading": "CROWN FORCES, BELFAST.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "eman opposite may think to shelve responsibility for these incidents by speaking of spontaneous outbursts of fury. He may think that he will in the end escape facing that Tribunal which I hope and believe he will face one day; but let him remember that a greater man than the Chief Secretary for Ireland faced a tribunal of his countrymen for lesser crimes than the crime. I refer to Warren Hastings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-14", "file": "debates1921-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "04d851da67717a64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.354.0", "colnum": "354", "heading": "CROWN FORCES, BELFAST.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "t to him already: If it was not his agent, who did it, or who can have done it? What else does he expect? For months past, although I know it has now been checked, \"Weekly Summaries,\" and other literature has been circulated to these unfortunate irregulars, who are organised in haphazard fashion and despatched without any organisation to Ireland, which constitutes an absolute incitement to murder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.354.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-14", "file": "debates1921-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "04d851da67717a64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.362.3", "colnum": "362", "heading": "CROWN FORCES, BELFAST.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "that are now going on in the North of Ireland are the direct results of encouragement that certain politicians in the North of Ireland have received from those in high places. [ Interruption. ] I hope my hon. Friend here will find some other occupation than to be constantly jeering and giggling. It is time some of us replied to some of these interruptions. Our people behind here are kept in order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.362.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-14", "file": "debates1921-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "04d851da67717a64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.373.0", "colnum": "373", "heading": "CROWN FORCES, BELFAST.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "indelicate for him to bring these matters before the attention of the House! Was there ever a more ghastly travesty of what are the duties of a Member to his constituents? He and others who have taken part in the Debate are charged on the ground of policy. My hon. and gallant Friend opposite actually makes the charge that questions and Debates of this kind are an encouragement to crime in Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-14", "file": "debates1921-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "04d851da67717a64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "CROWN FORCES, BELFAST.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By Sinn Feiners!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "disabled. He has since been in the public service. He and others were zealous to protect the liberties of England and of the world which exist, while the liberty of Ireland has been destroyed by this Government. This young man joined the Army at 16 ½, inspired by the patriotism to which I have referred, and at 22 he is taken out of his house in the middle of the night and foully assassinated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-14", "file": "debates1921-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "04d851da67717a64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.377.2", "colnum": "377", "heading": "CROWN FORCES, BELFAST.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Stop the Sinn Fein murderers!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": " encourages, defends, and condones private assassination has ceased to be a civilised Government. I entirely sympathise with my hon. Friend in his expression of a wish, and I even share some of his hopes with regard to the coming together of Ireland on this question. How will such conduct as the right hon. Gentleman defended to-night, in so far as he could defend it, lead to their coming together?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-14a.377.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-15", "file": "debates1921-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "767c17a69a3dfc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-15a.414.5", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ridiculous!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "preceding_text": "If there is no additional cost of taking these troops away, what is the need for keeping them on the Rhine?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-15a.414.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-15", "file": "debates1921-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "767c17a69a3dfc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-15a.424.7", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "That is a question for the House itself to decide, Question Time having passed. The Minister of Labour has an important announcement that he would like to make to the House. Is it the pleasure of the House to hear it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-15a.424.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-15", "file": "debates1921-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "767c17a69a3dfc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-15a.462.0", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HODGE", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"You ought to be ashamed to say it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HODGE", "preceding_text": "trade union movement has had his heart stirred, just as my right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour has been, in coming in contact with the misery and the destitution that has followed as a result of the great depression in trade. I believe that this is a rich man's Government. Excess Profits Duty went because of the threat that they would pay no further donations to the Coalition party war chest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-15a.462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-15", "file": "debates1921-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "767c17a69a3dfc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-15a.462.0", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HODGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HODGE", "preceding_text": " Debate took place in this House on the question of unemployment. Sitting listening to the various speakers from all quarters of the House, it appeared to me that there was a new spirit developing amongst hon. Members. Many opinions which were expressed were quite as strong and as advanced as the opinions which I hold. I believe that every industry ought to bear the burden of its own unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-15a.462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-15", "file": "debates1921-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "767c17a69a3dfc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-15a.479.4", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ALLEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not a dole!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ALLEN", "preceding_text": "e peculiar to that industry and into which I do not propose to enter, but I want the Minister in charge of this Bill to realise what this reduction means to the workers in an industry which is specially affected in the way I have indicated. I would join heartily with hon. Members opposite in appealing to him, for the present, at all events, to let the dole remain as it is if he can possibly do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-15a.479.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-15", "file": "debates1921-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "767c17a69a3dfc6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-15a.557.0", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. WHITE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. WHITE", "preceding_text": "I will only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-15a.557.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-16", "file": "debates1921-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "24a63e4e54d88723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-16a.591.7", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is quite enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "Let me be responsible only for what I am responsible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-16a.591.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-16", "file": "debates1921-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "24a63e4e54d88723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-16a.592.1", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "The statement in question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-16a.592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-16", "file": "debates1921-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "24a63e4e54d88723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-16a.651.6", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "preceding_text": "f the Safeguarding of Industries Bill, they are imposing a duty of one-third of the value upon things like hides from India and upon commodities from other parts of the Empire, when the Board of Trade deems that it can be shown that certain conditions are being fulfilled. It is unfortunate, if we are to be turned into a protectionist country —which, of course, we are rapidly becoming —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-16a.651.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-16", "file": "debates1921-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "24a63e4e54d88723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-16a.673.0", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNES", "preceding_text": "I understood the Chancellor of the Exchequer's contention to be that the percentage figure of direct taxation had increased for the period he mentioned and had increased from the period before the War to the present time, and that relatively speaking, with regard to indirect taxation, it was higher than before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-16a.673.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-16", "file": "debates1921-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "24a63e4e54d88723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-16a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNES", "preceding_text": "I can see the right hon. Baronet's point. I realise that somehow or other £6,000,000,000 was found. As far as my information goes, I do not understand that foreign investments are any less than they were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-16a.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-16", "file": "debates1921-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "24a63e4e54d88723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-16a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNES", "preceding_text": "es.\"] I know that that is a common impression. But if the Chancellor of the Exchequer will make himself familiar with a return of the Department he has just left and take the figures presented in the statistical abstract as being the value of foreign investments for Income Tax purposes and compare those figures with the 1913 figures, he will find that what I say is right. That is a matter of fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-16a.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-16", "file": "debates1921-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "24a63e4e54d88723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-16a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNES", "preceding_text": "heet in an entirely different position from what it was before the War and substantiates the case for some reduction in direct taxation. I know it is equally true that a very considerable amount of money is being spent on beneficial services more than before the War. In 1913 something like £40,000,000 was spent on education, old age pensions, labour exchanges, and other services of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-16a.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-16", "file": "debates1921-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "24a63e4e54d88723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-16a.674.4", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNES", "preceding_text": "essary that every reduction in direct taxation should be balanced by a corresponding reduction in indirect taxation. That is all we are asking for. The effect of this Amendment will be to wipe out all the duty on tea, and if the Chancellor cannot afford that he might meet us in some way. Last night the House gave a Second Reading to a Bill which is going to reduce the unemployment allowance by 5s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-16a.674.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-16", "file": "debates1921-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "24a63e4e54d88723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-16a.686.5", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "duties absolutely reek and stink of old-fashioned protection. Surely the hon. Member cannot have any great love for supporting something which reeks and stinks, and I am quite sure that, after that speech, we shall have the advantage of his support. I read in the paper that at a largely attended meeting of the Coalition Liberals held yesterday—this refers to some time ago, a couple of years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-16a.686.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-16", "file": "debates1921-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "24a63e4e54d88723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-16a.692.0", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STURROCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STURROCK", "preceding_text": "to oppose duties on luxuries like motor cars, clocks and mouth organs. We now see the small rump of dissentient Liberals occupied in the pleasant task of opposing duties on what really are luxuries. That is not the Gladstonian Liberalism in which I was born. I ask my hon. and gallant Friend to withdraw his opposition to these duties, having in view the present state of the finances of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-16a.692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-16", "file": "debates1921-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "24a63e4e54d88723", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-16a.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. THOMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. THOMSON", "preceding_text": "n. The manufactured article of one trade is the raw material of another. These violins, to the manufacturer who employed, a large number of people, were the raw material upon which his work was done. A large amount of labour was spent upon them, providing a considerable amount of employment. Surely, at a time like this, when only yesterday we had the claims of unemployment so much before us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-16a.706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-17", "file": "debates1921-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "d4d4e7cc70b40b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-17a.826.0", "colnum": "826", "heading": "IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "preceding_text": "are to be Empire builders, we cannot at the same time be Little Englanders. Hon. Members may think I am laying too much stress on this question of migration, but the hon. Member who spoke first in the Debate (Sir J. Davidson) told us that for two years he had been giving his attention to the question of Imperial defence. For twenty-five years I have given my attention to the question of migration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-17a.826.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-20", "file": "debates1921-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "4ede3b832270f16e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-20a.876.4", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PEACE TREATIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "Is it not the fact that the workmen of Germany are crying out against this eight-hours day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-20a.876.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-20", "file": "debates1921-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "4ede3b832270f16e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-20a.1020.0", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "PART III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STURROCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STURROCK", "preceding_text": "call their savings—not dividends—among their clients. They have built up what is now an enormous business in this country. Gentlemen opposite talk as though the co-operative movement were some small, struggling concern, which is barely able to keep its head above water. They know very well that it is one of the most powerful organisations, industrially and politically, in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-20a.1020.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-20", "file": "debates1921-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "4ede3b832270f16e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-20a.1037.1", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "PART III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "preceding_text": "first place, large contributions are made every year by the cooperative movement to charitable institu- tions, and, in addition to that, a large volume of educational work is done, Any tax that is imposed upon the balances of the co-operative movement after dividend has been paid is a tax upon the movement's educational work and upon its association with the charitable institutions of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-20a.1037.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-20", "file": "debates1921-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "4ede3b832270f16e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-20a.1037.1", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "PART III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "preceding_text": "chequer that he declined to recognise the dividing of the Committee upon the partisan spirit of the co-operative versus the non-co-operative point of view; and the hon. Member for Heywood (Mr. Halls) asserted that that very largely is the dividing line in the House of Commons. I believe that if that had not been so there would have been no proposal to tax co-operative societies. I have here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-20a.1037.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-20", "file": "debates1921-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "4ede3b832270f16e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-20a.1037.1", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "PART III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "preceding_text": " point of view; and the hon. Member for Heywood (Mr. Halls) asserted that that very largely is the dividing line in the House of Commons. I believe that if that had not been so there would have been no proposal to tax co-operative societies. I have here—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"]—the Report of the Royal Commission on Income Tax, and I should like to quote from it this statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-20a.1037.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-21", "file": "debates1921-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "29603aaf7afa76f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "preceding_text": "Five and a quarter millions. Until the general situation improves, until the Continent is able to consume British goods, until the Government alter fundamentally their policy of imperialism in distant parts of the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-21", "file": "debates1921-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "29603aaf7afa76f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1149.2", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [PAYMENTS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "nd further borrowing powers for specified amounts, because the whole basis of his policy and of public unemployment insurance is that the deficit will naturally year by year go on increasing. The whole policy of unemployment insurance has been leading to that result. That type of legislation and policy in industrial affairs always has led to it. It led to it in France. It led to it in other cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1149.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-21", "file": "debates1921-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "29603aaf7afa76f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1207.1", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "MURDER OF OFFICERS (IRELAND).", "cue_speaker": "Captain GEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GEE", "preceding_text": "o find whether one of these unofficial reprisals has been engineered and carried out by the non-commissioned officers and men of the Army. Does that show indiscipline? I think it shows the highest state of discipline in the greatest and most severe test the British Army has ever been called upon to undergo. There is no lack of discipline there. The moral of the Army in Ireland is simply wonderful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-21", "file": "debates1921-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "29603aaf7afa76f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1207.1", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "MURDER OF OFFICERS (IRELAND).", "cue_speaker": "Captain GEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GEE", "preceding_text": "f the Army. Does that show indiscipline? I think it shows the highest state of discipline in the greatest and most severe test the British Army has ever been called upon to undergo. There is no lack of discipline there. The moral of the Army in Ireland is simply wonderful. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] The hon. Member who says, \"Hear, hear\" a minute ago said we have lack of discipline in the Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-21", "file": "debates1921-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "29603aaf7afa76f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1207.1", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "MURDER OF OFFICERS (IRELAND).", "cue_speaker": "Captain GEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GEE", "preceding_text": "bt as to whether the discipline that we had in the Army during the War was still being maintained in Ireland or not. I am quoting almost his exact words. So I repudiate any idea that the discipline in the Army is not being maintained. It is. This Debate practically amounts to a Vote of want of confidence in the Commander-in-Chief in Ireland. It is attacking a man who is not here to defend himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-21", "file": "debates1921-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "29603aaf7afa76f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1220.0", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "MURDER OF OFFICERS (IRELAND).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "n which I get about twice a week, named the \"Irish Bulletin,\" which is the sub rosa organ of the Sinn Fein movement. I have looked out No. 92, Volume 4, in anticipation of this Debate, and I recommend it to the attention of the Attorney-General for Ireland, who can easily put his hands on it. Several Members of this House get it. It is sent to me quite anonymously. I do not know who it comes from.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1220.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-21", "file": "debates1921-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "29603aaf7afa76f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1221.1", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "MURDER OF OFFICERS (IRELAND).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Of course it is murder, and I condemn it wholeheartedly. But I am giving the point of view expressed by the Irish Republican Army themselves, and I must say, from their point of view, it is not altogether unjustified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-21", "file": "debates1921-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "29603aaf7afa76f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1225.0", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "MURDER OF OFFICERS (IRELAND).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "preceding_text": ", inexperienced as he must be at that time of life, has no right to be in Ireland, having regard to the existing order of things. The probabilities are that, if the indiscretions which we have heard have been committed by the military forces were investigated, it might be found some of them were due to the fact that we have too young and inexperienced officers carrying out too delicate operations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-21", "file": "debates1921-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "29603aaf7afa76f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1231.5", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "MURDER OF OFFICERS (IRELAND).", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "Of course I shall adhere entirely to what you have been good enough to say, and it will have the fortunate result that it will enable me to curtail my observations to a great extent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1231.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-21", "file": "debates1921-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "29603aaf7afa76f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1244.6", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "preceding_text": "g and seeing that the Crown receives its proper revenue, has in the main done all the work. The local commissioners were supposed to administer the income tax of this country, but, while they have done excellent work, and I am not complaining or casting the slightest reflection on what they have done, they have been unpaid men, usually business men in each town, who could not give the timet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1244.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1921-06-21", "file": "debates1921-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "29603aaf7afa76f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1254.2", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-21", "file": "debates1921-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "29603aaf7afa76f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1255.6", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed, agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "preceding_text": " town, and never have known it. All the time when I was in active practice we went to the Inspector of Taxes and nobody else. The Inspector was always spoken of as a person of greater intelligence than the local Commissioners, and he had far more experience. One felt when one once argued the case before him and he had given a decision, that that decision was probably the best in the circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1255.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-21", "file": "debates1921-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "29603aaf7afa76f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1255.6", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "preceding_text": "had far more experience. One felt when one once argued the case before him and he had given a decision, that that decision was probably the best in the circumstances. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed, agreed!\"] Hon. Members who shout \"Agreed\" must understand that they must pay the penalty for the weakness of their Government. If you had been agreed a month or two ago the Revenue Bill might have been passed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1255.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-21", "file": "debates1921-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "29603aaf7afa76f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1255.6", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "preceding_text": "tances. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed, agreed!\"] Hon. Members who shout \"Agreed\" must understand that they must pay the penalty for the weakness of their Government. If you had been agreed a month or two ago the Revenue Bill might have been passed. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"] If you are agreed, then why did you not support your own Government? Why did you leave the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the lurch?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1255.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-21", "file": "debates1921-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "29603aaf7afa76f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1255.6", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "preceding_text": "re agreed, then why did you not support your own Government? Why did you leave the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the lurch? [ Interruption. ] I am sorry that when we are discussing important matters like this, hon. Members should have this violent desire to interject remarks. It seems to me they should divert their minds—in so far as their minds are still awake—to the matters in hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1255.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-21", "file": "debates1921-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "29603aaf7afa76f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1255.6", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Pay it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "preceding_text": "which I have a small interest employ the services of chartered accountants. The procedure followed on occasions when a very difficult acocunt has to be dealt with and when we do not know what the Excess Profits Duty will be, is to go into the accounts at great length and arrive at a balance which seems to be accurate and fair and shows a certain amount of tax liable to be paid. What do we do then?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1255.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-21", "file": "debates1921-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "29603aaf7afa76f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1255.6", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "preceding_text": "e do not pay it. Do we go to the assessor? Do we go to the local Commissioner? No, what we do is to take the chartered accountant along to the Inspector of Taxes. We make an appointment with that gentleman. I want hon. Members to have every detail so that they may thoroughly understand my point. Having made our appointment and having kept it, we find ourselves in the room of the Inspector of Taxes", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1255.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-21", "file": "debates1921-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "29603aaf7afa76f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1257.1", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "preceding_text": "d the offer of a cigar under these circumstances. What then happens? The interview takes place. We place the case before the Inspector of Taxs, it is argued at length and all the facts are brought out, and all the implications to which those facts point are thoroughly discussed. After that discussion and with the facts fully before him the Inspector of Taxes makes a decision. Surely it is a farce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-21", "file": "debates1921-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "29603aaf7afa76f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1259.2", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "niary loss. It was all very well to carry on with the old machinery so long as income tax was 1s. 3d., but now that it is 6s. in the pound, and we have the super-tax as well, it is infinitely more important that we should have the best machinery for collecting the taxes, and I am glad to say the party with which I am connected, and for which I speak tonight, has throughout backed the Revenue Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1259.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-21", "file": "debates1921-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "29603aaf7afa76f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1261.5", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order! Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "I must get this put right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1261.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-21", "file": "debates1921-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "29603aaf7afa76f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1293.0", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no, he is here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ndment except myself are absent. The Clause has excited great interest in the country. We have all been deluged with resolutions about it, and the whole work that has been done in order to arouse interest in this question will all be thrown away if we proceed to discuss it at this time of night. It is now quarter past two, and the House is tired and the Chancellor of the Exchequer has gone to bed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-21", "file": "debates1921-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "29603aaf7afa76f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1294.2", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Is it that you have not been here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-21a.1294.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-22", "file": "debates1921-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "bd163b77e866d0df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-22a.1408.3", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHURCH OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCOTT", "cue_text": "an HON. MEMBER: \"No, no\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCOTT", "preceding_text": "informed us that the union cannot be consummated until the further policy foreshadowed has been dealt with and passed by this House. Why should the Bill not be postponed until the Secretary for Scotland is in a position to lay before the House, if not the Measure itself, at least the Report of the Royal Commission on which further policy is to be based? In the name of the people of Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-22a.1408.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-23", "file": "debates1921-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "01abb6562f1bbeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1593.8", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1921–1922. [Progress.]", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "preceding_text": "unctions without having the assistance of a Minister who was free from departmental responsibility, and who could devote his time to five or six questions which were then weighing with the public, with Parliament, and with the Government itself. There has been a good deal of talk about bureaucracy. The country is naturally very suspicious of anything in the nature of bureaucratic Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1593.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-23", "file": "debates1921-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "01abb6562f1bbeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1593.8", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1921–1922. [Progress.]", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "preceding_text": "s the public temperament and the public disposition. The Government came to the conclusion that, for the time being—I will come to the question of time later—for the time being, it would be quite impossible to carry on the tasks of Government without having, at any rate for a short period, a Minister without Portfolio. My right hon. Friend the present Minister without Portfolio —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1593.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-23", "file": "debates1921-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "01abb6562f1bbeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1598.1", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1921–1922. [Progress.]", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "arising out of the German and Turkish situation will be liquidated in the course of a very short time. There are certain symptoms which I have observed, and from certain facts which have been brought to my attention, I am very hopeful that the condition of trade, the present distressing condition, is merely a temporary one, and that we shall in a very short time see a very substantial improvement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-23", "file": "debates1921-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "01abb6562f1bbeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1599.1", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1921–1922. [Progress.]", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear! hear!\" and cries of \"Saved! saved!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ors as well as myself in a way that I am perfectly certain no House of Commons would ever ask a Minister to commit himself. I am now solely on the question of a sum of money for this particular purpose. I shall invite the House of Commons to-day to vote only a sum of money that will enable us to retain and pay for the services of the Minister without Portfolio until the end of the present Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-23", "file": "debates1921-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "01abb6562f1bbeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1600.1", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1921–1922. [Progress.]", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I am going to give the House of Commons the facts. When he became Under-Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions, we set up national Factories, and we discovered what a shell cost. The first thing the right hon. Gentleman discovered was that the contract prices of the War Office which we took over—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-23", "file": "debates1921-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "01abb6562f1bbeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1623.5", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1921–1922. [Progress.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lock-out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "ngs of Cabinet Committees or meetings for administrative purposes, and so forth. Why did he not tell us what amount of wisdom oozed from all these meetings? As a result of these 298 meetings the millennium ought to have been reached. What have we got for these 298 meetings? I advise the right hon. Gentleman to stop holding these meetings. All we have got from the meetings is the coal strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1623.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-23", "file": "debates1921-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "01abb6562f1bbeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1627.2", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1921–1922. [Progress.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not beaten yet!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "im from office. The thing is as cruel as it is false. It is false to say that any organ of the Press or any stuntmonger in this House or outside has created this state of affairs. The right hon. Gentleman has not been beaten by any paper or any person or any group of persons. He has been beaten, just as these unfortunate coalminers have been beaten recently, by the hard pressure of economic facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1627.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-23", "file": "debates1921-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "01abb6562f1bbeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1632.0", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1921–1922. [Progress.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN (Leader of the House)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN (Leader of the House)", "preceding_text": "ressed because of recent by-elections, but I confess that I do not feel myself exactly in that mood, and I cannot help thinking that the right hon. Member for Paisley must get even less comfort out of those elections than do the Government. The right hon. Gentleman cannot win a seat for his party anywhere, except by his own personal presence and superhuman exertion. He has not won a solitary seat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1632.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-23", "file": "debates1921-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "01abb6562f1bbeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1639.0", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1921–1922. [Progress.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "things are going to improve so much as we all expect and desire? The Prime Minister says trade will be better at the end of the Session. I hope he will prove to be a good prophet and that it will turn out to be true. It is, however, a singular thing that those who prophesy so much about an improvement in our trade are nearly always those who know the least about it and are least connected with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1639.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-23", "file": "debates1921-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "01abb6562f1bbeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1666.0", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1921–1922. [Progress.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAFFAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How did you vote?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAFFAN", "preceding_text": "wever, the Anti-Waste candidate forward and he was elected by an enormous majority. At the recent by-election, however, the anti-waste candi- date came forward with no organisation behind him, with a handful of political friends, and because he was able to go before the electors and say that he was standing on the ground of economy he was able to smash up the machine which has existed for so long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1666.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-23", "file": "debates1921-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "01abb6562f1bbeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1668.1", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1921–1922. [Progress.]", "cue_speaker": "Captain GEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He got you in!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GEE", "preceding_text": "istic stunters the better. Out of 80 days in which the House has sat this year, the hon. Member for South Hackney has been seen on 26 occasions. I am sorry he is not here, but no doubt he will read what I am saying, or he will get somebody else to read it for him and tell him. As a Unionist Labour Member, and not an Anti-Waste Member or one of the party of the hon. Member for South Hackney —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-23", "file": "debates1921-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "01abb6562f1bbeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1671.0", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1921–1922. [Progress.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WATERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WATERSON", "preceding_text": "t Gentleman who represents Woolwich (Captain Gee) has so quickly left the House, because had he been here I would have taken the opportunity of saying that his attitude this evening is, in my judgment, very base ingratitude. When one recalls the history of his entry into this House one has the impression that instead of being a member of the Coalition ranks he was a member of the Anti-Waste party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1671.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-23", "file": "debates1921-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "01abb6562f1bbeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1684.2", "colnum": "1684", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1921–1922. [Progress.]", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNES", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNES", "preceding_text": "rds and birds, and, at all events, the advantage of some birds are that they are more easy to shoot than others. I do not say that this applies in his case, but I am quite sure that, as far as the Minister himself is concerned, he would be very glad before he leaves his office to see the whole of this situation cleared up, and I would ask him, as far as he has any weight with the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1684.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-23", "file": "debates1921-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "01abb6562f1bbeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1699.5", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1921–1922. [Progress.]", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-23a.1699.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-24", "file": "debates1921-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d9eec89cc91d007a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-24a.1738.1", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "SUPPLY [23RD JUNE].", "cue_speaker": "Major MORGAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has walked out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major MORGAN", "preceding_text": " Chancellor of the Exchequer to say the moment we begin to discuss this situation that we are likely to jeopardise the negotiations which are going on. It is cant. If the, Chancellor of the Exchequer had remained away altogether from the coal question, I think this House would never have needed to discuss the question at all, and that is the way he treats the House on this very important question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-24a.1738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-24", "file": "debates1921-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d9eec89cc91d007a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-24a.1765.0", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROSE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROSE", "preceding_text": "ot satisfactory. It gives the lie to those greasy professions of gratitude to our noble defenders in the late War. They were excellent people. They were the salt of the earth when they were fighting and sacrificing, but when they want a mere subsistence as a reward for the sacrifices they have made hon. Members on the other side are apt to sneer. It is such a funny thing for a man to lose his leg.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-24a.1765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-24", "file": "debates1921-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d9eec89cc91d007a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-24a.1768.0", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "preceding_text": "on comes in at a point when the Closure will have been moved and the question of whether the House of Commons shall control taxation or not will not be debated, but will be put from the Chair under the Guillotine Resolution. I introduced a small one Clause Bill dealing with the matter. This afternoon the Government business being concluded, there was an opportunity for a short Debate on that Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-24a.1768.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-27", "file": "debates1921-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "56a0aee3f4dd3622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-27a.1884.2", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "has been suggested that it is because the workmen and the employers cannot agree. I think the Government are merely shielding themselves behind that statement because there is an employer of labour on their own side of the House who has said he is quite agreeable to the concession being made. If you take off the Whips and let us have a free vote you will find a majority in favour of this proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-27a.1884.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-27", "file": "debates1921-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "56a0aee3f4dd3622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-27a.1888.0", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GODFREY COLLINS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GODFREY COLLINS", "preceding_text": "The House, I believe, is willing to accept the Amendment if it is assured that the Insurance Fund will not be severely drained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-27a.1888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-27", "file": "debates1921-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "56a0aee3f4dd3622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-27a.1888.0", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GODFREY COLLINS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GODFREY COLLINS", "preceding_text": "The House, I believe, is willing to accept the Amendment if it is assured that the Insurance Fund will not be severely drained. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"] There is a general feeling in the minds of certain hon. Members that this Amendment, if carried, will upset the Insurance Fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-27a.1888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-27", "file": "debates1921-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "56a0aee3f4dd3622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-27a.1888.2", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A normal year!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "preceding_text": "In 1914.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-27a.1888.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-27", "file": "debates1921-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "56a0aee3f4dd3622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-27a.1888.5", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A normal year!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "Because the hon. Gentleman is taking the year 1914.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-27a.1888.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-27", "file": "debates1921-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "56a0aee3f4dd3622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-27a.1894.3", "colnum": "1894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. WALSH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reply!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. WALSH", "preceding_text": "tary Secretary has to say, as to whether he is in full accord with his Chief or whether, since the Minister in charge made his earlier statement, some change has taken place. The overwhelming sense of the House, however, and the fact that the right hon. Gentleman acknowledged the equity of the claim, demand that before we go to a Division we should hear what the Parliamentary Secretary has to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-27a.1894.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-27", "file": "debates1921-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "56a0aee3f4dd3622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-27a.1898.1", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALLS", "preceding_text": "en hear a good deal about Parliament, and the question is discussed whether the people of this country still respect Parliament as they used to do. I have always understood and I still believe that it is the object of Parliament to put on the Statute Book laws that seek to carry out certain ethical principles. It has been admitted on every hand here this afternoon that morally this is a good case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-27a.1898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-27", "file": "debates1921-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "56a0aee3f4dd3622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-27a.1898.1", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\" and \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALLS", "preceding_text": " men are entitled to unemployment pay in the circumstances that have been referred to. In my opinion the whole case has been proved. If hon. Gentlemen who come to this House to legislate in the best interests of this country want Parliament still to be respected by the people then, our case having been proved, they ought to feel under an obligation to go into the lobby in support of the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-27a.1898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-27", "file": "debates1921-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "56a0aee3f4dd3622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-27a.1919.1", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Things are not arranged that way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "uld work Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and stand off Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in one week. In the next week he could stand off Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, thereby making six days. He could work Thursday, Friday, and Saturday and he could do that in successive fortnights and still draw half-time wage and unemployment benefit. Alternatively he could work all' one week and stand off—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-27a.1919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-27", "file": "debates1921-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "56a0aee3f4dd3622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-27a.1945.0", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For everybody!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": " the difficulties in the existing scheme bad enough, but under the six days these were going to be insuperable. I venture to suggest that if hon. Members were themselves casual labourers, having to appear outside the factory or dock gate morning after morning, they would not be so inclined to go into the Lobby and support the proposals contained herein. What are you going to save; £2,200,000?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-27a.1945.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-28", "file": "debates1921-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "11eb81cffc27e871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-28a.2039.1", "colnum": "2039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "I want to say a few words in reference to the hon. Member for Mossley (Mr. A. Hopkinson). The hon. Member takes up the attitude in this House of Judas Iscariot with regard to the breaking of the alabaster box of ointment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-28a.2039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-28", "file": "debates1921-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "11eb81cffc27e871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-28a.2055.4", "colnum": "2055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. HOPE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!'", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. HOPE", "preceding_text": "I understand that what the Lord Advocate has suggested gives ex-service men the right to the loan at the reduced rate, and also the subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-28a.2055.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-28", "file": "debates1921-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "11eb81cffc27e871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-28a.2057.9", "colnum": "2057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " or three hours of summer time. As a matter of fact, they are imposing now a very drastic extra summer time through the imposition of the curfew. Owing to very fortuitous circumstances which have arisen I do not want to say anything that will give rise to controversy about the military rule in Ireland, but military governors have the power to impose summer time to the extent of two or three hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-28a.2057.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-28", "file": "debates1921-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "11eb81cffc27e871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-28a.2058.2", "colnum": "2058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN (Leader of the House)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN (Leader of the House)", "preceding_text": "I would, appeal to the hon. and gallant Member to meet the convenience of the House and to let us get this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-28a.2058.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-28", "file": "debates1921-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "11eb81cffc27e871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-28a.2069.3", "colnum": "2069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "te that machine is for the purpose which it seeks to serve. The worst body of men very often, or the men least capable of forming a true judgment of their own interests, are the masses of the workmen themselves, and I would plead for the great masses of the workmen, not merely to have greater faith in their appointed leaders, but to place in their hands the exercise of greater authority and power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-28a.2069.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-28", "file": "debates1921-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "11eb81cffc27e871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-28a.2079.1", "colnum": "2079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "My difficulty is to get the controlling mind of the Opposition, if I may say so without offence. I thought it was the desire of both sections of the Opposition that no discussion should take place on Friday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-28a.2079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-28", "file": "debates1921-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "11eb81cffc27e871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-28a.2103.0", "colnum": "2103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KILEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KILEY", "preceding_text": " Ministers whom they have at their disposal should think it worth his while, in an important matter of this kind, to be present on the Government Bench. One might also inquire what has become of that great party of which we have heard so much in the Press lately, and which is known as the Anti-Waste party? I notice that there is one hon. Member present who is prominently connected with that party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-28a.2103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-28", "file": "debates1921-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "11eb81cffc27e871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-28a.2114.1", "colnum": "2114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "Department of the Comptroller and Auditor-General. The staff of the Comptroller costs about £250,000 a year. All the year round he and his officials are working in the Department, auditing and investigating the accounts, making tests of them, and preparing the matter which is the basis of the Comptroller and Auditor-General's report. Does anyone wish to support a new Department on that scale?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-28a.2114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-29", "file": "debates1921-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c10a2e842597f9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2132.2", "colnum": "2132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. HOPE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. HOPE", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman promise that dismissed conscientious objectors will on no account be reinstated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2132.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-29", "file": "debates1921-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c10a2e842597f9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2149.6", "colnum": "2149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. The reasons given by the Minister of Health as to why Ireland is not getting an equivalent grant from this fund recommended by Lord Cave's Committee was that there was no representative of Ireland on that Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2149.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-29", "file": "debates1921-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c10a2e842597f9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2149.8", "colnum": "2149", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the House to answer why?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2149.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-29", "file": "debates1921-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c10a2e842597f9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2215.2", "colnum": "2215", "heading": "PART I.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "I quite understand. The position is that it pays 33⅓ per cent. to start with, then it will pay 26 per cent. under the Reparation Recovery Act—or the traders concerned—and, in addition to that, if it is possible to bring sufficient pressure to bear on the Board of Trade it may have to meet an additional 33⅓ per cent. or about 93 per cent. in all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2215.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-29", "file": "debates1921-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c10a2e842597f9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2216.3", "colnum": "2216", "heading": "PART I.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What was the menu?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "With due respect, Sir Edwin, it was a breakfast party dealing with this particular Amendment. Not only that, but those attending it came away with a definite guarantee that a maximum of 33⅓ per cent. would be imposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-29", "file": "debates1921-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c10a2e842597f9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2216.4", "colnum": "2216", "heading": "PART I.", "cue_speaker": "Captain COOTE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain COOTE", "preceding_text": "ng of the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Department. I think he has demonstrated conclusively that the proposal to deal with this particular problem as it is dealt with in the Bill is equally futile and that the only proper way to deal with it is by prohibition and importing under licence, which, I understand, is the view held by a great number of Members in all parties in this Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2216.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-29", "file": "debates1921-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c10a2e842597f9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2246.0", "colnum": "2246", "heading": "PART I.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. TERRELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. TERRELL", "preceding_text": "t December in Germany had depreciated about nine times. It took 9½ marks to buy the equivalent of one mark's worth of food before the War, so that measured in marks and measured in food you require in England 30 marks to buy one mark's worth of food compared with pre-War, while in Germany you only require 9½ marks to buy the value of one mark before the War, a difference of three to one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-29", "file": "debates1921-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c10a2e842597f9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2256.0", "colnum": "2256", "heading": "PART I.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He loses his labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "preceding_text": "hat same article is imported into this country at an equivalent of 5s. in English value, the worker in this country has to expend only 5s. worth of labour to get the article, though he had originally to expend 10s. worth of labour. All the way round, whatever the causes are, the British worker and the British consumer get the advantage of the cheapness of the article when it lands in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-29", "file": "debates1921-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c10a2e842597f9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2274.7", "colnum": "2274", "heading": "PART I.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "I do not care what anybody used to say; we have to deal with this question now. For anyone to say that he is prepared to support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2274.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-29", "file": "debates1921-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c10a2e842597f9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2276.0", "colnum": "2276", "heading": "PART I.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " House? We have in this House directly elected representatives of Labour, the very class whom he seeks to benefit. Is there a single one of them who has done other than criticise, in the most vigorous and hostile manner, the proposals of the Government? If they thought this was going to cure or help unemployment they would be the very first to back him, but they are all against him. Here they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-29", "file": "debates1921-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c10a2e842597f9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2278.2", "colnum": "2278", "heading": "PART I.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "They have not the same interest in keeping up the industry of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2278.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-29", "file": "debates1921-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c10a2e842597f9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2280.0", "colnum": "2280", "heading": "PART I.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"France.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "n supporters, all unanimously asking the President of the Board of Trade to bring forward a Bill dealing with the question of the collapsed exchanges. The Secretary for the Overseas Trade Department was present at the meeting. The manufactured silk goods that are coming in are goods not usually used by the poor, but are the luxury of the rich, and they come from countries with collapsed exchanges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-29", "file": "debates1921-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c10a2e842597f9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2282.3", "colnum": "2282", "heading": "PART I.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ant to say is this, my right hon. Friend the Member for Peebles (Sir D. MacLean) has referred to the banker's appeal. As a business man that appeal has interested me considerably, and I do not think that too much importance can be placed upon it by Members of this House, because, after all, the whole business of this country, the whole trade of this country, is dependent upon the banking industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2282.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-29", "file": "debates1921-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c10a2e842597f9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2283.1", "colnum": "2283", "heading": "PART I.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "it is developed now in this Bill, and it will go on and on. Different trades will be introduced, and my hon. Friend from Macclesfield (Mr. Remer) will soon come within its scope, and before long we shall be a full-fledged Protectionist country, and that will be the death-knell of the trade of this country. We have built up the reputation of this country on Free Trade. We won the War on Free Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-29", "file": "debates1921-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c10a2e842597f9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2285.0", "colnum": "2285", "heading": "PART I.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacCALLUM SCOTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And importing!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacCALLUM SCOTT", "preceding_text": "onfined to one aspect of the subject and that they are not manufacturers. We have, however, the equally important declaration from the great chambers of commerce. It has been said they represent only importers. Is there any city more representative of the manufacturing and producing classes of this country than the city of Glasgow? It is one of the greatest manufacturing districts of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-29", "file": "debates1921-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c10a2e842597f9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2294.1", "colnum": "2294", "heading": "OVERSEAS TRADE (CREDITS AND INSURANCE) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I do not know if the Government will take the Third Reading, with only five minutes to spare?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-29", "file": "debates1921-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c10a2e842597f9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2296.6", "colnum": "2296", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGES, BRISTOL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. INSKIP", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "his and that official are so much, with war bonus. It leaves us in a doubt, it introduces difficulty and uncertainty when there ought to be clarity and certainty, as to the salaries that are paid. I am sure my right hon. Friend the Minister for Labour will not think for a moment that I am making any criticism of the labour exchanges. I believe them to be an essential part of our industrial system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-29a.2296.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-30", "file": "debates1921-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "aa082eb8f8113162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-30a.2313.7", "colnum": "2313", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "Pursuing our inquiries into this most disgraceful job—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-30a.2313.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-30", "file": "debates1921-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "aa082eb8f8113162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-30a.2314.1", "colnum": "2314", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "spirits, had high legal attainments, and was the right-hand man of Lord Carson in the Provisional Government? Why he is now dismissed in favour of an old gentleman who is not fit to perform the duties of the office, while the State has imposed upon it an extra cost of £4,000 a year for this most disgraceful job? Why is this done while Dr. Addison, a decent man, is dismissed from office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-30a.2314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-30", "file": "debates1921-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "aa082eb8f8113162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-30a.2387.1", "colnum": "2387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wages and coal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "I am not piling up the agony. I am dealing with the case in its simplest and most naked form. The English corresponding raw material costs double what the Belgian raw material costs, and you are going artificially to protect that English trade which for reasons I do not inquire into for the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-30a.2387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-30", "file": "debates1921-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "aa082eb8f8113162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-30a.2395.0", "colnum": "2395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General HICKMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is being done by the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General HICKMAN", "preceding_text": "I should like to speak as one of those unfortunate people who is interested in the making of these very billets. There is, I think, a great deal of talk about nothing. Out of all the iron and steel makers in England and Scotland I have not received a single letter from one who wishes to have a tariff put on steel billets—not a single one. Why, then, all this talk! This is not being done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-30a.2395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-30", "file": "debates1921-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "aa082eb8f8113162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-30a.2397.0", "colnum": "2397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PERRING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PERRING", "preceding_text": "he question before the Committee. The hon. Gentleman who has just spoken has suggested that some tin-pot firm could upset an industry and cause a lot of trouble. He well knows that by one of the Clauses of the Bill the whole question will be referred to a Committee and hon. Members who suggest that those who are engaged in an extensive way in an industry will not have a voice before the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-30a.2397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-30", "file": "debates1921-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "aa082eb8f8113162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-30a.2447.0", "colnum": "2447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He does not know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "preceding_text": "If the hon. and gallant Member will answer my question \"Yes\" or \"No,\" I will resume my seat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-30a.2447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-30", "file": "debates1921-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "aa082eb8f8113162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-30a.2460.0", "colnum": "2460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I am referring to the occasion when he became very loquacious about two minutes to eleven two nights ago on the question of the Estimates Committee. One minute these hon. Members are economists and the next minute they are in favour of expenditure of the widest character. There are one or two points in connection with this Sub-section which I do not understand. The business position is quite easy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-30a.2460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-30", "file": "debates1921-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "aa082eb8f8113162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-30a.2460.0", "colnum": "2460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "is proved to the satisfaction of the Commissioners. I am not a lawyer, but I see the Lord Advocate of Scotland present, and I wonder if he would be kind enough to give us a clear definition of how he would interpret in a Law Court the word \"satisfaction\" as laid down in this Subsection. The definition, possibly, would not be as good as if we had a really first-class English lawyer here to give it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-30a.2460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-30", "file": "debates1921-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "aa082eb8f8113162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-30a.2460.0", "colnum": "2460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is our Amendment, also!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " Scottish law is entirely different from English law. Perhaps the Lord Advocate will tell us his definition from the Scottish law point of view, and later on we might get one of the English Law Officers to give us his definition. The Sub-section proceeds: that fifty per cent. or more of the value of the goods. There is an Amendment down in the name of the Government to alter the 50 to 25 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-30a.2460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-06-30", "file": "debates1921-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "aa082eb8f8113162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-30a.2463.2", "colnum": "2463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "cue_text": "Laughter, and HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "preceding_text": "The words of the Bill are \"the processes of manufacture.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-06-30a.2463.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-07-01", "file": "debates1921-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "edd725ddca992b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-07-01a.2523.0", "colnum": "2523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Everyone should work.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "now and ought to work longer hours. I think that that is greatly due to the effect of war and also to a certain number of socialist agitators who have been going about telling people that they can get something for nothing. They have put into the minds of working men and women that they can get a great deal more without working. Working people in this country will not get anything without working.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-07-01a.2523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-07-01", "file": "debates1921-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "edd725ddca992b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-07-01a.2538.2", "colnum": "2538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\" and \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " with other nations, and the net result will be a very great reaction against the whole of these ideals. That will be inevitable. That will hinder us. It will prevent us as a great nation leading in these movements. Instead of leading, as to-day, progress will be reversed: you will get a different Government in which will be reactionary in its policy instead of, as this Government is, progressive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-07-01a.2538.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-07-01", "file": "debates1921-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "edd725ddca992b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-07-01a.2557.1", "colnum": "2557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " competition with them and diminish their trade. To our great and profound regret America, one of the greatest industrial nations in the world, is no party to this body, is no party to the Convention which met at Washington. That is a fact of which we must all take account. It goes to the very root of the purpose which my right hon. Friend sought to serve, and which we would serve as gladly as he.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-07-01a.2557.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-11-07", "file": "debates1921-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "f1ed722cc6289251", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-07a.49.3", "colnum": "49", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. D. REES", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. D. REES", "preceding_text": "for West Rhondda (Mr. William John) is reported to have said as lately as Sunday afternoon I should like to take some of the Rhondda miners to witness a Debate in the House of Commons, to see the wealthy land-lords coming up from their dining-rooms three-parts drunk. Some of them cannot stand, and some there are who have to hold on to their chairs in order to speak in the House of Commons. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-07a.49.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-11-07", "file": "debates1921-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "f1ed722cc6289251", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-07a.127.0", "colnum": "127", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1921–22", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir W. ALLEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Bann drainage!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir W. ALLEN", "preceding_text": "rtook anything of the kind. I quite agree also as to the time it would take in order to get the necessary survey for the purpose of carrying out large works, but what I would point out with regard to drainage in my own country is that for years and years we have pointed out the tangible results which would come from the employment of some money in connection with the drainage surrounding the Bann.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-07a.127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-11-07", "file": "debates1921-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "f1ed722cc6289251", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-07a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1921–22", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The unemployed as well!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "d calls it expediency, but surely it is cowardice because it is a dole, and what the hon. Member said proved that it was worth while. This is a very important principle, not merely in the general interests of unemployment, but in the general interests of labour. It would not be worth while to create any kind of trouble. Who pays for unemployed relief? On the whole the ratepayers, and who are they?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-07a.137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-11-07", "file": "debates1921-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "f1ed722cc6289251", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-07a.167.2", "colnum": "167", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1921–22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "t of £6,750,000 and refuse information to the House on whose advice they spent that money, and we can, of course, vote against it. My hon. Friend the Member for Harrow (Mr. Mosley), who tried to put the point, must content himself with that as his protest, and I invite the Committee to vote against the Government because of the absolutely subversive nature of the reply which we have received.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-07a.167.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-11-08", "file": "debates1921-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0386e31ff7260901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-08a.218.10", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\" and \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "preceding_text": "I desire to ask you, Mr. Speaker, in view of the fact that the First Commissioner of Works has expressed his willingness to place time recorders for speeches on each side of the House so as not to interfere with the architectural lines of the Chamber, provided that the scheme commands the approval of the House, whether you, Sir, will indicate the best course to be pursued?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-08a.218.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-11-08", "file": "debates1921-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0386e31ff7260901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-08a.219.2", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Leader of the House whether he will be good enough to bring on the Houses of Parliament Vote at an earlier period next Session?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-08a.219.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-11-08", "file": "debates1921-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0386e31ff7260901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-08a.305.3", "colnum": "305", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTI- MATES, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Lord ROBERT CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord ROBERT CECIL", "preceding_text": "e most vivid picture, partly in his own language and partly in the language of those who have examined the situation in Russia, and he says: \"Such a thing cannot be dealt with on any tinkering lines. It cannot be dealt with privately. Such a thing requires a great international effort, and we and the French are prepared to consider and set such an effort going,\" and then nothing effective is done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-08a.305.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-11-08", "file": "debates1921-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0386e31ff7260901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-08a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTI- MATES, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Before the harvest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "The Noble Lord says it would have been better if it had been attempted months ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-08a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-11-08", "file": "debates1921-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0386e31ff7260901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-08a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTI- MATES, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It won the War.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": " all the machinery of business in Russia itself, that all those little means by which produce is brought to market have been destroyed, because the people have been led to think that all these processes can be, and should be, adequately conducted by Government agency, and Government agency has been no more successful in matters of that kind in Russia than it has been with us in the immediate past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-08a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-11-08", "file": "debates1921-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0386e31ff7260901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-08a.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTI- MATES, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": " and a necessary consequence of famine is pestilence and death. We are asking that the nations of Europe who are best able to help shall give assistance to a great country that has done its bit in the Great War. Whatever may be the faults of the Government in Russia, the people are not responsible. The great masses of the people of Russia have not been consulted as to the form of Government there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-08a.334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-11-08", "file": "debates1921-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0386e31ff7260901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-08a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTI- MATES, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SWAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thank goodness we had not yours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SWAN", "preceding_text": "e. At the same time we have not any outlet for our trade, and unless we do something in order that Europe and Russia may be rehabilitated, we likewise shall be in a state of famine. The hon. Member said we ought to visualise Russia, not so much in the state it is in to-day, but as it existed in 1914. What did exist in 1914? \"We knew the kind of government that existed and we did not appreciate it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-08a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-11-08", "file": "debates1921-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0386e31ff7260901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-08a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTI- MATES, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SWAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SWAN", "preceding_text": "914? \"We knew the kind of government that existed and we did not appreciate it. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Thank goodness we had not yours.\"] I hope the day will come when someone else has charge of this Government. We cannot make a worse mess of things than you people have done. I am supporting this from a business standpoint. In 1914 we had an export trade of coal of 8,000,000 tons. Who has cut that off?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-08a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-11-08", "file": "debates1921-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "0386e31ff7260901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-08a.344.4", "colnum": "344", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTI- MATES, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So is the country.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "s taking a miserable shortsighted point of view—hon. Members who are unable to see beyond their noses—and protesting against any attempt to save our own potential customers. I understand the Government's difficulties when I hear speeches, such as we have heard to-night, and I sympathise with the hon. Gentleman the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. I am glad I am not in his position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-08a.344.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-11-09", "file": "debates1921-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4bb4d1f6ffb35506", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-09a.393.8", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Has the hon. Gentleman made any inquiries or will he do so from our Minister at Bucharest as to the origin of this movement from Rumanian territory?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-09a.393.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-11-09", "file": "debates1921-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4bb4d1f6ffb35506", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-09a.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that Petlura is nothing but a bandit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-09a.394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-11-09", "file": "debates1921-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4bb4d1f6ffb35506", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-09a.401.2", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "onsidered the Motion, but it- is not possible for me to find a day for the Motion within the limits of the present sittings of the House, and I am bound to say that in the opinion of His Majesty's Government the present moment is not opportune for such a discussion. I understand there is general agreement to bring the business of the House to a close not later than seven o'clock to-morrow evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-09a.401.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-11-09", "file": "debates1921-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4bb4d1f6ffb35506", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-09a.401.2", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\" and \"There is to be another Session of this House!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "at in the opinion of His Majesty's Government the present moment is not opportune for such a discussion. I understand there is general agreement to bring the business of the House to a close not later than seven o'clock to-morrow evening. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I have been led to understand that there is general agreement as to the proposal of the Government to bring our business to an end by then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-09a.401.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-11-09", "file": "debates1921-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4bb4d1f6ffb35506", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-09a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION—No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PARK GOFF", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Coal stoppage\" and \"Lockouts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PARK GOFF", "preceding_text": "emur all the reductions asked for, amounting to over 8s. a day. The shipbuilding and engineering industry 'accepted reductions of 6s. per week in two cuts, and also the withdrawal of 12½ per cent. and 7½ per cent. War bonuses, making a total of 16s. per week. These were unselfish and patriotic and practical steps towards reducing the high cost of production. During the coal strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-09a.467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-11-09", "file": "debates1921-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4bb4d1f6ffb35506", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-09a.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION—No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": "poiled by other Members—I would instance the hon. Member for Central Edinburgh (Mr. W. Graham)—who found the picture to their liking and more cheerful than they had expected. What is it that, as I understand, is the central current of criticism against the Government in respect of those observations of my right hon. Friend? It is, I take it, that we should have faced the facts earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-09a.539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-11-09", "file": "debates1921-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4bb4d1f6ffb35506", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-09a.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION—No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lock-outl\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": "d-weight debt at the end of this year of a substantial number of millions. He would be unwise who would prophesy that that would be so or not, but it is still possible. It is still not improbable. Supposing that were not done, what is the worst result we have to contemplate? That in this year, the year of the great trade depression, the year of our difficulties, of the coal strike and so on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-09a.539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-11-09", "file": "debates1921-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4bb4d1f6ffb35506", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-09a.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION—No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": "uating exchanges. I believe that there is no doubt in the minds of all of us as to the real remedies for fluctuating exchanges. They are that the nations of the world should make their budgets balance and stop the use of the printing press in producing money. A conference of the world's greatest experts was held in Brussels and they expressed no more elaborate and no more obscure wisdom than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-09a.539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-11-09", "file": "debates1921-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "4bb4d1f6ffb35506", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-09a.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION—No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Free Trade.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": "real remedies for fluctuating exchanges. They are that the nations of the world should make their budgets balance and stop the use of the printing press in producing money. A conference of the world's greatest experts was held in Brussels and they expressed no more elaborate and no more obscure wisdom than that. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] The other things with which they dealt were of minor importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-09a.539.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-11-10", "file": "debates1921-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e024be5cdaaf2b47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-10a.587.6", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SWAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SWAN", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware, before any Treaty of Alliance, based on good will, can be arrived at with the Egyptian people, that we can no more bring that alliance about by disregarding the chosen leader of the Egyptians about a Treaty of Alliance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-10a.587.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1921-11-10", "file": "debates1921-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "e024be5cdaaf2b47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-10a.594.7", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Yes\" and \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. YATE", "preceding_text": "If the Hungarians ask for a King, is there any objection to them having one?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-11-10a.594.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-14", "file": "debates1921-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "83aec3dc194a7a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.6.1", "colnum": "6", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir SAMUEL HOARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Redmond!\" and \"Butt!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir SAMUEL HOARE", "preceding_text": "Agreement for a Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland\"—that is the title of the Paper we have in our hands to-day. What a chequered and tragic history, what hopes and fears, what trials, what a long array of great names have gone to make the Treaty that we are to ratify to-day! Strongbow, Strafford, Cromwell, Gladstone, Pitt, Grattan, O'Connell, Parnell, generation after generation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.6.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-14", "file": "debates1921-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "83aec3dc194a7a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.6.1", "colnum": "6", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir SAMUEL HOARE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Murdered!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir SAMUEL HOARE", "preceding_text": "t. George's Channel? Let the House throw its mind back to the moment, six months ago, when His Majesty intervened with such telling effect upon the side of peace. Six months ago there was in Ireland a peace that was not a peace and a war that was not a war. Day after day there were events of grim tragedy. Brave men who had withstood the dangers of the Great War were being daily killed and wounded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.6.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-14", "file": "debates1921-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "83aec3dc194a7a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.12.0", "colnum": "12", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BARNES", "preceding_text": "danger sometimes of the Mover or Seconder of the Address to the Throne getting over the border line and saying something which offends the susceptibilities of political parties. To-day there is no such danger, because all political parties are in favour of a settlement. Lastly, I commend this agreement to all concerned because it corresponds with the pledges given in the Manifesto three years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.12.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-14", "file": "debates1921-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "83aec3dc194a7a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.27.4", "colnum": "27", "heading": "DOMINION STATUS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "And swearing allegiance to the King.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.27.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-14", "file": "debates1921-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "83aec3dc194a7a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.31.4", "colnum": "31", "heading": "DOMINION HOME RULE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "t, his temperament, and, above all, his history, because you may find that there are evils in his system which have been left there by earlier imprudences. Therefore, it is no use going to a chemist, and ordering one general prescription. You have to deal with the complications, and you have to deal with the complications in Ireland, attributable to its history and to the imprudences of statesmen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.31.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-14", "file": "debates1921-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "83aec3dc194a7a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "MILITARY AND NAVAL FORCES.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lock out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "of Ireland as a country concerned merely about Nationalist questions, concerned merely about these conflicts which have been raging during the last few years. But Ireland has exactly the same problems that we have at bottom. In Belfast there were strikes some time ago, and a considerable number of armed men had to be sent there to maintain peace. In my own country, in Wales, we had a great strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.35.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-14", "file": "debates1921-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "83aec3dc194a7a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "SETTLEMENT WITH REBELS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A scrap of paper!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "of the matter is that public opinion on neither side was quite ripe. It was only when it came to be realised by everybody that prolonging the agony would only mean more loss, devastation, irritation, and trouble that the moment came when men of reason on both sides said: \"Let us put an end to it.\" You could not have done it earlier; but here it is, as far as it has gone. We have got this document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-14", "file": "debates1921-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "83aec3dc194a7a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "PARTNERSHIP OF EMPIRE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Especially in Belfast!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "preceding_text": "to employ and he would have had the whole world behind him. What has happened? The atmosphere created by the generosity of these proposals has been to a large extent dissipated by the horrible happenings in Ireland, in spite of the truce, and ever since that truce was proclaimed. The Government have allowed the truce to be broken day by day, and have taken no steps whatever to establish stability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-14", "file": "debates1921-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "83aec3dc194a7a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "PARTNERSHIP OF EMPIRE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Perhaps Ulster may change her mind?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "preceding_text": "? One half of this so-called Treaty deals with the state of affairs that will exist if Ulster comes into an all-Ireland Parliament. What is the point of that? What, I ask, was the object of the Prime Minister in putting these clauses into this document when only a couple of weeks ago he got a formal reply from the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland declining to come into an all-Ireland Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-14", "file": "debates1921-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "83aec3dc194a7a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "PARTNERSHIP OF EMPIRE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So you have!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "preceding_text": "f the Conservative party—to which I belong—that I can assure him that we take it in very bad part that he has lent himself to this campaign of coercion. There are other means of coercion, and I can only say this: We thought when we got our Parliament only a few months ago, opened, with such splendid success by His Majesty the King, that we had the goodwill of the whole community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-14", "file": "debates1921-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "83aec3dc194a7a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.102.0", "colnum": "102", "heading": "PARTNERSHIP OF EMPIRE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is it from\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": " with regard to Ulster. Those of us who have not seen eye to eye with the Government on this question of Ireland have also cause to complain of the gross misrepresentation from which we have suffered. We have been described as men who make violence and repression our first instinct. We have been described as British Junkers whose blind hate will destroy the Empire. I am giving an actual quotation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.102.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1921-12-14", "file": "debates1921-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "83aec3dc194a7a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.105.0", "colnum": "105", "heading": "PARTNERSHIP OF EMPIRE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Go on!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": " saying, whatever was given away, whatever was surrendered, the Oath of Allegiance to His Majesty was a sine qua non which would never be given up. I ask hon. Members of this House where, in this Agreement, is there an Oath of Allegiance to His Majesty, the King. Here is the Oath: The Members of the Irish Parliament solemnly swear \"faith and allegiance to the constitution of the Irish Free State.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-14", "file": "debates1921-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "83aec3dc194a7a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.109.0", "colnum": "109", "heading": "PARTNERSHIP OF EMPIRE.", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral ADAIR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You need not bother about that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral ADAIR", "preceding_text": "lity of the destruction, by submarine or by other methods, by an Irish navy possibly associated with the navy of some other country, of ships bringing to us all that is essential to our life, our commerce, our trade and our industry. It is not so much the present moment I am concerned with, as the future. We are safe enough at the moment, but what will our successors think of us in 50 years' time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-14", "file": "debates1921-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "83aec3dc194a7a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "PARTNERSHIP OF EMPIRE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "f faith with their constituents. We are not doing that in Wales. By supporting the Prime Minister and the Government in this matter we are fulfilling the earnest and enthusiastic wish of practically the whole of the Welsh nation. I am glad there are hon. Members able to look at this problem from another point of view than the naval point of view, which is, after all, a rather narrow point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-14", "file": "debates1921-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "83aec3dc194a7a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "PARTNERSHIP OF EMPIRE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "n hon. Member who can only look at our industrial and civil problems from the naval or the military point of view is taking a narrow view. We want a little of the human touch in our politics, and we are getting it in this. It is suggested that the Irish may commit a breach of this contract. Why do you say that? What have Irishmen done under free institutions in our colonies? That is the acid test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-14", "file": "debates1921-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "83aec3dc194a7a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "PARTNERSHIP OF EMPIRE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " from Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere to fight in France, and it is a shame for anybody to stand up in this House and say that Irishmen, whether they be Catholic or Protestants, cannot be loyal men, and to suggest that the men who have attached their signature to this contract will not stick to it. Whether they are rebels or not, they are acting to-day on behalf of the Southern Irish nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.114.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-14", "file": "debates1921-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "83aec3dc194a7a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.115.2", "colnum": "115", "heading": "PARTNERSHIP OF EMPIRE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw, withdraw\" and \"Sit down\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "He ought to be impeached for high treason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.115.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-14", "file": "debates1921-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "83aec3dc194a7a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.116.10", "colnum": "116", "heading": "PARTNERSHIP OF EMPIRE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Law and order! You have tried it for 700 years and failed. Law and order! You will never get it,—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.116.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-14", "file": "debates1921-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "83aec3dc194a7a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.117.1", "colnum": "117", "heading": "PARTNERSHIP OF EMPIRE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Really, I am surprised at my hon. and gallant Friend making a suggestion of that sort. We have tried it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-14", "file": "debates1921-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "83aec3dc194a7a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.117.1", "colnum": "117", "heading": "PARTNERSHIP OF EMPIRE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We cannot trust the Welsh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "pe that this House will not be intimidated by the North of Ireland, by the \"Diehards,\" by the men who will advocate no policy of their own, and obstruct every other policy. It is time, in these enlightened years, that really we should approach these problems with a little common sense. If we were able to trust to the Dutch in South Africa, surely we can trust men of our own blood across the water.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-14", "file": "debates1921-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "83aec3dc194a7a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.119.0", "colnum": "119", "heading": "PARTNERSHIP OF EMPIRE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "it has fallen to my lot to stand at this Box and explain why I support, as I do whole-heartedly, the agreement which is before the House. It was always said by our opponents, and I think my Unionist friends will remember, that the position we took up over Ulster was that we wanted Ulster to be predominant in Ireland and be in such a position that she could exercise a veto over the rest of Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-14a.119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-15", "file": "debates1921-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6828a9922bf56a7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.133.11", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"International.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": " interchanged amenities, political and otherwise, for a great number of years, and I am glad to acknowledge, and I am sure the whole House will agree with me, that we never had a man who set a finer example of Parliamentary tact and courage. I confess that I have been entertaining the hope that so far as this House is concerned the ratification of a great act of international reconciliation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.133.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-15", "file": "debates1921-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6828a9922bf56a7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "less conviction to the House and to those outside the House than that in which he sought to demonstrate, not only that the Government had done right—as they have—but that they had waited until the right moment to do so. The Prime Minister went back in a reflective and, perhaps, a humorous mood to his and my experience of a great profession—perhaps the greatest of all professions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.141.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-15", "file": "debates1921-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6828a9922bf56a7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.159.6", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GWYNNE", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GWYNNE", "preceding_text": "ross between a wake and a nightmare. I am reminded of the saying of the Psalmist: Heaviness may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. I am bound to say that some years ago, when I had the honour of the acquaintance of the Lord Chancellor, before he occupied his present exalted position it was generally the other way: \"Joy may endure for a night though heaviness cometh in the morning.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.159.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-15", "file": "debates1921-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6828a9922bf56a7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.165.8", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GWYNNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Mesopotamia will swallow him!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GWYNNE", "preceding_text": "and I suppose the Secretary of State for War is going to swallow all his Irish regiments. The only Minister who refused to consume his own progeny was the late Minister of Health. God bless him! He was turned out, and a new Minister, with a larger gullet, was put there. My right hon. Friend the Colonial Secretary is slowly and with difficulty, like a boa-constrictor, trying to swallow Mesopotamia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.165.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-15", "file": "debates1921-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6828a9922bf56a7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "m not going to blame them now or at any other time for their behaviour in those circumstances; but the Government and the whole country became inevitably involved in the discredit of these violent actions. Nor was the movement of the rebels quelled. On the contrary, it attained larger proportions every week. There was more fighting; there were more casualties; there was fighting on a larger scale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-15", "file": "debates1921-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6828a9922bf56a7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Were!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Government and the whole country became inevitably involved in the discredit of these violent actions. Nor was the movement of the rebels quelled. On the contrary, it attained larger proportions every week. There was more fighting; there were more casualties; there was fighting on a larger scale. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] There was bloodshed on a larger scale. The gaols are filled with Irish convicts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-15", "file": "debates1921-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6828a9922bf56a7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " contrary, it attained larger proportions every week. There was more fighting; there were more casualties; there was fighting on a larger scale. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] There was bloodshed on a larger scale. The gaols are filled with Irish convicts. [Hon. MEMBERS: \"Were!\"] They are filled. Four thousand interned persons, against whom there was no evidence, and no means of formulating a charge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-15", "file": "debates1921-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6828a9922bf56a7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "g; there were more casualties; there was fighting on a larger scale. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] There was bloodshed on a larger scale. The gaols are filled with Irish convicts. [Hon. MEMBERS: \"Were!\"] They are filled. Four thousand interned persons, against whom there was no evidence, and no means of formulating a charge—[Hon. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"]—were wired in compounds all over the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-15", "file": "debates1921-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6828a9922bf56a7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.171.0", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption and an HON. MEMBER: \"Where is Ulster now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "It would not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-15", "file": "debates1921-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6828a9922bf56a7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.171.4", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I mix among the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.171.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-15", "file": "debates1921-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6828a9922bf56a7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " limitations which almost at the last minute seemed to make all prospect ofagreement impossible. Sinn Fein Ireland demanded an independent sovereign republic for the whole of Ireland, including Ulster. We insisted upon allegiance to the Crown, membership of the Empire, facilities and securities for the Navy, and a complete option for Ulster. Every one of those conditions is embodied in the Treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.173.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1921-12-15", "file": "debates1921-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6828a9922bf56a7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.174.1", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What about the Navy?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "What about allegiance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-15", "file": "debates1921-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6828a9922bf56a7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.174.4", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "l Gretton) has pointed out, the oath is not the same in this case as in the rest of the British Empire. Complete fiscal autonomy is conceded. It is true that the Irish Free State can raise, within certain limits, a small army of its own. But to all these arguments we can reply, and no doubt replies will be made to them. In our view they promise allegiance to the Crown and membership of the Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.174.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-15", "file": "debates1921-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6828a9922bf56a7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.174.4", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ll be made to them. In our view they promise allegiance to the Crown and membership of the Empire. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No. no!\"] That is our view. The oath comprises acceptance of the Irish Constitution, which is by Articles 1 and 2 of that Constitution exactly assimilated to the constitution of our Dominions. This oath is far more precise and searching than the ordinary oath which is taken elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.174.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-15", "file": "debates1921-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6828a9922bf56a7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.194.3", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": ", unless fresh proposals were put before the Ulster Government, nothing would be done to prejudice or compromise their position. That written word he had permission to read out in the local Parliament. Yet, in spite of that promise, the next communication of any sort or kind which was received by the Government in Belfast was these Articles of Agreement signed by all the members of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.194.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-15", "file": "debates1921-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6828a9922bf56a7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.196.0", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "If I may be allowed I should like, as my first word, to thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Paisley (Mr. Asquith) for the very kindly reference which he made to my return. I feel that I owe a debt of apology to the House for being here and for addressing them this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-15", "file": "debates1921-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6828a9922bf56a7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.196.0", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "hope in every sense, are my friends. Among the most intimate is my right hon. Friend who succeeded me, to whom so much reference—to which I will not refer—has been made by my hon. Friend the Member for Canterbury (Mr. R. McNeill). Just as little do I wish to say anything controversial about those who take the other view. They are called \"Diehards.\" It is regarded as a term of reproach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-15", "file": "debates1921-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6828a9922bf56a7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.196.0", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only by Die-softs!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "st intimate is my right hon. Friend who succeeded me, to whom so much reference—to which I will not refer—has been made by my hon. Friend the Member for Canterbury (Mr. R. McNeill). Just as little do I wish to say anything controversial about those who take the other view. They are called \"Diehards.\" It is regarded as a term of reproach. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Well, I see it is so used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-15", "file": "debates1921-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6828a9922bf56a7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are not facts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "preceding_text": " at the Conference exploring the avenues to Windsor and Chelsea barracks at the very moment that they were also exploring the avenues to allegiance at the Conference with His Majesty's Ministers? Was Michael Collins involved in this conspiracy at the very time he was engaged in this Conference? Was Desmond Fitzgerald, or was Francis Fitzgerald? I ask the right hon. Gentleman to answer these facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-15a.242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-16", "file": "debates1921-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "2761573d8444d76f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-16a.266.6", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ASIA MINOR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "I did not suggest that that small space of time should be given until the Irish business is disposed of. It is not for me to stand between Ireland and the Treaty. I should be glad if the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-16a.266.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-16", "file": "debates1921-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "2761573d8444d76f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-16a.346.3", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a preference tariff.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "ide of the House. The Prime Minister, with regard to tariffs, thinks we have got Ireland under our thumb. We are Ireland's best customer. If Ireland puts on a tariff against us, does he mean he would put a tariff against Ireland, and would not that be breaking the Treaty? Has not everyone of the Dominions got a tariff against us, and would not the Irish say, \"You have given us Dominion Home Rule\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-16a.346.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1921-12-19", "file": "debates1921-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "72a794860bfc5ab0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-19a.398.6", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PEACE TREATIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "seriously say that he has no information that Russian troops are in occupation of Georgia and are carrying out very drastic acts of repression there, having sent innumerable people to gaol and having deported many others? If the hon. Gentleman has any doubt upon these facts, let me assure him that I was told no later than the day before yesterday by the President of the Constituent Assembly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1921-12-19a.398.6"}