{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-02-07", "file": "debates1922-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "3524508d995ecfc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.36.0", "colnum": "36", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Another brain wave!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "per called \"Future,\" of September, 1919, which says: The old world has come to an end. No effort can shore it up much longer. The penultimate sentence of His Majesty's Gracious Speech, which is supposed to finish a long and glorious record, says: There will also be laid before you a Bill substituting yearly audit for half-yearly audit in the case of Rural District Councils and Boards of Guardians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.31.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-07", "file": "debates1922-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "3524508d995ecfc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.36.2", "colnum": "36", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "preceding_text": " I am not sure I am permitted to repeat it—that it was \"death and damnation\" not to reform the House of Lords. That is the language which he used. Far be it from me to use language of that kind, but these are the men who committed me. That is my answer to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Platting: I have been committed by my leaders of the past and my associates of the present —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.36.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-07", "file": "debates1922-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "3524508d995ecfc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the scheme?\" and \"What is your plan?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ves the possibility of forever doing nothing in the matter. I have said, and I think in the most explicit terms more than once, that His Majesty's present Government do regard it as an obligation, if time permits, to propose, within the lifetime of the present Parliament, a scheme with that object. I have said that, and f say it again. I accept that and I say again, how could we improve upon that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-07", "file": "debates1922-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "3524508d995ecfc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will it be a Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "said that, and f say it again. I accept that and I say again, how could we improve upon that? [HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the scheme?\" and \"What is your plan?\"] We are redeeming the pledges of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Paisley. The scheme will be proposed, but has anyone ever heard of a plan in a King's Speech being expounded in reply to a speech on the Address? It would be preposterous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-07", "file": "debates1922-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "3524508d995ecfc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"And France, too\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "rength will be there to support France against the invader. That gives confidence to France. One of the real dangers in Europe, not in five, ten, or twenty years, but maybe the next generation—as we know from the results of 1870 when the present generation has to pay the penalty in compound interest—is that the young people of Germany may be brought up with thoughts of vengeance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-07", "file": "debates1922-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "3524508d995ecfc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruptions.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "e brought up with thoughts of vengeance—[HON. MEMBERS \"And France, too\"]—a vengeance of recovering old possessions and old prestige, old ascendency, and punishing old defeats and generally ministering to the national pride. That is one of the great dangers to France and Europe in the future, and when you are making peace you must not think only of the moment but think of years to come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-07", "file": "debates1922-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "3524508d995ecfc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.43.2", "colnum": "43", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The whole Report?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "iously the most important subject that we can discuss in this Session of Parliament. It is the main function of the House of Commons to vote Supplies, and this is a question which we specially ought to take into consideration, having regard to the enormous burdens now upon us. The Report of the Geddes Committee is being prepared for issue, and will be laid before the House at the end of this week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.43.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-07", "file": "debates1922-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "3524508d995ecfc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "The only observation I would make upon that subject is that India is, I think, in a different position. With regard to Egypt, I respectfully suggest to the House that it would be very undesirable to have a full discussion while Lord Allenby is here discussing the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-07", "file": "debates1922-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "3524508d995ecfc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.50.2", "colnum": "50", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": ". It is not for me to decide, but at any rate there was a misunderstanding, and it has not succeeded. All I would say is, do not let us rush in precipitately the first time these two men fail to come to an agreement. In the present state of the world you need infinite patience to settle anything. The nerves of the whole world are on edge. Everybody is prepared to quarrel with everybody else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.50.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-02-07", "file": "debates1922-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "3524508d995ecfc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.77.0", "colnum": "77", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Four thousand millions since the war.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. WARD", "preceding_text": "in America, and everywhere else in the world. We know very well, and the hon. Members above the Gangway know, that even if they were in power for 10 years themselves, they would still have these recurring depressions of trade—not so bad, it may be, nor will you ever get exactly the same bad circumstances as the country is in to-day, let us hope. You have spent thousands of millions upon war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.75.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-07", "file": "debates1922-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "3524508d995ecfc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.82.2", "colnum": "82", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The year before\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " been considering with our Allies what can be dope in order to maintain the position there and support it until, at any rate, the American Senate has removed the difficulties in the way of an advance upon the national security. I believe they are taking steps with that object in view. The House will recollect that £10,000,000 was voted, I forget whether the last year or the year before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.82.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-07", "file": "debates1922-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "3524508d995ecfc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.113.0", "colnum": "113", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "d in this Royal Speech which is not a contradiction of the policy laid down by the Government three years ago. Every word of this speech is an absolute contradiction of the promises made to the people of this country. Take the men who fought in the War. In my own constituency the allowances of these men are being put down from 20 to 40 per cent. Where is the land fit for the heroes to live in now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-07", "file": "debates1922-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "3524508d995ecfc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.113.0", "colnum": "113", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "te character to meet the existing situation but economy. On what lines is economy going to be exercised? I saw economy at work to-day. I saw the Royal coaches going along the Strand and down Whitehall. Was that economy? There were gilded coaches, thousands of troops and bands playing. Is that economy? All gilded popinjays, and they were operating for all they were worth. Where is the real economy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-07", "file": "debates1922-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "3524508d995ecfc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.121.1", "colnum": "121", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "on the rate-paying authority to pay out the money. What would you think of a gentleman who, in estimating his household budget of expenditure found that he had to pay exactly what the schoolmaster told him he had to pay. If education were handed over to the general rating authority, the town and county council, they would consider it in relation to their other expenditure and limit it accordingly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-07a.121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-08", "file": "debates1922-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e9c2a155abf8abfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-08a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cheer up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": ", though the words were strong. He was representative of the old generation, and was one of the oldest followers of Gladstone's policy in the East of Europe. Here am I, forty-one years afterwards, pleading the same cause to, I am afraid, the same world—a world which looks on that cause with something like indifference and, I am sorry to say on recent occasions, with something like hostility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-08a.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-08", "file": "debates1922-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e9c2a155abf8abfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-08a.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ion, or two nations, could guarantee peace, but that it was only by a League of Nations that this could be accomplished, and they not only cannot understand it, but they are very suspicions of the motive of those who say on the one hand, \"We will give lip service to the League of Nations,\" and then proceed to enter into private arrangements that merely mean the old balance of power of former days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-08a.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-08", "file": "debates1922-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e9c2a155abf8abfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-08a.186.0", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Civil war!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "preceding_text": " I have read. I ask the Government to make their policy clear, and to give a specific statement in regard to the state of affairs which I have disclosed in the telegrams. This is a far bigger matter than we in the Ulster Parliament can possibly tackle. We have only command of the police. This thing amounts almost to a military operation. The Home Secretary of Northern Ireland calls it an invasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-08a.186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-08", "file": "debates1922-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e9c2a155abf8abfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-08a.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The LEADER of the HOUSE (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So it is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LEADER of the HOUSE (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "sitive than any party we have ever known to the very slightest criticism of itself. I attribute that in part to a misconception of who they are and what they are, which was evidenced in the speech of the right hon. Gentleman. The right hon. Gentleman treated the criticism addressed to the Labour party and its leaders by my two right hon. Friends as if it were an attack upon labour in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-08a.194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-08", "file": "debates1922-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e9c2a155abf8abfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-08a.236.2", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMESON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the banks?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMESON", "preceding_text": "He must know that the profits of traders, the profits of industrial concerns, the profits of mines, and everything of that sort have been falling for months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-08a.236.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-08", "file": "debates1922-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e9c2a155abf8abfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-08a.236.2", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMESON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lock-out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMESON", "preceding_text": "ast resort, but into part of the ordinary day to day industrial machinery, and have fermented strike after strike and delivered a most bitter blow at the prosperity of the trade of this country. I do not suppose that any blow for which this Government has been responsible, or for which any Government has been responsible, can be measured or spoken of in the same breath as the miners' strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-08a.236.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-08", "file": "debates1922-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e9c2a155abf8abfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-08a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMESON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lock-out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMESON", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman had a great deal more to with it than the Government. It would have been better had he and his party applied themselves to stopping the ruinous instinct of class war which has been productive of such a tremendous lot of dislocation and loss of trade and employment. The worst embodiment of that was the miners' strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-08a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-08", "file": "debates1922-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e9c2a155abf8abfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-08a.251.0", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LAMBERT WARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LAMBERT WARD", "preceding_text": " if granted this moratorium, they will still be unable to do it. They can refuse to levy adequate taxes; they can spend an inordinate amount on education, as they are doing; they can indulge in elaborate housing schemes, as they are doing; they can provide cheap railway travel and cheap postal facilities. In the meantime, we in this country are being compelled to cut down on education and housing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-08a.251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-08", "file": "debates1922-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e9c2a155abf8abfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-08a.255.0", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "are ruled out under the new dispensation of France. M. Briand drove into too many bunkers. Who would not condole with the Prime Minister in such circumstances? Who would not choose as he has chosen, for, after all, any Member of the House would not voluntarily surrender the state of a Roman Emperor for the normal functions of an English Prime Minister. Those of us who honestly and genuinely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-08a.255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-08", "file": "debates1922-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e9c2a155abf8abfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-08a.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Porridge!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "During the brief and occasional periods when Parliament is not in Session the monopoly and direction of public criticism is absorbed by the Press. We have all enjoyed taking it in each morning as we do our—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-08a.260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-08", "file": "debates1922-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e9c2a155abf8abfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-08a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCH ILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCH ILL", "preceding_text": " the War has a right to live free from molestation by any neighbour, however great her population may be, however rapid may be her rate of increase. Only the soil of France, only the defence of the soil against aggressive and unprovoked invasion. That is all. There and on that point we have already pledged morally our word, and our main and permanent interest is engaged in standing to that pledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-08a.262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-08", "file": "debates1922-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e9c2a155abf8abfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-08a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCH ILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCH ILL", "preceding_text": "the long, toilsome achievement which at such terrible cost has been accomplished in the Great War. I cannot imagine it is likely to occur, but, if France were again placed in the same position, it is perfectly certain that in the lifetime of those who have lost brothers and children and parents in the late War the action of this country would not be on a lower plane than it was upon that occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-08a.262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-08", "file": "debates1922-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "e9c2a155abf8abfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-08a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCH ILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCH ILL", "preceding_text": "d in the Great War. I cannot imagine it is likely to occur, but, if France were again placed in the same position, it is perfectly certain that in the lifetime of those who have lost brothers and children and parents in the late War the action of this country would not be on a lower plane than it was upon that occasion. [ Interruption. ] The Labour party have always been wrong about these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-08a.262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-09", "file": "debates1922-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "b7601c950d80d093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.274.0", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Given?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I have no information bearing out the suggestion in the first part of the question. We have given certain rifles and other arms to the Provisional Government. of Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-09", "file": "debates1922-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "b7601c950d80d093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.274.0", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sold!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I have no information bearing out the suggestion in the first part of the question. We have given certain rifles and other arms to the Provisional Government. of Ireland. [HON. MEMBERS \"Given?\"] We have given them at a valuation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-09", "file": "debates1922-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "b7601c950d80d093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "t even in that respect fulfilled the obligation which it ought to have fulfilled in dealing with the problem. Why? First of all we must remember the great cry that went forth last year that, [...] if you (the workmen) will suffer reductions in wages you will at once help to revive trade, and by your sacrifice of a few shillings per week help to absorb many of your unfortunate unemployed comrades.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-09", "file": "debates1922-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "b7601c950d80d093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have no wages!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": " thrown industry out of gear, so to speak, and put many thousands of operatives on to the unemployed market, having brought about a state of affairs like that, they went on from one blunder to another, and their policy has been similar throughout most of the principal industries of the country. Go to mining. Nobody can say to-day that it is a question of miners' wages that cripples their industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-09", "file": "debates1922-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "b7601c950d80d093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Not now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "f reducing the cost of this commodity. Take the iron and steel industry at the moment, and consider the contributions of the workpeople in those industries. They have suffered reductions of 32s. 6d. and 33s. 6d. per week during the last 9 or 10 months. After all their sacrifices, how- ever, the strange fact remains that every week brings us news of the closing down of more iron and steel furnaces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-09", "file": "debates1922-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "b7601c950d80d093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "ent, unfortunately he is not the initiator of policy, for policies belong to the Cabinet—it would be very difficult to find a worse record. I do not know a Cabinet that could possibly be found under any circumstances that would display, I will not say greater callousness, but greater incompetence or less foresight in dealing with a problem of this sort than the present Ministers of the King.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-09", "file": "debates1922-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "b7601c950d80d093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh,\" and \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": " be more reactionary than the policy of the present Cabinet remains to be seen, but I fear so. Anyhow, the present policy is bad enough in all conscience. We believe in working for the State as a whole and not for that section that has vested interests in it. We believe in defending and sustaining the weak in our industrial world, whereas other hon. Members would send them to blazes and damnation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-09", "file": "debates1922-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "b7601c950d80d093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What would you do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": " believe in working for the State as a whole and not for that section that has vested interests in it. We believe in defending and sustaining the weak in our industrial world, whereas other hon. Members would send them to blazes and damnation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh,\" and \"No, no!\"] We believe in fighting against the vested interests which have become fastened upon the constitution of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-09", "file": "debates1922-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "b7601c950d80d093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who made that statement\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "w that questions dealing with our internal problems will be discussed during this Debate. We have heard something about an offer of £15,000,000 worth of shipping work being put forward by Russia to our shipbuilders provided that some guarantee of credit could be extended to them by the State, and this would enable those ships built here to carry cargoes of necessary goods from here to Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-09", "file": "debates1922-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "b7601c950d80d093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have the Labour party tried that experiment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "ay that in one sense they are cheap; they are the truths that have become commonplaces. They are merely the terms that express the realities of life, and the man who thinks them cheap should himself try, not for one week or month, but for one day, to limit himself to the means of subsistence which this Government has so far provided. Then he will see how cheap or how dear the experience is to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-09", "file": "debates1922-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "b7601c950d80d093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.380.1", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not an elected Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "ible without adequate credit arrangements and without recognition of, and consultation with, the Russian Government. I see that theme is still a subject for hilarity on the part of one hon. Gentleman opposite. Let me therefore say that as yet we are not yet technically at peace with Russia, we do not trade with, we do not deal with and we do not consult with the Russian Government as a Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-09", "file": "debates1922-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "b7601c950d80d093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.391.0", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "no good, and simply means a lot more officials. Again, I want to find out the facts about trade union restrictions. I am told over and over again that trade unionists are restricting output, and that their action retards employment. Let us know the facts. Is it the fact that trade unions to-day are imposing such rules on the employers that they restrict employment? If it is so, let us find it out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.391.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-09", "file": "debates1922-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "b7601c950d80d093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.395.0", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not for more\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "ots, or a suit of clothes. One thing I believe they do produce, and that is red tape; but you cannot eat red tape nor can you drink it. If we were to walk up Whitehall and if we could see every man who is in Government pay adorned with a yard of red tape, what a lot of bunting there would be. In these matters I think our Labour friends are mistaken in asking for more and more Government officials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-09", "file": "debates1922-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "b7601c950d80d093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.395.0", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "as you call it, unless you are going to put something better in its place. They have broken down the capitalist system in Russia, and there is a terrible state of affairs in that country. There was one remark of the Minister of Labour with which I entirely agreed. I cannot understand anybody who wants to be in the position of having to deal with the affairs of the Government at the present moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-09", "file": "debates1922-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "b7601c950d80d093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.396.0", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "eady nearly ruined the country. The semblance of prosperity was only maintained over the country by distributing not merely the wages but, in addition, a great portion of our capital, that capital which was our inheritance. Again I ask, what is a cure for this unemployment problem? We must, I suggest, start by repealing Acts of Parliament and substituting a new Trade Union Act for the present law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.396.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-09", "file": "debates1922-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "b7601c950d80d093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.406.5", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Coalition party is not, if you are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "unemployment. One party says that the reparations must be scratched. He has tried to do it himself. That is his proposal at Genoa. All the best minds for the last year have been engaged in trying to revise the Versailles Treaty. The right hon. Gentleman has actually gone so far as to make it quite clear that Great Britain is willing to drop the reparations ear-marked for the repayment of pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.406.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-09", "file": "debates1922-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "b7601c950d80d093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And they are taking it, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "lt indeed. We should not, however, be jibing and ridiculing each other, for one thing confronts the whole of the country, and I, like him and like everybody else, want to give this old country a chance, for she has never had a fair chance. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Central Newcastle (Sir G. Renwick) said we should give the employers a chance. They have their chance. They have it now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-09", "file": "debates1922-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "b7601c950d80d093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. COOPER", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. COOPER", "preceding_text": "nt policy. I turn to the speeches which have been made by those who have been supporting the Amendment. I entirely agree with the Amendment, but what disappoints me so much in listening to the speeches which have been made is this: not one hon. Gentleman on the Labour benches has made any suggestion as to what more the Government can do directly to increase the productive employment of our people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-09", "file": "debates1922-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "b7601c950d80d093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.440.2", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. RAEBURN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Capitalism!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. RAEBURN", "preceding_text": "he proposed reduction of the bonus which was put on when the cost of living was 176 per cent.—it is now 92 per cent.—was absolutely refused by their Unions. That is not conducive to getting orders. Again, why have hon. Members on the other side, both on platforms and in this House, been preaching ever since the War the doctrine of the abolition of capitalism. They say capital must end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.440.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-09", "file": "debates1922-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "b7601c950d80d093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.442.3", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. RAEBURN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. RAEBURN", "preceding_text": "For your sake I will call it a lock-out. After it was over, and irreparable damage was done—and we are not nearly through with it yet—their principal men, in a Committee room in this House, declared that no negotiations could take place unless the principle of a pool were agreed to. What do they say now? That the whole thing was a gross mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.442.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-09", "file": "debates1922-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "b7601c950d80d093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.442.3", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. RAEBURN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Mr. Hodges is only one man!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. RAEBURN", "preceding_text": "l it a lock-out. After it was over, and irreparable damage was done—and we are not nearly through with it yet—their principal men, in a Committee room in this House, declared that no negotiations could take place unless the principle of a pool were agreed to. What do they say now? That the whole thing was a gross mistake. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said it?\"] Mr. Hodges and Mr. Herbert Smith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.442.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-09", "file": "debates1922-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "b7601c950d80d093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.442.3", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. RAEBURN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Starvation wages.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. RAEBURN", "preceding_text": " have contributed more than my fair share of work and help in this great evil which we are trying to combat. I am going to end in a word of more hopefulness than I have heard expressed from the benches opposite. We have turned the corner. I believe things are looking better. We have cheaper coal, without which it is impossible to conduct some of our industries. We have had some reduction of wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.442.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-09", "file": "debates1922-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "b7601c950d80d093", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.447.1", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Listen to the patriot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "eny that when he and they were members of the Government their views were listened to with respect, and their advice very often followed. He cannot deny that. He is not entitled now to say, \"We do not wish to take office. We are not going to take over your responsibilities. We prefer to stand outside.\" What an attitude! What a patriotic attitude! What a contribution to the solution of the problem!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-09a.447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-10", "file": "debates1922-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf494f34adce0b81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-10a.501.3", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROYCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROYCE", "preceding_text": "eat detriment of this country. However much it may benefit the young men. and however much it may benefit the country to which they go, there is no question that this country loses something by losing those men. Instead of sending those young men across the seas to grow food for this country on inferior land, I think we could probably find them something to do in growing food a little nearer home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-10a.501.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-10", "file": "debates1922-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf494f34adce0b81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-10a.536.1", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "preceding_text": "epression. My hon. Friends have put forward certain proposals for relieving the burdens which press very heavily at present on land. I know perfectly well what those burdens are. My hon. Friends do not expect me to give any definite answer to-day. I could not do so. They are really not matters that come primarily under my Department. They are all matters really for the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-10a.536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-10", "file": "debates1922-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf494f34adce0b81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-10a.537.0", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "preceding_text": "ggest ratepayer. And what is the result? Whereas rates have gone up generally four times since the Agricultural Rates Act passed, the rates on agricultural land have gone up four and a half times, and there is a distinct grievance there which I think demands some remedy. Here again this is a matter which can only be dealt with broadly when the whole question of rating. is taken into consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-10a.537.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-10", "file": "debates1922-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "bf494f34adce0b81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-10a.539.1", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The taxpayers!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "preceding_text": "The loss falls primarily on the county councils, who in turn are recouped by the Government. The loss actually is entirely paid by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-10a.539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-13", "file": "debates1922-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "69ad5218828b86af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.594.0", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYNN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYNN", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman answer the question which I put as to whether Mr. O'Duffy, who was appointed to his present position by Mr. Griffith, actually arranged this raid in Fermanagh and Tyrone last week?.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.594.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-13", "file": "debates1922-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "69ad5218828b86af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.595.1", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "An HoN. MEMBER: \"That would be civil war, which is what you want!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman admits that the British Government are still responsible for law and order in Ireland, will he say why British troops have not been sent to release these Ulster men who are still illegally detained when it is known where they are being detained?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.595.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-02-13", "file": "debates1922-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "69ad5218828b86af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.606.7", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Which one?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "and myself, and we are satisfied that it is necessary to retain the services of both my right hon. Friend and my hon. and gallant Friend. My right hon. Friend has placed his services at the disposal of the Prime Minister without salary, and it has been decided to accept that arrangement, which will take effect from 31st December last, from which date only one salary will be charged upon the Votes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.606.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-13", "file": "debates1922-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "69ad5218828b86af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.608.7", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech, speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "Is it not the fact that the management of the colliery informed the men who had received their notices that the royalty owner was practically closing down the seam because they were demanding 2s. 6d. per ton; and that after the men had worked their notices they had them held over their heads for a few days; and is not this case typical of many other instances?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.608.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-13", "file": "debates1922-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "69ad5218828b86af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Russia!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "e United States of America, and consider Europe. I want the House to realise the difference between the armed camp, which is not at all an exaggerated description of the state of things in Europe before the War, and the condition of things now. There are now, as compared with pre-War standards, only two armies which can be regarded as even considerable—the French army and the army of Poland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-13", "file": "debates1922-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "69ad5218828b86af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "show the House that I do not regard this in any sense as an inspired document. They are proposing what are called economies, but what are savings, it seems to me almost exactly in the place where they are least needed and will be most harmful. They are proposing to raise the age of the poor little children—the age at which they are to go to school—uniformly all over the country to six.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-13", "file": "debates1922-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "69ad5218828b86af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about poor children?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "for the higher stages of education as well—the University colleges and the Universities. I have been sitting now for two years as chairman of a commission inquiring into the needs and the work of our two ancient Universities, Oxford and Cambridge. We have just completed our report. They, of course, are happy in the possession of old endowments which appear, on paper, of considerable amounts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-13", "file": "debates1922-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "69ad5218828b86af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.694.2", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does that make allowance for the exchange?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "compare that with the expenditure of our Allies who fought the War alongside us. Take France. Her expenditure during the past year has been 10 times her pre-War expenditure. If you take Italy, who came later into the War, her figure is 9½ times her pre-War expenditure. If you take the case of the United States of America, which, as we all know, was only for a very short time in the War—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.694.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-13", "file": "debates1922-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "69ad5218828b86af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.694.2", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "mes her pre-War expenditure. If you take Italy, who came later into the War, her figure is 9½ times her pre-War expenditure. If you take the case of the United States of America, which, as we all know, was only for a very short time in the War—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Does that make allowance for the exchange?\"] It is taking expenditure in their own currency, that is, comparing like with like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.694.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-13", "file": "debates1922-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "69ad5218828b86af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.694.2", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"A Member of the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "? Why, it is not so long ago that upon a matter in regard to which, much more than this, the Treasury was obviously the proper body to act—namely, the amount of salary which should be paid to certain officials—the right hon. Gentleman himself consented to preside over a Committee which was to give advice to the Treasury. That was on a matter which was much more germane to the Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.694.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-13", "file": "debates1922-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "69ad5218828b86af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.710.0", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "eason to which I think they will not demur. I do it because I do not at this moment of national pressure want to create a further prejudice against education. If the teachers in this country, who are very strongly organised, offer an obstinate resistance to a temporary cut of the Education Estimates I believe they will be doing a real disservice to the permanent cause of education in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-13", "file": "debates1922-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "69ad5218828b86af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.719.0", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. HARMSWORTH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is another outside!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": "t day we have doles and free education, and I believe it appeared the other day that we are to have free theatrical performances for children. We have newly acquired lands in the East on which we are spending money recklessly, and from which, as far as I can see, there is going to be no return whatever. All the cranks and faddists of the country appear to be concentrated in the present Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.719.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-13", "file": "debates1922-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "69ad5218828b86af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "t is known as the Geddes Report, and to turn my attention more particularly to the Amendment which stands in our name upon the Paper. I will, however, permit myself one reference to the Report or, rather, to a bye-product of it, namely, the remarkable intervention of the Admiralty in the discussion which that Report has produced. That intervention is unprecedented, and it is most unconstitutional.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-13", "file": "debates1922-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "69ad5218828b86af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have had it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " given in the House. Then the right hon. Gentleman proceeded to deal with the burden of our debt, and with our taxation. He challenged me to say whether I thought the burden was crushing. I am not a great artist in adjectives myself. I am quite content to say that it is a burden, which it is the business of everybody to help us reduce, and I hope we shall have the help of the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-13", "file": "debates1922-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "69ad5218828b86af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " \"You have had it!\"] No, we have never had it. The right hon. Gentleman himself, in words which I think I took down, said that he had never taken any part in these matters. That is true. Whenever there was some expenditure which was popular to be opposed, or to be originated, the right hon. Gentleman either voted against the Government in favour of the expenditure, or abstained from voting at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-13", "file": "debates1922-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "69ad5218828b86af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ecalled. The right hon. Gentleman adverted to the statement made earlier in the evening by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He objected to the statement which he said had been made that we were not £8,000,000,000 poorer than before the War—poorer by the whole amount of the National Debt—in that the greater portion of it was held by individuals in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-13", "file": "debates1922-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "69ad5218828b86af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.775.1", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ilding less ornamental schools in the future, and that economy could be secured by paying less for the sites on which the schools stand. May I point out that more than half the sites of the schools of the country cost the ratepayers and the taxpayers nothing? In fact, I would undertake to say that the charge in respect of the sites is not one penny per annum per child in any school in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-13a.775.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-14", "file": "debates1922-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "56fe684a34e3000a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.806.3", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By what court? There is no law there!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "o say that three of the suspected murderers of Lieut. Wogan Browne in the South of Ireland have been captured, as the result of a general pursuit against them in the district, in which the R.I.C., the I.R.A., the troops, and the civilian population all combined. These persons have been captured, and will be dealt with according to law in the most expeditious manner, if they be proved to be guilty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.806.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-14", "file": "debates1922-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "56fe684a34e3000a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.812.8", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN (Leader of the House)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"The Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN (Leader of the House)", "preceding_text": "We have in recent years made more than one experiment in the appointment of Select Committees to consider Estimates or expenditure, but I am afraid I cannot flatter myself that any of these experiments have given full satisfaction to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.812.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-14", "file": "debates1922-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "56fe684a34e3000a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has put a series of questions of a debating nature with which I cannot deal fully; but his questions are sufficient to show that the experiments we have made have not given universal satisfaction to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-14", "file": "debates1922-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "56fe684a34e3000a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "]—or reached a real solution of the difficulty. The reason why the official to whom my hon. Friend refers was not attached to the Committee was because—and I do not say it athersely—in the general opinion of those gentlemen of high experience whom I asked to co-operate with me in the matter it was thought that such official could not properly be appointed to consider the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-14", "file": "debates1922-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "56fe684a34e3000a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.815.2", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I doubt it, Sir. I profoundly doubt whether if I put down a Motion for the appointment of an Estimates Committee in the form of last year, it would be passed by general acclamation, and without discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.815.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-14", "file": "debates1922-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "56fe684a34e3000a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.865.4", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "ia, for the rights of the 300,000,000 illiterate men in India. There are only 1,500,000 educated people in India, and the right hon. Gentleman is siding with the educated people in trying to stir up the 300,000,000 people to discontent. I hope that the House will not be terrorised by the position in India. Even to-day I believe that it is not too late if the right hon. Gentleman will move rapidly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.865.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-14", "file": "debates1922-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "56fe684a34e3000a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.883.1", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GWYNNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GWYNNE", "preceding_text": "House. It was a Colonel who had been asked by a schoolmaster to give some punishment to the school because two Europeans had been clubbed to death and some of his boys had been implicated in it. The Colonel ordered six of the biggest boys to be whipped or flogged, when they would not find the culprits. That is not a very uncommon thing in public schools here, and I think it is a most useful thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-14", "file": "debates1922-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "56fe684a34e3000a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.888.1", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GWYNNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All Die-hards!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GWYNNE", "preceding_text": "ed, being of opinion that the Secretary of State for India has lost the confidence of a large number of Members of the House of Commons, and of the country, and that his continuance in office would be detrimental to the best interests of this country and of India, think it desirable he should vacate his present office. I venture to say that is unprecedented, and in two days 90 Members signed that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.888.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-14", "file": "debates1922-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "56fe684a34e3000a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.888.1", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GWYNNE", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"They were then!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GWYNNE", "preceding_text": "inister remembers it, at any rate, he will realise that it was not I alone who felt strongly on the subject at that time. I daresay more Members would have signed it if they had been approached, but, even when you get 90 or 100 Members of Parliament actually asking for the removal of the Secretary for India, it is a pretty strong order, especially as they were all supporters of the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.888.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-14", "file": "debates1922-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "56fe684a34e3000a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.892.0", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Montagu)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Montagu)", "preceding_text": "A day for discussion on Indian affairs was suggested by my right hon. Friend the Member for Peebles (Sir D. Maclean), and was agreed to by the Prime Minister last week. It was with some surprise that I found that the spokesmen of the Front Opposition Bench were to be the hon. Members for Twickenham (Sir W. Joynson-Hicks) and Eastbourne (Mr. Gwynne).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.892.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-14", "file": "debates1922-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "56fe684a34e3000a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.954.0", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd-George)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd-George)", "preceding_text": "normous advantage if peace could be made with the Turkish Empire. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Lord Curzon) hopes in the course of the next few days to take up the matter again with our Allies with a view to seeing whether it is not possible to arrange a satisfactory peace. But it must be a just peace. There is nothing to be gained by unjust concessions to fear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.954.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-14", "file": "debates1922-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "56fe684a34e3000a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.966.5", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "preceding_text": "It is difficult to reply to the Debate in the space of time still remaining, but I shall do my best to leave a few minutes for my hon. and gallant Friend (Colonel Wedgwood). We have listened to a remarkable speech from the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.966.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-14", "file": "debates1922-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "56fe684a34e3000a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "preceding_text": " no grave unrest in India at that time; there had been no serious outbreaks. We say that under his administration crime of an unexampled character has broken out and is rampant; that there is mass disobedience, and mass attempts to destroy British trade; and that there has been, in the three years of his administration, more crime and more disturbance than in the previous 100 years of our history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-14", "file": "debates1922-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "56fe684a34e3000a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "cue_text": "AN HON MEMBER: \"And Bournemouth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "preceding_text": " of the enemies of our country and always calling for the censure of British officers and officials. He told us a rather different story from that of the Prime Minister. He said the reasons for the trouble in India were, first of all, that the spirit of liberty had been invoked, and that the people of India were watching with so much concern the demand for self-determination in Silesia and Poland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-14a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-15", "file": "debates1922-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "7c002f0d9f494d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-15a.1074.0", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (GOVERNMENT BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Twenty-six!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "ys. It may be held that Parliament should have met sooner, but as a matter of fact it did not, and, personally, in view of what has taken place, I am inclined to think it could not have met sooner. What have we to do in those six weeks? We have to pass Votes A and 1 for the Army, Votes A and 1 for the Navy, a Vote on account for the Civil Service and somewhere about thirty Supplementary Estimates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-15a.1074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-15", "file": "debates1922-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "7c002f0d9f494d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-15a.1075.1", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (GOVERNMENT BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "I think the House will get it back in the valuable work which they do on the financial question. The ordinary private Member's Friday, as those who have been any length of time in the House know, is always a waste of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-15a.1075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-15", "file": "debates1922-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "7c002f0d9f494d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-15a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (GOVERNMENT BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDWARDS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDWARDS", "preceding_text": "That is quite correct, Mr. Speaker, but I have not said it before, and I wanted to emphasise the necessity of retaining Fridays for these purposes. I do not think the question of mothers' pensions has been mentioned before, and I am not sure that subsidence has.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-15a.1102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-15", "file": "debates1922-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "7c002f0d9f494d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-15a.1162.4", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "ational Whitley Council is not that general right to be pensioned on his emoluments, but on a figure of 75 per cent. at which the war bonus is appraised for pension. It is my contention that the right of the civil servant to be pensioned upon his war bonus is a statutory right, because the only reasonable interpretation of the word \"emolument\" in the Statute must be taken to include the war bonus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-15a.1162.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-16", "file": "debates1922-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4263805a49318", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-16a.1203.5", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Government to reconsider their decision in this matter, and inquire whether really it is consistent either with the honour or the interest of England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-16a.1203.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-16", "file": "debates1922-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4263805a49318", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-16a.1203.7", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "Has the attention of the right hon. Gentleman been directed to the remarks made by the Archbishop of Canterbury the other day on this subject, and will the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-16a.1203.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-16", "file": "debates1922-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4263805a49318", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-16a.1204.2", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-16a.1204.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-16", "file": "debates1922-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4263805a49318", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-16a.1204.4", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK", "preceding_text": "Is not Russia equally important?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-16a.1204.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-16", "file": "debates1922-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4263805a49318", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-16a.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Just the same as this Parliament.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "sting assent among the Irish people. The third object—and I commend this to the serious consideration of the House, of British Members as well as of Ulster Members—is to secure afresh a normal, and if I may say so, a sensible Parliament in Ireland. How was this present Parliament made? The men who were elected to it were chosen, not because of any fitness for conducting business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-16a.1262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-16", "file": "debates1922-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4263805a49318", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-16a.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "most in Ireland. It is obvious that if any progress is to be made, we must get, or there ought to be—for after all, it is not for us finally to decide—a Parliament which represents the hope of the future rather than the hate of the past. Lastly, it is a bad thing for any body of Ministers to continue in a position of power without being supported in that position by a national mandate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-16a.1262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-16", "file": "debates1922-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4263805a49318", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-16a.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes,\" and \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ght back from the confusion of tyranny to a reign of law, if you wish to give logical and coherent effect to the policy and experiment to which we are committed, you will not impede, even for a single unnecessary week, the passage of this Bill. Surveying the whole situation since we met in the winter and approved of the Irish Treaty, I ask myself this question: Ought we to regret what we then did?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-16a.1262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-16", "file": "debates1922-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4263805a49318", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-16a.1277.2", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A Republic.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Irish people and their chosen leaders? Will it not be very much better to take up the difficult question of the boundary after the Irish elections have been held than before? After the election let us see what comes of it and let us then make up our mind what is best to do. Let us now see what is the interest of Southern Ireland in this matter. What is their heart's desire more than anything else?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-16a.1277.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-16", "file": "debates1922-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4263805a49318", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-16a.1278.1", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " of the Southern Irish Parliament and Government lie. What would Great Britain do in such an absurd and extreme contingency as that which I have indicated? She is bound by the Treaty; but, in my opinion, if we saw Ulster maltreated and mutilated by the Boundary Commission so that she was no longer an Irish economic entity, we should be bound to reconsider her whole economic and financial position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-16a.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-16", "file": "debates1922-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4263805a49318", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-16a.1308.0", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ke a very great mistake if it refused to have anything to do with an Agreement of this kind. 7.0 P.M. One of the Ulster Members, I think it was the hon. Gentleman the Member for South Tyrone (Mr. W. Coote), said that to a Commission on those terms he would have no objection. So far as I remember there was no protest made or any difference of opinion expressed by Ulster Members at that time.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-16a.1308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-16", "file": "debates1922-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4263805a49318", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-16a.1358.0", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that on a joyful and triumphant occasion of this character the appearance of the hon. Member for Dublin University (Mr. Jellett) is somewhat misplaced, because if Hamar Greenwod—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-16a.1358.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-16", "file": "debates1922-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4263805a49318", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-16a.1369.3", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "That was the conclusion that anyone would come to in reading the statement of the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-16a.1369.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-16", "file": "debates1922-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "f4b4263805a49318", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-16a.1370.0", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "One of the best men in Belfast, a personal friend of my own, a modest, splendid citizen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-16a.1370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-17", "file": "debates1922-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "5db3bfacc47064c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-17a.1392.2", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": " boundaries, not to settle territories. If it had been intended that this Commission should have wide powers to settle territories, surely some words additional to those in the Agreement would have been found to express that intention. Therefore, I do not think that it is intended to do other than to settle boundaries. They have to consult the inhabitants. A question was asked: \"What inhabitants?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-17a.1392.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-17", "file": "debates1922-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "5db3bfacc47064c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-17a.1395.4", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "them, and then what would be the prospect of peace in Ireland? The House has approved of the negotiations entered into by the Government and the results of them by an almost record majority in December last, and are they now to say that although the other side are doing their best to carry out that Treaty, this House is to accept an Amendment which is intended to act as a rejection of that Treaty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-17a.1395.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-17", "file": "debates1922-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "5db3bfacc47064c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-17a.1406.0", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, we would!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "ment and this Bill there is not a country in the world that will have a good word to say of us. There is not a Member in this House who would dare to go to one of the Dominions and say: \"I advocated and voted in the House of Commons that my Government, after having come to an Agreement and having signed a Treaty, should break it.\" They would not dare to go to any one of the Dominions and say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-17a.1406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-17", "file": "debates1922-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "5db3bfacc47064c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-17a.1420.0", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOLES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOLES", "preceding_text": "e. My main purpose is two-fold. I much regret the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for the Falls Division (Mr. Devlin) last night. As to 90 per cent. of it, it was not directed to the question we are specifically discussing. It was directed instead—the whole tone and tendency of it was, and he will realise it now—to inflame and embitter feeling in Belfast, where of all places—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-17a.1420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-17", "file": "debates1922-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "5db3bfacc47064c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-17a.1427.3", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOLES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOLES", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has addressed himself to a charge which he has conjured up out of his own imagination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-17a.1427.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-17", "file": "debates1922-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "5db3bfacc47064c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-17a.1428.3", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOLES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have you read Mr. Collins' statement?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOLES", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend must argue the question out with me. I call attention to the fact that Sir James Craig makes a statement and signs it, and in the same document Mr. Collins makes another statement. This was a fortnight ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-17a.1428.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-17", "file": "debates1922-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "5db3bfacc47064c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-17a.1432.3", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "preceding_text": "m to the Treaty. Certainly there has been a good deal of kidnapping and murdering, gunmen have got out of hand, and so on; but in order to constitute that in any sense a reason why we should reject a Bill now it ought to be shown that our cosignatories of last December, that is to say, Messieurs Collins, Griffith, and others, have in some way been connected in these outrages. Nobody has said that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-17a.1432.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-17", "file": "debates1922-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "5db3bfacc47064c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-17a.1451.1", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister puts forward what seems an utterly ridiculous plea that this was the only opportune moment, and that a year before it would have been impossible. You had to wait until the cup had been filled up—the cup of murder. Does anyone really believe that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-17a.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-17", "file": "debates1922-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "5db3bfacc47064c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-17a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "pped citizens of the North. I hope his influence will suffice, as I know it is his determination, to succeed in securing the release of all these men. My hon. Friend says that I—and if I speak of myself it is because he challenged me by name on account of the special position which I occupy among my Unionist colleagues—I signed away, late at night, the basis of our policy for 30 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-17a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-17", "file": "debates1922-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "5db3bfacc47064c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-17a.1467.3", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which word?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "signature. He went on to say: At a fateful moment I was called upon to make a decision. If I were called upon at the present moment for a decision on the same question, my decision would be the same. Let there be no mistake and no misunderstanding about that. Would you have us less honourable, less true to our word, than Mr. Collins? I say, with Mr. Collins, I gave my word and I will keep my word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-17a.1467.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-20", "file": "debates1922-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2fcc91515a850922", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-20a.1610.0", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPART MENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "reland, there is a far greater case for increasing the pensions of men who fought in France. In the present state of the national finances, it is our duty to protest against increases of pensions in a quarter deserving, I admit, but not nearly so deserving as other quarters to which we may direct the right hon. Gentleman's attention. We are now asked to foot the bill for the failure of Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-20a.1610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-20", "file": "debates1922-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2fcc91515a850922", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-20a.1614.1", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPART MENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "Oh, no, I was not. The hon. Gentleman is quite mistaken. I departed from those benches at the very beginning, at the initiation of that policy, and I have fought it ever since, so I think I am immune from that criticism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-20a.1614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-20", "file": "debates1922-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2fcc91515a850922", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-20a.1614.1", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPART MENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "Oh, no, I was not. The hon. Gentleman is quite mistaken. I departed from those benches at the very beginning, at the initiation of that policy, and I have fought it ever since, so I think I am immune from that criticism. [ Interruption. ] Let me inform hon. Members that I was not elected to support either the bankruptcy of this country or the massacre of women and children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-20a.1614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-20", "file": "debates1922-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2fcc91515a850922", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-20a.1615.4", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPART MENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "their opponents and to cheer their leaders than to take part in reasoned discussion. Their leaders have no further use for them. That is why they were elected to this House. That is their business, and in due course they will all be rewarded, as I observe their more successful fellows have already been rewarded. Let us make no complaint of that. If I may turn to the subject under discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-20a.1615.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-20", "file": "debates1922-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2fcc91515a850922", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-20a.1622.2", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPART MENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOLES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOLES", "preceding_text": " up, his own colleagues all flee as if he had the plague and there was danger of infection. Only two or three at most sit there while he is up, and they are more notorious for somnolence than anything else, while he goes on with the \"dreary drip of dilatory declamation,\" and they sit for all the world like two or three extinct volcanoes with never a flicker of flame on a single palid crest.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-20a.1622.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-20", "file": "debates1922-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2fcc91515a850922", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-20a.1630.3", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPART MENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who pays that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "merie I know will be open to them. They deserve well of their country, and I think the Government has treated them not only in the letter, but in a sympathetic spirit in fulfilling their contracts. May I answer one other question of the hon. and gallant Member, as to the pay of the Special Constabulary in Ireland? It is £3 10s. a week, with certain allowances, but not with any pension rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-20a.1630.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-20", "file": "debates1922-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2fcc91515a850922", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-20a.1657.0", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPART MENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The leader!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "y of us all, has dealt with the matter, but the Chief Secretary turns tail and leaves it to somebody else to answer. I make no complaint; the Chief Secretary is human, and I suppose he feels the results of a long Sitting, but this is a sum involving nearly £1,500,000 of money, and we should have an answer to the questions which have been put. I see here one of the leaders of Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-20a.1657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-20", "file": "debates1922-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2fcc91515a850922", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-20a.1665.2", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPART MENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "e usual way, and I venture very humbly and submissively to say that I have a perfect right to address the Committee. You had scarcely finished reading the Vote when I was about to rise, and I sat down to give you the opportunity to finish. You had not, I submit, collected the voices, and, therefore, I am perfectly in order in getting up to speak. I must insist on my right to address the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-20a.1665.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-20", "file": "debates1922-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2fcc91515a850922", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-20a.1674.9", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPART MENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the COLONIES (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the COLONIES (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "ile. What we have got to do in Ireland at the present time is to endeavour, as far as possible, to reassert the value of human life, to make everyone realise that the period of brutal violence, of reciprocal reactions of injury and retaliation is over, and that we are entering on a period where all such matters are going to be meticulously and patiently and perseveringly investigated. We may fail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-20a.1674.9"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-02-21", "file": "debates1922-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "99797c17623e2396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-21a.1696.4", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Full information will be made available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-21a.1696.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-02-21", "file": "debates1922-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "99797c17623e2396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-21a.1699.3", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "What about future intentions?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "It means exactly what I have said—that I have no present intention of issuing such a memorandum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-21a.1699.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-21", "file": "debates1922-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "99797c17623e2396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-21a.1703.7", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. WARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. WARD", "preceding_text": "I am very pleased to hear the right hon. Gentleman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-21a.1703.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-21", "file": "debates1922-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "99797c17623e2396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-21a.1728.4", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Until all our soldiers are murdered!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I road out yesterday that the number of attacks on police since 6th December was 82, and upon military 34, but I think it only shows that we must persevere steadily in our policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-21a.1728.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-21", "file": "debates1922-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "99797c17623e2396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-21a.1765.6", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"What is the salary?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "Yes, that would be on the peak scale. I think that interests the House most, because, as I say, it is the peak of the bonus addition to the pension. In no case could it be more, and I hope I have convinced the House that it is not unduly large.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-21a.1765.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-21", "file": "debates1922-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "99797c17623e2396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-21a.1792.0", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rising!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "preceding_text": "he War bonus was granted for a specific and temporary purpose and that when men come to retire their pensions should not be based upon the amount which they have received, but that the question should be reviewed as the cost of living falls. One cannot say what the cost of living will be three of four years hence. It may well be only 25 per cent, above pre-War level. The value of money is falling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-21a.1792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-21", "file": "debates1922-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "99797c17623e2396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-21a.1795.0", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "I feel I can save some time in regard to some matters of controversy by making a further explanation and an offer of what it, may be possible to do in order to meet the strongly expressed opinion of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-21a.1795.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-21", "file": "debates1922-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "99797c17623e2396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-21a.1795.0", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Both ways.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. YOUNG", "preceding_text": " am myself confident that we can find and work such a scheme, and I will ask the House for the present to allow me to leave it in that rather general way. I think the words I have given cover the real point in regard to which it is possible to meet the desires of the House. We shall investigate the possibility of a scheme for making pensions vary with the cost of living by periodical reassessment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-21a.1795.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-21", "file": "debates1922-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "99797c17623e2396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-21a.1798.4", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS>: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "two considerations. In the first place, there is, I believe—subject to the bigger point—no real contention against the point that, in the case of the pensioners who have already got their money, that money must be voted for them, at any rate this year, on the ground that their rights have absolutely accrued for this year, and the House will scarcely refuse them the money for this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-21a.1798.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-21", "file": "debates1922-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "99797c17623e2396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-21a.1830.1", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WIGNALL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WIGNALL", "preceding_text": "I hope you will pardon me. I will make amends for that. I will not commit myself a second time. I should like to ask, Sir Edwin, to whom have you been selling the concentrates?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-21a.1830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-21", "file": "debates1922-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "99797c17623e2396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-21a.1839.0", "colnum": "1839", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNES", "preceding_text": "ps, as here they have a vast amount of tonnage in ores, and by their action and their disposal of ships they produced exactly the same situation in the shipyards of this country that has been produced in these mines. Coal is the same thing. They took from the Germans millions of tons of coal, and the effect of doing so and of disposing of that coal was to produce the coal stoppage in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-21a.1839.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-21", "file": "debates1922-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "99797c17623e2396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-21a.1851.0", "colnum": "1851", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "t to demand it; I agree with him that the British House of Commons is the guardian of the public purse. But in a case like this, although the House of Commons has a right to demand, and, if it insisted on its demand, could force, the publication of what, as my hon. Friend said, we feel must be withheld, it would, to the same degree that it forced that, cease to be the guardian of the public purse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-21a.1851.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-22", "file": "debates1922-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "0c181939eb966981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.1904.13", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three days!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "One day would not be sufficient for a discussion on the whole of the Geddes Reports. It would require two days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.1904.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-22", "file": "debates1922-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "0c181939eb966981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.1908.7", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Send them to Russia!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "preceding_text": "Is it a fact that the Geddes Committee, in estimating this loss of £1,600,000, entirely omitted the cost of reconstructing the works to make them suitable for locomotive production, and was that production the result of the Prime Minister's declared policy of retaining the railways in the ownership of the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.1908.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-22", "file": "debates1922-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "0c181939eb966981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.1948.0", "colnum": "1948", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "d thought I had clone so, that my suggestion could refer only to pension rights which were not accrued. Pension rights do accrue at the time of retirement. I do not think I can make it too clear to the House that this suggestion of an extension of the change which I propose is one that it is really impossible for the Government to concede without a breach of faith, an unpardonable breach of faith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.1948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-22", "file": "debates1922-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "0c181939eb966981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.1948.0", "colnum": "1948", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why opposite?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. YOUNG", "preceding_text": " which I propose is one that it is really impossible for the Government to concede without a breach of faith, an unpardonable breach of faith. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Let me put it to the House this way. At the beginning of this financial year the House passed an Estimate voting money for pensions on the basis then laid down. I am quite aware that it will be said by some hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.1948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-22", "file": "debates1922-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "0c181939eb966981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.1956.0", "colnum": "1956", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir J. GREIG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak for yourself!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir J. GREIG", "preceding_text": "equence to us. At their expense we are suggesting that we are devotees of economy, and the moment after we take this action and attack them, we shall each and all of us turn round, probably, when we come to discuss the Geddes Report, to advocate the claims—some of us have done it already—of a particular section of our constituents who have whips with which they can flagellate us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.1956.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-22", "file": "debates1922-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "0c181939eb966981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.1957.1", "colnum": "1957", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GREIG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GREIG", "preceding_text": "They have been attacked constantly during the Debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.1957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-22", "file": "debates1922-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "0c181939eb966981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.1962.0", "colnum": "1962", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ROYDS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ROYDS", "preceding_text": "That was done by consent of the parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.1962.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-22", "file": "debates1922-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "0c181939eb966981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.1965.2", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "We retained the services of those men on the ground that their pension would be assessed on a certain basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.1965.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-22", "file": "debates1922-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "0c181939eb966981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.1988.3", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPART- MENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ect, namely, the capital sum of £500,000 which was put into some factory at Avonmouth for making zinc concentrates or turning spelter into whatever spelter is turned into. I am not an expert and I do not pretend to have any technical knowledge, but I do know that this sum of £500,000 should be accounted for. It was put into this factory at Avonmouth which is, I think, somewhere in Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.1988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-22", "file": "debates1922-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "0c181939eb966981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.2040.4", "colnum": "2040", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ases, mainly to private houses, business houses, furniture, and hay. Just take one small town, that of Milltown: John Breen, damage to shop window, £10; Margaret Vaughan, dwelling-house, shop and premises, totally burned and destroyed, £350; Mary Honan, dwelling-house damaged, £10, and stock-in-trade damaged, £20; Michael Sullivan, three windows damaged and destroyed, £25.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.2040.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-22", "file": "debates1922-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "0c181939eb966981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.2040.4", "colnum": "2040", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "re, and hay. Just take one small town, that of Milltown: John Breen, damage to shop window, £10; Margaret Vaughan, dwelling-house, shop and premises, totally burned and destroyed, £350; Mary Honan, dwelling-house damaged, £10, and stock-in-trade damaged, £20; Michael Sullivan, three windows damaged and destroyed, £25. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] I will not trouble the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.2040.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-22", "file": "debates1922-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "0c181939eb966981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.2047.0", "colnum": "2047", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. INSKIP", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "and gallant Friend and his Friends have never lost their form, their persistent form, which has been to take every conceivable opportunity of which they can avail themselves to introduce all the malice and bitterness they can. It is not very long ago, Sir Edwin, since in this House we were discussing the Irish settlement, which was based upon an invitation from an august source that we were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.2047.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-22", "file": "debates1922-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "0c181939eb966981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.2052.1", "colnum": "2052", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "The Estimate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.2052.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-22", "file": "debates1922-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "0c181939eb966981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.2053.3", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.2053.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-22", "file": "debates1922-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "0c181939eb966981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.2056.3", "colnum": "2056", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": " take part in it. I do not think the Government can claim that the Opposition has wasted any time on the Supplementary Estimates. We have now gone beyond the Estimate which they expected to get by 11 o'clock, not that I grudge them anything they can get, but if they want their Estimates they have to face this question, and they have not faced it. I will put again those that have not been answered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-22a.2056.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-23", "file": "debates1922-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "38703b3d1ecb5220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-23a.2201.0", "colnum": "2201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are they not footing the bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " this moment, in spite of the new Member they have to-day, increasing their numbers—I am very surprised that this Northern Government which, apparently, keeps such perfect order, and is so solvent, is not footing this Bill. I really wonder, after what we have done for Northern Ireland for many years, and not least in the last year or two, should come to us and ask us to pay for their Courts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-23a.2201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-23", "file": "debates1922-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "38703b3d1ecb5220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-23a.2230.3", "colnum": "2230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNCLASSIFIED SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "rmy of Occupation. This is the year 1922. That is why we are having to put our hands in our pockets to find this money for these very necessitous cases described by the Secretary to the Treasury. That is what some of us have pointed out for some years. We are getting into the fourth year of this insanity. The question of an Army of Occupation for 15 years was not known at the time of the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-23a.2230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-24", "file": "debates1922-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "29f94a246f6d0165", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-24a.2258.2", "colnum": "2258", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": " is also one. Let me pass from the Clare County Court to the case of the creameries. Will the case of the creameries come before the Royal Commission? I take it that will be the course adopted. We know quite well that something like 60 of these creameries were burned and the only evidence available is given on excellent impartial authority. I think Sir Horace Plunkett was a party to the statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-24a.2258.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-24", "file": "debates1922-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "29f94a246f6d0165", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-24a.2318.3", "colnum": "2318", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Another Coalition Member speaking in the interest of Labour! I wonder how many of them will be able to substantiate their affection for Labour when they go to the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-24a.2318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-24", "file": "debates1922-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "29f94a246f6d0165", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-24a.2318.3", "colnum": "2318", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Another Coalition Member speaking in the interest of Labour! I wonder how many of them will be able to substantiate their affection for Labour when they go to the country. [ Interruption. ] Speaking for Labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-24a.2318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-24", "file": "debates1922-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "29f94a246f6d0165", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-24a.2318.3", "colnum": "2318", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " the ground that it is exercised in the interests of the capitalist system and exercised by a Department run in the interests of that system and supervised until recently by Sir Basil Thomson. For all these reasons we are against your passport system. You use it to keep people apart and to stifle the free intercourse of ideas. I should have thought that educated Englishmen would know by now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-24a.2318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-24", "file": "debates1922-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "29f94a246f6d0165", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-24a.2318.3", "colnum": "2318", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "against your passport system. You use it to keep people apart and to stifle the free intercourse of ideas. I should have thought that educated Englishmen would know by now—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"]—that the real strength of this country depends upon the ability of the country to hear all sides. It is only by hearing all sides, by hearing the nonsense as well as the sense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-24a.2318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-24", "file": "debates1922-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "29f94a246f6d0165", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-24a.2327.2", "colnum": "2327", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "preceding_text": "I would not have intervened in this Debate but for the senseless interpretation which has been placed upon the remarks of the speakers representing the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-24a.2327.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-24", "file": "debates1922-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "29f94a246f6d0165", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-24a.2327.2", "colnum": "2327", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "preceding_text": "n placed upon the remarks of the speakers representing the Labour party. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"] Yes, the senseless remark of the hon. Member who spoke of paupers coming into Britain with bags of gold, which is a paradox so far as I am concerned. The hon. Member spoke as though the whole Continent was one seething mass of humanity, all imbued with the one idea of revolution. I want to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-24a.2327.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-27", "file": "debates1922-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e32e5f694d92d188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.13.5", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MURRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Safeguarding of Industries Act!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MURRAY", "preceding_text": "How can the Government do so when this is merely a reprisal for the not very bright example set by Coalition legislation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.13.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-27", "file": "debates1922-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e32e5f694d92d188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.111.0", "colnum": "111", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "site and for the deliberate restriction of output of the trade operatives. Therefore, common shame might keep hon. Members opposite silent instead of pretending, like, the hon. Member for Spen Valley (Mr. Myers), knowing the whole time that it is a mere pretence, that Labour has assisted in any way to solve the housing problem. Again, the hon. Member spoke of landlords making money out of housing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-27", "file": "debates1922-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e32e5f694d92d188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Ten per cent.!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "n as to whether or not the sum mentioned in the Vote is reasonable. When you have entered into a contract with a man, if you want to get out of that contract you must pay the man something for doing that. Whether or not the Government have paid a proper sum is another matter altogether. I could not gather from the right hon. Gentleman what was the actual percentage paid to the various contractors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-27", "file": "debates1922-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e32e5f694d92d188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBBES: \"When was that done?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "Board, whose agreement is expiring in a day or two, has had that agreement renewed until 1926 Considering that an important Committee has given the opinion that the Welsh Board should be abolished, it is not right that before this House has had an opportunity of saying whether they agree with the Committee or not, the Chairman of this very body should have an extension of his agreement until 1926.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-27", "file": "debates1922-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e32e5f694d92d188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.135.2", "colnum": "135", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We will get there all right, do not worry!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "in most cases we were dealing with large federations of building trade manufacturers in the north of England whose operations covered large areas. Most of the bar- gains were made on a flat rate with a representative of the association concerned. My hon. Friends of the Labour party may some day have to form a Labour Ministry which, I have no doubt, will involve filling the post which I now occupy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.135.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-27", "file": "debates1922-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e32e5f694d92d188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.144.5", "colnum": "144", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTSON", "preceding_text": "als; we are all agreed upon that. The hon. Member for Mossley, the Minister of Health, and the hon. Member for Spen Valley all agreed that we wanted houses and the material was there, but because there was a demand that houses should be built for the people, those who owned that material created rings, prices went up, and we could not build the houses. The three of you are agreed up to that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.144.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-27", "file": "debates1922-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e32e5f694d92d188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.144.5", "colnum": "144", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTSON", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTSON", "preceding_text": "prices went up, and we could not build the houses. The three of you are agreed up to that point. [ Interruption. ] I wish my friends would leave me alone, as well as my opponents. Housing had to be stopped for a period because of the cost of materials. This is where we part company. I do not hope to convert you over there; I have told you that over and over again; we have different ideals in life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.144.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-27", "file": "debates1922-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e32e5f694d92d188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTSON", "preceding_text": "Labour has always been conscripted at the cost of living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-27", "file": "debates1922-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e32e5f694d92d188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "UNCLASSIFIED SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Woolgathering!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "The sheds are in Hull and it is our careful stevedoring and our faithful working of these sheds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-27", "file": "debates1922-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e32e5f694d92d188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.196.0", "colnum": "196", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STURROCK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STURROCK", "preceding_text": "I wish to associate myself with my hon. Friend who has just spoken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-27", "file": "debates1922-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e32e5f694d92d188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.196.4", "colnum": "196", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STURROCK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STURROCK", "preceding_text": "I feel personally that on these Votes which affect Scotland it is extremely difficult to talk about anything whatsoever. Here we are being asked to vote a large sum of money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.196.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-27", "file": "debates1922-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e32e5f694d92d188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.199.5", "colnum": "199", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Red herrings!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "seeing that these Scottish fishermen to whom I have just referred, these ex-service men, have been given fair play? I should like to know if we have to find this money to make good to these gallant fellows the stores they cannot get. Are they to have fair treatment? Has the Secretary for Scotland used his good offices to see that they get this fair treatment? Now in regard to the pickled herrings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.199.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-27", "file": "debates1922-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e32e5f694d92d188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A few minutes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I am in possession of the House for a few minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-27", "file": "debates1922-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "e32e5f694d92d188", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.208.4", "colnum": "208", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND ACT, 1920.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "rvice. The Provisional Government, as everyone knows, has very little time to deal with such matters, and is engaged upon more urgent problems. All the facts are before the Minister of Finance, and until his decision roaches us we cannot do anything further in the matter. Under the Treaty it is open to Ulster to come into the Free State or remain out of it. My own view is that Ulster will come in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-27a.208.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-28", "file": "debates1922-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "53fc0107d17e2b36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-28a.239.5", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"As many as they like?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "question has not reached me. But I can see by the way that the raid has been reported in the newspapers, that it appears to have been a serious affair. There is no doubt whatever that it is hostile, directly hostile, to the Provisional Government of Ireland. They have no need to raid for rifles, because they have only to ask the Imperial Government, and they can have rifles supplied to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-28a.239.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-28", "file": "debates1922-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "53fc0107d17e2b36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-28a.258.4", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BUSSIA (DEBT TO GBEAT BRITAIN).", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WARD", "preceding_text": "As there appears to be no probability of this money ever being recovered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-28a.258.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-02-28", "file": "debates1922-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "53fc0107d17e2b36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-28a.276.3", "colnum": "276", "heading": "EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister whether he is in a position to deny that Lord Allenby's first duty on his return to Egypt, with instructions to soothe the public unrest, was to release Zaghloul Pasha in 1919? Seeing that many of the statements are grossly inaccurate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-02-28a.276.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-01", "file": "debates1922-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b348cf048ba2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.348.7", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that some considerable time has elapsed since the hon. Gentleman previously expressed a desire to make a statement, can he not inform the House as to when it will be made?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.348.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-01", "file": "debates1922-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b348cf048ba2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.388.5", "colnum": "388", "heading": "INDUSTRIES UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. WARD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. WARD", "preceding_text": "at present, by the central Government; and that is the proposal which I desire to make to the House in asking leave to introduce this Bill. I am not introducing the Bill on my own authority, but—and I would particularly ask hon. Members to note this—at the instance of the General Federation of Trade Unions, which is the only great purely industrial and non-political organisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.388.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-01", "file": "debates1922-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b348cf048ba2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.388.5", "colnum": "388", "heading": "INDUSTRIES UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. WARD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. WARD", "preceding_text": "cal organisation—[ Interruption ]—of workers in this country. Affiliated with that federation are 129 registered trade unions, with a membership—not merely a delegation membership, but an actual daily, weekly or monthly paying membership of 1,426,000 trade unionists; and it does not seem to me that that is quite the sort of combination that ought to be met with such cheers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.388.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-01", "file": "debates1922-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b348cf048ba2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.391.2", "colnum": "391", "heading": "INDUSTRIES UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "l with this problem. I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Labour has recently modified his views upon this question, but I suggest that we had only just established conditions of relief to the unemployed through the State agency when the War broke out, and that we have not yet had any reasonable period of normality in which to test the conditions of this State experiment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.391.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-03-01", "file": "debates1922-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b348cf048ba2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.432.2", "colnum": "432", "heading": "NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What about agriculture?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "indeed a contract, and so far as the Government is concerned we cannot on our part, and would not, take any action which would have the effect of creating breaches of faith. It is quite certain that any Government which took part in what could fairly be regarded as the breaking of a contract and a breach of faith would set an example in this country which would be attended by serious consequences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-01", "file": "debates1922-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b348cf048ba2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.441.0", "colnum": "441", "heading": "NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "hings which the Ministry of Transport docs at the present time which could not suitably be performed in the Board of Trade at all. For example, they deal with the question of roads, and roads certainly do not come within the ordinary purview of the operations of the Board of Trade. They would be much better dealt with really under the Ministry of Health, which deals with local authorities. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.441.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-01", "file": "debates1922-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b348cf048ba2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.446.3", "colnum": "446", "heading": "NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I may, I think, sum up the result of this somewhat discursive survey. The Committee on National Expenditure recommended a reduction in Votes of £86,000,000, and that is exclusive of what might occur as the result of the conversa- tions at Washington. I deduct from that £86,000,000 the amount of savings which were unspecified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.446.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-01", "file": "debates1922-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b348cf048ba2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What will be the saving?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ve more power to-day to purchase all the food and raw material which we require for our own need. Our Government securities— although this matter, to some extent, is connected with the fact that there is a lack of enterprise at the present time—have risen, with the favourable result that we shall not need to find next year so much money for sinking fund charges and for cognate charges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-01", "file": "debates1922-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b348cf048ba2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.453.2", "colnum": "453", "heading": "NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"After the War.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "s that the right hon. Gentleman explained from the joint operation expected from the Geddes Report and the Departments. I am only asking the right hon. Gentleman these questions for information, but he alleges that by spontaneous departmental action, quickened and supplemented by an outside committee, you bring down in the course of 12 months national expenditure by no less than £181,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.453.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-01", "file": "debates1922-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b348cf048ba2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.457.0", "colnum": "457", "heading": "NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"France!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "vices are costing us £130,000,000, and the right hon. Gentleman is not in a position to give us any assurance of a speedy reduction to a lower figure. As I pointed out the other day, it seems to me and to most of us to be a monstrous thing in all the years that have passed since the War when all the great armies of Europe have either practically disappeared with two or three exceptions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.457.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-01", "file": "debates1922-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b348cf048ba2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " be mutilated in the streets. In the end we should have to pay more dearly in consequence of that change of policy. We support the Government in not attempting to save at the expense of these innocent children. We also beg of them to realise even on this question of larger classes that all experience is against larger classes. The best answer is that you do not get large classes in public schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-01", "file": "debates1922-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b348cf048ba2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.493.1", "colnum": "493", "heading": "NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "Major GRAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have an election!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major GRAY", "preceding_text": "o take him, because his views are so erratic I can never forecast what he is going to do. I put him on one side. He has a pawky Scotch humour which enables him to disagree with everybody. But I noticed the silence, which seemed to bespeak disappointment here. May I just tell some of my Conservative friends that they would change their attitude on that if they would face the electorate for a while.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-01", "file": "debates1922-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b348cf048ba2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"'Staff.' not 'teachers'!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "preceding_text": "d speech he made earlier this afternoon. He complained that there was a great deal of money spent on the education of the poor and on the education of rich people's children, and, as I gather, he objected to the latter. He gave as an illustration the cost of education at Dartmouth in connection with the training scheme for officers for the Navy. He said that there were 567 teachers for 460 pupils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-01", "file": "debates1922-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "5c1b348cf048ba2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.517.6", "colnum": "517", "heading": "NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nothing!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "er of us have to meet that out of our own resources. If we have not got the money, what are we to do? We have not got the money to go on doing all these sort of things. Health in 1913–14 cost £5,000,000. In 1921–22 it cost £29,000,000. Labour in 1913–14 cost £900,000; in 1921–22 it cost £21,000,000. What on earth are we getting for that £21,000,000?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-01a.517.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-02", "file": "debates1922-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3b0a52b0da025cee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.568.0", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "On the point of Order. You will, I daresay, have noticed that most of those are occasions when the Whips have to give it into their hands. It very seldom happens that we have, as we have to-day, an extra 10 minutes in which to proceed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.568.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-02", "file": "debates1922-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3b0a52b0da025cee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.568.2", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes—why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "Does that mean that when a question comes round for the second time, it is absolutely necessary that the Member who puts the question must be asked to do so by the Member in whose name it stands?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.568.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-02", "file": "debates1922-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3b0a52b0da025cee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.569.3", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "spect, but, above all, we want to conform to the spirit of your ruling. The hon. Member a moment ago was informed by you that you could not allow him, under, so to speak, a general brief from his party, to put the questions of all the hon. Gentlemen who were not ready in their places to ask them themselves. The hon. Member, now that Question Time is over, except for Private Notice questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.569.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-02", "file": "debates1922-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3b0a52b0da025cee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.604.0", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1,—Provisions for giving the force of law to and carrying into effect Irish Agreement.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Verbal!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "hat the Government are desirous of conveying to Ireland that, in their opinion, they are an independent country with which we can make a Treaty, whereas they want to tell the House of Commons and England that it is not an independent country and that they do not intend to recognize their authority. That is the simple fact. The Colonial Secretary commenced by saying that these words were only form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-02", "file": "debates1922-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3b0a52b0da025cee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.607.1", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1,—Provisions for giving the force of law to and carrying into effect Irish Agreement.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " we on this side of the House are quite satisfied with the words as they stand in the Bill. In spite of all that we have heard from the hon. and learned Member for York (Sir J. Butcher), we are convinced that it is a Treaty that has been signed, and that it is as well that we should have the facts stated in this Act of Parliament. A Treaty has been made between this country and the Irish Republic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-02", "file": "debates1922-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3b0a52b0da025cee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.609.0", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1,—Provisions for giving the force of law to and carrying into effect Irish Agreement.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "uestion whether it is competent or possible for His Majesty to enter into a Treaty with his own subjects. We have discussed from time to time agreements with large and important sections of His Majesty's subjects. A short time ago we had a prolonged discussion on a very important agreement entered into with the coal miners and coal owners. Would it have been competent to describe that as a Treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.609.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-03-02", "file": "debates1922-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3b0a52b0da025cee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1,—Provisions for giving the force of law to and carrying into effect Irish Agreement.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Accept the Amendment.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Some of these Amendments are very important. On this particular subject we have had a most interesting Debate for over an hour, and almost every angle has been laid before the Committee. I venture to submit, in view of the many important Amendments on the Paper, that we ought to Divide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-02", "file": "debates1922-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3b0a52b0da025cee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.641.0", "colnum": "641", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "t some heat into the Debate, and for that purpose has used a number of terms and expressions, and has made a number of charges, which I hope in his heart of hearts he does not think should be taken literally. At any rate, I am not going to take them in a literal form. If I were to do so, I should say that they had been answered repeatedly in open and prolonged debate in the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.641.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-02", "file": "debates1922-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3b0a52b0da025cee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.641.0", "colnum": "641", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "which we are committed, and to which we have committed the country, by this Treaty. When these charges of dishonour, breach of honourable obligations, and so on, are flung about in this way, one is entitled to remind the hon. Gentleman that there are a large number of people in the House of Commons who have associated themselves with the policy of the Government who are equally to be blamed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.641.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-02", "file": "debates1922-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3b0a52b0da025cee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.641.0", "colnum": "641", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh\" and \"Sit down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "the issues which we fought out at length on the Second Reading. That is not because I do not wish to give an answer. I can give a short answer if I am asked, \"Why is it that you have declined to insert the word 'Southern'?\" The reason, as is well known, is that we were negotiating with men whom, for good or for ill, rightly or wrongly, we decided to consider as representing the Irish nation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.641.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-02", "file": "debates1922-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3b0a52b0da025cee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.642.3", "colnum": "642", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "If I am allowed to finish my statement, I would say that, rightly or wrongly, we dealt with these men as men entitled to speak on behalf of Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.642.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-02", "file": "debates1922-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3b0a52b0da025cee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.650.0", "colnum": "650", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did,\" and \"The whole of Ireland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "erfectly amazing explanation of the Colonial Secretary. He has just informed us that he regarded Mr. Michael Collins, Mr. Griffith, and the rest of the delegation as entitled to speak for Northern as well as Southern Ireland. I absolutely challenge the right hon. Gentleman. Do I understand him to say he did not? I thought I understood him to say that he regarded them as representatives of Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.650.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-02", "file": "debates1922-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3b0a52b0da025cee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.650.0", "colnum": "650", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\" and \"It is untrue.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "ntitled to speak for Northern as well as Southern Ireland. I absolutely challenge the right hon. Gentleman. Do I understand him to say he did not? I thought I understood him to say that he regarded them as representatives of Ireland. [HON. MEMBERS: \"He did,\" and \"The whole of Ireland.\"] Mr. CHURCHILL: The Treaty proceeds on the assumption that, the Irish signatories represented Ireland as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.650.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-03-02", "file": "debates1922-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3b0a52b0da025cee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.677.0", "colnum": "677", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "The Labour party may be in office.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "preceding_text": "stand, that we must—it is quite clear—act upon these words and vote ourselves out immediately after the passing of this Bill. If we were to depend upon the declaration of the Chief Secretary, think what would happen. The Government to which he belongs may be out before that time arrives, and what guarantee have we that the Government succeeding will take the same view about the matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.676.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-02", "file": "debates1922-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3b0a52b0da025cee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.680.2", "colnum": "680", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PERCY", "preceding_text": "There is not a man in this House, and least of all my right hon. Friend, who would not admit that the connection of the Dominions with the Empire depends upon themselves. If the self-governing Dominions, Australia, Canada, choose to-morrow to say, 'We will no longer make a part of the British Empire,' we would not try to force them. Dominion Home Rule means the right to decide their own destinies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.680.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-02", "file": "debates1922-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3b0a52b0da025cee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.688.0", "colnum": "688", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CRAIK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CRAIK", "preceding_text": "rtunate to raise questions dealing with our distant Dominions in connection with this delicate question. But have we Dominion Home Rule in this case exactly as we have it in Canada and Australia? What is the Oath of Allegiance? Is the Oath of Allegiance which you impose in the fourth Clause in the Articles of Agreement the Oath of Allegiance imposed in the Parliaments of the other great Dominions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.688.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-02", "file": "debates1922-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3b0a52b0da025cee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.698.0", "colnum": "698", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "May I make an appeal to the Committee?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-02", "file": "debates1922-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "3b0a52b0da025cee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ore the Boundary Commission, which is the ultimate court of appeal, is brought into existence. When the elections have been held in Southern Ireland one of two things must happen. Either a verdict will have been given adverse to the Treaty and in favour of a Republican form of Government—in which case the whole of this matter falls to the ground and all parties resume their original freedom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-02a.712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-03", "file": "debates1922-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "35a894557a4ebbd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-03a.759.3", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—Provisions for giving the force of law to and carrying into effect Irish Agreement.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "Things may be got without asking! That action showed a much more shrewed and meritorious mentality. What sort of tribunal would satisfy you? That is what we want to know. You say, \"Leave us alone, leave Tyrone and Fermanagh, they all belong to us.\" Yes, you say they all belong to you when the large majority of their citizens are in favour of joining the Free State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-03a.759.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-03", "file": "debates1922-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "35a894557a4ebbd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-03a.759.5", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—Provisions for giving the force of law to and carrying into effect Irish Agreement.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "General, who is paid £10,000 a year for interpreting Treaties and Acts of Parliament, and who spoke for 20 minutes, and yet he was not able to satisfy your mind. Do you mean to tell me that I, an uncultivated Belfastman, should satisfy such a mentality as that possessed by the leader of the Anti-Waste party and the potential Prime Minister of England when she rises from the anarchy of to-day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-03a.759.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-03", "file": "debates1922-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "35a894557a4ebbd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-03a.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—Provisions for giving the force of law to and carrying into effect Irish Agreement.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "Really, we Irish are disgusted! You have got so many parties in this country that we cannot remember their names. Why do you not unite? How many races are there in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-03a.760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-03", "file": "debates1922-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "35a894557a4ebbd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-03a.799.0", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—Provisions for giving the force of law to and carrying into effect Irish Agreement.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I am always very ready to express an opinion on subjects on which I am qualified to speak: but it is only becoming that we should have regard to the responsible professional advisers who are at the disposal of the Government. There are some matters upon which a layman may not venture without proper guidance. The proposal put forward by the two hon. Members is to alter the Treaty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-03a.799.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-03", "file": "debates1922-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "35a894557a4ebbd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-03a.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—Provisions for giving the force of law to and carrying into effect Irish Agreement.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOLES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOLES", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should look at the Act again. The matters with which the Council were to deal were matters of legislation. The strike situation can be dealt with by voluntary arrangement. What we complain of in the Treaty is that it precludes of possibility of that mutual and voluntary agreement. Will the right hon. Gentleman direct himself to that argument?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-03a.806.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-03-03", "file": "debates1922-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "35a894557a4ebbd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-03a.812.1", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—Provisions for giving the force of law to and carrying into effect Irish Agreement.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No answer!", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "o go to their co-negotiators and say, \"We have inadvertently, in spite of pledges given before, agreed to something with you which it is not possible to perform as honourable men, and we ask you to let us off that part of the agreement. That is the only thing honourable men can do, and a Minister should not divest himself of his personal honour simply because he is a Minister. I ask for an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-03a.812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-06", "file": "debates1922-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "6985066fd2e03313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-06a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—Provisions for giving the force of law to and currying into effect Irish Agreement.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So is this!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "The boundary question is fully provided for in the Treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-06a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-06", "file": "debates1922-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "6985066fd2e03313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-06a.918.1", "colnum": "918", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—Provisions for giving the force of law to and currying into effect Irish Agreement.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend wants to have this impartial authority over two different States in the same island. He might be an entirely impartial authority in one area without being so in the other. That is not the only point which surprised me in my hon. Friend's speech, because he has complained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-06a.918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-06", "file": "debates1922-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "6985066fd2e03313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-06a.927.4", "colnum": "927", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—Provisions for giving the force of law to and currying into effect Irish Agreement.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "t desire a Court of Appeal for all Ireland, then steps will be taken to modify the Act of 1920, so that there would not be a Court of Appeal for all Ireland, but there will be one Court of Appeal for Northern Ireland, and from that Court of Appeal appeal would be made to the highest Court of Appeal here in England. That is what the Amendment asks us to do now. My point is that we cannot do it now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-06a.927.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-06", "file": "debates1922-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "6985066fd2e03313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-06a.927.4", "colnum": "927", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—Provisions for giving the force of law to and currying into effect Irish Agreement.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Modify it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ould not be a Court of Appeal for all Ireland, but there will be one Court of Appeal for Northern Ireland, and from that Court of Appeal appeal would be made to the highest Court of Appeal here in England. That is what the Amendment asks us to do now. My point is that we cannot do it now. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"] I will tell the hon. Member why. Because the Act of 1920 stands until it is modified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-06a.927.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-06", "file": "debates1922-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "6985066fd2e03313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-06a.939.2", "colnum": "939", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—Provisions for giving the force of law to and currying into effect Irish Agreement.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "bles on the beach. There are a large number of Irishmen in all parts of Great Britain who are interested in this business quite as much as the Irishmen in Ireland, and whose interests and liberties are just as much affected. We thought the Treaty arranged between the people of Southern and Western Ireland and the Government of Great Britain was going to lead to the unification of the Irish people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-06a.939.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-06", "file": "debates1922-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "6985066fd2e03313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-06a.960.5", "colnum": "960", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—Provisions for giving the force of law to and currying into effect Irish Agreement.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": " of the barbarities which are being committed against the Catholics of Belfast, several Protestant churches are standing there without a single pane of glass broken in them, where there is not a single Protestant living within 500 yards. They are protected by Catholic people because they are institutions which, whether they be Protestant or Catholic, should be sacred to all just and Christian men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-06a.960.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-06", "file": "debates1922-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "6985066fd2e03313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-06a.962.2", "colnum": "962", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—Provisions for giving the force of law to and currying into effect Irish Agreement.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYNN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYNN", "preceding_text": "further from the truth. Some of us have a very good record in fighting for the Church when they were not able to fight for themselves as they are to-day, but at the present time, when the Roman Church—and here I am speaking not religiously at all, but politically— is becoming so aggressive all over the Empire, when it used its influence all over the Empire to defeat us in the last War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-06a.962.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-06", "file": "debates1922-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "6985066fd2e03313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-06a.995.0", "colnum": "995", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—Provisions for giving the force of law to and currying into effect Irish Agreement.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Really I am seriously concerned that my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Stoke (Lieut.-Colonel J. Ward) should have teen the victim of such a complete misunderstanding. This Amendment I am moving does not affect the Treaty in any way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-06a.995.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-06", "file": "debates1922-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "6985066fd2e03313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-06a.1020.0", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—Provisions for giving the force of law to and currying into effect Irish Agreement.", "cue_speaker": "Major HILLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!", "preceding_speaker": "Major HILLS", "preceding_text": "l that in a very important matter of this kind the House ought to have some say. We shall not be hampering the Government. They can still transfer powers by Orders in Council, and unless the House objects, these powers will stand. Surely, if some special ease arises in which the House objects to some special power being transferred, it is reasonable that Parliament should have a say in the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-06a.1020.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-06", "file": "debates1922-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "6985066fd2e03313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-06a.1020.0", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—Provisions for giving the force of law to and currying into effect Irish Agreement.", "cue_speaker": "Major HILLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HILLS", "preceding_text": " good deal of rather cheap mocking at the Government, but I do not indulge in any of these gibes about breach of faith. I think they have rather overshot their mark. I am certain my right hon. Friend wants to carry out the Treaty in the best way possible, but with all respect, I think he is looking rather too much to Ireland and too little to England, because after all we do come into the picture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-06a.1020.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-06", "file": "debates1922-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "6985066fd2e03313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-06a.1021.2", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—Provisions for giving the force of law to and currying into effect Irish Agreement.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "14 days of recalling the Order. How can you set up a Provisional Government in that way? How can you transfer control of affairs by Order in Council to a responsible body of men, and then 14 days afterwards or 13 days afterwards recall them to the House by a Vote? You would be confronted in all probability with the resignation of Ministers if you were to handle any Dominion Government in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-06a.1021.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-06", "file": "debates1922-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "6985066fd2e03313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-06a.1027.0", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—Provisions for giving the force of law to and currying into effect Irish Agreement.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They will not do so as it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": " to improve the Bill. We are just as anxious as others for the peace of the country, but we believe this is the wrong way to secure it. We had the right, I maintain, to express our opinions on this matter without being closured. The only possible excuse for closuring us would have been flagrant obstruction. If the country understood what has taken place they would no longer support the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-06a.1027.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-07", "file": "debates1922-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "2f800e46c6dfc50c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-07a.1114.5", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBEE: \"Where are they now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": "pot in any part of the picture—when we looked forward with some confidence to a completion of that transference, although it would not rid us of the whole of our financial liability, there came the collapse of that other Russian general, General Wrangel, and immediately, as Members of the Committee are aware, the whole of Eastern Europe became inundated with what I may call Wrangel refugees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-07a.1114.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-07", "file": "debates1922-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "2f800e46c6dfc50c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-07a.1211.0", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "REGULATION OF COAL MINES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I thought you were Diehards.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "le. That would mean a large number of meetings to be held, and I have a suspicion that, if it were forced, these meetings would not tend to give good feeling and peace in the industry. It is perfectly possible that the hon. Gentleman will agree that these pit committees might be used by the more extreme section—by those who do not want peace. We must all admit that there are many who do not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-07a.1211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-07", "file": "debates1922-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "2f800e46c6dfc50c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-07a.1212.1", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "REGULATION OF COAL MINES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "f these deputations? You are going to bring in on the owner's side four more men to act jointly with the manager at the consultation. That will not do any good, because you are practically bringing in the manager's subordinates, who will sit there and say nothing, or say \"ditto,\" because if they said anything contrary to their superior they might find that their position was rather an awkward one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-07a.1212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-07", "file": "debates1922-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "2f800e46c6dfc50c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-07a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "REGULATION OF COAL MINES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "owners in the county I belong to. I think I know a little more about it than he does. The business of a manager is to make profits, and that is implied in this statement made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he said we had made out a case for better amenities in our lives. I know the district he comes from. The dug-outs in France were more comfortable places than these one apartment houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-07a.1216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-07", "file": "debates1922-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "2f800e46c6dfc50c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-07a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "REGULATION OF COAL MINES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why did you agree to it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "ght be a power again in the industrial world it will be possible for them to make a fair amount of profit. They do not care what might happen to the State in the meantime. The miners will recover before that time. They are recovering now. We are working under an agreement at the present time. You say it is a voluntary agreement. It is not a voluntary agreement. There is nothing voluntary about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-07a.1216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-07", "file": "debates1922-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "2f800e46c6dfc50c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-07a.1218.1", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "REGULATION OF COAL MINES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "ill be prepared to support the continuance of Part II to enable the good work that it is possible to do under the provision of this Act to be carried on. While we were fighting to get nationalisation, we fought that question as a matter of principle. We fought it not merely as miners, but as citizens. We were prepared, even though we failed to get it either by negotiation or by use of force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-07a.1218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-07", "file": "debates1922-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "2f800e46c6dfc50c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-07a.1233.1", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "REGULATION OF COAL MINES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have changed our minds!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "Section 17 was put in the Act because of the refusal of the miners at that time to work the Act. It was thought—I think this is a fair interpretation of what Parliament thought—that the miners might come to a reasonable view if time were given. Therefore, a year was given in order that they might think it over and possibly change their minds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-07a.1233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-08", "file": "debates1922-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c44b3f2836c6f746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1288.3", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "WOMEN'S ENFRANCHISEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Banbury!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": " I regarded it, as, indeed, it was, as a wrecking Amendment, but my right hon. Friend did, in fact, support it and supported it for very good reasons— very much the reasons that I have given to the House this afternoon. Therefore, I have great hopes of him, and his recent statements to the Primrose League show the great enthusiasm of a late convert to the women's cause. Now, who will oppose?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1288.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-08", "file": "debates1922-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c44b3f2836c6f746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1290.0", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "WOMEN'S ENFRANCHISEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEE", "preceding_text": "In the first place, it is sought to enfranchise 5,000,000 women between the ages of 21 and 30. Already there are about an equal number of women and men voters in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-08", "file": "debates1922-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c44b3f2836c6f746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1335.2", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.— (Provisions for giving the force of law to and carrying into effect Irish Agreement.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"British!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEE", "preceding_text": "12;have been turned out of their employment and their contracts with the Government cancelled and repudiated by a British Government. The word of England has been passed in these cases. It is the proudest word which holds good among all the nations of the world. In Latin countries, in South America, if a man wishes to say that what he has declared is absolutely true, he swears by the English word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1335.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-08", "file": "debates1922-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c44b3f2836c6f746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1365.0", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": " those who are opposing it. We are now all engaged in giving our humble contribution to a great historic settlement, and it would be well that we should have the names of these gentlemen recorded, as I do not think it would be possible to have their names recorded for anything else. The hon. Member for Thanet (Mr. E. Harmsworth) has made some sneering observations about the Irish language. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-08", "file": "debates1922-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c44b3f2836c6f746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1376.3", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "tory is going to be filched from her by the Boundary Commission. Uncertainty, also, as to how their institutions in the North of Ireland are to be made to work. The worst of it is that all this uncertainty is an uncertainty which makes it absolutely impossible to put down the fighting and the bloodshed and the quarrelling and the bombing which is disgracing the town of Belfast at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1376.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-08", "file": "debates1922-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c44b3f2836c6f746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1397.1", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General COCKERILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General COCKERILL", "preceding_text": " force. I sometimes think that hon. Members who oppose this Bill are not really in full possession of the facts as to the inner history of these negotiations with the Irish people. I have heard hon. Members on the Benches below me, which are almost empty now, Conservatives and Unionists, who are commonly called \"Die-hards,\" suggesting that we have shaken hands with murderers in making this Treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-08", "file": "debates1922-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c44b3f2836c6f746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1408.2", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unanimous?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain REDMOND", "preceding_text": " this Measure; and mark you this, that included in that assembly were several gentlemen who previously were known as South of Ireland Unionists, and who themselves came forward willing to join with their Southern fellow-countrymen in the acceptance and working of this Measure. Furthermore, it may not be known to this House that the Irish Press has been unanimous in their acceptance of this Treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1408.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-08", "file": "debates1922-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c44b3f2836c6f746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1420.0", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who won?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "d H. Cecil). He might regard it as another instance of Irish depravity. The attendance at the semi-final of the Irish football cup is said to have surpassed all recent records. In the International Rugby Match between England and Ireland, played in Dublin on Satur- day, 11th February, the spectators numbered between 16,000 and 18,000, and the public interest was up to the standard of pre-War days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-08", "file": "debates1922-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c44b3f2836c6f746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1420.0", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Give up reading!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "pril. Coursing and hunting have continued with little or no interference or interruption during the winter. The contest for the Irish Coursing Cup was recently held at Limerick. Indoor amusements have almost reverted to normal conditions. The Dublin theatres have had an exceptionally prosperous season. Dancing is now probably in greater vogue in Southern Ireland than it has been for several years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-08", "file": "debates1922-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c44b3f2836c6f746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1423.1", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Finally, the Meath, Kildare, Ward Union, and Kilkenny Hunt Balls have all been held without the slightest interference. I will not prolong the story. Why do I dwell upon these things!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-08", "file": "debates1922-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c44b3f2836c6f746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1426.3", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"1906!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ffensive to my hon. Friend who sits there all alone representing Belfast (Mr. Devlin), but I must express the situation as I see it—and has played for so long such a great part in British Imperial affairs—convulsing parties, disturbing Governments, holding the balance for years, putting the Conservatives out of office in 1885, and the Liberals in office in 1892 and again in 1910—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1426.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-08", "file": "debates1922-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c44b3f2836c6f746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1426.3", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " possessed a secret that no other nation in the world has known, how to discover and to employ. The Leader of the Ulster party complained of the indifference of the House. He said that his friends had put their case with the greatest earnestness—and with the greatest ability—that the House had received indifferent, but that enormous majorities—I think convinced majorities —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1426.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-08", "file": "debates1922-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c44b3f2836c6f746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1440.0", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "DENTISTS ACT, 1921 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAFFAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAFFAN", "preceding_text": "Apparently it is a solitary case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-08", "file": "debates1922-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c44b3f2836c6f746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1445.0", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "DENTISTS ACT, 1921 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Sir Alfred Mond)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then why lay them on the Table?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Sir Alfred Mond)", "preceding_text": "en the Bill was going through, of the character that the hon. Member for Hanley (Mr. Seddon) brought out tonight, are not subjects which ought to take up the time of the House, particularly at this hour of the night. The whole object of the Dental Board was that it should have reserved to it the dealing with Regulations which had been carefully considered by my Department and by the Privy Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-08", "file": "debates1922-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c44b3f2836c6f746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1445.4", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "DENTISTS ACT, 1921 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the income?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "at members of all classes can enter this profession, and entry to the profession shall not become exclusively the privilege of better class people who can afford to pay for the education to enable them to become dentists. This fund is to be raised to enable the Board to give educational facilities to the very people whom, I should have thought, my hon. Friend wanted to enter the dental profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-08a.1445.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-09", "file": "debates1922-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "0474f63e56e95f01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Major TRYON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "I am informed that the alternative hospital is a very good hospital and in better surroundings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-09", "file": "debates1922-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "0474f63e56e95f01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1463.1", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " burdens we have put upon our own people, to the possibility and even probability that we shall shortly be asked by the League of Nations to vote a further sum to combat the spread of typhus out of Russia into Europe which menaces all the western nations, and I cannot altogether overlook that the Russian Government has resources of its own which are being applied to matters much less urgent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-09", "file": "debates1922-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "0474f63e56e95f01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1469.3", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENGINEERING AND SHIPBUILDING TRADES.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Which\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "What is the use of leaving it to the masters and the men when one side are all powerful and the other helpless?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1469.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-09", "file": "debates1922-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "0474f63e56e95f01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1475.0", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BEER (PRICES).", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman inquire into the profits made by the brewers out of beer before reducing the price of beer to the working man? The brewers can do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1475.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-09", "file": "debates1922-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "0474f63e56e95f01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1480.3", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EXCESS PROFITS DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "It bears upon this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1480.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-09", "file": "debates1922-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "0474f63e56e95f01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1536.1", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "lestine, or to stay there once we had entered those countries. During the period when very important decisions on this subject were taken, I was not a member of the War Cabinet, which alone had constitutional responsibility; I was only serving under it in what I had described as a quasi-technical capacity. I think the Committee will not accuse mo of being backward in assuming responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-09", "file": "debates1922-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "0474f63e56e95f01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1540.1", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are these British troops?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "tely long after the War has finished. At the beginning of this year—I am speaking of Iraq only—we had 48 battalions, and we decided to cut them down at once to 23 battalions, and I hoped to reach the figure of 12 battalions by the end of this financial year. We have already reached the figure of nine battalions, and we are contemplating dropping to six and then oven to four battalions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-09", "file": "debates1922-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "0474f63e56e95f01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1544.1", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"HOW many voters were there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "resolution declaring the Emir Feisal King of Iraq provided that he maintained a constitutional democratic government limited by law. This declaration was confirmed on a referendum by a majority of 96 per cent, of the voters. I do not believe there has ever been a more genuine attempt to establish representative government in a country which has not hitherto enjoyed any representative institutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-09", "file": "debates1922-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "0474f63e56e95f01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1557.3", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up. We cannot hear you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "cement which has appeared only to-day, under conditions, as we have gathered from answers given from the Treasury Bench which are absolutely unexampled. I have known nothing like it in my time. After that pronouncement, which comes apparently with the authority not only of the Indian Government, but of the Indian Government after consultation with the Governors of the different Presidencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1557.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-09", "file": "debates1922-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "0474f63e56e95f01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1621.1", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "preceding_text": " am under the impression that the Pensions Act has failed in these cases, and we are having too much examination and too little pension. When these men were taken into the Army a mere cursory examinations was the order of the day. It was a mere perfunctory operation that was carried out, and it nearly got to the length of asking what size of a hat the man took and then he was passed into the Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-09", "file": "debates1922-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "0474f63e56e95f01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1628.0", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "e state of affairs in regard to the Civil War Pensions there. Under a system of local patronage, such as hon. Members opposite desire, they are able to get pensions for friends, relatives and electors. It is fatal in any democratic country that its people should buy votes at the public expense, and hon. Members opposite have absolutely and openly hinted to-night that that is their intention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-09", "file": "debates1922-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "0474f63e56e95f01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1628.0", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "ted to-night that that is their intention—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—that they do not wish to see these matters decided by a perfectly unbiassed tribunal, such as the tribunals which have been set up, of which they are complaining, and to which this Vote refers, but they wish to see the question of whether a man shall receive a pension or not settled by elected members of local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-09", "file": "debates1922-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "0474f63e56e95f01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1630.0", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BARKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BARKER", "preceding_text": "red action of the heart. It was stated on his papers, which he sent to me, that this had been aggravated by service. Then after he had gone before a number of doctors and boards it was ultimately decided that the disease was no longer aggravated, and the man, though he has a wife and three children, has now no pension at all-I do not know whether other hon. Members have got cases like these—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1630.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-09", "file": "debates1922-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "0474f63e56e95f01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1638.1", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the circumstances?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "uggest that, because the tribunals make use of, or rely upon, Form Z.22, injustice is necessarily done. Form Z.22 is a form that was signed by the ex-soldier himself for the purpose of and in order to get an immediate advantage to himself. No tribunal ought to be open to the criticism that, because it accepts a form signed by an Englishman, that it is not a true statement of the facts of the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-09a.1638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-10", "file": "debates1922-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "1ee96eb1c3b6e7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-10a.1651.5", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the WAR OFFICE (Lieut.-Colonel Stanley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the WAR OFFICE (Lieut.-Colonel Stanley)", "preceding_text": "ncipal reasons for these large sums, but I think the Com- mittee will probably wish that I should go somewhat more fully into detail. The first charge is a sum of £2,800,000 for India. This represents disbursements and disputed items which came up for payment during the past year and have been under discussion for some considerable time, and it is only now that we have admitted the liability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-10a.1651.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-10", "file": "debates1922-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "1ee96eb1c3b6e7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-10a.1710.0", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "ANGLO-PERSIAN OIL COMPANY [PAYMENT OF CALLS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SUGDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What oils?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SUGDEN", "preceding_text": "took the Flammenwerfer of the Germans and, in our research laboratories, we improved upon and dealt with that agency of destruction in such fashion as to protect our own soldiers; but in those days, neither from the United States of America nor from any of our Allies, were we able to obtain all the necessary oils to enable us to deal with that weapon, although the Germans were able to obtain them;", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-10a.1710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-13", "file": "debates1922-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "3c496a2471807497", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-13a.1765.1", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "I cannot resist that appeal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-13a.1765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-13", "file": "debates1922-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "3c496a2471807497", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-13a.1770.4", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FISHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FISHER", "preceding_text": "The Board is not doing anything to stop it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-13a.1770.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-13", "file": "debates1922-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "3c496a2471807497", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-13a.1835.4", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "preceding_text": "urely we are as much pledged to provide houses as we are to provide interest for those who found the funds for War Savings Certificates and War Loans. When, a few weeks ago, it was suggested from these benches that economy might be effected by cutting down the rate of interest which was being paid on War Stock, a tremendous howl went up from the economists on the other side, and I agree with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-13a.1835.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-13", "file": "debates1922-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "3c496a2471807497", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-13a.1855.2", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By your side!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "e point out to him that there was no promise with regard to War savings. It was a contract, which is a very different thing from a promise. There have been no contracts with regard to houses, and the only promises that I know of in regard to houses were made on election platforms. A promise on an election platform is a thing which is nearly always observed in the breach and not carried out.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-13a.1855.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-13", "file": "debates1922-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "3c496a2471807497", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-13a.1855.2", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEBS: \"Labour never did!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "212;[HON. MEMBERS: \"By your side!\"]—I can remember very distinct promises which were made on platforms during election time by hon. Members opposite. The Liberal party and what there was of the Labour party in those days said the sugar duty and the tea duty should be reduced, if not abolished, but when they got into the House they voted for their continuation and in one case for an increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-13a.1855.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-13", "file": "debates1922-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "3c496a2471807497", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-13a.1881.2", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "preceding_text": "Board, as he then was, that 100,000 houses were required every year to meet the normal growth of the population, and an additional 50,000 houses were required every year to meet those that were dilapidated and worn out, and that figure of 150,000 houses has been accepted, not only by representatives of the Government but also by experts in this matter of housing requirements in many walks of life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-13a.1881.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-13", "file": "debates1922-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "3c496a2471807497", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-13a.1895.1", "colnum": "1895", "heading": "HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "survey their needs. It was assumed that, having already built their hundred thousand houses, they were to proceed with a fresh batch. This survey has been made in London. I have not yet read that any other authority has made it, but naturally enough London is in advance. This survey shows, first, that the population of the County of London during the past decade decreased by nearly 40,000 persons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-13a.1895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-13", "file": "debates1922-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "3c496a2471807497", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-13a.1929.2", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wait and see!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "tion 13, officers of the local authority are required to take samples and submit thorn to the public analyst for analysis. The sale of skimmed milk comes under Section 6. I admit that the powers are not necessarily wide enough. The provisions of the Act of 1915 under which milk is dealt with has not yet come into operation. The question, however, is under careful consideration at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-13a.1929.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-13", "file": "debates1922-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "3c496a2471807497", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-13a.1931.10", "colnum": "1931", "heading": "HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down!\" and \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "Then why should you put it on others?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-13a.1931.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-14", "file": "debates1922-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ac54b8646252a211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-14a.2028.2", "colnum": "2028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bolshevists!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "ursing sisters, murders directly due to the speeches and influence of Zaghloul. Zaghloul is the type of weak agitator which you get all over the world—of which there are some even in the Labour party—who make speeches, and when those speeches are translated into action, as is now being done in Johannesburg, they hold up their hands in horror and say, \"We never intended you to do that.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-14a.2028.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-14", "file": "debates1922-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ac54b8646252a211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-14a.2036.0", "colnum": "2036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel JAMES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel JAMES", "preceding_text": "nder the new arrangements—which I welcome, as I see no other course—will the lot of the fellahin in Egypt be better or will it be worse? I submit that we have no reason to be enthusiastic about the future. I have often discussed the matter with people of a liberal turn of mind, who say that it is far better to have a Government of your own, be it bad, than to be under alien domination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-14a.2036.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-14", "file": "debates1922-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ac54b8646252a211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-14a.2043.2", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SWAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To be Zaghloul Pashas.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SWAN", "preceding_text": "t must have observed among these children the signs that they have, by nature, wonderful artistic and scientific powers, but they have not had the leisure nor the kind of home which is essential to develop powers and qualities of that kind. They are dragged away from their homes, if you can call them homes, at an early age, and they graduate working in the fields among the cotton—what to do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-14a.2043.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-14", "file": "debates1922-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ac54b8646252a211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-14a.2104.0", "colnum": "2104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BARNES", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BARNES", "preceding_text": "aided or who was next to bleed them from the Turkish side. What are the conditions now? As regards peace and security in Egypt, nothing could be better. It has been one of the few countries in the world that has had no fear of war. During the late War, in which the best and bravest and most promising young men in all the European countries were being sacrified, not a single Egyptian life was lost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-14a.2104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-14", "file": "debates1922-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ac54b8646252a211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-14a.2134.0", "colnum": "2134", "heading": "ANGLO-PERSIAN OIL COMPANY [PAYMENT OF CALLS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "The House is deeply indebted to the right hon. Baronet for the further information which he has supplied. That information, to which I hope to add a little, changes the position in which we were on Friday when the House took the Vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-14a.2134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-14", "file": "debates1922-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "ac54b8646252a211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-14a.2135.1", "colnum": "2135", "heading": "ANGLO-PERSIAN OIL COMPANY [PAYMENT OF CALLS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "Here are we the only guardians of the taxpayers called upon to exercise that protection which this House only can give to prevent another £950,000 of public money going into a concern under private control and conducted for personal profit. I now want to change the position which I took on Friday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-14a.2135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-15", "file": "debates1922-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "aebe6ca197dc7bd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-15a.2201.0", "colnum": "2201", "heading": "DYESTUFFS (IMPORT REGULATION) ACT (1920) REPEAL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To Levenstein.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "preceding_text": "Therefore, in order to get a majority, they have simply to get one independent member on their side. I want to put another proposition before the House, because complaint is made that we are not progressing fast enough with the manufacture of dyes. There is a colour Rhodamine 6G. Before the War that colour was sold at 11d. per 1b. in this country. During the War I myself paid 140s. per 1b. for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-15a.2201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-15", "file": "debates1922-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "aebe6ca197dc7bd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-15a.2316.2", "colnum": "2316", "heading": "INDIA (Mr. MONTAGU'S RESIGNATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wait and see!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "uch a thing as collective Cabinet responsibility. That is a most remarkable discovery. The relation between an individual Minister and his Cabinet colleagues is always a matter which must and does call for delicate handling. If a Minister on a matter of real importance finds that he cannot agree with his colleagues, or that his colleagues will not agree with him, there is only one safe rule—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-15a.2316.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-15", "file": "debates1922-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "aebe6ca197dc7bd8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-15a.2316.2", "colnum": "2316", "heading": "INDIA (Mr. MONTAGU'S RESIGNATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "been at the head of a Government I have had the good fortune to have with me and under me gifted colleagues, some of them men of pronounced and irrepressible individuality. Nor can I deny that from time to time a certain amount of momentary embarrassment has been caused to the Administration by unforeseen and even unforeseeable ebullitions on the part of those talented and exuberant personalities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-15a.2316.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-16", "file": "debates1922-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "05885bee056511e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-16a.2365.4", "colnum": "2365", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PEACE TREATIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And tried them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": "I have personally seen these handcuffs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-16a.2365.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-17", "file": "debates1922-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "2f68ed41b85387d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-17a.2550.1", "colnum": "2550", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FISHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FISHER", "preceding_text": "worth in this field. We can rely upon it that these supplies will reach their destination, and will be distributed skilfully and thoughtfully according to a pre-ordained plan that will form part of the general scheme of relief to enable life to be carried on till the autumn. If through British agencies these two areas are rescued from ruin and annihilation, the memory of British benevolence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-17a.2550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-17", "file": "debates1922-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "2f68ed41b85387d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-17a.2550.2", "colnum": "2550", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBEK: \"Bolshics!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Drop that!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-17a.2550.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-17", "file": "debates1922-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "2f68ed41b85387d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-17a.2551.6", "colnum": "2551", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So you should!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BARNES", "preceding_text": "I beg to move to reduce the Vote by £10. May I be allowed to take note of the apologetic tone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-17a.2551.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-17", "file": "debates1922-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "2f68ed41b85387d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-17a.2599.0", "colnum": "2599", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel MILDMAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel MILDMAY", "preceding_text": "mises have a right to compensation, without question, for personal injury. They have a further right of compensation for the burning of their homes, and for the loss of their farm produce and business premises, but they cannot get payment in this respect. There is a further consideration, that for the loss of livelihood they receive absolutely nothing. I imagine that I shall be out of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-17a.2599.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-17", "file": "debates1922-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "2f68ed41b85387d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-17a.2615.8", "colnum": "2615", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "mirable arguments that can be urged in support of it. The practical answer is that it does not pay. When you come to put it into operation as your rule of policy, you bring your State to destruction sooner or later. I would say very earnestly to those who hear me that, if the doctrine is to prevail and if we are really to say that no moral consideration is to guide our international conduct—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-17a.2615.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-17", "file": "debates1922-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "2f68ed41b85387d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-17a.2619.2", "colnum": "2619", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1921–22.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"£80,000!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "163;26,000,000, and the guarantees under the Trade Facilities Act of £25,000,000, available to help people to purchase goods from this country who have no immediate credit to purchase them elsewhere—a sum of over £105,000,000 which we have spent in general relief, apart from anything that we are spending in this special relief. Coming to Russia, we have given already £100,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-17a.2619.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-20", "file": "debates1922-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "97e101a7e46d3876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-20a.22.6", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "or prosecuting these men—on a calculation of the evidence and on general grounds. He instructed the Crown Solicitor for the county of Tyrone accordingly. In the ordinary course those men would have been admitted to bail, brought up formally at the next Assizes, \"No Bill\" would have been presented, and they would have been immediately discharged. These men, however, refused to apply for bail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-20a.22.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-20", "file": "debates1922-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "97e101a7e46d3876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-20a.94.3", "colnum": "94", "heading": "ENGINEERING TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And a secret ballot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "preceding_text": " children, who are always paying for these disturbances, who always have to suffer on account of the actions of these close, guilded, craft unions, would welcome and support any Government which would see that in all questions of balloting the same protection is given to the one who is voting and the same publicity is given as in the case of a guardians election or any other election of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-20a.94.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-20", "file": "debates1922-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "97e101a7e46d3876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-20a.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "ENGINEERING TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEHS: \"Agreed, agreed—\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "ntolerable tyranny for employers to say to the men: \"No matter what your own arrangements are, or whether you have worked your full number of hours, you are to place yourselves at our disposal without any consideration for your recreation or enjoyment.\" I have already said that what has taken place in this dispute is regarded as an attack upon trades unionism. May I read one or two extracts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-20a.96.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-20", "file": "debates1922-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "97e101a7e46d3876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-20a.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "ENGINEERING TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, they have—\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "The Motion has not yet been definitely put. The voices have not been collected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-20a.114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-20", "file": "debates1922-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "97e101a7e46d3876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-20a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "ENGINEERING TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Before the ballot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": " the commission with which the Industrial Courts Act invests me. My immediate difficulty is the fact that a ballot is now in progress on the part of three other groups of trade unions. These three groups cover no fewer than 47 trade unions. I put it to the House, could I bring the machinery of the Industrial Courts Act into operation while these ballots are proceeding? My view is that I could not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-20a.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-20", "file": "debates1922-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "97e101a7e46d3876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-20a.121.0", "colnum": "121", "heading": "ENGINEERING TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SMITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have got you on your feet—\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SMITH", "preceding_text": "What we have just heard convinces me of the absolute unwisdom of endeavouring to discuss realities in the atmosphere in which we are placed at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-20a.121.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-03-20", "file": "debates1922-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "97e101a7e46d3876", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-20a.142.0", "colnum": "142", "heading": "ENGINEERING TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No, no.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel L. WILSON", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-20a.141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-21", "file": "debates1922-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "2707ff13f7ebce57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-21a.205.7", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel NEWMAN", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel NEWMAN", "preceding_text": "Suppose an officer of one of these regiments take service with the Irish Republican Army, will he get pay from this Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-21a.205.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-21", "file": "debates1922-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "2707ff13f7ebce57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-21a.211.4", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "Are not these perilous incidents on the frontier largely due to the pogrom against the lives and property of Catholics in Belfast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-21a.211.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-21", "file": "debates1922-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "2707ff13f7ebce57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-21a.322.0", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How can an aeroplane carry two tons?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "bs. A bomb of 5,000 lbs. contains at least four times as much high explosive as a shell of 5,000 lbs. When hon. Members interested in the Navy think that when a warship fires a shell of 5,000 lbs. that it is equivalent to an aeroplane bomb of the same weight, I say that it is nothing of the kind. They are only firing a shell which is one-fourth as effective as an aeroplane bomb of the same weight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-21a.322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-21", "file": "debates1922-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "2707ff13f7ebce57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-21a.423.3", "colnum": "423", "heading": "REPORTS [17th March].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "he American charitable private organisations to undertake the work, because, as a result of the over-representation of the Conservative interest in this House, and now in the Cabinet, he is impotent. We have heard a great deal of the Prime Minister's intended or rumoured resignation. If he resigned on this issue it would be something to be proud of. He ought to have resigned on many other matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-21a.423.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-22", "file": "debates1922-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "439b081efe75a13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-22a.541.0", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL SCOTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL SCOTT", "preceding_text": ") said this afternoon that he thought he had made a very fair analysis of the speech of my hon. and gallant Friend a few days ago. I think he did up to a point, and then it became extremely unfair. What Lord Roberts preached in the pre-War days my hon. and gallant Friend preaches to-day, and that is exactly what the Noble Lord scoffs at, namely, that if you wish for peace you must prepare for war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-22a.541.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-22", "file": "debates1922-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "439b081efe75a13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-22a.559.5", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "At any rate to-day that Russian menace has gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-22a.559.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-22", "file": "debates1922-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "439b081efe75a13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-22a.569.1", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "nge, very well off indeed. The English private soldier gets as much pay as a German Cabinet Minister to-day. When they come back to leaner days at home, or are ordered off to India, or some other part of our legitimate Empire, they get discontented with the change. Another thing which may be a minor matter, but which certainly is not unimportant. Our soldiers are marrying the girls of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-22a.569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-22", "file": "debates1922-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "439b081efe75a13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-22a.575.2", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where do the profits go?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "the troops, but which is appointed by the Government. That is the first distinction between them and a co-operative society. The second is that co-operative societies claim to operate on an equality with all other traders, but this organisation does not wish to accept that condition at all. It claims a monopoly in all our camps, and all sort of privileges which co-operative societies do not claim.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-22a.575.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-22", "file": "debates1922-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "439b081efe75a13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-22a.589.0", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. THOMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That was during the War.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. THOMSON", "preceding_text": "As one who experienced considerable benefit when in the ranks overseas from the presence of the canteens, I sincerely hope that the Government will not go back to the customs that were prevalent in pre-War days. Anyone who served must know that the canteens supplied a very real need of the soldier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-22a.589.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-22", "file": "debates1922-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "439b081efe75a13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-22a.629.0", "colnum": "629", "heading": "GENERAL NURSING COUNCIL FOR ENGLAND AND WALES (RULES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE", "preceding_text": "I have never heard so many misstatements made in five minutes as have been made by the last speaker. He spoke Very sincerely, and no doubt what he said he meant, but, as very often happens, in this case various statements have been made from the Labour benches without the knowledge whatever of the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-22a.629.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-22", "file": "debates1922-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "439b081efe75a13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-22a.629.2", "colnum": "629", "heading": "GENERAL NURSING COUNCIL FOR ENGLAND AND WALES (RULES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is that a joke?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE", "preceding_text": "South-West St. Pancras (Major Barnett) was accused by the Minister of Health of having started a mare's nest, but I think he went on a point of law, and was consequently unable to make his case from the point of view of the facts. I think, however, he did get mixed up with the question of law and the question of ladies, and when one gets mixed up with those two questions it becomes rather awkward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-22a.629.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-22", "file": "debates1922-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "439b081efe75a13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-22a.634.2", "colnum": "634", "heading": "GENERAL NURSING COUNCIL FOR ENGLAND AND WALES (RULES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "hat \"may\" in law had the same meaning as \"shall.\" This referred to the Poor Law officials and their pensions. When it comes to the interpretation of \"may\" as \"shall\"—the matter being brought before this House—the Minister in charge to-night has more than once stated that he has no power of enforcement. When to-night we come to deal with another aspect of the law, we are informed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-22a.634.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-22", "file": "debates1922-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "439b081efe75a13b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-22a.634.2", "colnum": "634", "heading": "GENERAL NURSING COUNCIL FOR ENGLAND AND WALES (RULES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "f this country may be registered, then perhaps go over into Scotland and find that their English registration is not accepted as valid. If we refuse to accept the humble petition we are setting up a state of affairs in which we are going to have, not only a dual authority, but a dual form of registration, in which on one side of the border it will, and on the other side it will not, be recognised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-22a.634.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-23", "file": "debates1922-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a64c2f7c0628df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.669.3", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FISHER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FISHER", "preceding_text": "That is a mathematical problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.669.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-23", "file": "debates1922-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a64c2f7c0628df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I can, of course, speak only on behalf of His Majesty's Government, and say that it is their intention to pay immediately, and until it is proved to the contrary, I presume on the goodwill of the Provisional Government of Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-23", "file": "debates1922-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a64c2f7c0628df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What Courts?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ween these two dates that the great majority of the claims arise. Subsequent to 11th July it has been agreed between His Majesty's Government and the Provisional Government that the Criminal Injuries Acts shall apply. In the case of anyone who brings a claim, under the Criminal Injuries Acts, and gets an award from the Courts, the local authorities will be responsible for the payment of the award.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-23", "file": "debates1922-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a64c2f7c0628df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.721.0", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Go back on England!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "We will look to the Government of Ireland to see that these claims are paid. The two Governments came to an agreement, and we cannot go behind the back of the Irish Government. You must throw it on them. I do not believe any Irish Government will go back upon its Agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.721.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-23", "file": "debates1922-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a64c2f7c0628df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.729.10", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Small farmers!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "The property owners in Southern Ireland are mainly the people whom hon. Members opposite believe in. They are the loyalists, so called.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.729.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-23", "file": "debates1922-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a64c2f7c0628df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.735.1", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "s they are given by the British and Irish Provisional Governments. Certainly I expect that the Irish Provisional Government will keep pace step by step with our march in these matters. Certainly I do not contemplate that we should pay our share to their people and they should pay no corresponding share to ours. What is the use of proceeding on the assumption that they will continually break faith?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-23", "file": "debates1922-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a64c2f7c0628df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.748.2", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The railways.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "lanation of the very mystifying factor in this Supplementary Estimate, but in some ways the explanation is even more puzzling than the item as it stands in its original form. The right hon. Gentleman said it was proposed to mobilise the Air Force in order to conduct the postal service of the country. As far as I know, there was never any question of the postal service going on strike at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.748.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-23", "file": "debates1922-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a64c2f7c0628df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.806.5", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [20th March.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "d by the right hon. Gentleman my clansman, the hon. Gentleman who wants the money and the hon. Gentleman who has moved the reduction so that he will not get all he wants. Surely that would have been a sound business deal. They might have said to the railway companies, \"If you are having £60,000 from this country, then try some of these locomotives as well, and see how they run on your rails.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.806.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-23", "file": "debates1922-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a64c2f7c0628df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.811.5", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [20th March.]", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ntry. The 100 locomotives are there and that is all that the Labour party asks for. There is something that has been done, they say. Some material has been wasted and labour has been used on something that is useless when it might have been used on something else; and they are all happy and contented because £1,500,000 of the taxpayers' money has been squandered on this ridiculous experiment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.811.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-23", "file": "debates1922-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a64c2f7c0628df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.812.2", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [20th March.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMM0N", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"State socialism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMM0N", "preceding_text": "erience of the hon. Member start an argument cm false premises and proceed to knock them down, and then to indicate that that means the death of the Socialist Labour party, as he is pleased to call it. I remember that about the first day I came into this House I heard the hon. and gallant Gentleman who has just spoken putting in a plea to have certain mines subsidised in a particular constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.812.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-23", "file": "debates1922-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a64c2f7c0628df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.813.2", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [20th March.]", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The same thing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "I was arguing in favour of large relief works. If you call this relief work, then I have no objection. On that occasion, I was asking for relief works in my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.813.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-23", "file": "debates1922-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a64c2f7c0628df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.813.5", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [20th March.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "preceding_text": " which he is interested might get some advantage from it. Here, on the other hand, the Government were doing their duty in looking after the interests of the community, as far as they could, and protecting the welfare of the men who, at a crisis in the country's history, worked night and day, not sparing themselves at any time, in order to deliver the goods and enable the men overseas to carry on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.813.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-23", "file": "debates1922-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a64c2f7c0628df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.813.5", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [20th March.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Profiteers!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "preceding_text": "not sparing themselves at any time, in order to deliver the goods and enable the men overseas to carry on. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"] Well, they finished the contracts to time, not like the private em- ployers, who would have let down the nation again and again, who would have kept over contracts, and who would have exploited the nation, even if it meant loss of life and the destruction of our men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.813.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-23", "file": "debates1922-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a64c2f7c0628df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.820.3", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [20th March.]", "cue_speaker": "Captain HOTCHKIN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain HOTCHKIN", "preceding_text": "With regard to these 100 locomotives. Very few of them, I understand, have been sold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-23a.820.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-24", "file": "debates1922-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f73c14b4f475ca0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-24a.848.2", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "m in this connection. The Admiralty, I believe, have reported to the Cabinet that Pembroke is not required for the Navy, but Cabinet pressure has been put upon them to keep Pembroke on. It is stated openly in the Service clubs and elsewhere, and in the Navy, that the Admiralty were told that if they did not insist on abolishing Pembroke the Cabinet would not be so hard on them in other directions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-24a.848.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-24", "file": "debates1922-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f73c14b4f475ca0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-24a.848.2", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is in Wales!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Pembroke on. It is stated openly in the Service clubs and elsewhere, and in the Navy, that the Admiralty were told that if they did not insist on abolishing Pembroke the Cabinet would not be so hard on them in other directions. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"] That is the general impression; that is what is going about; and why is Pembroke being kept on if not for the sake of the shopkeepers in Pembroke?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-24a.848.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-24", "file": "debates1922-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f73c14b4f475ca0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-24a.865.2", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral ADAIR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral ADAIR", "preceding_text": "No one can accuse me of any desire to build battle- ships, because I may claim, more than a year ago, almost to have forestalled Washington, and, if the Admiralty had taken my advice then, perhaps there need not have been any Washington Conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-24a.865.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-24", "file": "debates1922-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f73c14b4f475ca0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-24a.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Consolidate the two establishments.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "here are forms of scholarship which reduce the fees very largely. I think in the case of sons of widows the fee is as low as £30 or £40 a year. I will give more accurate figures. I am only speaking from memory at this moment. When the hon. Members says that the fees for the sons of civilians are too high, he should recollect that the actual cost is nearer double, nearer £400 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-24a.901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-24", "file": "debates1922-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f73c14b4f475ca0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-24a.909.0", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "preceding_text": "For cool and calculated impudence, the speech of the hon. and gallant Gentleman who has just sat down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-24a.909.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-03-27", "file": "debates1922-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "bf16e183b68dfa09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-27a.953.0", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Circulate it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEAL", "preceding_text": "the agreed manner and until such claim has been examined in the usual way. The hon. Member will perceive that the claim is not simply one of actual expenditure upon rolling stock, though I may point out that upon repairs of rolling stock alone the company claims about £2,000,000 more than their charge in 1913, after that charge has been adjusted to meet the increase in wages and prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-27a.952.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-27", "file": "debates1922-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "bf16e183b68dfa09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-27a.986.3", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "My hon. and gallant Friend asks mo to make, and I make, an exception in the case of Washington. The result of that certainly was very satisfactory, and afforded a real hope of better things. But, as somebody added, it was a Conference which the Prime Minister did not attend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-27a.986.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-27", "file": "debates1922-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "bf16e183b68dfa09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-27a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEBS: \"Does he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " There must be some wonderful secret. What is it? We are entitled to know, and not only this House but the country is entitled to know. I am unable to say what very remarkable secrets are locked in the breast of my right hon. Friend. He must know. We are within a week of it, and he has been the chief confidant and the chief colleague of the Prime Minister. There he sits, and he knows all about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-27a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-27", "file": "debates1922-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "bf16e183b68dfa09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-27a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"What is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "there was an outburst of pagans of anticipation of a new and glorious Europe which is going to be, created at Genoa. There was put into my hands an hour or two ago a manifesto to the electors of East Leicester by a gentleman who may, though I do not know and cannot tell, very shortly be a Member of this House. This is what Mr. Marlow, who is described here as the Coalition Liberal candidate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-27a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-27", "file": "debates1922-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "bf16e183b68dfa09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-27a.1038.0", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lord EUSTACE PERCY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Zaharoff!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord EUSTACE PERCY", "preceding_text": " one subject which the British Delegation at Paris was forbidden so much as to mention during the whole of the first four, almost five, months of the Conference. No meeting of the Near Eastern Commission of the Conference was allowed to be held. The matter was left in the hands of the Council of Four, and no man knew what the policy of His Majesty's Government was or, indeed, any other Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-27a.1038.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-03-27", "file": "debates1922-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "bf16e183b68dfa09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-27a.1089.2", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Did not Lord Carson arm the Volunteers?", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "preceding_text": "ion at the present moment is very serious and critical, and I want to ask the Government what action they propose to take in the matter. They have taken none up to the present, or, at any rate, none that is worthy of the name. It is true that they wrote some long telegrams to Mr. Collins stating that this action was entirely wrong and could not be tolerated, but beyond that they have done nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-27a.1089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-27", "file": "debates1922-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "bf16e183b68dfa09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-27a.1089.4", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "preceding_text": "tbreaks which exist at present to a general civil war. Hence they proposed to apply this Conference panacea and, so far as I know, they have asked the representatives of the Free State and the representatives of Ulster to meet them in conference in London, and we were informed this afternoon that the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland has consented to come over here to take part in the conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-27a.1089.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-27", "file": "debates1922-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "bf16e183b68dfa09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-27a.1089.4", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "preceding_text": "ng on Wednesday. This I take to be the more unlikely because that meeting will not be a conference between the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and Mr. Collins alone, but a conference between the Government of this country and Mr. Collins and Sir James Craig. That is to say, the dice will be loaded against Ulster. The Government, of course, will be acting with Mr. Collins in presenting his case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-27a.1089.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-27", "file": "debates1922-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "bf16e183b68dfa09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-27a.1089.4", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No; the reverse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "preceding_text": " that meeting will not be a conference between the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and Mr. Collins alone, but a conference between the Government of this country and Mr. Collins and Sir James Craig. That is to say, the dice will be loaded against Ulster. The Government, of course, will be acting with Mr. Collins in presenting his case. [HON. MEMBEES: \"Why?\"] Because they have done it all along.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-27a.1089.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-27", "file": "debates1922-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "bf16e183b68dfa09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-27a.1089.4", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "preceding_text": "Mr. Collins and Sir James Craig. That is to say, the dice will be loaded against Ulster. The Government, of course, will be acting with Mr. Collins in presenting his case. [HON. MEMBEES: \"Why?\"] Because they have done it all along. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No; the reverse.\"] They have favoured him on every occasion. They have broken their pledges time after time, and hon. Members know that as well as I do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-27a.1089.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-27", "file": "debates1922-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "bf16e183b68dfa09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-27a.1096.0", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the COLONIES (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That has been done!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the COLONIES (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "that if they are to be really successful in re-establishing a tranquil and stable situation in Belfast, they ought frankly to invite the assistance of law-abiding and law-respecting Catholics to help them keep order in the Catholic areas. In some way or other they ought to endeavour to make all sections of the community and both creeds take a responsible share in the peace and order of their city.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-27a.1096.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-28", "file": "debates1922-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "778a3fbc566fe20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-28a.1150.2", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "BRITISH NATIONALITY (MARRIED WOMEN).", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN BUTCHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN BUTCHER", "preceding_text": "y marriage. I may say that this Bill is supported by 59 women's organisations in the United Kingdom, in the Dominions, in Southern Rhodesia, and in East Africa. Of those 59 organisations some 29 are in the United Kingdom. There is one other reason peculiar to this subject to which I need not at length refer; one other reason why I venture to think the House should allow this Bill to be introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-28a.1150.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-28", "file": "debates1922-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "778a3fbc566fe20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-28a.1169.4", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": " can be effected. I absolutely challenge such a statement. The point of view of the Geddes Committee is that this cost is excessive. May I compare the expenditure upon the education of working-class children in the elementary schools with the expenditure upon the education of children of the very well-to-do at Dartmouth. Everyone knows that cadets are drawn from the well-to-do and wealthy classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-28a.1169.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-28", "file": "debates1922-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "778a3fbc566fe20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-28a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HURST", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are doing so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HURST", "preceding_text": "t is not literally a policy of education at all. A child under six cannot be educated. The advantage of allowing such children to go to school is that it keeps them off the streets and out of the kitchen. It is a social need and not an educational need at all. Then so far as the teachers' pay is concerned, I think the country will welcome the decision of the Government not to abate that pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-28a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-28", "file": "debates1922-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "778a3fbc566fe20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-28a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HURST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HURST", "preceding_text": " which are normally associated with University education. I do not think we ought to endorse too passionately the plea of the hon. Gentleman who has just spoken against cutting down expenditure. I am sure we have listened to him with all respect, but of course we know that at the present time it is far better to have the country half educated and solvent than to have it well educated and bankrupt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-28a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-28", "file": "debates1922-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "778a3fbc566fe20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-28a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HURST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HURST", "preceding_text": "ion. I do not think we ought to endorse too passionately the plea of the hon. Gentleman who has just spoken against cutting down expenditure. I am sure we have listened to him with all respect, but of course we know that at the present time it is far better to have the country half educated and solvent than to have it well educated and bankrupt. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Well I think that is a truism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-28a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-28", "file": "debates1922-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "778a3fbc566fe20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-28a.1206.1", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MURRAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBEE: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MURRAY", "preceding_text": "ut the domestic aggression of uncivilisation, and that the only way by which we can meet that is by putting more spirit, more money, better men and better women into education. I think the country has taken a wrong turning by divorcing moral teaching and religious teaching from the education of the young in the primary schools to the extent to which that has been done. This is a Christian country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-28a.1206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-28", "file": "debates1922-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "778a3fbc566fe20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-28a.1213.1", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I went to work at ten.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": "and learned Gentleman referred to the zeal of the people of the nineteenth century for education and other things of that sort. Well, some of us lived just over the border of the century, and we remember that the zeal for education on the part of some people then was that children of eight, nine and 10 years of age were allowed to leave school without the opportunity of getting a decent education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-28a.1213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-28", "file": "debates1922-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "778a3fbc566fe20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-28a.1276.6", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBEE: \"What about Hyde Park?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": "I listened to the hon. Member for Plymouth while she shook her fist at me, and I hope she will listen to me. Let me say this at once. The disbandment of the women police will not entail the employment of one single additional policeman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-28a.1276.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-28", "file": "debates1922-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "778a3fbc566fe20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-28a.1277.2", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER! \"It is everybody's work!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": " that at once, and frankly, just as the Church Army, just as the Salvation Army, just as any other peoples' work is good; and if it be thought that a uniform is of some value, let them wear the uniform of the Ministry of Health, or anything you like, but it is not police work. And, as I said to the Archbishop of Canterbury this afternoon, \"It is your work, and not that of the Metropolitan Police.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-28a.1277.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-28", "file": "debates1922-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "778a3fbc566fe20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-28a.1284.3", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "r task during the War, because they were fighting Prussian militarism. It was not because it was Prussian militarism, but because it was militarism. I do not care whether militarism is American, English, German, or French; it is a curse upon humanity, and has cankered and corroded all that is best and noblest and Christian amongst men and women. For my part, if I had a revolver I could not use it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-28a.1284.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-29", "file": "debates1922-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3f8957e50634f40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-29a.1333.3", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I cannot answer a question like that without notice, and I am sure that the House will appreciate that. The Provisional Government of Ireland is responsible for the government of that country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-29a.1333.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-29", "file": "debates1922-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3f8957e50634f40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-29a.1339.0", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAIRNS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAIRNS", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. Gentleman's attention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-29a.1339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-29", "file": "debates1922-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3f8957e50634f40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-29a.1388.1", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. HOPKINS0N", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By the starvation of the people!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. HOPKINS0N", "preceding_text": ", is at last on an economic basis. The unfortunate colliers of this country are receiving wages equivalent to a standard of living which on the average is very much below the standard of living in 1914. That being so, we know that that great industry is on an economic basis at last. But there is some possibility now of building up a true prosperity instead of the false prosperity of 18 months ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-29a.1388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-29", "file": "debates1922-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3f8957e50634f40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-29a.1398.1", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": " that there should be, but there will be unemployment as long as the right hon. Gentleman introduces Bills of this sort, and eventually the situation will have to be faced. The right hon. Gentleman will have to be unpopular; he will have to say to people: \"If you have not got work, all you can do is to go into the workhouse. Not outdoor relief, but into the workhouse.\" That is all there is for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-29a.1398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-29", "file": "debates1922-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3f8957e50634f40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-29a.1398.5", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "The moment we say that, the people will find work for themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-29a.1398.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-29", "file": "debates1922-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3f8957e50634f40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-29a.1447.1", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"As it should be!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "air, and as probably we are going, I think, to have a very short time in the Committee stage, I should just like to mention three points. The first point is that married insured persons are getting much larger benefits under this Bill than unmarried persons. The normal benefit is 15s., and the married man gets, in addition to that, 5s. for his dependent wife and 1s. extra for each dependent child.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-29a.1447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-29", "file": "debates1922-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3f8957e50634f40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-29a.1455.1", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SWAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SWAN", "preceding_text": "ng to the amount of employment, it throws men out of work. That idea of these learned gentlemen is not going to assist a solution of the question. Labour-saving machinery is coming along, we have seen it introduced in the factories and other places, and we find men—not only skilled workmen—thrown out of work and boys and girls doing the work that skilled trained men formerly had to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-29a.1455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-29", "file": "debates1922-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3f8957e50634f40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-29a.1455.1", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SWAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SWAN", "preceding_text": "here are nine persons, and because there are two sons who can work, like many more, they have been called up before the Employment Exchange and the officers have told them that they have abundance on which to keep their family—£1 18s. Because there are two sons who can work they are told they are not making legitimate efforts to find work, and therefore cannot get the unemployment dole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-29a.1455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-29", "file": "debates1922-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3f8957e50634f40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-29a.1456.0", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SUTTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about his family?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SUTTON", "preceding_text": "esent time. One is by working and receiving a decent standard wage for that work; another is by stealing, being sent to prison, and in that way becoming well housed and decently kept; and the third is by begging. If he begs he is again breaking the law and is sent to prison, but at the same time he is at least assured of as good a living as he is getting when ho is receiving his unemployment dole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-29a.1456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-29", "file": "debates1922-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3f8957e50634f40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-29a.1468.1", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": " work is better than what are called doles—we all agree with that—and here you are providing in this scheme, for 15 months, £60,000,000 of benefits. It is quite true the great bulk of it comes from the employers and the employed persons, but I am paraphrasing and summarising the argument. Is it not a pity, it is argued, that you cannot get some work done for that £60,000,000?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-29a.1468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-29", "file": "debates1922-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3f8957e50634f40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-29a.1485.1", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "EAST INDIA LOANS [RAILWAYS AND IRRIGATION].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "n is given, and it will be given, because there are a lot of people looking for interest—people who believe in getting money without working for it—what is going to happen? Are the orders for these goods to be given to countries who are in an economic position superior to our own? If we give the permission of Parliament for the raising of this money, are we going to make no conditions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-29a.1485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-29", "file": "debates1922-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "3f8957e50634f40a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-29a.1494.4", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "THE DISEASES OF ANIMALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. COOPER", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. COOPER", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether by allowing me to speak the House has not agreed to the Bill being taken?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-29a.1494.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-30", "file": "debates1922-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "3dcb27890e3dd28f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-30a.1525.1", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I am prepared to give a full day, and if it be desired by any of the parties in the House that the Eleven o'Clock Rule should be suspended, I shall be willing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-30a.1525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-30", "file": "debates1922-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "3dcb27890e3dd28f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-30a.1531.9", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EARL NELSON (PENSION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WATERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WATERSON", "preceding_text": "Is it the intention of my right hon. Friend, during the next Budget Debate, to dispense with these perpetual pensions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-30a.1531.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-30", "file": "debates1922-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "3dcb27890e3dd28f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-30a.1583.1", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "I think, under the exceptional circumstances, it should not be less than a third. Why not? Even if my hon. Friend suggests that they should pay the whole lot, I again say why not? Who stands to benefit more than the State?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-30a.1583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-30", "file": "debates1922-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "3dcb27890e3dd28f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-30a.1600.1", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "We have not got the money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-30a.1600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-30", "file": "debates1922-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "3dcb27890e3dd28f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-30a.1602.2", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has been done!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "r. The national resources are to a very large degree untapped. The right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Labour asked the House where he could get the money from, and told us we had no money. His esteemed Leader has told us on previous occasions that a well equipped duke cost the country as much as two battleships, and if you reduced his income by half he would still live royally as one battleship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-30a.1602.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-30", "file": "debates1922-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "3dcb27890e3dd28f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-30a.1608.2", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "preceding_text": "y taxes upon food or taxes upon wages. The State—some curious kind of personality behind a green cloth—is constantly referred to as though it were something entirely outside the workers and something entirely outside the employers. As a matter of fact, the workpeople themselves are paying both the employers' contribution and their own, and five-sixths of the State contribution as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-30a.1608.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-30", "file": "debates1922-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "3dcb27890e3dd28f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-30a.1609.0", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMESON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMESON", "preceding_text": "I shall not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-30a.1609.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-30", "file": "debates1922-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "3dcb27890e3dd28f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-30a.1619.3", "colnum": "1619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EAST INDIA LOANS [RAILWAYS AND IRRIGATION].", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBEB: \"Not necessarily.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " A loan to India of £50,000,000 at the present moment requires some explanation. I am aware that it has already been explained to the Committee, but the real point we have to consider is that the Committee stage was taken late at night when there was no opportunity for many Members to be present to discuss the matter. This £50,000,000 is to be spent on goods manufactured in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-30a.1619.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-30", "file": "debates1922-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "3dcb27890e3dd28f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-30a.1655.0", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Major GRAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major GRAY", "preceding_text": " that if they are to serve that road they must have more powerful motors than they now possess. The district is one of steep gradients and is not suitable for ordinary motorbus traffic. The last time I spoke on the tramway question here I was met by the retort that fixed traffic will never endure: it will give way to flexible traffic. I largely agree; but the trackless trolley is flexible traffic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-30a.1655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-30", "file": "debates1922-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "3dcb27890e3dd28f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-30a.1655.0", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Major GRAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It would be a waste of expense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major GRAY", "preceding_text": "y that the trolley vehicles are not required, that they are highly speculative, and likely to prove a failure in any case, and that with the greater improvement of the omnibuses now in use any further transport facilities could be better provided by additional omnibuses which would not be open to the same objection. Why not let the Committee determine whether all these things can be proved or not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-30a.1655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-30", "file": "debates1922-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "3dcb27890e3dd28f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-30a.1673.5", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "al standards? A system of central standards set up in the Metropolis is against all the idea of the Ministry of Transport, and will not be supported by Sir Henry Maybury. The trolley system involves standards and wires. The wires are an out-of-date system, and have sometimes been carried away. In a heavy snowstorm you may get them carried away by the weight of snow, and people may be electrocuted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-30a.1673.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-30", "file": "debates1922-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "3dcb27890e3dd28f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-30a.1684.2", "colnum": "1684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "or this discussion, to the problem which evidently the Home Secretary is content to dismiss with a waive of the hand. I do not know if for the purpose of shortening the discussion the right hon. Gentleman is prepared to get up and say that the Government will withdraw Clause 2. If they are prepared to do that I do not suppose that we on this side will have any great objection to the other Clauses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-30a.1684.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-31", "file": "debates1922-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "05b9fcfe2548f73b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1734.0", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "I think it is desirable that there should be some words from the party which I represent on the final stages of this Treaty Bill. I am sure the hon. Members who sit behind me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1734.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-31", "file": "debates1922-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "05b9fcfe2548f73b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1742.0", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. BUTCHER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Leicester!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. BUTCHER", "preceding_text": "present supporting the Government—that there is the possibility, and it is no good shutting our eyes to it, that this Government may not be in power for ever. I am putting it very mildly, but let me put it a little more strongly. There is a possibility that this Government may not be in power when the time comes for putting this provision into the Bill of which the Colonial Secretary speaks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-31", "file": "debates1922-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "05b9fcfe2548f73b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1744.0", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS dissented.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "r during the progress of the Government of Ireland Act a good many of us on this bench and in other parts of the House said that the Act allowed too many Courts. But as it is now, it seems certain that this Court cannot even be constituted. At the same time, the Colonial Secretary has just told us that the representatives at the Conference agreed that they did not want the alteration made at once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-31", "file": "debates1922-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "05b9fcfe2548f73b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1746.0", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": " live. I suggest that the men who met in London yesterday, and the day before—and Sir James Craig was one of them—will be able to adjust this matter as they have settled bigger difficulties than this question of the Court of Appeal. They have settled bigger problems, and I hope and believe, they can solve any other problem as soon as Irishmen are prepared to knock their heads together,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1746.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-31", "file": "debates1922-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "05b9fcfe2548f73b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1757.0", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. BUTCHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. BUTCHER", "preceding_text": "I should like to join with certain hon. Members in the tribute which they have paid to the Colonial Secretary for the ability and reasonableness with which he has conducted these Debates. May I suggest that he has an opportunity of illustrating that ability and reasonableness upon which he has been complimented by accepting the Lords Amendment, which he can do with general assent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1757.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-31", "file": "debates1922-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "05b9fcfe2548f73b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1765.0", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "o all the public ignominy attaching to the operation of crime and outrage, with nobody but Mr. De Valera, perhaps, to take their part. I am sure the Government will agree that that would not be treating them fairly. They would come back to this House and say, \"We cannot get on, and we want our rights under the Act of 1920.\" It may be that when they do so there will be a Labour Government in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-31", "file": "debates1922-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "05b9fcfe2548f73b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1769.3", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (AGREEMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "I thank you very much, Sir. I know I am generally out of order. I know I am a fool—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1769.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-31", "file": "debates1922-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "05b9fcfe2548f73b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1781.5", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "um which I suggest can be saved by the reduction of interest. Nevertheless, the main purpose I have in view is to have some Government Department commencing this policy of paying no more in interest than is absolutely necessary. The Bank rate has been reduced within the past few months by 2½ per cent., but we are still paying the same rate of interest as before the reduction of the Bank rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1781.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-31", "file": "debates1922-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "05b9fcfe2548f73b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1781.5", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "those experts, as much as that of amateurs like the rest of us in this House who were not on that Committee. The Bank rate having been reduced, and also the rate of interest on deposits in banks, I cannot see any justification for the Government's offer to pay the same rate of interest on money that they want to borrow to-day as they were paying in 1919, and even in 1918, the last year of the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1781.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-31", "file": "debates1922-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "05b9fcfe2548f73b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1781.5", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "r opportunity when I have finished, and perhaps it will be better if, rather than merely interjecting \"No,\" they produce some evidence. The rates of interest in other categories have been reduced, and I cannot see why this Government, pledged as it is to economy, should continue to pay the higher rate. The policy of the Government ought to be to secure for itself money at the lowest rate possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1781.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-31", "file": "debates1922-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "05b9fcfe2548f73b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1781.5", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "e rate of interest to-day, even in the case of those securities which have not been converted, is already too high in view of the reduction in the price of money and in the cost of living. It may be utterly a heresy, so far as it affects the financiers of this House, but I fail to see why the taxpayers of this country should be invited to pay a higher rate of interest than is absolutely necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1781.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-31", "file": "debates1922-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "05b9fcfe2548f73b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1784.1", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the price of issue?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "e payment of unemployment benefit. It is purely an expedient, not a matter of principle. I do believe that the money can be obtained for this lower rate of interest. I have already pointed out to the House that the French Minister of Finance has announced that he is only going to pay 3½ per cent. upon any new issues of National Defence Bonds and Treasury Bills issued by the French Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-31", "file": "debates1922-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "05b9fcfe2548f73b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1784.1", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " of interest. I have already pointed out to the House that the French Minister of Finance has announced that he is only going to pay 3½ per cent. upon any new issues of National Defence Bonds and Treasury Bills issued by the French Government. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the price of issue?\"] I am stating the rate of interest. The price at which they are going to be issued has not been announced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-31", "file": "debates1922-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "05b9fcfe2548f73b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1784.1", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "icing that we should go on paying high rates of interest. Men who in this House at other times boast about their business acumen and pose as great financiers, telling the House that it ought to economise and giving the Government the benefit of their business qualities and experience, now sneer and scoff at the idea of a lower rate of interest upon moneys that are to be borrowed by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-31", "file": "debates1922-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "05b9fcfe2548f73b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1784.1", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " Government for continuing the payment of high rates of interest, and it is as one of the people, and as a representative of the public that I am putting this Amendment forward and carrying on the campaign. I am doing that interest upon money that is borrowed to carry on Government schemes should be at a lower rate than is being paid at present. That is surely a perfectly straight and clear issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-03-31", "file": "debates1922-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "05b9fcfe2548f73b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1785.0", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Would the Co-operative Societies lend it at 4 per cent.?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "It is for the Government to say they cannot get it. If I were in the Chancellor's shoes, I would get it for a great deal less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-03-31a.1785.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-03", "file": "debates1922-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf70c9274fb8917c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1816.1", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Major WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major WOOD", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman consider that any industry is being safeguarded by the exclusion of these commodities; and is he not prepared to suspend the Act in regard to these commodities until the manufacture is started in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-03", "file": "debates1922-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf70c9274fb8917c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1848.0", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. D. REES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. D. REES", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman have a care lest these questions, which are asked to prejudice the Turkish cause at a critical moment, are discussed in this House, and is it not better that these timely massacres should be left to investigation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1848.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-03", "file": "debates1922-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf70c9274fb8917c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1885.1", "colnum": "1885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Lloyd George)", "preceding_text": "on. There are conflicting criticisms of this proposal, and, judging by the variety, I may say the infinite variety, of the Amendments which have been tabled, some critics suggest that it goes too far, and there are other and more numerous critics who suggest that it does not go far enough. Probably they both agree that the particular delegation to go to Genoa is not one which will meet acceptance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-03", "file": "debates1922-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf70c9274fb8917c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1891.1", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How does that affect the housewife of Vienna?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "Vienna a housewife has always to consider in the morning whether she will pay her bill before noon or in the afternoon. It is a kind of gamble which every housewife has. And that applies to other capitals now. Between the date that an order is given and delivery is effected the exchange may change by 20, 100 or 200 per cent. It is almost impossible for anyone to do business under those conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-03", "file": "debates1922-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf70c9274fb8917c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1891.1", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are at peace!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ficulty with which he had to deal, and from which I am absolutely free, Mr. Pitt put forward those proposals, and it was only the folly of the French revolutionaries themselves that was responsible for the failure. Mr. Pitt realised that unless peace were made with the French revolutionaries there would be no peace for many a long devastating year, and there was not for 18 years after that period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-03", "file": "debates1922-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf70c9274fb8917c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1891.1", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "u appease the whole of Europe. Until you establish peace over the whole of Europe there will be a standing element of disturbance, and trade will not go on. The nerves of commerce will be shaken while there are constant rumours of great armies being built up, of hordes of savage revolutionaries to be let loose upon Europe to reduce the countries of Europe to the same condition of desolation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-03", "file": "debates1922-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf70c9274fb8917c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1908.1", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": " to the fact that during his absence, and within the last few days, the Minister of Labour has given us an estimate of how long we may expect this kind of thing to continue. Further millions are to be provided, and further borrowing powers are to be secured, in order to keep alive those of our workmen who have been driven to a state of almost perpetual idleness because of reparations of this kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-03", "file": "debates1922-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf70c9274fb8917c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1908.1", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "n workpeople has had the most mischievous result on our opportunity for work. If the pace at which Germany is compelled to produce is maintained the result will be that during the development of the reparation period a serious displacement of British labour will take place. If these things are not known to my right hon. Friend opposite I hope that some attention will be paid to them in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-03", "file": "debates1922-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf70c9274fb8917c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1934.2", "colnum": "1934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "pe, will be confined within these walls, where people understand it, and I hope that he will not make the same sort of speech on the platform. He actually told us that the unemployment to-day was duo to the payment by Germany of reparations. If that means anything, it means that, owing to the payment of reparations, German goods are flooding our markets to a far greater extent than before the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1934.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-03", "file": "debates1922-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf70c9274fb8917c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1934.2", "colnum": "1934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is harmless!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "y, wherever they come from, and whatever the cause of the cheapness. The argument will therefore require reconsideration from that point of view also. There is very little I want to say about the Motion. I am compelled to say it is rather difficult to understand, on the one hand, why the Government should have put down this Resolution, and, on the other hand, why anyone should have objected to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1934.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-03", "file": "debates1922-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf70c9274fb8917c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1934.2", "colnum": "1934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They were very old.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "nt from outside; but just as little, or even less, would I take any step such as recognition might mean which would strengthen that Government against a possible change from within. That I would not do. Let us consider what are the conditions. The Prime Minister in his speech this afternoon read quotations from a speech of Lenin's which I noticed were very interesting to my hon. Friend's opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1934.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-03", "file": "debates1922-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf70c9274fb8917c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1943.0", "colnum": "1943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lord ROBERT CECIL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And run away.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord ROBERT CECIL", "preceding_text": " House. I could not help feeling that it was an exceedingly characteristic speech. My right hon. Friend, as far as I understood him, accepted all the arguments against the Genoa Conference which have been urged, both by what are called the Diehard section and by the hon. and right hon. Gentlemen who sit behind me, and, accepting all those arguments, he stated that he should support the Resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1943.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-03", "file": "debates1922-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf70c9274fb8917c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1952.0", "colnum": "1952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "cy. There is also another duty which, I think, we have very carefully to bear in mind. Certain new border States were in process of formation. It was not possible for us, I think, totally to disregard that. So at the beginning there were certain obligations of honour we had to discharge.\"—[OFFICIAL, REPORT, 17th November, 1919; col. 683, Vol. 121.] That is the \"quotation which I had in mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1952.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-03", "file": "debates1922-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf70c9274fb8917c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1952.0", "colnum": "1952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "lly to bear in mind. Certain new border States were in process of formation. It was not possible for us, I think, totally to disregard that. So at the beginning there were certain obligations of honour we had to discharge.\"—[OFFICIAL, REPORT, 17th November, 1919; col. 683, Vol. 121.] That is the \"quotation which I had in mind. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about it?\"] Well, those are the obligations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1952.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-03", "file": "debates1922-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf70c9274fb8917c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1970.0", "colnum": "1970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lord EUSTACE PERCY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do you know what you mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord EUSTACE PERCY", "preceding_text": "reated us to a speech with which we are so often accustomed. He spoke over and over again of treaty revision—the revision of the Versailles Treaty, the revision of treaties of peace. What did he mean? He also mentioned reparations. We have heard this talk about revision and revision and revision, and not one hon. Member, or the right hon. Gentlemen who have used the word know what they mean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-03", "file": "debates1922-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf70c9274fb8917c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1971.1", "colnum": "1971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "e Council, who was representing this country at the Conference. No attempt was made to sound the United States as to the attitude they would take. Just the one moment was chosen for this invitation which anybody with the slightest acquaintance with American policy could have told the Government was the moment most certain to elicit a complete and emphatic refusal from the United States Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-03", "file": "debates1922-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf70c9274fb8917c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1975.0", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. WALSH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"1,400!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. WALSH", "preceding_text": "et, after all these conferences have been held, after all these fine promises have been given to us, after all these happy hopes have been held out, we are told to-day that the prospect is blacker and more depressing than ever before. Indeed, we know this. If we were not so informed by the Prime Minister himself, we do know that the German mark stands to-day at somewhere about 1,200 to the £.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1975.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-03", "file": "debates1922-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf70c9274fb8917c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1975.0", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. WALSH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Washington?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. WALSH", "preceding_text": "osture, because no conference can have any useful end under such conditions, is the reason we have put down our Motion. Because of these successive Conferences having been failures, the Government come forward with their claim with very seriously diminished authority. They have already indulged in a number of Conferences, to which there seem to be no limit. Not one single useful point has emerged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1975.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-03", "file": "debates1922-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf70c9274fb8917c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1975.0", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. WALSH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cave men!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. WALSH", "preceding_text": "ine representative authority, it would be all very well to give a Vote of Confidence. A Vote of Confidence in the Government! But you cannot have a real Vote of Confidence unless it is based upon a truly representative House. Apart from the feeling outside, everybody knows that the House itself is violently torn with internal convulsions. You have \"Die-bards\" here and \"Die-hards\" there, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1975.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-03", "file": "debates1922-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf70c9274fb8917c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1975.0", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. WALSH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wolverhampton!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. WALSH", "preceding_text": "ill fail to understand that, because we are outnumbered by three to one, that this Vote is not a representative one? They know perfectly well that the House itself is deprived of representative authority, and that the nation has deprived it of representative authority? During the last six months there have been a series of by-elections, north, south, east, and west; in Scotland, England and Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1975.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-03", "file": "debates1922-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf70c9274fb8917c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1975.0", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. WALSH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cambridge!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. WALSH", "preceding_text": "nation has deprived it of representative authority? During the last six months there have been a series of by-elections, north, south, east, and west; in Scotland, England and Wales. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Wolverhampton!\"] On every single occasion the Government itself sent their very best henchmen down to engage in the conflict. They have put their strongest case forward. In Heywood, at West Houghton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1975.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-03", "file": "debates1922-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf70c9274fb8917c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1981.0", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN (Leader of the House)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have half an hour!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN (Leader of the House)", "preceding_text": " Walsh) that I have been labouring under a delusion. It is not His Majesty's Ministers who have ceased to possess the confidence of the country; it is the House of Commons. The Motion before the House, as interpreted by the hon. Gentleman on behalf of the party for which he speaks, is a Vote of Censure not upon Ministers, but upon the House. I do not propose in the short time at my disposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1981.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-03", "file": "debates1922-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf70c9274fb8917c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1981.0", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN (Leader of the House)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN (Leader of the House)", "preceding_text": " it, everybody—well, nearly everybody, but not everybody—holds that the Conference is right, and that the summoning of the Conference is right. A considerable section hold that the people who represent this country are wrong, and say that the fact that they are going there—seeing that they are the sources of all evil in an afflicted world—condemns the Conference to failure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1981.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-03", "file": "debates1922-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf70c9274fb8917c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1981.0", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN (Leader of the House)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You ought to have known that years ago!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN (Leader of the House)", "preceding_text": "ay claim the same for our Motion. It has enabled the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Platting (Mr. Clynes) to explain to an interested and gratified House of Commons that he had always foreseen that the Russian experiment in self-government was doomed to failure; that Communism could never succeed in a country—and, he might have added, in a world—where everyone was not a Communist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1981.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-03", "file": "debates1922-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf70c9274fb8917c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1983.1", "colnum": "1983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Hear, hoar!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " discussed, and that reparations cannot be reviewed and adjusted on a new basis at that Conference. Would anyone not a madman, who desired the readjustment of the Treaty of Versailles, or a modification of the reparation agreement, choose a Conference like that at Genoa in order to open that question and discuss it? Had you proposed to put that upon the agenda, there would have been no Conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1983.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-03", "file": "debates1922-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf70c9274fb8917c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1988.2", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I wish to draw the attention of the House—[ Interruption ] We are here to criticise the policy of the Government during the last three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1988.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-03", "file": "debates1922-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "cf70c9274fb8917c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1988.2", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I wish to draw the attention of the House—[ Interruption ] We are here to criticise the policy of the Government during the last three years. [ Interruption, ] This is discrediting the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-03a.1988.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-04", "file": "debates1922-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8ddef6e801ef8cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-04a.2069.1", "colnum": "2069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. D. REES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: Do you object to that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. D. REES", "preceding_text": "thers who will come in. Anxious as I am to escape from figures—for which I have no love—there is one figure with which I must deal. The figure of £78,000,000 for the Labour Department is so large that it would not be proper to pass it over without some explanation. It is made up of the following items: £10,000,000 odd for the training and resettlement of ex-service men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-04a.2069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-04", "file": "debates1922-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8ddef6e801ef8cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-04a.2069.1", "colnum": "2069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. D. REES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not his Leader.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. D. REES", "preceding_text": "ving regard to the needs of the nation, would think of adding £3,000,000 to the very considerable sum of £6,000,000 or £7,000,000 which he proposed by this scheme that the country should incur. It has gone from £7,000,000 to £9,000,000, and from £9,000,000 to £19,000,000. Perhaps the hon. Member for Spen Valley (Mr. Myers) will remember these words of his Leader.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-04a.2069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-04", "file": "debates1922-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8ddef6e801ef8cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-04a.2094.0", "colnum": "2094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON.MEMBER: \"Become lawyers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "his living at the earliest possible moment, because he knows that the greatest of all possessions that a man can have is the faculty and power to make his way and earn his bread. But the boy who wants to be a hanger-on, who wants to get a salary and a safe job, goes in, of course, for the higher education. The vigorous men who are going to do the real work of this world start life early and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-04a.2094.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-04", "file": "debates1922-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8ddef6e801ef8cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-04a.2097.1", "colnum": "2097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And double your ignorance!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "teaching they ever got. Mrs. Humphrey Ward once said that it took five years for a young man to recover from the effects of an Oxford career, and there is a great deal of truth in that. I would urge that the extraordinary stupidity of the system of education pursued in this country is to be found in its compulsory character. Take away compulsion, and you will halve your education expenses at once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-04a.2097.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-04", "file": "debates1922-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8ddef6e801ef8cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-04a.2115.1", "colnum": "2115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Safeguarding of Industries Act!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "s a saving in the total Vote of only £1,500, and the travelling expenses are increased by 20 per cent. If one chose to take these White Papers and go through them, it would become apparent that the same thing was happening in Department after Department. In the Customs and Excise there was last year one secretary at £1,370 per year. Now there are two secretaries at a cost of £2,800.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-04a.2115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-04", "file": "debates1922-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8ddef6e801ef8cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-04a.2131.0", "colnum": "2131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "tain time. I would not, however, recommend that to this House, and for this reason, that here we have men of experience whom we should not like to limit to a quarter of an hour; they are men of experience and speak with wide knowledge upon particular questions. At the same time there are other people, people perhaps like myself who, if they speak five minutes, speak about as much as they ought to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-04a.2131.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-04", "file": "debates1922-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8ddef6e801ef8cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-04a.2133.1", "colnum": "2133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "preceding_text": "I only desire to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-04a.2133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-04", "file": "debates1922-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8ddef6e801ef8cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-04a.2167.0", "colnum": "2167", "heading": "OLD AGE PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Co-operative movement?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "fect which their recommendations would have. In regard to this particular Motion, I should like to congratulate my hon. Friends of the Socialist party on the fact that at last they have discovered that thrift and provision for old age is a good thing. It has taken them many years and generations to discover that, but it is something to have got them to have put it down now in the form of a Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-04a.2167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-04", "file": "debates1922-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8ddef6e801ef8cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-04a.2167.0", "colnum": "2167", "heading": "OLD AGE PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We never do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " but that subject is not relevant to-night. I was surprised and amazed to hear the right hon. Member for the Gorbals Division (Mr. G. Barnes), whom I respect very sincerely, saying that he would like the tail of this proposal to be cut out. I maintain that it is the best part of the Motion, and I think they should carry it a little further instead of actually attacking thrift as they generally do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-04a.2167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-04", "file": "debates1922-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8ddef6e801ef8cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-04a.2178.1", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "OLD AGE PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ould rather be with those who are thrifty. I wish we could have a universal old age pension. I would like to see it and it is perfectly logical. The Income Tax payers have been mentioned. If we had an Income Tax system such as they have in Holland it would be better. There a man only pays Income Tax on the money he spends and not on the money he saves. That is the system which we ought to go upon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-04a.2178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-04", "file": "debates1922-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8ddef6e801ef8cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-04a.2184.1", "colnum": "2184", "heading": "CHURCH OF ENGLAND ASSEMBLY POWERS ACT, 1919.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "s now trying to have her cake and eat it. She is to retain all the privileges of a State Church, but wishes to be relieved of State control. Not one of her advantages or privileges as a State church are to be given up, and she is now to be allowed to say that her freedom is not sufficient. I am sure that throughout the country there is a growing desire for the divorce of the State from the Church.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-04a.2184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-04", "file": "debates1922-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8ddef6e801ef8cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-04a.2184.1", "colnum": "2184", "heading": "CHURCH OF ENGLAND ASSEMBLY POWERS ACT, 1919.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "e general disestablishment, because of the necessity of asserting the principle that a State and its Church should not be interlocked, so that the Church cannot pursue her spiritual development and carry on without control by the State. Those of us who take that view and supported the passing of this Bill most reluctantly now find ourselves faced with this fresh measure. All I have to say is this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-04a.2184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-04", "file": "debates1922-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8ddef6e801ef8cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-04a.2192.0", "colnum": "2192", "heading": "EAST INDIA LOANS (RAILWAYS AND IRRIGATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ial town which is concerned with the manufacture of railway rolling-stock. It contains three of the largest locomotive shops—the Hyde Park Works, the Polmadie Works, and the Atlas Works—all of which at the present time are in a very tad condition. If there is any possibility of some of this money being spent in the supply of railway rolling-stock and coming to Glasgow, I for one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-04a.2192.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-05", "file": "debates1922-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "44b9e944d9708495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2351.0", "colnum": "2351", "heading": "COALITION GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RONALD McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RONALD McNEILL", "preceding_text": "eave the Government and say that, although they were not prepared to resist the policy any longer, they would not themselves take the responsibility of carrying it out. The right hon. Gentleman in reply to that—I thought at the time it was a most amazing answer, and I submit now that it was an amazing answer—said the course I was asking him to take was a course of \"ease and dishonour.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2351.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-05", "file": "debates1922-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "44b9e944d9708495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2356.1", "colnum": "2356", "heading": "COALITION GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And to his country!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": " The right hon. Gentleman, I think in the same speech, said that there was such a thing as loyalty to his colleagues and his leader. I quite agree, and that is just where the mischief comes in. 9.0 P.M. The right hon. Gentleman felt pressed by the loyalty which he owes to his chief and his colleagues, but he also owes a loyalty to his party and his principles. Those two loyalties were in conflict.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-05", "file": "debates1922-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "44b9e944d9708495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2363.1", "colnum": "2363", "heading": "COALITION GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is why you locked them out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "preceding_text": "of the Labour party also, knows that the greatest factor to which the country owes its present state is that of the continual stoppages of work which we have had in every industry. The country has never got time to recover, and until there is better feeling and more toleration between employers and employed we shall never succeed in bringing the country back to the position it held before the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-05", "file": "debates1922-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "44b9e944d9708495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2363.1", "colnum": "2363", "heading": "COALITION GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Face the facts!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "preceding_text": "leader in this—that if the whole of the men in the engineering trade had voted in the ballot, they would have accepted the advice their trade union leaders gave them, and there would never have been any question of a lock-out. Only one-third voted, and the result was that the Bolshevists and the Socialists in the trade union got hold of them, and they were the means of this present lock-out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2363.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-05", "file": "debates1922-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "44b9e944d9708495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2378.0", "colnum": "2378", "heading": "COALITION GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lord HUGH CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord HUGH CECIL", "preceding_text": "ry lightly if this Motion were carried by myself and a number of well-effected citizens of the Labour, Liberal, and Conservative parties, as I am quite sure that no Prime Minister could be so bad as the present Prime Minister, and that so long as he is Prime Minister the condition of the country will go on getting worse and worse, as it has gone on getting worse and worse ever since the Armistice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2378.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-05", "file": "debates1922-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "44b9e944d9708495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2378.0", "colnum": "2378", "heading": "COALITION GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lord HUGH CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord HUGH CECIL", "preceding_text": ", Liberal, and Conservative parties, as I am quite sure that no Prime Minister could be so bad as the present Prime Minister, and that so long as he is Prime Minister the condition of the country will go on getting worse and worse, as it has gone on getting worse and worse ever since the Armistice. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Every part of the Government policy is worse now than it was in the beginning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2378.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-05", "file": "debates1922-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "44b9e944d9708495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2382.1", "colnum": "2382", "heading": "COALITION GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "I am not a Minister. If I had been a Minister, I would have helped the national good by resigning at a very much earlier date. No one resigns in the present Government until, like the late Secretary of State for India, (Mr. Montagu), he is turned out. They remain on to the last, even if it consists very little with their dignity and still lees with their honour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-05", "file": "debates1922-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "44b9e944d9708495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2382.1", "colnum": "2382", "heading": "COALITION GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "o year. Such a Government imperils our public life as it imperils the national good. We cannot do better, so far as the interests of the country are concerned, than to try to make an end of this Government. If my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House thinks that I have been too harsh, I will withdraw. If he thinks that I have said too much, I have no lack of personal esteem for himself.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-05", "file": "debates1922-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "44b9e944d9708495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2382.3", "colnum": "2382", "heading": "COALITION GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "I certainly meant it. Otherwise I should not have said it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2382.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-05", "file": "debates1922-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "44b9e944d9708495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2383.1", "colnum": "2383", "heading": "COALITION GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "What I mean is this, that he has contradicted himself and his whole public life by what he has done in connection with Ireland. That is dishonouring. I quite agree that he probably did it from motives which are perfectly honourable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-05", "file": "debates1922-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "44b9e944d9708495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2383.1", "colnum": "2383", "heading": "COALITION GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": ", because by so doing they injure their own reputation without benefit to the public; on the contrary they are carrying to every part of the Empire an atmosphere of discredit. I saw only the other day a business man who had been round the world in the course of his business. His impression was that everywhere the reputation of this country for commercial honesty and straightforwardness had fallen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-05", "file": "debates1922-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "44b9e944d9708495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2383.1", "colnum": "2383", "heading": "COALITION GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is his name?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "ying to every part of the Empire an atmosphere of discredit. I saw only the other day a business man who had been round the world in the course of his business. His impression was that everywhere the reputation of this country for commercial honesty and straightforwardness had fallen. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Name.\"] He attributed it to the reaction of the discredit of the political policy of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-05", "file": "debates1922-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "44b9e944d9708495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2383.1", "colnum": "2383", "heading": "COALITION GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "ll make its own contribution to the solution of our difficulties and will play a part not unworthy of its history. And when this Government has become only a recollection, we, and I hope those who are to be opposed to us to-night—we do not at all shrink from the Division—will be able to combine in a Coalition founded on principle, even those who are temporarily in disagreement with us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-05", "file": "debates1922-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "44b9e944d9708495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2383.1", "colnum": "2383", "heading": "COALITION GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "ll play a part not unworthy of its history. And when this Government has become only a recollection, we, and I hope those who are to be opposed to us to-night—we do not at all shrink from the Division—will be able to combine in a Coalition founded on principle, even those who are temporarily in disagreement with us. [ Interruption. ] It is not true that we desire to break up the party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2383.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-05", "file": "debates1922-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "44b9e944d9708495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2385.7", "colnum": "2385", "heading": "COALITION GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "other hon. Members who have spoken on the other side of the House. We are, for good or ill, the capitalist party. The principles of collectivism and individualism are diametrically opposed, and we are not afraid to stand for private enterprise on this side just as hon. Members opposite are ready to stand for their principles. We have been proud of capitalism in the past, and will be in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2385.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-05", "file": "debates1922-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "44b9e944d9708495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2385.7", "colnum": "2385", "heading": "COALITION GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "d of capitalism in the past, and will be in the future. [ Interruption. ] We can argue hon. Members opposite out of their beliefs, but not by setting up this puppet show of Liberal and Tory. Let us be frank since these great issues have been challenged. We know very well that there is a division of opinion in this country, and that there are two sets of opinion. Let us be open and honest about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2385.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-05", "file": "debates1922-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "44b9e944d9708495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2385.7", "colnum": "2385", "heading": "COALITION GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "tting our heads in the sand and bringing up these old, ancient, antiquated cries to which the Mover of this Motion had recourse, to the very little edification of the House to-night? When we come to principles, let us have questions of real principle for which there is no need to seek because they are forced on us by every by-election throughout the country, and will be thrust on us more and more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2385.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-05", "file": "debates1922-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "44b9e944d9708495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2385.7", "colnum": "2385", "heading": "COALITION GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ghout the country, and will be thrust on us more and more. [ Interruption. ] I have no desire to shirk that great contest, neither has any Member on this side of the House. That great split in opinion will have to be fought out up and down the country at the hustings, and for any Member to say it is dangerous for anyone to realise it is an ostrich-like attitude. I am not going to detain the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2385.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-05", "file": "debates1922-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "44b9e944d9708495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2388.0", "colnum": "2388", "heading": "COALITION GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Die-hard group, members of his own party, Members who have done nothing", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-05", "file": "debates1922-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "44b9e944d9708495", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2388.2", "colnum": "2388", "heading": "COALITION GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Mr. G. MURRAY rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-05a.2388.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-06", "file": "debates1922-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "fd8f2bb2f1f49e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-06a.2462.1", "colnum": "2462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment of s. 12 (3) of principal Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROSE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Give it roughly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROSE", "preceding_text": "um of £3,839,000 is taken from the fund. Does that mean 12½ per cent. on the contributions of 12 million members, or does it mean what the law authorises the Minister to take— because this is not an Act yet; it is only a Bill? If it is 10 per cent. it means that £38,000,000 is the sum total of the contributions, and 12½ per cent. on the £38,000,000 is something over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-06a.2462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-06", "file": "debates1922-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "fd8f2bb2f1f49e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-06a.2505.1", "colnum": "2505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment of 10 and 11 Geo. V. c. 30, s. 8.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wait and see.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "to a Committee to find a set of words that will be acceptable to the Ministry of Labour, to the employers and to the men; that the men and the employers again have failed to come to a common agreement, and that he, the Minister, as the third party, cannot do anything in the matter, and this obnoxious Clause must still remain in the Bill? Is that the position which the Ministry is going to take up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-06a.2505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-06", "file": "debates1922-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "fd8f2bb2f1f49e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-06a.2511.0", "colnum": "2511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment of 10 and 11 Geo. V. c. 30, s. 8.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRUNDY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRUNDY", "preceding_text": "One does not like to intervene for long, but I want to state definitely that I am altogether dissatisfied with the withdrawal of this suggested new Clause and the promise of a Committee to sit and report at some time, for we have not had any statement made as to what that time is likely to be. The Minister of Labour has known about this question for months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-06a.2511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-06", "file": "debates1922-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "fd8f2bb2f1f49e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-06a.2511.0", "colnum": "2511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment of 10 and 11 Geo. V. c. 30, s. 8.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRUNDY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It may be true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRUNDY", "preceding_text": "have the effect, if at a large colliery, of throwing some 1,500 to 2,000 men out of work. Would these men,\" I asked, \"be entitled to the benefit?\" I received no reply. Of course, we know now they would not be so entitled. We ought to force this Amendment and not be satisfied without a Division. It would not, perhaps, do to say that these men were being robbed. \"Bobbed\" is not a Parliamentary word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-06a.2511.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-04-06", "file": "debates1922-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "fd8f2bb2f1f49e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-06a.2564.1", "colnum": "2564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Amalgamation with unemployment benefit of grants payable; under 11 and 12 Geo. 5, c. 62, in respect of certain dependants.)", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Mr. C. WHITE rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-06a.2564.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-06", "file": "debates1922-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "fd8f2bb2f1f49e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-06a.2575.0", "colnum": "2575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 10.—(Legal proceedings.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I beg to second the Amendment. The House is entitled to hear the statement made by the Minister in Committee, and to get to know from him how far he is prepared to carry out the promise he has evidently given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-06a.2575.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-06", "file": "debates1922-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "fd8f2bb2f1f49e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-06a.2581.2", "colnum": "2581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 15.—(Construction, saving, short title, commencement, and duration.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NAYLOR", "preceding_text": "ely dependent upon him shall be able to claim the dependants' grant of 1s. for that brother or sister. As the Clause stands in the Bill', it says that the expression \"child\" includes a step-child, an adopted child, and an illegitimate child. I put it to the Minister that surely a younger brother or sister of an employed person is just as much entitled to receive the grant as an illegitimate child?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-06a.2581.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-06", "file": "debates1922-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "fd8f2bb2f1f49e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-06a.2582.1", "colnum": "2582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 15.—(Construction, saving, short title, commencement, and duration.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And under fourteen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NAYLOR", "preceding_text": "If dependent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-06a.2582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-07", "file": "debates1922-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "22583be611b01d19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-07a.2656.0", "colnum": "2656", "heading": "RAILWAY FIRES ACT (1905) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. A. LEWIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES:\"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. A. LEWIS", "preceding_text": "Almost everything worth saying on this Bill has been said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-07a.2656.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-07", "file": "debates1922-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "22583be611b01d19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-07a.2659.1", "colnum": "2659", "heading": "RAILWAY FIRES ACT (1905) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "preceding_text": "ns of the hon. Baronet the Member for the City of London (Sir F. Banbury). He is so notoriously fair in matters between capital and labour, and the House expects such a fair point of view from him, that I find it hard to understand his standpoint in regard to this particular Bill. I cannot help thinking the right hon. Baronet has allowed himself to be biassed by his position as a railway director.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-07a.2659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-07", "file": "debates1922-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "22583be611b01d19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-07a.2661.2", "colnum": "2661", "heading": "RAILWAY FIRES ACT (1905) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMESON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Construe!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMESON", "preceding_text": "se of Commons. The fallacy that seems to underlie the arguments in support of this Bill is a fallacy that, in justice and in law, whenever an injury is done by anything, the owner of that particular thing is responsible to the person damaged. Everybody in this House, especially my right hon. Friend who has now left the House, knows very well the meaning of the maxim, Nemo tenetur ex domino tantum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-07a.2661.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-04-10", "file": "debates1922-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "05638cfe83fb91ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-10a.154.2", "colnum": "154", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "The long view!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "That is what the trader wants—that is the short view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-10a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-10", "file": "debates1922-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "05638cfe83fb91ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-10a.154.4", "colnum": "154", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The canals!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "the short view, it is probable that there will be during the next few years keen competition on the road, and a lower rate for the carriage of goods. But the moment the railway companies, with their vast organisation, their huge aggregations of capital, have got the road hauler off the road, then the position of the manufacturer and the trader of this country will be much worse than it was before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-10a.154.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-10", "file": "debates1922-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "05638cfe83fb91ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-10a.161.2", "colnum": "161", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "canals. This Measure, although it has been represented as being supported by representative Chambers of Commerce, has a very large number opposed to it. Included in the number are Manchester, Coventry, Widnes, Bury, Newport, Northampton, Oldham, Bradford, and Leeds. Although in my political speeches I am never particularly fond of quoting Manchester as an example of profound economic policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-10a.161.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-10", "file": "debates1922-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "05638cfe83fb91ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-10a.177.2", "colnum": "177", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KENNEDY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBEE: \"What about wages?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KENNEDY", "preceding_text": "nsport and a new, more efficient, and more economical method of road transport. If railway companies obtain these statutory powers, they would inevitably exercise them just as prejudicially to the interests of the community as they have exercised the powers they now possess. Take the manner in which they are now using their statutory powers. Railway rates are 120 per cent, above the pre-War level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-10a.177.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-10", "file": "debates1922-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "05638cfe83fb91ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-10a.181.3", "colnum": "181", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "to-day the monopolists, we, who plead in the interests of an existing monopoly, are prepared to agree to a Rates Tribunal which will regulate our rates.\" None of them dares to say that, and none of them has even hinted at it. Why? There is only one answer. If they did so their whole case would be gone. My hon. Friend here, the Member for Kirkcaldy (Mr. Kennedy) was certainly not speaking for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-10a.181.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-10", "file": "debates1922-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "05638cfe83fb91ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-10a.183.0", "colnum": "183", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "body who uses the roads of this country, as I do, must be painfully aware of the endeavours which are being made by local authorities to try to keep abreast of the necessities of the time and keep the roads up to date. There is one thing which the promoters of this Bill have omitted to say anything about, and that is the increased traffic which will be thrown on the roads as a result of this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-10a.183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-10", "file": "debates1922-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "05638cfe83fb91ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-10a.183.0", "colnum": "183", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "(Viscount Elveden), who spoke on behalf of the Bill, said it would not pay to put two men on to a truck, but that the railways only wanted to develop new districts. Of course, it will not pay. They will have to develop them at a loss. Railways are not philanthropic societies, however. This service cannot be put on solely on a money-making basis, but it is put on in order to stamp down competition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-10a.183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-11", "file": "debates1922-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "f7bcf067fefc81f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-11a.267.3", "colnum": "267", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "preceding_text": "I so fully sympathise with the hon. and gallant Member in the subject which he has brought before us, that I feel it necessary to apologise to him for not pursuing the topic which he has raised, but, by agreement with Mr. Speaker and the Government, I move the reduction of this Vote in order to settle the question whether time recorders should be placed on each side of the House above the Gangway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-11a.267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-11", "file": "debates1922-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "f7bcf067fefc81f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-11a.279.0", "colnum": "279", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LORDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I like it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LORDEN", "preceding_text": " that the ventilation is Very deficient and very bad. I should like to ask a question or two with regard to the repairing of the roof of Westminster Hall. £23,500 is required to complete it. We have a right to know what the total cost of that has been, whether it is likely to be completed this year, and the cause of that pungent odour which many of us have suffered when we come in down below.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-11a.279.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-11", "file": "debates1922-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "f7bcf067fefc81f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-11a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "lie, who was then Member for Dumbartonshire, in a Debate something like we have had this afternoon, told the House of Commons that if they wanted to see a perfect system they should go to Clydebank Town Hall. When I came to the House I wanted to see what the system of heating and ventilation was, and I have been where I do not suppose one out of a hundred Members have been: I have been downstairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-11a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-11", "file": "debates1922-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "f7bcf067fefc81f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-11a.291.0", "colnum": "291", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Over here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": " a most mischievous revolution. My hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Maidstone (Commander Bellairs) made this proposal and he is not going to be officially opposed by the Whips, and I assume he may have a chance of getting his proposal passed—though I have a higher regard for the good sense of the House. Supposing it does pass and that a new clock is put up over there. What will happen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-11a.291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-11", "file": "debates1922-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "f7bcf067fefc81f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-11a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What Committee?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to press this Amendment, in view of some hon. Members thinking they have not received proper notice, but I may point out that I raised this very difficulty. I regarded it as not in my interests that I should move a reduction and not in the interests of the Committee which had considered this matter and taken a lot of trouble over it, and I said the House would never understand it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-11a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-11", "file": "debates1922-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "f7bcf067fefc81f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-11a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "preceding_text": "d on this particular Vote in order to raise the question. What I would suggest to the Government now is this: We have waited a whole Session to raise this question, and we have taken a great deal of trouble about it. Could they give us a definite portion of time when the question could be debated in the House and go to a Division on this definite issue, say, one evening during the Session at 8.15?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-11a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-11", "file": "debates1922-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "f7bcf067fefc81f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-11a.332.0", "colnum": "332", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": " I well remember as a small boy myself going to see them, and I appre- ciated them very much too. If the hon. and gallant Member cannot get them all restored to what they were before the War, at least cannot he get some of the beds planted again? Then there is another subject, which comes a little nearer home. In the Royal Parks there is a Regulation forbidding people to learn to drive motor-cars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-11a.332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-11", "file": "debates1922-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "f7bcf067fefc81f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-11a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "PENSIONS TO EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is the Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": " the Minister of Pensions why is it necessary for one of His Majesty's Ministers to secure an ex-official of the Pensions Ministry to help him to get justice done in these cases, and who is able to probe them deeply and secure satisfaction? Why has the right hon. Gentleman allowed this official to depart from the Ministry of Pensions when he might have rendered more useful service in the Ministry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-11a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-11", "file": "debates1922-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "f7bcf067fefc81f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-11a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "PENSIONS TO EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is that 'John Bull'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": " these cases cannot be dealt with by the Ministry of Pensions, and why cannot assistance be given straight away and all this superabundance of work saved on the part of hon. Members of this House? When I have been travelling up and down the country I have been shocked to see a poster which has been placed on all sorts of moving vehicles and hoardings with the words: \"The scandal of Army pensions.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-11a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-11", "file": "debates1922-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "f7bcf067fefc81f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-11a.356.0", "colnum": "356", "heading": "PENSIONS TO EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BOWYER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BOWYER", "preceding_text": "ink of such situations. The man's work may have been in an office in a town in this country where he had the same climate and conditions of life which he would have had had he never served at all. The only point I want to make to-night is as to whether the House of Commons is being as generous to these men, a large proportion of whom went out and risked their lives, as the circumstances warranted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-11a.356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-11", "file": "debates1922-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "f7bcf067fefc81f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-11a.370.1", "colnum": "370", "heading": "PENSIONS TO EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will allow me to proceed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-11a.370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-12", "file": "debates1922-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "479a322b39cf1ce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-12a.461.5", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EASTER RECESS (ADJOURNMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": " is this. It so happens that in this Parliament I belong to a group of Members who are not numerically strong, and are therefore unable to keep a House. That may be fortunate for other sections of Members, but I am not making my point from that view. I am making it from the point of view that there are such small parties in this House—and there are other parties smaller than our party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-12a.461.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-12", "file": "debates1922-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "479a322b39cf1ce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-12a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "EASTER RECESS (ADJOURNMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KILEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEM-BEES: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KILEY", "preceding_text": "No, no no!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-12a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-12", "file": "debates1922-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "479a322b39cf1ce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-12a.520.0", "colnum": "520", "heading": "EASTER RECESS (ADJOURNMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Ireland and especially on behalf of the Royal Irish Constabulary. I also understand the point of view of my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for North Down (Sir H. Wilson), but I do ask myself what object of public utility can be served by the remarks of the Noble Lord the Member for Hitchin (Lord R. Cecil) and the very long stream of vindictive allegations with which he has affronted the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-12a.520.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-12", "file": "debates1922-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "479a322b39cf1ce4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-12a.520.0", "colnum": "520", "heading": "EASTER RECESS (ADJOURNMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ertain quarters. I suppose that if Ireland should develop ultimately into a welter, in which it certainly is not at the present time, great reproaches will be made to the Government for taking away the Army and Constabulary and concentrating them before they had made sure that the electors had affirmed the Treaty and the Government installed had full powers and the machinery for maintaining order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-12a.520.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-26", "file": "debates1922-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e185bc015c42346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.575.2", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE SETTLEMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the ADMIRALTY (Mr. Amery)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Have you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the ADMIRALTY (Mr. Amery)", "preceding_text": "s taught me a lot, for I can now milk, shear, and do a hundred odd jobs that I never dreamt of before, and so would anyone who cares to come and try. Here is the last I will quote: I have succeeded in my new home, and have not lost a day's work, but there is something else I am wanting you to do. A girl wants to come to me, and as I have promised to marry her, I trust you will grant her a passage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.575.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-26", "file": "debates1922-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e185bc015c42346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.575.2", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE SETTLEMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the ADMIRALTY (Mr. Amery)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the ADMIRALTY (Mr. Amery)", "preceding_text": "and have not lost a day's work, but there is something else I am wanting you to do. A girl wants to come to me, and as I have promised to marry her, I trust you will grant her a passage. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Have you?\"] As she is not a member of his family, nor an ex-service woman, the young lovers will have to wait until the House pass the Bill now before it, before she can secure an assisted passage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.575.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-26", "file": "debates1922-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e185bc015c42346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE SETTLEMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "preceding_text": "ot made us richer; it has made us poorer. I think that the time has come when we must have a redistribution of the peoples of this Empire. It is necessary for the welfare of England. Here is a point I would like to impress on Labour Members opposite. Many of their advocates on the platform have some idea that we want to send these people away, not for their good, but for the good of somebody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-26", "file": "debates1922-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e185bc015c42346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE SETTLEMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And bring them back again!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE", "preceding_text": "on of the peoples of this Empire. It is necessary for the welfare of England. Here is a point I would like to impress on Labour Members opposite. Many of their advocates on the platform have some idea that we want to send these people away, not for their good, but for the good of somebody else. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] That is not the case at all. We want to send them away for their own good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-26", "file": "debates1922-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e185bc015c42346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE SETTLEMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "e more opposed to them than I am. If our money were going to be spent in buying up land from squatters in Australia in order to put our settlers on the land, not only myself, but many others in this House, would be opposed to bolstering up the price of those squatters' land. It is because that land is stall national property that we on these Benches are prepared to give this Bill a Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-26", "file": "debates1922-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e185bc015c42346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE SETTLEMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "nal property that we on these Benches are prepared to give this Bill a Second Reading. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear!\"] I am quite aware that hon. Members are only too glad to bolster up any scheme which will put money into the pockets of their friends, but fortunately, this scheme is exempt from that particular vice. I would, however, ask the House whether there is not plenty of land in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-26", "file": "debates1922-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e185bc015c42346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.631.7", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE SETTLEMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"British.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "What I want to know is, why should the people of this country be sent at the expense of the people of this country to Australia if it is cheaper to put them on the land in this country? We are an English House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.631.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-26", "file": "debates1922-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e185bc015c42346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.632.5", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE SETTLEMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": ". I admit all the attractiveness of painting the map red, but the British Empire has grown by voluntary effort, and I think that State-directed effort may very likely find itself sooner or later directed into the wrong channels. We may find that the Pilgrim Fathers builded better in America than the hon. Gentleman is going to build, in the 20th century, for his Commonwealth of the British nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.632.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-26", "file": "debates1922-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e185bc015c42346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.636.2", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE SETTLEMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "nt, many of the objections which we feel, and which have been expressed by hon. Members opposite would really fall to the ground. I listened with a good deal of pain and regret to the speech which fell from the right hon. Member for Platting (Mr. Clynes). What was the gist of that speech? I hope I do him no injustice. He said that we cannot afford to get rid of our best citizens from this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.636.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-26", "file": "debates1922-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e185bc015c42346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.661.0", "colnum": "661", "heading": "DISABLED EX-SERVICE MEN (TRAINING).", "cue_speaker": "Captain TUDOR-REES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain TUDOR-REES", "preceding_text": "plaint is not altogether the insufficiency of the cloth, but is in the want of skill and precision in the cutting of it. There is an old saw which says: When troubles arise, and war is nigh, God and the soldier is the cry. When war is o'er, and troubles righted, God is forgotten, and the soldier slighted. Upon the theological aspect of that proposition I am not capable of making any pronouncement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.661.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-26", "file": "debates1922-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e185bc015c42346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "DISABLED EX-SERVICE MEN (TRAINING).", "cue_speaker": "Captain TUDOR-REES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBKR: \"That is offensive!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain TUDOR-REES", "preceding_text": "The Minister of Labour assures me on that point, and I accept his assurance. I hope it is the case that conscientious objectors do not exercise any control over these men, because conscientious objectors are not fit to associate with decent men, let alone exercise any control over them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-26", "file": "debates1922-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e185bc015c42346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.698.0", "colnum": "698", "heading": "DISABLED EX-SERVICE MEN (TRAINING).", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBKR: \"Talk it out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": ", the right hon. Gentleman is prepared to take anything. He will take the Resolution or he will take the Amendment. He will take anything. If there was anything else before the House I am certain he would take it also, but those are the only two things before the House. I want to know what I am to do. I am desirous of supporting the Government. Shall I vote for the Resolution or for the Amendment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-26", "file": "debates1922-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e185bc015c42346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "EMPIRE OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "bout the fullest possible development of the resources under the Crown in co-operation with the authorities of the overseas portions of the Empire. unless the Prime Minister at Genoa is going to cut out Germany and include Russia in the overseas portions of the Empire? I hope he is not going to do that. I can only gather that something of that sort must be in the brain of the Mover of this Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-26", "file": "debates1922-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e185bc015c42346", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.701.5", "colnum": "701", "heading": "FABRIC GLOVES.", "cue_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "preceding_text": "th fabric gloves. The President of the Board of Trade has this difficulty to face. If he does not make an Order, I think it is not using harsh language to say that he will have disappointed, if not misled, a large number of enthusiastic Tariff Reformers who supported him in the scheme. If he does make an Order, he is compelled to deal a very serious blow at the great staple industry of Lancashire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-26a.701.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-27", "file": "debates1922-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d98505def9ea7a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-27a.763.1", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Housing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "I will go the whole hog, and say \"straitened circumstances,' but that is largely due to extravagant expenditure in other directions by the Government, of which, unfortunately, the President of the Board of Education is a member. He is associated with a Government which has spent the money in directions which will bring no good to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-27a.763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-27", "file": "debates1922-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d98505def9ea7a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-27a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is that a private school?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "preceding_text": "e dismissed. All these things are happening. I was in a school yesterday in one of the poorest parts of this city. That school had not been painted for 16 years, and the authorities are told that they cannot hope to have it painted for the next year or two, because they will get no assistance and will not rank for the 50 per cent, grant from the Board of Education. That is typical of many schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-27a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-27", "file": "debates1922-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d98505def9ea7a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-27a.782.3", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. D. REES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. D. REES", "preceding_text": "r justify expenditure upon them out of the taxes and rates. I presume that the Act of 1918 authorised such a charge as this—I really do not know. I do remember that Act passing through the House. I was one of the 30 enthusiastic educationists who were able to attend! The Act was passed by a small handful of Members, of whom I was the only one who ever inquired into what it was going to cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-27a.782.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-27", "file": "debates1922-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d98505def9ea7a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-27a.793.3", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Major GRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This House will stand anything!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major GRAY", "preceding_text": " after village, and the children there have as much right to the common decencies of life as the child in the large town which is well provided. They have a right also to the sympathies of this House, and the right hon. Gentleman must not plead financial stringency as an excuse for allowing this to go on. This House will not much longer tolerate the denominational difficulty as an excuse for this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-27a.793.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-27", "file": "debates1922-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d98505def9ea7a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-27a.795.0", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "would be among the first to emphasise the fact—that there is some little lack of perspective in the picture he has put before the Committee. What I mean is that he has selected, very properly from his own point of view in order to make that impression on the Committee which he obviously has made, certain instances which undoubtedly bear a minute relation to the whole of our education system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-27a.795.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-27", "file": "debates1922-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d98505def9ea7a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-27a.795.2", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "think it is a debt which has not been too-amply repaid. I now pass to the substance of the speech which was addressed to the Committee earlier in the afternoon by my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Education. I am sure I am only speaking the sentiments of the whole Committee when I say that we listened to that speech as regards form if not substance with almost unqualified delight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-27a.795.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-27", "file": "debates1922-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d98505def9ea7a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-27a.795.2", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": " there was, as the Committee probably know, a conference of this very highly-organised trade union at Torquay, and an address was delivered to that conference by the president of the National Union of Teachers, in which he permitted himself to speak of the Report of the Geddes Committee in the following terms: Its pages reveal a spirit of callous indifference towards the needs of young life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-27a.795.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-27", "file": "debates1922-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d98505def9ea7a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-27a.795.2", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "he guise of contribution towards pension,\" etc. The Committee may have noticed that that presidential address has evoked expressions of deep regret from some of the best educationists in this country. Within the last few days there have been two letters addressed to the \"Times\" by men who have held the very highest position in our educational system. One was sent by Bishop Welldon, Dean of Durham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-27a.795.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-27", "file": "debates1922-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d98505def9ea7a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-27a.838.4", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"An unworthy charge!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. JONES", "preceding_text": "order to deprive the working-class people of the power of resistance which they possessed in having their children saved from shortage of food, this privilege is to be taken away from education authorities. That is a most sinister move, and I tell the right hon. Gentleman quite frankly, if that is the move, it is one of the most unworthy moves I have observed made in this House since I came to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-27a.838.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-27", "file": "debates1922-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d98505def9ea7a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-27a.838.4", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. JONES", "preceding_text": "on authorities. That is a most sinister move, and I tell the right hon. Gentleman quite frankly, if that is the move, it is one of the most unworthy moves I have observed made in this House since I came to it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"An unworthy charge!\"] I daresay it appears unworthy to hon. Members opposite Still, I stick to it until it is formally denied 10.0 P.M. I want to pass on to another question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-27a.838.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-27", "file": "debates1922-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d98505def9ea7a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-27a.838.4", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. JONES", "preceding_text": "ON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] I am quite sure hon. Members opposite must feel a sense of relief. I pass on to the proposal to add to the size of the classes in elementary schools and I would like to invite the Committee to consider exactly what the enlargement of the classes to50 or 60 will mean. Let mc take the Committee for a moment to an elementary school where some new principle is being taught.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-27a.838.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-27", "file": "debates1922-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d98505def9ea7a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-27a.838.4", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Cambridge!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. JONES", "preceding_text": "ee some of the inspectorates allowed to Oxford men. I would, however, suggest a better thing to the hon. Member. Suppose we sent some of our elementary school teachers to Oxford and allowed them then, after having had the value of Oxford training, to qualify for inspectorships I Would not that be better? They would then have the value of this social distinction that Oxford confers upon them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-27a.838.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-27", "file": "debates1922-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6d98505def9ea7a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-27a.844.0", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": ". On page 7 of the Estimates the gross total expenditure is shown at £47,210,000, as against a total expenditure last year of £51,014,178. Now the reduction this year—and this is the point I want to make—is not £6,389,000, as stated here, but £3,800,000, which is the difference between £51,014,178 and £47,210,000. Supposing my income be £3,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-27a.844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-28", "file": "debates1922-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "092e92f30efe5936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-28a.880.0", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING OF MACHINERY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WHELER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A private Member's Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WHELER", "preceding_text": "a very bad type. I was very much struck with the concluding remarks of the hon. and gallant Gentleman who seconded the Second Beading and gave the whole history of the Bill. Surely, when we have had a Bill before the House 17 times and it has only succeeded in getting a Second Reading nine times and then has got no further—surely that is the best possible condemnation of a Bill of this sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-28a.880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-28", "file": "debates1922-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "092e92f30efe5936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-28a.921.0", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING OF MACHINERY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. D. REES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. D. REES", "preceding_text": " can use that argument who has recently been in his own constituency. I think it is quite possible to believe that in London but it is not so in the manufacturing towns in the Midlands or the North. Trade is bad. I see that in 1867 it was decided that silk weaving machinery should not be rateable. Subsequently that excellent ruling was departed from. Why should not lace making machinery be exempt?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-28a.921.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-28", "file": "debates1922-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "092e92f30efe5936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-28a.933.0", "colnum": "933", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF WALES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir OWEN THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Welsh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir OWEN THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ally, self-government for Wales is a very important question there, and one would have expected to see a representative at this conference from every district in Wales. But what happened? There were eight Welsh Members of Parliament, and there were 40 rank and file, and I would guarantee that of those 40 more than half strongly opposed it, and not in ordinary language, but in very strong language.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-28a.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-28", "file": "debates1922-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "092e92f30efe5936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-28a.935.2", "colnum": "935", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF WALES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUGH EDWARDS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are not all fools!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUGH EDWARDS", "preceding_text": "I am sure it must be a revelation to this House to find a Welsh Member speaking so energetically against a Measure which concerns the Welsh people. I should not have been at all surprised if the right hon. Baronet the Member for the City (Sir F. Banbury) had delivered that speech. It would have been appropriate from his lips, but it is very incongruous on the part of a Welsh representative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-28a.935.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-28", "file": "debates1922-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "092e92f30efe5936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-28a.940.6", "colnum": "940", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF WALES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "However that may be, I do not pursue the matter further than to say that there are some who certainly do not agree with the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-28a.940.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-28", "file": "debates1922-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "092e92f30efe5936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-28a.941.8", "colnum": "941", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF WALES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "It is exactly what I said, and in fact it is worse than I thought. They agreed not only to support each other's Bills, but if they could not get each other's Bills through Parliament, they were going, with the joint forces of Wales and Scotland, to say, \"We will have two days for a joint Bill.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-28a.941.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-28", "file": "debates1922-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "092e92f30efe5936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-28a.942.0", "colnum": "942", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF WALES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "I said nothing about a corrupt bargain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-28a.942.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-04-28", "file": "debates1922-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "092e92f30efe5936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-28a.942.2", "colnum": "942", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF WALES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So will Scotland!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "The unfortunate tax payer in England will contribute a considerable sum of money to Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-04-28a.942.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-01", "file": "debates1922-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "78f589435408a730", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-01a.959.5", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSO-GERMAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"HOW do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the whole Russo-German Agreement was arranged within four days at Genoa, and that the Prime Minister in this House could not possibly be aware of it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-01a.959.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-01", "file": "debates1922-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "78f589435408a730", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-01a.962.7", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that, in spite of certain distorted reports in the Press, the general feeling of the country is one of intense pride and gratification at—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-01a.962.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-01", "file": "debates1922-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "78f589435408a730", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-01a.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have it now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "early prove that, after all, no very great amount of the interest goes to the humbler classes. In short, I believe Chancellors eventually will be driven to the expedient, which has been suggested by Labour, to raise a large sum of money for the redemption of this debt and, consequently, for a substantial reduction in the annual payment of the interest. If you shrink from a levy upon capital—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-01a.1052.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-01", "file": "debates1922-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "78f589435408a730", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-01a.1059.0", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "oing to do what I think is often done in private life. Say that a man has an income of£1,000 a year, and he spends£1,000 a year, and that then his income is reduced to£950. He does not save the£50, but he goes to a bank, or sometimes less creditable people, and borrows£50 in order that he may make both ends meet. That is what the Chancellor of the Exchequer is going to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-01a.1059.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-01", "file": "debates1922-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "78f589435408a730", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-01a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about sugar?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "t of that kind concerning a definite decision reached at the Cabinet meeting. There were many surmises and guesses, attaining a particular degree of accuracy, that I quite admit, but there was no definite statement arising from alleged Cabinet decisoins. What is more, no other journal, until this article had appeared, was able to forecast with entire accuracy what the actual Budget proposals were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-01a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-01", "file": "debates1922-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "78f589435408a730", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-01a.1072.0", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "I was trying to point out that not a single one of these Continental countries has covered its expenditure by its revenue. They have all borrowed, and now the right hon. Gentleman is doing the same thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-01a.1072.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-01", "file": "debates1922-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "78f589435408a730", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-01a.1072.0", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "I was trying to point out that not a single one of these Continental countries has covered its expenditure by its revenue. They have all borrowed, and now the right hon. Gentleman is doing the same thing. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"] I do not expect, however, that the right hon. Gentleman listened to the beginning of my argument. It was quite unworthy of his consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-01a.1072.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-01", "file": "debates1922-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "78f589435408a730", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-01a.1078.1", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And more!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "I think I am sufficiently acquainted with the origin of the agitation, but I do not quite understand the point of the interruption of the hon. Member. My point was that my constituents, at any rate, were intelligent enough to perceive that a remission of the Income Tax was as much demanded in the interests of the poor as it was in the interests of the rich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-01a.1078.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-01", "file": "debates1922-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "78f589435408a730", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-01a.1132.0", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEBB: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "rom the time in order to get it through without any explanation. I have an objection to supporting a Bill in these circumstances. I have no objection to supporting a Bill if it is a good one, but I am not prepared to support this or any other private Member's Bill unless the hon. Member in charge of it is prepared to take the opportunity of explaining it. After all it must be a good or a bad Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-01a.1132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-02", "file": "debates1922-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "fc395127d1d911a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-02a.1193.0", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": "we pay our way, to meet the situation by making some reduction in taxation. There are only one or two other points to which I should like to refer. My right hon. Friend spoke about the indirect taxation to which relief had been given. I am sure we would all like to see a larger remission of that kind of taxation; but when you see, as I saw in a paper to-day, that this is a rich man's Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-02a.1193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-02", "file": "debates1922-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "fc395127d1d911a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-02a.1193.0", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They had all the profits.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BONAR LAW", "preceding_text": " Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, as he was, always tried to keep it the same. That, of course, has gone, and gone completely, and I think I can say this without disagreement from any quarter of the House. I think the way in which during the War what are called the better-classes paid the terrific taxation imposed upon them without a grumble, is a fact of which as a nation we have some reason to be proud.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-02a.1193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-02", "file": "debates1922-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "fc395127d1d911a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-02a.1216.2", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SUGDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Give an example!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SUGDEN", "preceding_text": "e Treasury are compelling careful administration in respect to it. I have in my mind that some constituencies in the South of England, which sometimes are governed by Members of the type of political faith that is held by you on the Labour Benches, are paying more for the money they have borrowed than some of the more, shall I say, carefully financially floated loans as we have them in Lancashire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-02a.1216.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-02", "file": "debates1922-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "fc395127d1d911a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-02a.1226.0", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "e entitled to believe is the more suitable medicine— at least it is one of our native products. I do not pretend to have made an exact calculation, but if you take the amount of 7½ million pounds, and take the present duty per bottle, allowing for the present somewhat diluted strength, it means there has been a falling off in the consumption in this country of nearly 20,000,000 bottles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-02a.1226.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-02", "file": "debates1922-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "fc395127d1d911a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-02a.1266.0", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMESON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about beer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMESON", "preceding_text": "l personally the great burden of the Income Tax, and I have general sympathy with the Income Tax payer and the direct taxpayer, I also realise the terrible burden which the reduction in wages and the general hard times and unemployment imposes upon the poor. I should like, therefore, to see a greater lightening of indirect taxation. A reduction in the taxation on sugar would be a very good method.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-02a.1266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-02", "file": "debates1922-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "fc395127d1d911a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-02a.1294.0", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Major ENTWISTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, they do!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ENTWISTLE", "preceding_text": "try should be, first and foremost, to stimulate trade, and if you stimulate trade and by that stimulation keep up the margin of profit and the income of the country, you benefit everyone. It is well established that if the cost of living falls, wages have to fall on a sliding scale. They are doing so, whether you agree with it or not. So that if the cost of living does not fall, wages do not fall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-02a.1294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-02", "file": "debates1922-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "fc395127d1d911a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-02a.1294.0", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Major ENTWISTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Beer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ENTWISTLE", "preceding_text": "f such a negligible quantity that the rate of tax is not one of supreme importance, but it is of great importance to the trade of this country. The burdensome nature of the taxation has been restricting and clogging enterprise and the development of industry. It is not only the Income Tax that has to be considered, but all the other burdens, Estate Duties, Entertainments Tax, and many other taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-02a.1294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-02", "file": "debates1922-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "fc395127d1d911a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-02a.1301.0", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Impossible!\" and \"Names!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "nding in the economic world with derision, being so vastly superior in every respect in economic knowledge to these gentlemen—that they are beginning to realise that of all policies a capital levy, which is simply another name for inflation, is one of the most dangerous policies that any Chancellor of the Exchequer could adopt. There are many of us, and I believe wiser men than myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-02a.1301.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-05-02", "file": "debates1922-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "fc395127d1d911a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-02a.1302.1", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What about stocks and shares?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "It is as clear as mud.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-02a.1302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-02", "file": "debates1922-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "fc395127d1d911a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-02a.1302.2", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When are you going to finish?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": " policy, whether in their printed statements issued from Eccleston Square or in the speeches of right hon. and hon. Members opposite are all based on that wonderful principle that when you reap the harvest you must not save one single grain of corn for the next harvest in the form of capital, but you must consume every single bit of it during the winter, whether it is much or whether it is little.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-02a.1302.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-03", "file": "debates1922-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6902c347d221d7c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1333.1", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING, KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Gentleman suggest that the national housing programme initiated by His Majesty's Government had for its object the endowment of houses built for sale, when millions of His Majesty's subjects cannot afford rent much less purchase money, and will he take steps to reconsider that decision having regard to that fact that many urban councils have refused the overtures made by responsible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-03", "file": "debates1922-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6902c347d221d7c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1333.1", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING, KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "preceding_text": "using programme initiated by His Majesty's Government had for its object the endowment of houses built for sale, when millions of His Majesty's subjects cannot afford rent much less purchase money, and will he take steps to reconsider that decision having regard to that fact that many urban councils have refused the overtures made by responsible—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"]—Order yourself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1333.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-03", "file": "debates1922-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6902c347d221d7c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1385.5", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "preceding_text": "upon this Budget and upon the taxation which is imposed upon the nation in the light of the very serious industrial position which exists throughout the land. To my mind, it is only by reducing taxation that we can get the wheels of industry going regularly once more. If I had been Chancellor of the Exchequer, instead of reducing the Income Tax by 1s. I should have reduced it by 2s. in the £.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1385.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-03", "file": "debates1922-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6902c347d221d7c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1400.0", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Coal!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "rman manufactured goods in payment of reparations, as it would greatly add to the unemployment from which we are already suffering. But, in addition to her factories, Germany has vast natural resources, which have so far been largely untouched, for, as the Committee will remember as well as I do, the War was fought outside Germany. One of the greatest of Germany's natural resources is her forests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-03", "file": "debates1922-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6902c347d221d7c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1404.0", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NAYLOR", "preceding_text": " no more justification now than then. But I hope it may not be too late for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to reconsider that part of his proposal. If he is asked by Income Tax payers why he is changing his mind, I can give him an answer out of his own mouth, when he told the Members behind him only a few weeks ago, \"You are getting back £700,000,000 or £800,000,000 a year in interest.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-03", "file": "debates1922-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6902c347d221d7c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1415.1", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How about the engineers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": " of the right hon. Member for Paisley or the right hon. Member for Peebles. In point of fact, I have no fear or apprehension with regard to the Estimates which I have made for the current j7ear, always granted that there be no untoward event to upset calculations. You might have conditions arising in different parts of the world and in some not very far away from here which may upset calculations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-03", "file": "debates1922-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6902c347d221d7c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1415.1", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Lock-out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "£25,000,000, high enough. The ground upon which that criticism is made is, in the main, that the Supplementary Estimates of last year turned out to be a figure immensely larger than that anticipated for this year. Again I ask attention to the circumstances of last year. We anticipated Supplementary Estimates last year of something like £97,000,000. Why? The coal strike had already begun.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-03", "file": "debates1922-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6902c347d221d7c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1415.1", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Your own fault.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "which had to be made. There were payments to be made under the railway agreements, signed at the beginning of the War, on which a settlement had still to be reached. Last year that cost us just about £44,000,000. Therefore you have in those two items alone, which will not recur this year, a figure of something like £70,000,000. Then there was the settlement under the Corn Production Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-03", "file": "debates1922-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6902c347d221d7c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1421.3", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Chancellor of the Exchequer was the present Prime Minister!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "of the things which were done during the course of his administration, and I find that not merely in bad times like these, but in prolific times, the right hon. Gentleman was at the head of a Government which was taking money which by statute had been put aside for the payment of debt in order to meet its current obligations for certain social reforms which were wanted in the country at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1421.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-03", "file": "debates1922-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6902c347d221d7c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1433.1", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "to psychology when your economics go wrong, and then appeal to economics when your psychology fails. I recommend sticking to sound economics, and trusting to psychology working out all right afterwards. The whole point is that if you pay off Debt, you can borrow more cheaply. We on this side propose to pay off Debt, and the only way to do that is by a capital levy on all the wealth of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-03", "file": "debates1922-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6902c347d221d7c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1433.1", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not for him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "d the only way to do that is by a capital levy on all the wealth of the country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] I expected the jeers from the people who do not know how a capital levy is possible, consistent with sanity, but year after year we are having capital levies in this country today. Whenever anybody dies, a capital levy is levied upon his goods, at the most inconvenient time for him and his family", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-03", "file": "debates1922-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6902c347d221d7c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1433.1", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Labour party!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "inciples have been thrown to the winds, and we have the Budget we see before us to-day. This Budget is to be a \"save-the-trade\" Budget, but, if you come to look into it, how far is it likely to help the trade of the country? I was interested to hear the remarks of the hon. Member for North-East Derbyshire (Mr. Holmes). It seems to me the Wee Free party is almost as divided on this as——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-03", "file": "debates1922-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6902c347d221d7c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1442.2", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. YATE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. YATE", "preceding_text": "on beer. The question is, how can equality be effected? I hope that some more measures of economy will shortly be commenced. With regard to Employment Exchanges, can anyone tell us of any employer who ever got the men he wanted at an Employment Exchange or can he tell us of any man who would go to an Employment Exchange in order to get work? No decent working men ever go to an Employment Exchange.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1442.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-03", "file": "debates1922-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6902c347d221d7c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1459.0", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "ome out from the house, and in several cases all we had to take from the colliery company or the insurance company was the funeral expenses due for the burial of the man. We have had scores of cases where widows have been left with a long string of children. Take the case of a widow left with from four to five or six children. In some cases perhaps the eldest boy might be a girl or might be a boy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1459.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-03", "file": "debates1922-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6902c347d221d7c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1467.0", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. Nothing like it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS SHAW", "preceding_text": "e—I am sure I shall be pardoned by the hon. and learned Member for South Derbyshire (Mr. Holman Gregory) if I speak of that scale in that way. The words are used in the circle in which I move with the greatest respect—if we accept that it is extremely questionable whether the whole of the costs included would mean one-halfpenny on I cwt. of coal. I think that is the fact of the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-03", "file": "debates1922-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6902c347d221d7c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1503.0", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "EMPIRE SETTLEMENT [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTSON", "preceding_text": "here are ex-service men who want to remain in the Highlands, then do not force them out of the Highlands because of the niggardly action of the Government to suit an agitation for cheap labour in the Colonies. Some of us know what is going on in the Colonies. I join my voice in the protest of the hon. Member for Govan (Mr. N. Maclean) against the statement that the Highlands are all bogs and rogs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-03a.1503.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-04", "file": "debates1922-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7eb18c35509d426e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-04a.1534.4", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not comparable!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "I would point out that there are Governments in both parts of Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-04a.1534.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-04", "file": "debates1922-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7eb18c35509d426e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-04a.1556.2", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SIR PHILIP BASSOON.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "I protest,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-04a.1556.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-04", "file": "debates1922-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7eb18c35509d426e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-04a.1590.3", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\" and \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I come now to the proposal which I shall ask the Committee to approve for the allocation of the surplus. The first alteration I propose to make is that the collection of letters on Sundays should be restored, but not the delivery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-04a.1590.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-04", "file": "debates1922-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7eb18c35509d426e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-04a.1597.2", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the amount of the reduction?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " not less than eight subscribers can be obtained the rental will be £8. The instalment rental will be £8 per subscriber, the local and trunk fees being charged according to the ordinary tariff, and in the case of subscribers at a distance of more than one mile extra mileage will be charged at the standard rate. I think that is a very substantial reduction compared with the present rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-04a.1597.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-04", "file": "debates1922-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7eb18c35509d426e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-04a.1614.1", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is fraud!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "preceding_text": " the highest testimony that can be brought forward in connection with this appeal. They have certainly deserved better treat- ment. The two women who acted as female deliverers also worked in the dressmaking business, one as an alteration hand. The sub-postmaster did not inform these employés what they were entitled to receive from the Post Office, and he signed their names on the pay sheets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-04a.1614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-04", "file": "debates1922-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7eb18c35509d426e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-04a.1615.5", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "preceding_text": "you are able to co-ordinate the different services, to keep the staffs engaged and in contact, and, at the same time, to prevent undue waste of energy, time, and staffs. I hope that this Committee will give more thought than is given outside this House when people are criticising the telephone service. That service came to the State after a private company's management had become a crying scandal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-04a.1615.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-04", "file": "debates1922-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7eb18c35509d426e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-04a.1615.5", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "preceding_text": "hope that this Committee will give more thought than is given outside this House when people are criticising the telephone service. That service came to the State after a private company's management had become a crying scandal. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I repeat, after a private company's methods were a crying scandal, and such an uproar had been raised that the State had to come in and take it over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-04a.1615.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-04", "file": "debates1922-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7eb18c35509d426e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-04a.1615.5", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "preceding_text": "elephone and engineering Department during the War. You would not have secured the advantage of that service if the system had been under private ownership, particularly having regard to the conditions that then obtained. The organisation of this rapidly-developing service has taken place within a comparatively short time, and, on the whole, it has given a service that cannot be equalled anywhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-04a.1615.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-04", "file": "debates1922-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7eb18c35509d426e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-04a.1617.1", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "preceding_text": "nt that the scales of pay were under revision was repeated. An examination for the positions was held by the Civil Service Commissioners, but no revision of pay has yet taken place. When the qualifications for this particular post were advertised, and the scale of remuneration was given as £100 a year, the \"Daily Mail,\" which has a good deal of influence with many Members of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-04a.1617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-04", "file": "debates1922-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7eb18c35509d426e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-04a.1621.1", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And cheaper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "tory service which has been rendered. In connection with trunk calls, the new facilities provided have rendered, and will render, great service to the commercial community. But there is still an amount of irritation caused by inefficiency in the telephone service, and it ought to be mitigated. I have never been in the United States, but we hear that the telephone service there is very much better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-04a.1621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-04", "file": "debates1922-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7eb18c35509d426e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-04a.1635.0", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PERRING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PERRING", "preceding_text": " country, and the great differences in the charges as between the weekly and monthly trade journals must, in some measure, have an influence in sending these monthly trade journals abroad for postage, and printing if necessary, by reason of the saving to be effected. The Postmaster-General criticised the want of patriotism, perhaps, on the part of trade journals which were sent abroad for postage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-04a.1635.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-04", "file": "debates1922-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7eb18c35509d426e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-04a.1662.0", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "f raising the rates, the Postmaster had cut them last year, he would have had a better surplus than he has to-day, and he would not done the immense damage—temporary, I believe—that he has done by putting such large additional burdens upon the Post Office service. We have been so accustomed to having a postal monopoly that we forget it could be perfectly well done by a private concern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-04a.1662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-04", "file": "debates1922-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "7eb18c35509d426e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-04a.1662.0", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "ard expressed. He spoke as if the Post Office was an institution run for the benefit of the people who work in it. That was his attitude right through. It is as if the railway men were to take the point of view that the railways were run for their benefit, or as if the legal profession took the point of view that the Law Courts and the administration of the law were for the benefit of the lawyers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-04a.1662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-05", "file": "debates1922-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "c2a89306cb4650df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-05a.1713.2", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACTS (1918 to 1921) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEE", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Bill be now read a Second time.\" Not many of the provisions of the Bill are controversial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-05a.1713.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-05", "file": "debates1922-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "c2a89306cb4650df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-05a.1713.2", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACTS (1918 to 1921) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEE", "preceding_text": "as 5d., I think, in the case of boroughs and 7d. in the case of counties. This increases that by roughly 50 per cent The first reason is because of the decreased value of money; the second is the increased cost of postage, and there are other things as well. Only this morning I read in the public Press that the City election is being hampered by the fact that the expenses have been cut down to 5d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-05a.1713.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-05", "file": "debates1922-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "c2a89306cb4650df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-05a.1739.0", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACTS (1918 to 1921) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HURST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not fit to govern!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HURST", "preceding_text": "o depend for their well-being upon the success of those particular industries. That is a real danger which we have to face. It is a danger in local affairs, as we know, in those districts in which the Labour party are in power. It is a danger also in Parliamentary affairs. Who knows but that there may come a time when Labour or the \"Wee Frees\" may come into office, though perhaps it is not likely?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-05a.1739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-05", "file": "debates1922-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "c2a89306cb4650df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-05a.1739.0", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACTS (1918 to 1921) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HURST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HURST", "preceding_text": "d men who do not fulfil the duties of citizenship are not entitled to the rights of citizenship. When hon. Members really think of what happened during the War, and of the great danger which this country and the whole of the civilised world were then running, it seems to me an amazing thing that they should contemplate placing conscientious objectors on precisely the same terms as decent citizens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-05a.1739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-05", "file": "debates1922-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "c2a89306cb4650df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-05a.1739.0", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACTS (1918 to 1921) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HURST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HURST", "preceding_text": "mbers really think of what happened during the War, and of the great danger which this country and the whole of the civilised world were then running, it seems to me an amazing thing that they should contemplate placing conscientious objectors on precisely the same terms as decent citizens. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"] There is nothing to withdraw. I call to mind the cases of hundreds of men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-05a.1739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-05", "file": "debates1922-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "c2a89306cb4650df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-05a.1739.0", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACTS (1918 to 1921) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HURST", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There would have been no war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HURST", "preceding_text": "epared to say this, of the men whom I then came across, that nearly all of them were political objectors rather than religious objectors. I remember the question being put to one of them, \"What would you do if the Germans invaded this country?\" and that man replied, \"I should explain to them my doctrines and shake hands with them.\" If everybody had done that, how would we have survived in the War?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-05a.1739.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-08", "file": "debates1922-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2cd07c80206f7280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-08a.1806.7", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "Well, Sir, as I have said, the \"Times\" itself cannot have reached the Prime Minister, but some account of the allegations made by the \"Times\" reached my right hon. Friend, and he at once asked me to contradict them as being a malicious invention. I cannot conceive what interest or what public purpose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-08a.1806.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-08", "file": "debates1922-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2cd07c80206f7280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-08a.1806.7", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ons made by the \"Times\" reached my right hon. Friend, and he at once asked me to contradict them as being a malicious invention. I cannot conceive what interest or what public purpose—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"]—a British newspaper can have which, in the course of and throughout a great international Conference, deliberately sets itself to work misrepresentation and to traduce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-08a.1806.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-08", "file": "debates1922-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2cd07c80206f7280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-08a.1870.1", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "The duty applies and the additional duty applies to apricots, because apricots, in the eyes of the law, are plums.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-08a.1870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-08", "file": "debates1922-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2cd07c80206f7280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-08a.1883.3", "colnum": "1883", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "an industry which during the last two years has been living from hand to mouth. Here is an industry which has perhaps been as hard hit as any industry in this country, and which to-day is employing tens of thousands fewer people than it did three years ago. Does my hon. and fallant Friend suggest that this is the time to get rid of this 33⅓ duty upon cars which are the luxury cars of people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-08a.1883.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-08", "file": "debates1922-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2cd07c80206f7280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-08a.1955.0", "colnum": "1955", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. YOUNG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "gh to make sure there is something in the irrevocability of a trust, and so prevent the Resolution being evaded. But it is necessary to go a little further. A man is bound to support his own children, so it would still be a substantial abatement of a man's legal liability if even by an irrevocable trust for his children for more than six years he was able to cut up his income in the way suggested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-08a.1955.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-08", "file": "debates1922-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2cd07c80206f7280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-08a.1960.0", "colnum": "1960", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Major HILLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HILLS", "preceding_text": "and suppose that it is determined that that estate has been starved in the past—that too much has been spent out of it and that more should be put back. In that case a \"reasonable proportion\" of the income may not be distributed, and it may be quite right that it should not be, but, because that property is being well managed for the first time, you come down and make it liable to Super-tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-08a.1960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-08", "file": "debates1922-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2cd07c80206f7280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-08a.1963.5", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I would be one of the first to resent any aspersion cast upon Mr. Speaker in this House. The point I was making was that the Chancellor of the Exchequer says that businesses in this country have been taking advantage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-08a.1963.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-08", "file": "debates1922-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "2cd07c80206f7280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-08a.1963.5", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "y have been taking advantage—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—well, some business men; a section of business men. There is no need for me to segregate them from the honest business men. These men have been taking advantage by forming themselves into one-man companies and have escaped their responsibilities. The arguments on the other side appear to me to show that a case can be made out for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-08a.1963.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-09", "file": "debates1922-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "55f1f91a66f040c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-09a.2010.3", "colnum": "2010", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is there a burst?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DONALD MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Leader of the House whether he can give the House any further information to-day regarding the position of the Genoa Conference?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-09a.2010.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-09", "file": "debates1922-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "55f1f91a66f040c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-09a.2011.7", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "In view of the publication of these two letters, would it not be possible for us to have in the form of a White Paper the shorthand notes of the conversations which actually took place between the Prime Minister and M. Barthou?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-09a.2011.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-09", "file": "debates1922-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "55f1f91a66f040c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-09a.2018.0", "colnum": "2018", "heading": "SHOP ASSISTANTS AND SMALL SHOPKEEPERS (FACILITIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "tive societies and joint stock companies. I would ask the House to give attention to that point. There are employed in and about shops approximately one million young people. Probably three-quarters of that number are young women and young girls, and any Measure passed by this House in the way indicated by the hon. Gentleman will create a tendency to sweat these young people more than in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-09a.2018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-09", "file": "debates1922-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "55f1f91a66f040c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-09a.2050.0", "colnum": "2050", "heading": "COAL MINES (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS AS TO SAFETY LAMPS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain COOTE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain COOTE", "preceding_text": " bad Bill. I can assure them that this is not really a question of getting better information as to the quality of glass which is employed in safety lamps. The reason the Bill is being introduced is because a number of years ago a promise was given by the then Government to a certain firm of glass manufacturers that they should be given what practically amounts to a monopoly of this kind of glass.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-09a.2050.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-09", "file": "debates1922-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "55f1f91a66f040c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-09a.2051.1", "colnum": "2051", "heading": "COAL MINES (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS AS TO SAFETY LAMPS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": " wholly and utterly impossible. The lamp glass manufactured in England would have to be of such an extremely inferior nature that it would be shutting out 10 or 20 per cent, of the actual light to produce such results. Everyone knows perfectly well why the cases of nystagmus have gone up. In the first place, the dise'asc is much better understood now, and doctors are much quicker in diagnosing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-09a.2051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-09", "file": "debates1922-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "55f1f91a66f040c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-09a.2051.1", "colnum": "2051", "heading": "COAL MINES (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS AS TO SAFETY LAMPS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": " such results. Everyone knows perfectly well why the cases of nystagmus have gone up. In the first place, the dise'asc is much better understood now, and doctors are much quicker in diagnosing it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] In the second place, the spread of moving-picture shows in mining villages has had more to do with aggravating cases of nystagmus than any amount of English glass that ever existed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-09a.2051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-09", "file": "debates1922-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "55f1f91a66f040c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-09a.2067.2", "colnum": "2067", "heading": "COAL MINES (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS AS TO SAFETY LAMPS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That should be the first.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "mall point. It is only a question of two years, and as for the additional cost to the industry or the public, I am sure the most it could be would be about one-twentieth of a penny per ton of coal. I do not think those are really relevant questions. There are two important questions for us to-day—first of all the pledge, and secondly, whether it can be carried out without endangering safety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-09a.2067.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-09", "file": "debates1922-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "55f1f91a66f040c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-09a.2068.1", "colnum": "2068", "heading": "COAL MINES (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS AS TO SAFETY LAMPS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or inferior.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "es about is that there is nothing in this Bill which is detrimental to the safety of the miners, and it will be quite easy in Committee to strengthen the Clauses in the Bill to meet that, but I do not want even to go as far as that without having received from the representatives of the miners whatever evidence they have got that the glasses as they are now used for these particular lamps are bad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-09a.2068.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-09", "file": "debates1922-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "55f1f91a66f040c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-09a.2069.3", "colnum": "2069", "heading": "COAL MINES (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS AS TO SAFETY LAMPS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "g now are efficient and good, it took them a very long time and a great deal of trouble and expense to get to that standard, and the pledge would certainly not be fulfilled by using the phrase \"termination of the War\" in a different sense from that in which it has been used in all other connections. What I would suggest to the House is that we should pass the Second Reading of this Bill now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-09a.2069.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-09", "file": "debates1922-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "55f1f91a66f040c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-09a.2076.1", "colnum": "2076", "heading": "COAL MINES (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS AS TO SAFETY LAMPS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the same speakers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "e get an opportunity to go fully into the question of whether the home-made lamp is as safe as that in which are the other glasses previously supplied to us. In agreeing to the adjournment he wants us to give him a pledge that if he finds that the home-made glasses are quite as satisfactory as they should be, that he shall have the Second Reading without having the same set of speeches over again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-09a.2076.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-09", "file": "debates1922-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "55f1f91a66f040c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-09a.2107.0", "colnum": "2107", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Alteration of Method of Preparing Jurors' Book.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DOYLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why was not a Division taken?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DOYLE", "preceding_text": "I beg to second the Amendment. This Amendment was discussed exhaustively in Committee. Owing to reasons into which I need not enter, a Division was not taken upon it, but the Home Secretary would probably agree that if a Division had been taken on that occasion an Amendment probably would have been carried.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-09a.2107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-09", "file": "debates1922-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "55f1f91a66f040c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-09a.2148.0", "colnum": "2148", "heading": "WHALE FISHERIES (SCOTLAND) (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir MALCOLM SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir MALCOLM SMITH", "preceding_text": " crans. In the following year it was 136,000 crans, and in 1907, 61,000 crans. There is a great deal more to be said on this subject. It may be asked in what respect does whale fishing affect herring fishing or cod fishing. That is probably a subject for scientists, but they have given us no assistance in the matter. One eminent scientist says: The herring is a very sensitive and intelligent fish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-09a.2148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-09", "file": "debates1922-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "55f1f91a66f040c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-09a.2154.1", "colnum": "2154", "heading": "WHALE FISHERIES (SCOTLAND) (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ll to-night. Under those circumstances we could not discuss them adequately. The Second Reading is the only occasion on which we are allowed to go into every possible detail, to bring forward facts and figures. We are not allowed to do so in Committee, where the scope of the discussion is limited. This is the manner in which the Government and the Secretary for Scotland deal with Scottish affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-09a.2154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-10", "file": "debates1922-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "962c8e0ae2109431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2179.1", "colnum": "2179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CANADIAN CATTLE EMBARGO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will you take action?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I did not say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-10", "file": "debates1922-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "962c8e0ae2109431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2196.5", "colnum": "2196", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Three weeks!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "Is it not now nearly a fortnight since these officers were kidnapped—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2196.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-10", "file": "debates1922-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "962c8e0ae2109431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2199.0", "colnum": "2199", "heading": "VIVISECTION EXPERIMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MURRAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MURRAY", "preceding_text": "e merits of experimental research. There are two or three reasons which I should like to give why public money of all monies should be spent upon experimental research. Vivisection, as it is called, has been the means of advancing medical research within the last 30 or 40 years to an extraordinary degree. There is, for instance, the surgery of the brain. You cannot experiment upon the human brain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-10", "file": "debates1922-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "962c8e0ae2109431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2298.0", "colnum": "2298", "heading": "IRELAND (KIDNAPPED BRITISH OFFICERS).", "cue_speaker": "Field-Marshal Sir HENRY WILSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Send all the Ministers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Field-Marshal Sir HENRY WILSON", "preceding_text": "ent not yet learnt their lesson about Ireland? How many more murders must be committed in Ireland before the Government realise the true situation of that country? We are dealing to-night with the question of officers and men. May I suggest that some Cabinet Minister should go over to Ireland, and, if necessary, beseech the Provisional Government to grant the lives of our soldiers in that country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-10", "file": "debates1922-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "962c8e0ae2109431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2309.3", "colnum": "2309", "heading": "IRELAND (KIDNAPPED BRITISH OFFICERS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not say so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "e and released, in some cases with no charges preferred against them. I think he is mistaken in supposing that these outrages are in the main committed by the men who were most prominent in the fighting against us, and he is certainly mistaken if he assumes that all those who fought against us and suffered at our hands in fighting against us are now our bitter enemies or wish to pursue a vendetta.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2309.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-10", "file": "debates1922-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "962c8e0ae2109431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2310.1", "colnum": "2310", "heading": "IRELAND (KIDNAPPED BRITISH OFFICERS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Withdraw!\" Other HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "tatesmanship could give. All that is in the balance. I understand hon. Members who voted against it, I understand hon. Members who from the first thought this policy wrong, who believed that it would fail, that, if it succeeded, success would be almost more dangerous than failure, I understand hon. Members who take that view seizing upon any incident and using it to bring the experiment to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-10", "file": "debates1922-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "962c8e0ae2109431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2312.0", "colnum": "2312", "heading": "IRELAND (KIDNAPPED BRITISH OFFICERS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not the Leader of the House!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "—which is offensive. Let me put my thought in different words, words which, I hope, will give no offence. The subject is far too big to be prejudiced by the clumsiness of a speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-10", "file": "debates1922-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "962c8e0ae2109431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2314.3", "colnum": "2314", "heading": "IRELAND (KIDNAPPED BRITISH OFFICERS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " circumstances, they have declared their determination to pursue and to bring to justice the perpetrators. Now I come to the question of ability. I would ask the House to remember the difficulties under which the Provisional Government work. They are a Provisional Government. The Treaty which we signed with their representatives in London has not yet been submitted to the mass of the Irish people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2314.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-10", "file": "debates1922-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "962c8e0ae2109431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2314.3", "colnum": "2314", "heading": "IRELAND (KIDNAPPED BRITISH OFFICERS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ion, but if a foreign Government is doing its best to protect our subjects and to bring those who have wronged them to justice then, because that country at the moment is in a state of rebellion, emerging from a civil war and verging on another, we should not go to war with them. I do not see, therefore, why we should have less patience and consideration with the Provisional Government of Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2314.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-10", "file": "debates1922-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "962c8e0ae2109431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2314.3", "colnum": "2314", "heading": "IRELAND (KIDNAPPED BRITISH OFFICERS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "aling at the moment received, I shall feel more confidence, when I come, to deal with the points which they desire, that they will pay any attention to what I say. That is the position. \"Why do you not do something?\" asks an hon. Member. I ask the House very seriously to consider, very gravely to consider, what is happening. We have no police force in Ireland with which we can help these officers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2314.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-10", "file": "debates1922-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "962c8e0ae2109431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2324.0", "colnum": "2324", "heading": "IRELAND (KIDNAPPED BRITISH OFFICERS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": " who supported this Treaty can now go back upon the votes which they gave.\" Then, again, in his speech, when I challenged him and said that he was responsible for the state of affairs which now exists in Ireland, he turned round and said, \"Yes, I am responsible, but the House has on more than one occasion, by large majorities, approved that responsibility.\" On behalf of the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2324.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-10", "file": "debates1922-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "962c8e0ae2109431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2328.0", "colnum": "2328", "heading": "IRELAND (KIDNAPPED BRITISH OFFICERS).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "preceding_text": " could, under present conditions, be maintained. Everybody must feel a deep anxiety as to the position, but I do not see what more can be done, short of military intervention, than the steps announced by the Leader of the House to-night. I am quite sure that, though they have abstained from expressing that view, a great many of the critics who have spoken have military intervention in their minds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-10", "file": "debates1922-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "962c8e0ae2109431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2328.0", "colnum": "2328", "heading": "IRELAND (KIDNAPPED BRITISH OFFICERS).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "more can be done, short of military intervention, than the steps announced by the Leader of the House to-night. I am quite sure that, though they have abstained from expressing that view, a great many of the critics who have spoken have military intervention in their minds. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Very well, but the experiment of self-government has not yet been effectively tried in Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-10", "file": "debates1922-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "962c8e0ae2109431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2329.3", "colnum": "2329", "heading": "IRELAND (KIDNAPPED BRITISH OFFICERS).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "preceding_text": " cannot understand, when all parties in this House agreed to follow the party leaders of the Coalition in their programme of trying self-government for Ireland, and have thus deliberately vacated the main position that they should suddenly, in a fit of disgust, take up a position in a trench at the back of the rest camp. That is really the attitude of some hon. Members under present circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2329.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-10", "file": "debates1922-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "962c8e0ae2109431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2331.2", "colnum": "2331", "heading": "IRELAND (KIDNAPPED BRITISH OFFICERS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CRAIK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CRAIK", "preceding_text": "e matter in a more quiet and careful manner. As regards my Leader, the Leader of the House, I have owed for many years, and have paid, sound and solid service to him. It is an hereditary service, because I knew him who went before him, and who was one of our great leaders. But I would ask the right hon. Gentleman, Was he quite fair to those of us, his followers, in the words that he used to-night?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2331.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-10", "file": "debates1922-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "962c8e0ae2109431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2336.1", "colnum": "2336", "heading": "IRELAND (KIDNAPPED BRITISH OFFICERS).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "preceding_text": "Those who support the Government have a right to say why they support them on this occasion. Those who vote for this Motion ought to know that they are voting for war with Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-10", "file": "debates1922-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "962c8e0ae2109431", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2342.7", "colnum": "2342", "heading": "WOMEN POLICE PATROLS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": "That is trivial. The point is that I have got to consider the safety of the Metropolis, having regard to the money I have got.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-10a.2342.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-11", "file": "debates1922-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "68de95606b135f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2355.3", "colnum": "2355", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "It is impossible, for me to state how long this House will be asked to assist the settlement of Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2355.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-05-11", "file": "debates1922-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "68de95606b135f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2367.7", "colnum": "2367", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "We have only wounded it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members have had several shots at this Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2367.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-11", "file": "debates1922-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "68de95606b135f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2430.1", "colnum": "2430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "rehensible and criminal, or words to that effect. What is the Government going to do? What is the right hon. Gentleman going to say about this, and what is the hon. Member for Chippenham going to do about it? He got his Act of Parliament. It has been passed, and he got a really substantial and creditable majority for it. There is a Cabinet in this country which is deciding issues day by day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-11", "file": "debates1922-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "68de95606b135f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2440.0", "colnum": "2440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FILDES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FILDES", "preceding_text": "ave given must be multiplied many times over before we get the effect on the whole trade in that case; but supposing it were suggested that a duty should be placed on raw cotton coming into the country that would produce a charge corresponding to this, the whole country would be up in arms. Yet we are being handicapped in this way under the Dyestuffs Act. I was one who voted for the Dyestuffs Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-11", "file": "debates1922-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "68de95606b135f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2448.1", "colnum": "2448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM BARTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM BARTON", "preceding_text": "d to be Chairman of the Colour Users' Association, and he became a director of the Dyestuffs Corporation, and this, to me, was a guarantee of good faith, on both sides. Whatever may be the emoluments of a directorship of this company, to take up this position was undoubtedly a great sacrifice financially. I now learn that Mr. Clay has resigned the directorship of the British Dyestuffs Corporation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-11", "file": "debates1922-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "68de95606b135f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2500.0", "colnum": "2500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM MIDDLEBROOK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM MIDDLEBROOK", "preceding_text": "nity of testing all these questions, and the opponents have as full an opportunity as the promoters of putting their views and stating their case and asking the Committee to take care of their interests. There are places connected with both Bradford and Leeds, which are outgrowths of their boroughs, which are wishful to come into them. Clayton, Baildon and Esholt are wishful to come into Bradford.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2500.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-11", "file": "debates1922-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "68de95606b135f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2504.3", "colnum": "2504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. MIDDLEBROOK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MIDDLEBROOK", "preceding_text": "No! What I put to the House is this, and I do it with great confidence: that of the total expense from the inception of these schemes up to the close of the Committee stage, of the total expense between those two points, 75 per cent, at least, more probably 80 per cent., has already been incurred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2504.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-11", "file": "debates1922-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "68de95606b135f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2504.3", "colnum": "2504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. MIDDLEBROOK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MIDDLEBROOK", "preceding_text": "e they should not put forward the plea of economy and at the same time decline that offer. A word has been said about local opinion. I attach as much importance to local opinion as those opposing the Bill do. It is one of the main elements in considering questions of this sort, but it is not the only element. I have urged it in seeking to defeat my own city on one section of their first proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2504.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-11", "file": "debates1922-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "68de95606b135f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2507.0", "colnum": "2507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Major BOYD-CARPENTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BOYD-CARPENTER", "preceding_text": "cond Reading of a Bill, and when the principle that is involved in the Second Reading of a Bill has been endorsed by Parliament, by ages and years of experience, it goes through, and subsequently the merits and details of the Bill are considered in Committee upstairs. Here, under extraordinary and very unique circumstances, the Second Reading of what practically amounts to a Local Legislation Bill", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2507.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-11", "file": "debates1922-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "68de95606b135f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2507.0", "colnum": "2507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Major BOYD-CARPENTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BOYD-CARPENTER", "preceding_text": "rsed by Parliament, by ages and years of experience, it goes through, and subsequently the merits and details of the Bill are considered in Committee upstairs. Here, under extraordinary and very unique circumstances, the Second Reading of what practically amounts to a Local Legislation Bill [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—at any rate, the principle of it has been endorsed by Parliament, in 1888—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2507.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-11", "file": "debates1922-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "68de95606b135f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2508.1", "colnum": "2508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Major BOYD-CARPENTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BOYD-CARPENTER", "preceding_text": " vicious than the rest of mankind, but they have very considerable ideas as regards their own potentialities and responsibilities, and they have a good deal of consideration or less consideration for the potentialities and responsibilities of those who might be potential opponents. Is not that a fact? It is human nature. The West Riding County Council is the author and forefront of the opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-11", "file": "debates1922-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "68de95606b135f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2509.1", "colnum": "2509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Major BOYD-CARPENTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BOYD-CARPENTER", "preceding_text": "My brother Member for Bradford (Lieut.-Colonel Willey) talks of the ratepayers. He is the last person who ever considered them. I do not know what he means by referring to the ratepayers. Really this is a fight between two associations in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-11", "file": "debates1922-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "68de95606b135f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2509.3", "colnum": "2509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Major BOYD-CARPENTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BOYD-CARPENTER", "preceding_text": "y of Health. There it is; that is a new development. Those powers are there. What happens to-day? These boroughs, under the Act of 1888, are entitled to ask for those powers. If they get them, a Provisional Order is issued. To-day the opposition to this Measure is based, not upon any question of, shall I say, contravention of or disgust with the Act of 1888. It is based on the question of expense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2509.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-11", "file": "debates1922-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "68de95606b135f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2513.0", "colnum": "2513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Sir Alfred Mond)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are already committed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Sir Alfred Mond)", "preceding_text": "his kind simply on the ground of expense. I listened very carefully to the speech of the Mover and Seconder of the Amendment. I expected to hear from them some exceptional reasons why the Bill should be thrown out instead of proceeding in the usual way to a Committee upstairs. I cannot say that in the two speeches I heard a single argument which influenced me in favour of the course they proposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-11", "file": "debates1922-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "68de95606b135f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2514.1", "colnum": "2514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the wishes of the people?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "en as the Mover and Seconder of the rejection have tried to make out. You must either adopt the argument that no borough council on any ground is entitled to any extension whatever, or you must argue the details to ascertain whether the extension that is asked for is to be given. The hon. Member who moved the rejection has not given a single reason why any part of the extension should be rejected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-11", "file": "debates1922-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "68de95606b135f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2525.0", "colnum": "2525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak for yourself,\" and \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "preceding_text": " and Bradford. We have heard many brilliant speeches, but we have heard practically nothing about the particular point dealt with by this Bill. I ask the House whether this Debate has not shown the wisdom of our Private Bill procedure. I challenge hon. Members with this statement, that after having reached the conclusion of this Debate there is not one out of 20 capable of giving an opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-11", "file": "debates1922-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "68de95606b135f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2528.4", "colnum": "2528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Divide, divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain LOSEBY", "preceding_text": "Answering another question, my hon. Friend said this: I think it is the best thing for these places that they should be joined to Bradford. I think so. It will tend to do away with the multiplication of officials and there will be one central administration, and so on, and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-11a.2528.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-12", "file": "debates1922-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "fd85c9f39f38c6db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-12a.2566.0", "colnum": "2566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak for yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": " occasion avoided the error that others have committed, because they have not put forward this Bill as offering an absolute solution of the unemployment problem. Reference has been made to the statements of the Prime Minister and others. Undoubtedly when we are on the platform many of us are prone to indulge in rhetorical flourishes, and we may say a great deal more than we know to be practicable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-12a.2566.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-12", "file": "debates1922-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "fd85c9f39f38c6db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-12a.2569.1", "colnum": "2569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": " conferences something is being done. Let me show by one or two illustrations what I mean. My constituents are largely concerned in the manufacture of boots and shoes. A large export trade has been built up. Some of the Dominions were among our best customers, South Africa included. Recently South Africa has embarked on an intensive campaign with a view to making herself a self-contained Dominion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-12a.2569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-12", "file": "debates1922-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "fd85c9f39f38c6db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-12a.2587.0", "colnum": "2587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JESSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JESSON", "preceding_text": " can take place. They have then to supply the raw material necessary for production. Then they have to for supply sufficient liquid capital to pay the wages of the workers during the period of production. When the goods have been produced I do not know how any employer is going to make a profit or recoup himself for his outlay or even to carry on business unless he can sell those goods to someone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-12a.2587.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-12", "file": "debates1922-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "fd85c9f39f38c6db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-12a.2593.1", "colnum": "2593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JESSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JESSON", "preceding_text": "Those are grounds on which some of the proposals of the Labour party begin to crumble away. If the workers, who with their dependants are 99 per cent, of the population, are to be relied on to purchase these goods directly or indirectly, they cannot do so unless they receive sufficient wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-12a.2593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-12", "file": "debates1922-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "fd85c9f39f38c6db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-12a.2602.5", "colnum": "2602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"We have always said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "tle curious that the party responsible for this Bill, revealing as it does so high an opinion of the value and usefulness of the Ministry of Labour, should have allowed the view to which I have referred to be expressed without, so far as I know, until this morning, saying a word or expressing any view whatever in support of an agency which so far from abolishing they wish materially to strengthen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-12a.2602.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-12", "file": "debates1922-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "fd85c9f39f38c6db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-12a.2602.5", "colnum": "2602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They will be told that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "ng the same period the guardians for the relief of distress have dispensed not less than £50,000,000. The advocates of State Socialism may sniff at all that, but it represents a common effort that I, if I may say so, look back upon with gratitude and thankfulness. I ask the House to reject this Bill. Those who vote agaist it will be told that they voted against a Bill to prevent unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-12a.2602.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-12", "file": "debates1922-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "fd85c9f39f38c6db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-12a.2606.0", "colnum": "2606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\" and \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member concluded by reminding us that he will do his duty. He thinks it is his duty to oppose this Bill. He speaks for a Government apparently united on one thing, if on no other. That thing is to let this difficulty of unemployment settle itself if it will, but, at any rate, not to interfere with the difficulty by attempting any sort of remedy themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-12a.2606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-12", "file": "debates1922-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "fd85c9f39f38c6db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-12a.2607.0", "colnum": "2607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "00,000 there, millions to the right and millions to the left? For what? For nothing, and the Labour party is upbraided this afternoon because it wants the people to work for what they get. I marvel at the business men in this House, at the financiers, the men of great skill, the men who alone are fit to govern, sitting quietly by and listening to this recital of deliberate wastage of public money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-12a.2607.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-12", "file": "debates1922-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "fd85c9f39f38c6db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-12a.2607.0", "colnum": "2607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "s done—and it cannot, of course, be done for a considerable time—there will, in the nature of things, in some degree always remain a margin of unemployed who have a claim upon the community. If the unemployed in the future fell down to 3 or 2½ or 2 per cent., the men and women who would make up that small percentage would still have their claim upon their country and upon society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-12a.2607.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-15", "file": "debates1922-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d6b34f92149a543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-15a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAW OF PROPERTY BILL [Lords],", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "the lord of the manor, and merely the surface is transferred by copy of court roll. It should be made quite clear at once that that, unfortunately, is not affected by this Bill in any way whatever. The minerals still belong to the lord of the manor, and the lord of the manor is still entitled under this Bill, as at present, to get all the coal from under the surface and let a man's house in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-15a.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-15", "file": "debates1922-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d6b34f92149a543", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-15a.199.1", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Hampstead considers himself well acquainted with electricity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-15a.199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-16", "file": "debates1922-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "92e64da07e2abf13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-16a.283.0", "colnum": "283", "heading": "SCHOOL TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FISHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FISHER", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman seems to be unaware that the Government has honoured the Burnham scale—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-16a.283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-16", "file": "debates1922-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "92e64da07e2abf13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-16a.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "SCHOOL TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "be eliminated and that words should be substituted which would place a strict time limit on the operation of the Bill. Why not place a limit of two years, and instead of saying \"until Parliament otherwise determines,\"says\"until 1st April, 1924\"? I admit that by doing that you would not get. over the hon. Baronet's objection to the deflection from the strict moral line. I am proposing a compromise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-16a.301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-16", "file": "debates1922-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "92e64da07e2abf13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-16a.323.0", "colnum": "323", "heading": "SCHOOL TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ed by the teachers that at a certain stage, those teachers who were members of the Burnham Committee, went out and saw a larger body of teachers and as an argument to induce them to support the Burnham scale, said, \"You must remember among other things that we have a non-contributory pension scheme.\" But there is no suggestion that either side in the Burnham Committee based their decision on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-16a.323.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-17", "file": "debates1922-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "0e4aa2ecad8ece78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.402.0", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "leman why. I do not know of any greater cause for the degradation of our Parliamentary institutions, for the ruin of the constitutional spirit, which is disappearing day by day, and the universal despising of Parliament, than the way we Ulster Nationalist representatives have been treated in this House. The damage that has been done in Northern Ireland has been done mainly to constituents of mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.402.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-17", "file": "debates1922-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "0e4aa2ecad8ece78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.405.1", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "e final arbiter—\"I must watch that I do not saddle the ratepayers with an enormous burden. I must see that this terrific burden must not be allowed to bear down the ratepayers.\" Therefore, the awards they made, so far from being generous, were so meagre as to be almost unjust; but I am quite certain that if these judges had known that this Imperial Parliament was going to give a grant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-17", "file": "debates1922-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "0e4aa2ecad8ece78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "One of the arguments used in all parts of the House was that the payment of reparations would be a worthy lesson, and in the same way I want the people of Northern and Southern Ireland to be shown that it does not pay to destroy their own property, and it is not fair to ask the overburdened taxpayers of this country to foot the bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-17", "file": "debates1922-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "0e4aa2ecad8ece78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.418.2", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "en, but that there has also been a very substantial bill for replacing tools belonging to the members which were deliberately destroyed. That alone has cost this union no less a sum than £3,000. He goes on to say that the cost of out-of-work benefit to their members who were thrown out of employment in this way—men whose only crime was that they were Catholics and trade unionists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.418.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-17", "file": "debates1922-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "0e4aa2ecad8ece78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.441.5", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MURRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The North of Ireland!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MURRAY", "preceding_text": " this is a premium upon lawlessness and an encouragement to these men in the North of Ireland to burn each other's property and therefore I object to it. They ought to pay for their own fun. This is really a form of entertainment in which Irishmen indulge. We here are taxed if we go to an entertainment and we are now being asked to pay for this particular form of entertainment for Ireland as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.441.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-17", "file": "debates1922-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "0e4aa2ecad8ece78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.452.8", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to withdraw my Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.452.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-17", "file": "debates1922-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "0e4aa2ecad8ece78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That would not be in order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "If you did, then all have to say is that I would ask those members of the Committee who know what it is about to stand up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-17", "file": "debates1922-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "0e4aa2ecad8ece78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "The Governments ought to have learnt by this time that coercion does not pay. It did not pay in the rest, of Ireland, and it will not pay in Ulster. You have not got a single advantage from your drastic legislation, and it is not impartially administered. You go into a Catholic house and search for rifles and revolvers and you do not get them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-17", "file": "debates1922-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "0e4aa2ecad8ece78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY AND ARMY PRE-WAR PENSIONERS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HURST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HURST", "preceding_text": "an nature if they did not ask for similar concessions. We have heard in Debate on more than one occasion the excellent case which can be made out for old age pensioners, and it has been pointed out how hard it is for men and women who have been thrifty in early life to be debarred from receiving old age pensions. Their case is just as strong in its way as the case of the pre-War soldier or sailor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-17", "file": "debates1922-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "0e4aa2ecad8ece78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.479.3", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY AND ARMY PRE-WAR PENSIONERS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HURST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HURST", "preceding_text": "No, that is not so. The class of pensioners for whom this appeal is made is one of many classes of pensioners, all of whom have suffered from the diminished purchasing value of money, but each class regards its own case as the most poignant. Therefore, if this concession were granted it would stimulate a greatly increased demand on the part of other pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.479.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-17", "file": "debates1922-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "0e4aa2ecad8ece78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.481.0", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY AND ARMY PRE-WAR PENSIONERS.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. WORSFOLD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. WORSFOLD", "preceding_text": "ause of his services in the past, and is retained in that berth. I can mention one man who is 72 years of age, and who holds a position of trust. He is only one of very many. I am not going to say that all are in that state of happiness and contentment. No class in this world ever was, but it must be borne in mind that when these men came out of the Army, after long service, they got a preference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.481.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-17", "file": "debates1922-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "0e4aa2ecad8ece78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.492.1", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY AND ARMY PRE-WAR PENSIONERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. YOUNG", "preceding_text": " have to suggest—and this is an argument which I should like to present to the House with a great deal of force—is that if there be any justification for this increase to one class of pensioner, there can be no justification for refusing to extend it to all classes of the nation's pensioners—no justification whatever. The broad outline of the position is exactly the same for all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-17", "file": "debates1922-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "0e4aa2ecad8ece78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.507.0", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY AND ARMY PRE-WAR PENSIONERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "I only intervene for a few moments. Like the Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.507.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-17", "file": "debates1922-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "0e4aa2ecad8ece78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.509.3", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY AND ARMY PRE-WAR PENSIONERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "I have listened in vain for any condemnation from the hon. Member for St. George's (Mr. Erskine) or any other member of the Anti-Waste party, who have never done anything but —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.509.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-17", "file": "debates1922-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "0e4aa2ecad8ece78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.509.7", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY AND ARMY PRE-WAR PENSIONERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "When we realise the spirit which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-17a.509.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-18", "file": "debates1922-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "d1716ae641799efb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-18a.555.1", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "preceding_text": "In view of the observation made by the right hon. Gentleman during the putting of the question by the leader of the Labour party, will he state to the House whether he is of opinion that the lock-out is ended?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-18a.555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-18", "file": "debates1922-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "d1716ae641799efb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-18a.575.3", "colnum": "575", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "Hot. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": " work and, therefore, the number of accidents could not very properly be compared with any other year, but I hope we shall get those figures and be able to have a fair comparison. We have lost in the Department a very valuable servant of the Home Office, Mr. Walker, who was Chief Inspector, and whom, I think, many hon. Gentlemen opposite will remember as a very energetic and sympathetic inspector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-18a.575.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-18", "file": "debates1922-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "d1716ae641799efb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-18a.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "preceding_text": ", practically, losing its capital, or carrying on until it becomes bankrupt. It has another alternative—to go direct to the men and say, \"This is the condition. What are you going to do about it?\" I do not know a single case on record in which the coalowners have enforced a standard of wages outside the terms of the agreement except with the consent of the miners' representatives themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-18a.602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-18", "file": "debates1922-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "d1716ae641799efb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-18a.613.1", "colnum": "613", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Another Sankey Inquiry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": " them that consideration, then I am afraid the future has not those rosy streaks in it that were depicted by the hon. Member for Cardiff. I appeal to the Secretary for Mines to make arrangements for this inquiry and to do so with an open and sympathetic mind—as I know he will—but I ask him also to try and influence his colleagues to give that sympathy which is necessary in this crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-18a.613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-18", "file": "debates1922-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "d1716ae641799efb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-18a.668.0", "colnum": "668", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. WALSH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. WALSH", "preceding_text": "rs' agents in our areas as well as Members of Parliament, \"to get down to our areas and tell them what are the actual facts.\" We admit that there ought to be an attempt on the part of the two sides in the industry to get down as early as they possibly could to normal conditions. \"No,\" they said \"It is true that in the -Mining Industry Act, 1920, we have guaranteed control until 31st August, 1921.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-18a.668.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-18", "file": "debates1922-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "d1716ae641799efb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-18a.673.0", "colnum": "673", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So it is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "rtment, but to let the public know, if they do not know already, the very unhappy state in which the mining industry is in many parts of the country. I am sorry that some speakers thought it necessary to rake up old controversies about decontrol and the part the Government took at that time in order to try to prove that the whole of the present difficulties are due to the action of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-18a.673.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-18", "file": "debates1922-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "d1716ae641799efb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-18a.673.0", "colnum": "673", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "y this—I do not admit for one moment, there was any breach of faith. The mining industry—both owners and men—was warned that decontrol might take place before 31st August. Owners and men were asked to sit together and come to some arrangement to carry on after control came to an end. They had four months in which to do it and at the end of that time they had come to no agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-18a.673.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-18", "file": "debates1922-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "d1716ae641799efb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-18a.676.0", "colnum": "676", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is the same thing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that most of the £25,000,000 was spent, not to keep wages up to their point, but to enable all the other industries in the country to have coal below the cost of production—and the Navy too?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-18a.676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-18", "file": "debates1922-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "d1716ae641799efb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-18a.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "They were spent in the period when the trade slump began and to prevent the miners receiving too severe cuts in their wages, but what I would say is this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-18a.676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-18", "file": "debates1922-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "d1716ae641799efb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-18a.678.3", "colnum": "678", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The question of royalties!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "That is the first suggestion we have had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-18a.678.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-18", "file": "debates1922-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "d1716ae641799efb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-18a.678.9", "colnum": "678", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "I am not speaking about this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-18a.678.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-19", "file": "debates1922-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b5530e6b3f19a5f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.691.2", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MEYSEY-THOMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MEYSEY-THOMPSON", "preceding_text": "o have their funds used for political purposes, and if they do so they should be perfectly clear in their minds as to the amount of the levy used for political purposes. It should be paid into a separate fund, the accounts of which are kept separate from the other accounts of the union, and can be presented to the registrar for his examination and approval. The political fund is not kept distinct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.691.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-19", "file": "debates1922-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b5530e6b3f19a5f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.691.2", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MEYSEY-THOMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MEYSEY-THOMPSON", "preceding_text": "y for this Bill? There is the greatest possible necessity, because members of trade unions claim very strongly that they should have freedom to give or withhold their consent to the spending of their funds for political purposes. If you are going to allow trades unions to use their funds for political purposes, you cannot possibly object to a trade union or combination of employers doing the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.691.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-19", "file": "debates1922-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b5530e6b3f19a5f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.694.3", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MEYSEY-THOMPSON", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MEYSEY-THOMPSON", "preceding_text": "The Bridgwater Labour Committee, the Doncaster Unionist Association, the Doncaster Unionist Labour Committee, the Lancashire Unionist Labour Committee, the Derby Unionist Labour Committee, the Rochdale Unionist Labour Committee, the Northumberland Unionist and Labour Committee, the Merthyr Unionist Association, the Llanelly Labour Committee, the Accrington Unionist Labour Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.694.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-19", "file": "debates1922-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b5530e6b3f19a5f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.695.0", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": " greater confidence, that I was attempting to discharge a duty on behalf of the great mass of workers in this country. I never felt more confident of my ground than I do on this occasion. I do not think I should be overstating the case which has been submitted to the House by my hon. and gallant Friend if I claim that the title of this Bill should be a Bill for the emancipation of trade unionists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.695.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-05-19", "file": "debates1922-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b5530e6b3f19a5f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.696.0", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "abric. The man who throughout desires the return of A, and yet wittingly and willingly assists the return of B by subscriptions or otherwise, stultifies himself and ranks in point of intelligence with the man who votes at the poll for both of the opposing candidates. To constrain a man to such imbecility is to insult him, and is besides an injury to the community in preventing freedom of election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.695.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-19", "file": "debates1922-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b5530e6b3f19a5f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not compulsory. What has he got to do with it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I will deal with that in a moment. I do not want to be diverted from my point. Suppose that we said to the hon. Baronet, as the head of the Unionist organisation, \"Will you send to the Registrar a full detailed account of your income from all sources?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-19", "file": "debates1922-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b5530e6b3f19a5f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.719.3", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Those who subscribe to the Unionist party funds subscribe because they believe that they, as citizens of the country, will benefit from their activities in this House I think that is a fair definition. Is not that exactly what those who subscribe to the trade unions do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.719.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-19", "file": "debates1922-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b5530e6b3f19a5f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.719.3", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"They subscribe willingly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "the Unionist party funds subscribe because they believe that they, as citizens of the country, will benefit from their activities in this House I think that is a fair definition. Is not that exactly what those who subscribe to the trade unions do? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"] Well, I will leave it at that. I leave the House to draw its own conclusions as to the people who subscribe to the Tory party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.719.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-19", "file": "debates1922-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b5530e6b3f19a5f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.719.4", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. YOUNGER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where did they get their money from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. YOUNGER", "preceding_text": "They were not provided by the Unionist organisation here. They were paid for by the Labour Committee organisation, which is voluntary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.719.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-19", "file": "debates1922-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b5530e6b3f19a5f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.720.2", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ck our party, either individually or collectively or in the constituencies, nearly so viciously as the Communists themselves. You all know that. Let us face the facts. What is their complaint against us?? Their complaint is that we are preaching to the working men and women of this country that is is better to use the constitutional machine than always to strike. That is why they are attacking us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.720.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-19", "file": "debates1922-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b5530e6b3f19a5f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.727.0", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir J. HOPE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Honours List!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir J. HOPE", "preceding_text": " than with the Labour party? We want to keep both movements separate, to allow working men to belong to any party and not to make it a condition of belonging to a trade union that the Labour party must also be supported. I cannot see why the Labour party should object so strongly to this Bill. Reference has been made to the question of Unionist contributions. There is no forced contribution there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-19", "file": "debates1922-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b5530e6b3f19a5f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.727.0", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir J. HOPE", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir J. HOPE", "preceding_text": "ion become known, and even the few cases which the hon. Baronet quoted are sufficient to show that it is very difficult for members of trade unions to apply for this exemption. I am sure that Members of the Labour party would prefer that all subscriptions to their party should be voluntary, and would prefer one voluntary subscription to two which might be enforced. That is all that this Bill asks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-19", "file": "debates1922-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b5530e6b3f19a5f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.737.0", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "ected against trade unionism as such. They are strongly in favour, according to their arguments, of the trade unions doing everything in their power for purely trade union or industrial purposes, but a number of them draw the line and say: \"Having done all that, and having refrained from anything in the nature of opposition to the trade unions, we think they should keep clear of political strife.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.737.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-19", "file": "debates1922-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b5530e6b3f19a5f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.745.13", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JESSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes there is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JESSON", "preceding_text": "Another point that has not been dealt with is that there are many trade unions which contribute to the Labour party to-day that do not impose a political levy at all, but take the money out of trade union funds. The Act allows them to do that. In these cases, what becomes of the claim for political exemption. There is no political levy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.745.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-19", "file": "debates1922-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b5530e6b3f19a5f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.752.2", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMES WALTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Read it again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMES WALTON", "preceding_text": "p political activity so far as trade unions are concerned. If I thought that it was intended to put a stop to political activity on the part of trade unions, I should not support the Bill, but should be dead against it. I find, further, that it stipulates that participation in trade union political activity shall only be indulged in by the majority vote of the members of the trade union concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.752.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-19", "file": "debates1922-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b5530e6b3f19a5f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.760.3", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rot!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "ictions on it. Our movement grew and flourished after the Taff Vale decision, and when attempts were made to place other restrictions upon it in the past. If we do not adopt to-day the courses which were adopted formerly, it is because we do not want to conduct an agitation which will inflame the minds of working men at a time when calm judgment and reason are necessary in regard to these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.760.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-19", "file": "debates1922-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b5530e6b3f19a5f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BARNES", "preceding_text": " get the trade unions to so act in their political activities as to behave in a constitutional way and in accordance with the interest and susceptibilities of their fellow countrymen. Trade unions have now, on behalf of Labour and as the result of generations of agitation and a promotion of public opinion, attained a position of what I may call responsibility. They are no longer wage-slaves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-19", "file": "debates1922-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b5530e6b3f19a5f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "preceding_text": "ely. He has obtained the full rights of citizenship. What I should like to see would be the workers rising to the realisation of the responsibility attaching to that citizenship, and keep all the powers under his control within the law and on constitutional lines. Has that been done? Take my own position at the last General Election. I fought John Maclean. He was put forward as a Labour candidate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-19", "file": "debates1922-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b5530e6b3f19a5f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Free speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "preceding_text": "e. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Oh, yes he was. He was a Labour candidate and was put forward by a revolutionary body, by a body that openly expressed its contempt: for the House of Commons and everything appertaining to constitutional usages. John Maclean, was, when he was put forward against me, actually in prison under a sentence of five years for some action—I forget for the moment what it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-19a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-22", "file": "debates1922-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2362b91af1d17ef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.794.0", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Is it in order for an hon. Member of this House to lay an accusation of this kind against a person who has no opportunity whatsoever of defending himself? And are you aware, Sir, that this is the second occasion on which a similar accusation has been made against a member of the teaching profession, and do you know that in this case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.794.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-22", "file": "debates1922-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2362b91af1d17ef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.802.4", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Run away!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman assure the House now that His Majesty's Government will in no circumstances go away from their promised intention to demand a free election in Ireland on the Treaty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.802.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-22", "file": "debates1922-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2362b91af1d17ef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.803.3", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.803.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-22", "file": "debates1922-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2362b91af1d17ef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.803.3", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"In the South!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman—[HON. MEMBERS \"Order, order!\"]—give us an assurance that some definite steps will be taken to protect the minority in North-East Ulster, and also those—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.803.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-22", "file": "debates1922-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2362b91af1d17ef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.803.3", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman—[HON. MEMBERS \"Order, order!\"]—give us an assurance that some definite steps will be taken to protect the minority in North-East Ulster, and also those—[HON. MEMBERS \"In the South!\"]—everywhere!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.803.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-22", "file": "debates1922-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2362b91af1d17ef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.824.3", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Camouflage!\" and interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "No, Sir; I am entirely unable to follow the reasons advanced by the right hon. Gentleman, for the reason that I have never known the Opposition to claim to dictate to the the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.824.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-22", "file": "debates1922-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2362b91af1d17ef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.862.3", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS IN GRANT-AIDED SCHOOLS (SUPERANNUATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": ",HON. MEMBERS: \"More—fifty-six\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "may wish to bring before the Committee—restrictive rather than permissive, and he thinks that the words of the Government proposal are more favourable to their having the question brought up than are the words of the Amendment. It is' not orious that the Government did not guarantee the payment of the Burnham scale, and in proof of that I may mention that forty-three local authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.862.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-22", "file": "debates1922-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2362b91af1d17ef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.865.3", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS IN GRANT-AIDED SCHOOLS (SUPERANNUATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUGH EDWARDS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Member for West Houghton?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUGH EDWARDS", "preceding_text": "We on these Benches, representing Welsh constituencies, take no objection to the names which are suggested, but we do protest against the exclusion of Wales from this Committee. There is not a single Welsh representative on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.865.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-22", "file": "debates1922-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2362b91af1d17ef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.868.16", "colnum": "868", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "e shall in any circumstances require, and that I will accept, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the reduction of £200,000 suggested by the hon. Member for Wood Green, which I think is the largest on the Paper. If the Committee will permit me, I would ask them not to go beyond that. reduction. They will observe, in the first place, that I have taken the. largest figure Which is suggested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.868.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-22", "file": "debates1922-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2362b91af1d17ef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.874.3", "colnum": "874", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "tide Recess, 'and therefore you will be able to get through the stages of the Bill a fortnight after the Whitsuntide Recess, supposing, as the result of the Report, the House decides to go on with the Bill. Until the Division the other day, the Government did not think it necessary to have a Supplementary Estimate at all. The Supplementary Estimate was announced only because of the Division—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.874.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-22", "file": "debates1922-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2362b91af1d17ef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.877.0", "colnum": "877", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "n. Friend the Minister of Education, pleading that the House should give a Second Reading to a Bill which was to effect a large saving in educational expenditure, and every speech that was made, and, almost without exception, all the cheers that came as hon. Members spoke, indicated the gravest reluctance on the part of the House to face up to the unpopularity involved in reducing the expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.877.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-22", "file": "debates1922-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2362b91af1d17ef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.877.0", "colnum": "877", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "Bill which was to effect a large saving in educational expenditure, and every speech that was made, and, almost without exception, all the cheers that came as hon. Members spoke, indicated the gravest reluctance on the part of the House to face up to the unpopularity involved in reducing the expenditure. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Yes, it is so, and those of us who were in the House know that it is so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.877.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-22", "file": "debates1922-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2362b91af1d17ef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.878.0", "colnum": "878", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "It is, indeed, a very pleasant Monday afternoon for the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.878.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-22", "file": "debates1922-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2362b91af1d17ef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.878.0", "colnum": "878", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where arc the Labour party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "It is, indeed, a very pleasant Monday afternoon for the Labour party. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"] The rest of the Committee are in a somewhat uncomfortable position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.878.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-22", "file": "debates1922-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2362b91af1d17ef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.879.2", "colnum": "879", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. INSKIP", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "ther I should have voted with the Government or not, nut I do think that the Government, in putting down this Supplementary Estimate, are taking the only practical course which they could take. They framed their Estimates upon the assumption, as to which they were the best judges, that a Bill would be introduced and pressed through, but the House decided that the Bill should not he proceeded with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.879.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-22", "file": "debates1922-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2362b91af1d17ef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.891.0", "colnum": "891", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY C RAI K", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY C RAI K", "preceding_text": " and proper to do so, but this is a matter of book-keeping. Either you must support the Government in saving the money or, if you cannot do that, you must help the Government to put the money into the Exchequer in the proper way, Let it be referred to as a \"demonstration\" if lion. Members so prefer, but when people are stampeded by unfair lobbying on the part of the lower grades of teachers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.891.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-22", "file": "debates1922-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2362b91af1d17ef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.899.2", "colnum": "899", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": " and wish to see the whole of this Estimate practically wiped out, and I, personally, believe, although I put down this Amendment, that no fund at all is required. That being so, I am entirely in the hands of the Committee, but I am perfectly willing to withdraw my Amendment, and to allow those Members who think that no money is required, to move accordingly. I beg leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.899.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-22", "file": "debates1922-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "2362b91af1d17ef1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.963.7", "colnum": "963", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. WARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. WARD", "preceding_text": "rnals, for whose truthfulness I can vouch, that there is an absolute set being made against the British connection with the Sudan, that there is a suggestion that the Government themselves are at the moment considering the claim of the Egyptian Government that the Sudan is part of their territory, and that when you gave independence to Egypt you also placed the Sudan under the Egyptian Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-22a.963.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-23", "file": "debates1922-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "57475b55bd59d0bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-23a.1005.0", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the American Commission in Eastern Turkey, right or wrongly, are accused of complicity in risings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-23a.1005.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-23", "file": "debates1922-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "57475b55bd59d0bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-23a.1013.7", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw:\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman take steps to verify the accuracy of this question before he says the reply is in the negative", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-23a.1013.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-23", "file": "debates1922-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "57475b55bd59d0bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-23a.1077.3", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": ", I think, to say to the Admiralty that the officers who are to go must be treated fairly. I should like to draw the attention of the Committee in connection with this to the proposals of the Admiralty as to retiring officers on the reports made by their captains, and in particular to that extraordinary order about officers who will have to be retired compulsorily owing to peculiarities of temper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-23a.1077.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-23", "file": "debates1922-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "57475b55bd59d0bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-23a.1079.3", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Eighteen hundred!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "be their fate in a couple of years' time when they have become ordinary seamen? Will the Admiralty get rid of them in order to cut down the personnel? What applies to the boys applies also to the cadets. The figures are given on page 13 of the Estimates, where it will he seen that we are training no less than 506 naval cadets at a time when something like 1,400 of these ranks have been got rid of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-23a.1079.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-23", "file": "debates1922-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "57475b55bd59d0bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-23a.1115.1", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I would not for a moment say anything which would interfere with the success of this company which has a very laudable object, however little one may think of the possibility of its success. It is a very daring project. Let anyone consider the project, which is that of using the water power of the Highlands, at a point where, I think, the nearest town is about 41 miles away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-23a.1115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-23", "file": "debates1922-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "57475b55bd59d0bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-23a.1130.0", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Hilton Young)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have never been in this House!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Hilton Young)", "preceding_text": "cipal obstacles in its path that I venture to trouble the House at this hour. I understand that the principal objection that has arisen is in connection with a letter written by the Advisory Committee. Let me remind the House that that letter was written on behalf of a Committee which is obviously a Committee of the Treasury. It consists of three gentlemen of unique experience in business matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-23a.1130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-23", "file": "debates1922-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "57475b55bd59d0bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-23a.1139.1", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain THORPE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain THORPE", "preceding_text": "n that could give a guarantee that it was not a speculative concern? If he could come down to this House and say that for every pound we put into some scheme we should get 20s. back in the course of years, we shall all retire from our labours in this worldly career. There is no scheme that is not speculative, and if it was not speculative, in my humble opinion nobody would put their money into it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-23a.1139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-23", "file": "debates1922-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "57475b55bd59d0bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-23a.1139.1", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain THORPE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain THORPE", "preceding_text": " this Bill, and it is a significant fact that the Scotch people as a body are in favour of this scheme. We have yet to learn that they are a bad business people. It is a significant fact that all the engineering experts have recommended that this scheme may be reasonably undertaken with every prospect, humanly speaking, of success. It is a significant fact that the bankers are prepared to back it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-23a.1139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-24", "file": "debates1922-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "07a1605ba101865f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-24a.1209.4", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "SEDITIOUS PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GIDEON MURRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GIDEON MURRAY", "preceding_text": "sufficiently strong, it is obviously not sufficiently strong now. It is just a little over a year since those significant words were spoken, and yet the Government have taken no steps to pass any legisla- tion in order to meet the situation, although—I say this with a sense of responsibility—I believe that the movement of Communism in this country is stronger than it was in April 1921.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-24a.1209.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-24", "file": "debates1922-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "07a1605ba101865f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-24a.1213.3", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "SEDITIOUS PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "it is not for a private Member to deal with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-24a.1213.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-24", "file": "debates1922-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "07a1605ba101865f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-24a.1213.3", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "SEDITIOUS PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "artedly support it, because it is not the duty of any Government to interfere with the internal affairs of another. It is not the duty of Russia to interfere with us, and it is not our duty to interfere with Russia. My hon. Friend, however, realises that the International Trades Union Movement sends money to this country, and they are entitled to send money to this country for legitimate purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-24a.1213.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-24", "file": "debates1922-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "07a1605ba101865f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-24a.1213.3", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "SEDITIOUS PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "h us, and it is not our duty to interfere with Russia. My hon. Friend, however, realises that the International Trades Union Movement sends money to this country, and they are entitled to send money to this country for legitimate purposes. [ Interruption. ] Are we going to allow anyone to interpret what is seditious? There are many people who would make the propagation of trade unionism seditious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-24a.1213.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-24", "file": "debates1922-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "07a1605ba101865f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-24a.1224.2", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, 11.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "preceding_text": "Motion may be made and passed for the exemption of any \"specified business.\" I submit that to put in the words \"Government Business\" is not a compliance with the terms of the Standing Order, which says \"specified business.\" In support of that I will point out that if we read it literally it would suspend the Eleven o'Clock Rule for 18 Orders. We have been told that only six are to be taken to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-24a.1224.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-24", "file": "debates1922-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "07a1605ba101865f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-24a.1308.0", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. FARQUHARSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. FARQUHARSON", "preceding_text": "man's remark, but in order to make my position clear in the observations which I am about to make. Nothing has given me greater regret this afternoon than to notice the ease and the avidity with which certain Members chose to attack the medical profession. Not only it is the individual members of the medical profession whom they seek to attack, but they seek to attack the whole medical profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-24a.1308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-24", "file": "debates1922-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "07a1605ba101865f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-24a.1343.1", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "INTERNAL CURRENCY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "not see their way to appoint a Committee to look into the matter carefully? They have appointed Committees to deal with questions of far less importance. When people are told they have a certain standard of currency, they would like, sometimes, to have a look at it. How many hon. Members here to-night could produce a sovereign? I question if there is a single one who has a sovereign in his pocket.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-24a.1343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-24", "file": "debates1922-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "07a1605ba101865f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-24a.1367.6", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "it whatsoever to the fact that the employers and the State have contributed to the surplus. They merely denounce us for taking away money which we, ourselves had paid into the fund. It is very fine from the platform point of view, but it will not do in a serious financial argument. This is a joint fund. We are not altering the philosophical principle, if there ever was any philosophy in the. Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-24a.1367.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-05-25", "file": "debates1922-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "5121e81cd6b85bb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1401.5", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "preceding_text": "Would it be correct to say that the claims of Russia against us in a war made by us against Russia are an obstacle to settlement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1401.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-25", "file": "debates1922-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "5121e81cd6b85bb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1420.6", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Take it like a man!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Speaker. It is true I may be on the wrong bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1420.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-25", "file": "debates1922-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "5121e81cd6b85bb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1457.2", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Now I come to the practical difficulty we experienced in dealing with the Russian problem. Russia needed goods and customers for her produce in the future. We needed produce and customers for the goods that Russia needed for her development. It seemed very simple. There was her need, here was our supply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1457.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-25", "file": "debates1922-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "5121e81cd6b85bb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1458.0", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And of this country.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "their train confiscation of property, and, I am sorry to say, confiscation without compensation. It was our experience in England. We had a religious revolution, which was a source of so many calamities. There was the French Revolution, which was accompanied by a wholesale confiscation of the land of France, without compensation. In fact the conservatism of France to-day is rooted in confiscation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-25", "file": "debates1922-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "5121e81cd6b85bb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1469.3", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "Well, I saw it in the Press, and I hope he will not disown it, at all events.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1469.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-25", "file": "debates1922-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "5121e81cd6b85bb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1497.1", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "I heard my right hon. Friend, who is always glad to say something against the League of Nations if he can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-25", "file": "debates1922-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "5121e81cd6b85bb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1501.1", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "ontract—that is from a position of subordination to a position of equal freedom one with another. I believe that it is the line of progress internationally. I am convinced that it is only by adherence to that principle of co-operation, undiluted, without reservation, without any attempt to come back upon it by actual procedure, in a word, the procedure adopted by the League of Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-25", "file": "debates1922-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "5121e81cd6b85bb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1506.7", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "There, again, facts, of course, are of no concern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1506.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-25", "file": "debates1922-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "5121e81cd6b85bb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1506.7", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wait and see!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "pened, and then he delivered a prepared speech which had no reference to anything that I had said. He delivered a speech of elaborately prepared condemnation, and I must say they were rather poor, thin, cheap gibes. What is it that he complains of? Peace with Russia? Had he not always insisted upon it? Yes, in words. What would he have done? He condemned everything we did. What would he have done?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1506.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-25", "file": "debates1922-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "5121e81cd6b85bb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1511.0", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M OSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the Cabinet Ministers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M OSLEY", "preceding_text": "neighbours—that and the reconciliation of the Secretary for the Colonies with those with whom on former occasions he was on rather bad terms. Those are the only concrete assets in favour of the Genoa Conference. On the debit side, much has occurred that we may deplore. The introduction once again of the Supreme Council method has gone far to undermine any prospect of European reconciliation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-25", "file": "debates1922-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "5121e81cd6b85bb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1526.0", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEE", "preceding_text": "hat from which the hon. Gentleman who has just spoken sees it. His solution of the evils of Europe at the present time is to recognise Russia. That, if I may say so, is the bee in the bonnet of the Labour party, not only in this House, but all over the country. They go down to platforms; you can hear it from every orange-box in the country, that the way to cure unemployment is to recognise Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-25", "file": "debates1922-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "5121e81cd6b85bb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1542.0", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " was held so soon after the general election which sent hon. and right hon. Members here in such show. At the behest of the Prime Minister, and following his lead, even the diehards, who now turn him adrift and cast him out because they have no longer any use for him, would, if an election came along to-morrow and they saw nothing likely to carry them back to this House, accept the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-25", "file": "debates1922-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "5121e81cd6b85bb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1548.0", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "preceding_text": "nt. You were on the verge of war between Poland, Roumania, Russia and the Northern States. The fact that the Genoa Conference was in session, I claim, was a great contributory factor in avoiding that most disastrous war. It may be said that the only solution of this matter is to have a series of conferences, and that conferences should be in perpetual succession. That is perhaps a gloomy prospect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1548.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-25", "file": "debates1922-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "5121e81cd6b85bb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1550.0", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "ld peace, I say that I would support every conference and any conference. It is not true that we were opposed to the Genoa Conference. It is not true that we were opposed to an attempt being made by our Prime Minister to bring peace, to restore trade, to rehabilitate the exchanges throughout the world. You might as well ask us if we are in favour of the Ten Commandments or the Sermon on the Mount.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1550.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-25", "file": "debates1922-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "5121e81cd6b85bb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1550.0", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "t is the position—America creditor nation of the world refusing to attend the Conference which in her absence must fail in world purpose; ourselves, the creditor nation of Europe, refusing to consider reparations, which meant that the Conference must fail in its purpose of restoring exchanges. I ask this Committee most solemnly, at this solemn hour m our financial and economic history—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1550.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-25", "file": "debates1922-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "5121e81cd6b85bb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1555.1", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": " have broken off communications on the first day of the Conference, and if not the first day the second day. He would have said, \"No! Nothing doing. The experts' reports not accepted: break off the Conference at once.\" Would he have been so ready to do so, and would he have been right? Who suffered from our attitude? We may have suffered ourselves by being condemned to remain in Genoa for so long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-25", "file": "debates1922-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "5121e81cd6b85bb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1556.5", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "GENOA CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And India?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "ccepted it on behalf of their nations or not. One delegate after another, nation after nation, got up and said: \"I accept that on behalf of my nation.\" The British Empire, which the hon. Gentleman, I ant sure, loves as well as I do, was represented not merely by the Prime Minister, but by Canada, Australia, and South Africa. He should have seen the interest when the name of New Zealand was called.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-25a.1556.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-26", "file": "debates1922-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "c7f38fcd3ff41517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-26a.1622.1", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CRAIK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CRAIK", "preceding_text": "212;I know nothing about the real feeling of Scotland. What an expression of the real feeling of Scotland and Scottish Members is exhibited by these benches. Here we have the aspiration of a nation, that which is to redress the wrongs of centuries, that which is to wipe away all these evils. We have this fight going on and we have about as many Members from Scotland as I could count upon one hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-26a.1622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-26", "file": "debates1922-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "c7f38fcd3ff41517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-26a.1644.0", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTONE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTONE", "preceding_text": " o'clock. I know something about public opinion in Scotland. I am connected with many public bodies in Scotland. I am afraid the right hon. Gentleman the Member for the Scottish Universities (Sir H. Craik), for whom I have the utmost admiration, is out of touch with the living forces of Scotland and is not coming into close contact with public life there. Take the Convention of Burghs in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-26a.1644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-29", "file": "debates1922-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "8985f38ec9e180e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-29a.1672.4", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\" and \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "Surely that is a simple question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-29a.1672.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-29", "file": "debates1922-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "8985f38ec9e180e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-29a.1747.0", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ca some time, it is better that the repayment should take place and that we should reduce our capital liabilities rather than that well-to-do people should be able to spend more money on going abroad or in any other way. Squandering is not good for trade. That is the first principle we have to realise. It is not good, whether it be squandering on the part of the rich or on the part of the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-29a.1747.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-29", "file": "debates1922-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "8985f38ec9e180e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-29a.1755.5", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Wealth is that which is produced by labour out of land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-29a.1755.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-29", "file": "debates1922-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "8985f38ec9e180e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-29a.1767.2", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": " the mercy of their enemies. My right hon. Friend the Member for Fife has criticised the use we have made of the money realised from War assets. I think we can all appreciate the argument for treating these as capital account rather than for revenue account. My right hon. Friend knows very well that the accounts of the nation are not kept as you would keep the accounts of an ordinary trading firm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-29a.1767.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-29", "file": "debates1922-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "8985f38ec9e180e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-29a.1841.2", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GODFREY COLLINS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GODFREY COLLINS", "preceding_text": "th the relief granted to the indirect taxpayer. For every £1 by way of relief given to the indirect taxpayer, £6 has been granted to the direct taxpayer. It is true that the proportion between the direct and indirect amounts levied by way of taxation to-day is, roughly speaking, 61 per cent. direct and 39 indirect. These percentages correspond very accurately to the basis before the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-29a.1841.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-30", "file": "debates1922-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "aaddf9e69938535b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-30a.1893.0", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "I must leave the hon. and gallant: Member (Colonel Ashley) to bring this matter forward at the end of Questions. There are other questions to be put. He will recollect, however, that the initiative lies with the Government of Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-30a.1893.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-30", "file": "debates1922-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "aaddf9e69938535b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-30a.1966.0", "colnum": "1966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARBOURS, DOCKS AND PIERS (TEMPORARY INCREASE OF CHARGES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Harbour charges.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER SHAW", "preceding_text": "was in May, 1920. Taking that figure at 100, wholesale prices have fallen to-day to 49. It is true that retail prices are lagging behind, as they always do for weeks or months, but they, too, have fallen, and the cost of living accordingly. What about harbour and dock charges? These, even with the falls promised to be brought into operation on the 1st of June, will only have fallen from 100 to 80.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-30a.1966.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-30", "file": "debates1922-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "aaddf9e69938535b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-30a.1966.0", "colnum": "1966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARBOURS, DOCKS AND PIERS (TEMPORARY INCREASE OF CHARGES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Pre-War.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER SHAW", "preceding_text": "h surprised to hear my hon. Friend on the Treasury Bench make the extraordinary suggestion that the railway-owned undertakings had been undercutting other docks. He did not say it in words, but he gave me the impression, and I believe he gave the House the impression, that their charges had been more favourable to traders and to shippers than the charges of the non-railway controlled undertakings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-30a.1966.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-31", "file": "debates1922-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "32be699c1b813689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-31a.2104.3", "colnum": "2104", "heading": "WHITSUNTIDE RECESS (ADJOURNMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "orry, but we must take 10 Orders to-night, and suppress all those safeguards which the House, by great labour over a series of centuries, has built up for the control of public expenditure. We must pass the Finance Bill through all its stages to-day and take the consecutive stages of our Money Resolution.\" That happened the other night. There is the question of time. Hon. Members want to go—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-31a.2104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-31", "file": "debates1922-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "32be699c1b813689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-31a.2133.1", "colnum": "2133", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hoar, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "sition will be in no wise diminished, while the honour and reputation of Ireland will be fatally aspersed, I say to the House, whether you trust or whether you mistrust at this moment, equally you can afford to wait. We have done our part, we are doing our part with the utmost loyalty before all the world. We have disbanded our police. We have withdrawn our armies. We have liberated our prisoners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-31a.2133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-31", "file": "debates1922-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "32be699c1b813689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-31a.2166.7", "colnum": "2166", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. WILSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. WILSON", "preceding_text": " finding that they are totally incapable of governing, they make friends with their enemies and take into the Government half of their enemies. Now we are told that this plan of governing by a Coalition of two sets of enemies is going to give peace to Ireland. The Colonial Secretary says we can wait. Can we? All this time murders are going on at the rate of, I should say, about six or seven a day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-31a.2166.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-31", "file": "debates1922-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "32be699c1b813689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-31a.2166.7", "colnum": "2166", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. WILSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Belfast.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. WILSON", "preceding_text": " governing, they make friends with their enemies and take into the Government half of their enemies. Now we are told that this plan of governing by a Coalition of two sets of enemies is going to give peace to Ireland. The Colonial Secretary says we can wait. Can we? All this time murders are going on at the rate of, I should say, about six or seven a day. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] All over Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-31a.2166.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-31", "file": "debates1922-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "32be699c1b813689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-31a.2167.6", "colnum": "2167", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. WILSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. WILSON", "preceding_text": "The alternative would be to reimpose the Union, and it is apparently now clear that the Colonial Secretary contemplates that that may have to be done. I would like also to ask the Colonial Secretary whether he can give any guarantee at all for the Southern Loyalists in the 26 counties? I am one of them. I do not ask him to give me any. I do not want to go into any military details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-31a.2167.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-05-31", "file": "debates1922-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "32be699c1b813689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-31a.2169.1", "colnum": "2169", "heading": "IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Captain FITZROY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain FITZROY", "preceding_text": "d order is the first and elementary duty of any Government, and if it is not able to fulfil that duty it is incapable of being a Government at all. It is a bold thing to say, but, as far as one can be certain, I am sure that the people of this country would give their hearty support to the Government in any measures that they thought fit to pursue in order to re-establish law and order in Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-05-31a.2169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-13", "file": "debates1922-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "c13a0df944c13c88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-13a.219.1", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN (Leader of the House)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN (Leader of the House)", "preceding_text": "system which nothing but the comparative simplicity of the matters to be dealt with in those days rendered possible at all. My object is to answer the questions which the right hon. Gentleman has put to me. Will he permit me this observation? He was not very certain, as he himself said, of the hazards of the course over which he was playing, but he was exceedingly anxious to \"bunker\" his opponent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-13a.219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-13", "file": "debates1922-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "c13a0df944c13c88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-13a.274.1", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "u an expert. On the other hand, if you have, you do not require so many years as that, with the advice of the best experts in the world. The Noble Lord says that what he wanted was not a different policy. He approved of the aims and objects of our policy, but he yearns for the hood old dignified ways. Yes! What he calls the \"dignified channels\" in which we sailed so easily to the cataract of 1914.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-13a.274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-13", "file": "debates1922-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "c13a0df944c13c88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-13a.276.0", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ought to be different methods in the communications between nations, then, I think, he will not find many to agrees with him that we should go back to the old system which plunged the world into war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-13a.276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-14", "file": "debates1922-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a609a52e1b35fca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-14a.354.4", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "Major M. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That has been answered!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major M. WOOD", "preceding_text": "Will it be before the Autumn Recess?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-14a.354.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-06-14", "file": "debates1922-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a609a52e1b35fca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-14a.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order, order!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain FOXCROFT", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman realise there were several statements in that speech, all of them suggesting to some of us that he considered that the Protestants were equally responsible with the Sinn Feiners? May I suggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-14a.361.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-14", "file": "debates1922-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a609a52e1b35fca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-14a.473.0", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TOWNLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On Sunday!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TOWNLEY", "preceding_text": "far been made as to what is the action of dew, and what damage we may suffer in this way, but it is considerable and causes great inconvenience. I will show the House how this inconvenience not only affects business, but sometimes affects pleasure, also. Summer Time came into force on the first Sunday in April. A certain gentleman who is well known to this House went on that occasion to play golf.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-14a.473.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-14", "file": "debates1922-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a609a52e1b35fca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-14a.485.0", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir EVAN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir EVAN JONES", "preceding_text": "conditions preventing them doing so. On the other hand it is now suggested by this Bill that you should penalise the most important industry of this country in the sacred name, or supposedly sacred name, of giving more pleasure to certain other sections of the community. The hon. Member for the St. Helens Division (Mr. Sexton), who spoke on behalf of the Labour party in support of this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-14a.485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-14", "file": "debates1922-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a609a52e1b35fca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-14a.485.0", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir EVAN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not for the party!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir EVAN JONES", "preceding_text": " that you should penalise the most important industry of this country in the sacred name, or supposedly sacred name, of giving more pleasure to certain other sections of the community. The hon. Member for the St. Helens Division (Mr. Sexton), who spoke on behalf of the Labour party in support of this Bill—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no?\"]—well, he supported this Bill from the benches opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-14a.485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-14", "file": "debates1922-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a609a52e1b35fca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-14a.504.4", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir BERTRAM FALLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir BERTRAM FALLE", "preceding_text": "m alluding to the two Legislatures which existed before this country was conquered and colonised, which have had the privilege of passing laws since the time when they placed their Duke upon the Throne of this country. They have helped and aided this country in all its wars, especially in the last one, in which their record will bear comparison with that of any and of very much larger communities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-14a.504.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-14", "file": "debates1922-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a609a52e1b35fca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-14a.506.0", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Islands, which had their two Legislatures, independent, before the Conquest, and have them still. Their laws, when passed, are approved by His Majesty in Council, and not by this House. I have always been opposed to Home Rule, for the simple reason that I have seen it working in those Islands, and I have seen the efforts of great Government Departments in Whitehall to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-14a.506.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-14", "file": "debates1922-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "a609a52e1b35fca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-14a.506.1", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMER TIME BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no; two weeks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may be allowed just to say a few words. I will certainly consider very carefully what the hon. Member for Portsmouth (Sir B. Falle) has put to me. With regard to the shortening of the period I can, I think, say this much—that the reduction at each end shall not be less than three weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-14a.506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-15", "file": "debates1922-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d0b17519fba1a6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-15a.532.0", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman feel that when a Motion is put down by responsible Members of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-15a.532.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-15", "file": "debates1922-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d0b17519fba1a6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-15a.596.1", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.—CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "power to assist them to lay the foundation of sound Indian government, and we might well take the motto from the Book of Common Prayer, which tells us to take the mean between the two extremes of too much strictness in refusing and too much ease in giving. That is the attitude of mind which I think we should adapt to this problem. Finally, I come—no doubt to the relief of hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-15a.596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-15", "file": "debates1922-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d0b17519fba1a6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-15a.656.3", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.—CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. OMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. OMAN", "preceding_text": "The point I wanted to make was to ask the Noble Lord whether he is about to pursue the measures of the right hon. Member for Cambridge County (Mr. Montagu), and whether we are to have that system of seeing every adventurer and adventuress, however tarnished, who comes to England, whether Mrs. Besant with her besmirched reputation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-15a.656.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-15", "file": "debates1922-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d0b17519fba1a6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-15a.665.0", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": " ensuing six months. Can we get any idea as to what the final cost of the London County Council Hall will be? I understand the London County Council is in partial occupation of the building. I would like to know how much of the building they occupy at present. I know that one portion of the London County Council organisation which is housed in the new building concerns the issue of motor licences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-15a.665.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-15", "file": "debates1922-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d0b17519fba1a6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-15a.677.3", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Major GRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Except for dogs!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major GRAY", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend suggests that Block 4 and the tramways should be scrapped. I have never known him advocate anything in this House except the work of destruction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-15a.677.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-15", "file": "debates1922-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d0b17519fba1a6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-15a.677.3", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Major GRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Translate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major GRAY", "preceding_text": "except the work of destruction. [HON. MEMBERS \"Except for dogs!\"] It would be an absolute relief to me to find the right hon. Baronet lending himself for once to the least part of a constructive work. I do not say he has not been a very useful critic, but he always reminds me of the Italian fable of the hen and the frog, when the hen remarked with regard to the frog: Che molto critiche e nulla fa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-15a.677.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-15", "file": "debates1922-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "3d0b17519fba1a6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-15a.702.0", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. BARTLEY-DENNISS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. BARTLEY-DENNISS", "preceding_text": "I wish to reply to the statement which has been made that Lancashire people want the interests of Lancashire made paramount in India.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-15a.702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-16", "file": "debates1922-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "6db8e0493bdf981f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-16a.741.1", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLAWAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLAWAY", "preceding_text": "scriber removes the receiver until he gets a reply from the operator. In London the figure is between four and five seconds. I see an expression on the faces of some hon. Members as though they were recalling cases in which they had to wait more than six seconds before securing the attention of the operator. I assure them these figures have been most carefully checked over a great number of cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-16a.741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-19", "file": "debates1922-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "57c9ddbe99bd3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.788.10", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman state whether the alleged division in the Cabinet is correctly described in Ministerial Papers, and whether that information is supplied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.788.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-19", "file": "debates1922-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "57c9ddbe99bd3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.803.1", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "Does not my right hon. Friend think that great injustice will be inflicted on these teachers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-19", "file": "debates1922-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "57c9ddbe99bd3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.812.3", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEAL", "preceding_text": "the Second Reading, was that it would be exceedingly difficult to base road charges, which arise from road costs, upon railway charges which arise from a. different set of costs. As to Sir George Beharrel's evidence, he was not dealing with rail charges, he was dealing with railway charges which, by their very latest proposal, the companies were proposing to strip of some of the material elements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.812.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-19", "file": "debates1922-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "57c9ddbe99bd3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.851.4", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Why do not you go?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "lanation, the position is not quite clear. Are the same duties really being collected in Southern Ireland? What becomes of them and by which of the two sections which over large areas in Ireland are contending for mastery are they being collected? My information is that over the great part of Southern Ireland there is complete tranquility. No one is paying any taxes at all, and that is the reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.851.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-19", "file": "debates1922-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "57c9ddbe99bd3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.864.1", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "preceding_text": "tate for the Colonies. If he will read the figures of that Report., he will see the advantage to the American manufacturers as a result of the preferential tariff system between Porto Rico and the United States, and Cuba and the United States. The figures are the most striking example of the success of the preferential system. All countries have a tariff system. We have always had a tariff system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-19", "file": "debates1922-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "57c9ddbe99bd3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.869.3", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "lustration. I hope that he will bear his argument in mind a week hence when we come to debate whether we shall be allowed to import Canadian cattle into this country without obstructing that importation in the interests of home producers. It seems to me that if we rely on preference tariffs to cement the Empire we are entering on the decay of the Empire. The Empire has been built up on Free Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.869.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-19", "file": "debates1922-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "57c9ddbe99bd3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.878.4", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " in regard to that question. Later on, I hope to move an Amendment to repeal the Tea Duty altogether. I am not much concerned about any talk we may hear as to the revenue from tea or from any of the other commodities which have been mentioned in this Debate. There is plenty of wealth in this country from which to get revenue without taxing an article which is mainly paid for by the poorer classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.878.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-19", "file": "debates1922-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "57c9ddbe99bd3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.881.1", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " I refer, because he has never concealed himself as a Coalition Liberal, but has always come out and preached the true doctrine of his party, that Tariff Reform and nothing else will save this country. I am afraid the doctrine that has been preached, and that has not all been accepted by a so-called Coalition Government, is in reality the Tariff Reform scheme of the old Joseph Chamberlain brigade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.881.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-19", "file": "debates1922-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "57c9ddbe99bd3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MURRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Date!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MURRAY", "preceding_text": "to spare his own pocket at the expense of the bare pockets of the poor is a very shabby rich man indeed, and, therefore. I am sure that I carry with me the assent of even the classes upon wham I am putting very heavy burdens, that when we come to indirect taxes, at any rate, those two essentials of life ought to be exempt. The two essentials to which the Prime Minister referred were tea and sugar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-19", "file": "debates1922-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "57c9ddbe99bd3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.906.1", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARKER", "preceding_text": "ighty per cent. of the population belong to the working classes; and in this Budget so far as it affects the working classes, the total amount of the reduction of taxation is £5,000,000. I say that this Budget bears a strong partisan bias on the part of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and he has studiously drawn it up on purpose to throw the greater bulk of taxation upon the working classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.906.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-19", "file": "debates1922-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "57c9ddbe99bd3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.906.1", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\" and \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARKER", "preceding_text": "crumb that he has given to the working classes, he has reduced the grants for education by about £12,000,000, and the grants for the Ministry of Health by about £7,000,000. That goes to show the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he was drawing up his Budget, did it studiously on purpose to give the greatest measure of remission to the rich and the smallest measure to the working classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.906.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-19", "file": "debates1922-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "57c9ddbe99bd3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.950.0", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "I cannot follow the hon. Member with reference to the films of Mount Everest. As I understand the position, they will come under Imperial Preference, and therefore will not be liable to any duty whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.950.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-19", "file": "debates1922-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "57c9ddbe99bd3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.959.1", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major M. WOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major M. WOOD", "preceding_text": "I do not think that is an answer to the point I have made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-19", "file": "debates1922-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "57c9ddbe99bd3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.967.1", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "tude that he takes up. I should like to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will consider a very hard case that is affecting sellers of motor-cars imported from America into this country. It occurs fairly frequently that American visitors to this country wish to buy American ears here, use them for a few weeks, and take them back to America, but they find that they have to pay the full duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-19", "file": "debates1922-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "57c9ddbe99bd3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.967.1", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\" and \"Let him buy an English car!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "n. ] It may sound very amusing, but this is what arises in practice, and I have here particulars of an actual case. An American visiting England wanted to buy a car worth about £1,200, to use it for three weeks in this country, to tour the Continent, and then to take it back to America; but he found that he could not get a refund of the duty at the end of his three weeks' use of the car here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-19", "file": "debates1922-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "57c9ddbe99bd3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.967.1", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\" and \"Let him buy an English car!\"] If hon. Members will have a little patience, I will tell them what happened. He was able to buy the car in Holland, where the duty is only 5 per cent., and he bought the car there and brought it here as a tourist, paying no duty. The result was that the British importing house lost the order, and I hope hon. Gentlemen will cheer that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-19", "file": "debates1922-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "57c9ddbe99bd3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.967.1", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "her of his colleagues, whose Ministerial careers, I hope, are at an end, or about to be ended at the next Election. I hope, however, that the remark is true in regard to him, because of the admirable sentiments which he, a Member of the Government, is able to write—not at eleven o'clock at night, but, I suppose, sitting in his comfortable office at the Department, and using Government paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-19", "file": "debates1922-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "57c9ddbe99bd3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MURRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dates?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MURRAY", "preceding_text": "1915, were repealed. This is an opportunity for a Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer to make up for the faults of a Liberal Chancellor of the Exchequer. I am quite sure the Liberal Members of the Government will agree with him in this, and really, seeing that the Chancellor of the Exchequer and his Conservative colleagues have compelled the Liberal Members of the Government to swallow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-19", "file": "debates1922-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "57c9ddbe99bd3634", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.992.0", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I am again I opposing this Clause, for the reasons that compelled me to desire to move that the other Clauses do not stand part of the Bill. I have already expressed my point and I am not going to keep the Committee any longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-19a.992.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-20", "file": "debates1922-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "696b8ea5f9d698a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1021.3", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "re going to have a statement on Ireland, first of ail next day, then, as far as my memory serves me, it was put off till the Thursday, then we were told we must wait till this week—possibly a late day in this week—and, now that we were waiting till Thursday, which is the last day, I understand that all we shall have is an opportunity for discussing it on the Colonial Office Vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1021.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-20", "file": "debates1922-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "696b8ea5f9d698a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1038.4", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HONOURS LIST.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK", "preceding_text": "What method is adopted by the Prime Minister to select the names for honours?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1038.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-20", "file": "debates1922-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "696b8ea5f9d698a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1038.5", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HONOURS LIST.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The present market value!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEVLIN", "preceding_text": "How much do you give for a baronetcy, and what is the price of a knighthood?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1038.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-20", "file": "debates1922-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "696b8ea5f9d698a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1105.2", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "preceding_text": "y, \"I am really not dealing with the general question of Protection, but this yield is a thing I cannot forego, owing to the needs of the Exchequer.\" Either there is no yield, and it is not worth while raising the question, or else there is a yield and he cannot forego the revenue. It is just another step in the Government's preconceived plan of a stealthy imposition of Protection in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1105.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-20", "file": "debates1922-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "696b8ea5f9d698a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1108.1", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A landlord's!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I am not quite so strict a Free Trader as my hon. and gallant Friend who sits beside me, and, therefore, I look at this matter primarily from an agricultural point of view", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-20", "file": "debates1922-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "696b8ea5f9d698a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1131.0", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is due to your friends!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "I hope I may be allowed to remind my hon. Friends, after what took place last night, that this Debate has occupied three hours and we have not yet got Clause 8.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1131.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-20", "file": "debates1922-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "696b8ea5f9d698a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1132.0", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-20", "file": "debates1922-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "696b8ea5f9d698a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1138.3", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "ng, and you cannot save if such a large proportion of your profits are taken from you by the Government. Therefore, I hope that hon. Members opposite will not think that if there was a reduction in Income Tax and Super-tax that it would benefit the rich man only. That idea is erroneous. It would benefit also the people who live by weekly wages and manual labour. It would give increased employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-20", "file": "debates1922-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "696b8ea5f9d698a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1147.1", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. HARMSWORTH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": "ion besides keeping up prices does something worse, because it prevents new capital from being invested in any form of enterprise to enable the country to carry on, and it also prevents the country from becoming more prosperous as, unless capital is saved, the country would become less prosperous, though hon. Members on those benches may be pleased if the country does become less prosperous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-20", "file": "debates1922-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "696b8ea5f9d698a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1149.0", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RONALD McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RONALD McNEILL", "preceding_text": "ployment, but that a reduction of direct taxation, especially on the larger incomes, will have that result and will give employment. Therefore, I believe that the hon. Member for Mossley, although he was not speaking practical politics, because such a thing could not be done, was speaking perfectly sound economics when he said that the proper graduation of income would be higher on the low income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-20", "file": "debates1922-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "696b8ea5f9d698a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1149.0", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RONALD McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And its distribution.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RONALD McNEILL", "preceding_text": "n he said that the proper graduation of income would be higher on the low income. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Yes; it was sound economics. I say again that the hon. Member for Govan is confusing two things. Neither of us advocates such a graduation, but let us recognise the distinction between politics and economics. What is economics? It is the science that deals with the production of national wealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-20", "file": "debates1922-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "696b8ea5f9d698a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1202.3", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "in properties upon which they would otherwise be deriving income, and that income is no longer assessed for Income Tax. Let me take the case of charities mentioned by my Noble Friend. Charitable gifts should be made after a man has performed his ordinary, obligations. It is not enough for a man to give say, £10,000 in charity, if in fact £5,000 of that has been taken from the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1202.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-06-20", "file": "debates1922-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "696b8ea5f9d698a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1215.1", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Solicitor-General for what they have said. I think Clause 2 requires a great deal of Amendment if it is to have the effect which the hon. Member for Watford suggested. I am quite content to accept the assurance that the matter will be considered, and I ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-20", "file": "debates1922-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "696b8ea5f9d698a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1233.1", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "or North East Derbyshire (Mr. Holmes), which would allow companies, in the first place, to obtain a certificate from a reputable firm of chartered accountants, who would be permitted to give evidence that they were not doing anything which was contrary to the spirit of the legislation in this matter. That proposal I would be quite willing to accept if that would meet the views of the business men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-20", "file": "debates1922-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "696b8ea5f9d698a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1241.3", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "This is a very serious matter to the commercial community, for it has been suggested by nearly all the speakers that the commercial community as a whole is a party to what you might, call a fraud on the revenue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1241.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-20", "file": "debates1922-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "696b8ea5f9d698a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1242.3", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By those who create employment!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "any of the hardships that must bear upon those forming companies. Yet the Chancellor of the Exchequer has not yielded one inch and has resisted the appeals which have been made on behalf of the poorer people of the community. But now, in the House of Commons at half past one in the morning, he can agree to the pressure that has been placed upon him and his Department by the rich men of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-20", "file": "debates1922-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "696b8ea5f9d698a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1242.3", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What were you doing during the War?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "hich have been made on behalf of the poorer people of the community. But now, in the House of Commons at half past one in the morning, he can agree to the pressure that has been placed upon him and his Department by the rich men of this House. [An HON. MEMBER: \"By those who create employment!\"] By those who take the surplus part of the wealth of those who work, who made their money out of the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-20", "file": "debates1922-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "696b8ea5f9d698a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1244.0", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is your job going to be?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "It is remarkable how many budding Chancellors of the Exchequer we have in the House advising the Chancellor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-20", "file": "debates1922-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "696b8ea5f9d698a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1250.1", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to withdraw my Amendment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-20", "file": "debates1922-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "696b8ea5f9d698a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1261.2", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAFFAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAFFAN", "preceding_text": "osal before the Committee the occupier of cultivable land pays Income Tax on a full year's rental, whereas when you deal with amenity land you only pay one-third of the rental. So there is this vital difference between the pre-War position and the present position. Under pre-War conditions the person who held agricultural land and the person who held amenity land were exactly in the same position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-20a.1261.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-06-21", "file": "debates1922-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "b19ce070d5732d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-21a.1300.0", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HONOURS LIST", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "All sections!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I am not prepared to provide special facilities for this or many other questions for which I am asked to provide special facilities, to the abandonment of Government business for the day, in order to enable some section of the House to raise a question in which they are interested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-21a.1299.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-21", "file": "debates1922-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "b19ce070d5732d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-21a.1334.4", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "May I be allowed to explain what I meant when I said I thought there had been a breach of faith on the part of the Government? When the Government gave us an additional day for discussing the Finance Bill in Committee, an arrangement was come to whereby they were to get certain stages on the two days. Last night they were to get to Clause 26.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-21a.1334.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-21", "file": "debates1922-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "b19ce070d5732d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-21a.1387.3", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. TERRELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. TERRELL", "preceding_text": " Clauses. There was no opposition or criticism at all from the point of view of the people who would be ultimately liable to pay the tax. It was just that the money had to be raised, and there was no grousing on the part of the manufacturing interests as to what they would have to pay. They paid willingly. They were only too glad to give their profits and to give everything to help to win the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-21a.1387.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-21", "file": "debates1922-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "b19ce070d5732d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-21a.1435.4", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of TRANSPORT (Mr. Neal)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of TRANSPORT (Mr. Neal)", "preceding_text": "e of trade, and for such things as motor lorries. The 6th Clause was intended to cover mainly private motor cars which were taxed according to horse-power. As is always the case in reference to new taxation, ingenuity was brought to bear by certain persons in the effort to get exemption from some of the duties and to escape with the horse-power tax. I may give one or two instances in illustration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-21a.1435.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-21", "file": "debates1922-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "b19ce070d5732d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-21a.1441.2", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WATERSN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Beer\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WATERSN", "preceding_text": "y heavy tax upon the indirect taxpayer. I may quote a few figures to show how the tax has risen. In 1901 it was 4s. 2d. per cwt. In 1908 it was reduced to 1s. 10d. In 1915 it jumped up to 9s. 4d. In 1916 it went to 14s., and in 1918 it was increased to £1 5s. 8d. per cwt. Can the learned Solicitor-General give any other ease in which a tax on food has risen to such an alarming extent as that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-21a.1441.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-21", "file": "debates1922-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "b19ce070d5732d9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-21a.1461.0", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "I hope my hon. Friend who moved this new Clause will not push the matter to a Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-21a.1461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-22", "file": "debates1922-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b0ecee255d70249d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-22a.1514.1", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "FIELD-MARSHAL SIR HENRY WILSON, M.P., MURDERED IN LONDON.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "( speaking with emotion ): I was about to address, in the ordinary course, a question to the Leader of the House as to business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-22a.1514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-22", "file": "debates1922-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "b0ecee255d70249d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-22a.1514.1", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "FIELD-MARSHAL SIR HENRY WILSON, M.P., MURDERED IN LONDON.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "( speaking with emotion ): I was about to address, in the ordinary course, a question to the Leader of the House as to business. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"] It is very difficult to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-22a.1514.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-26", "file": "debates1922-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "b769a6e5ccffdbad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-26a.1644.3", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF LORDS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "And when this comes about, will Peeresses in their own rights have the same rights as Peers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-26a.1644.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-26", "file": "debates1922-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "b769a6e5ccffdbad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-26a.1695.3", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "orate without creating partisanship by British interference. Right or wrong, that was our view. Right or wrong, in that view we were supported by Parliament. But Mr. de Valera had no sooner made this promise, not to us, but to his fellow-countrymen, than he proceeded to break it and to cheat them, and, necessarily, in a country where all authority had fallen into disrepute, utter disrepute —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-26a.1695.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-26", "file": "debates1922-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "b769a6e5ccffdbad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-26a.1752.0", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Belfast!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "ut them is their treatment of the minority in the South. It seems to me that the greatest condemnation of the Bolshevist Government is the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of Russian subjects compelled to live outside the Russian borders. Let us not have the same thing happen with the minority in Ireland. To-day, week by week, men and women are being driven out of their homes in Ireland..", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-26a.1752.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-26", "file": "debates1922-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "b769a6e5ccffdbad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-26a.1777.3", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": "re I wish to clear up a point about a letter to which the hon. Member for Canterbury (Mr. McNeill) referred on Friday last. I certainly understood the question to be—my right hon. Friend the Lord Privy Seal and others of my right hon. Friends equally understood the question to be—had I written a letter to Lord Carson that in consequence of the policy of the Government he was in danger?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-26a.1777.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-26", "file": "debates1922-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "b769a6e5ccffdbad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-26a.1779.0", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": "I thought myself that those people who wished to defeat the Treaty and the settlement would have been much more anxious to have destroyed certain Cabinet Ministers than anyone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-26a.1779.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-26", "file": "debates1922-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "b769a6e5ccffdbad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-26a.1786.0", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Major BOYD-CARPENTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BOYD-CARPENTER", "preceding_text": "tomatics, and he put up the hon. Gentleman the Member for Rugby (Sir J. Baird) to reply, the reply being a request that I should give him specific information. Within three days, a number of Irishmen armed with guns and pistols tried to obtain possession of all the explosives in many of the mines in Lancashire. It was so reported in the Press. One never knows what is true in the Press to—day", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-26a.1786.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-26", "file": "debates1922-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "b769a6e5ccffdbad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-26a.1790.0", "colnum": "1790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HALFORD MACKINDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HALFORD MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "o hesitate at the present moment when, by yielding to very natural passion, we should play straight into the hands of our enemies. We ought to consider whether, after all, there may not be, in that vote given in Ireland, some thing of sincerity, something of effort, which may result in a now condition. I do suggest we ought to have patience in the face of the present situation for a little longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-26a.1790.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-06-26", "file": "debates1922-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "b769a6e5ccffdbad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-26a.1795.1", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Who could deliver the goods!", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "That is not a contradiction of the statement which I made. The words which I used in this House were that the Government were prepared to negotiate with anyone who represented the people of Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-26a.1795.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-26", "file": "debates1922-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "b769a6e5ccffdbad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-26a.1802.1", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Britain!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "at restraint is always apt to be denounced, and that violence is too often acclaimed as firmness. It is one of the defects into which we are too apt to stumble. But may I say this, and I say it from what I know. The world is watching what this country is doing to-day with anxious eyes, and no one is watching it with greater trepidation and anxiety than our greatest friends, who believe in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-26a.1802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-26", "file": "debates1922-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "b769a6e5ccffdbad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-26a.1802.1", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"England!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "at violence is too often acclaimed as firmness. It is one of the defects into which we are too apt to stumble. But may I say this, and I say it from what I know. The world is watching what this country is doing to-day with anxious eyes, and no one is watching it with greater trepidation and anxiety than our greatest friends, who believe in England. [HON. MEMBERS \"Britain!\"] Who believe in Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-26a.1802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-26", "file": "debates1922-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "b769a6e5ccffdbad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-26a.1804.6", "colnum": "1804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Lord HUGH CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And so did the Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord HUGH CECIL", "preceding_text": "llowed this policy, because they were pledged against it. The right hon. Gentleman says he was not pledged personally, and as I have not his speeches here I cannot test them. But anyone who recollects these matters recollects that in the House of Lords, when Lord Monteagle proposed Dominion Home Rule, the Lord Chancellor opposed it in many contemptuous terms, and said it was thoroughly unworkable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-26a.1804.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1845.2", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HONOURS LISTS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "cision with regard to an inquiry, I should like to know what the character of the inquiry is and how far it is to extend. It was thought that I had given a flippant answer when I said it was entirely a question of how far back you went. I did not mean in the least the origin of the peerage. What I meant to say was that we have simply followed the precedent of, at any rate, the last 30 or 40 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1845.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1849.2", "colnum": "1849", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Leader of the House is unfortunately confined to his room owing to a chill. I understand that there was, I will not say an arrangement, but some understanding that the Amendments would be disposed of in three and a half or four days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1849.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1882.3", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend did not specifically indicate whether it was a public or private company. The fact is that a private company has usually less than 50 members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1882.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1906.0", "colnum": "1906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PENRY WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Net profit!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PENRY WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ame to the conclusion to insist on reasonable proportion. He must have ascertained what proportion of gross profit is distributed by a well-managed company. Can he give us any information as to what proportion of gross profit is distributed by a well-managed company? If Members of the Committee will go into the figures they will be surprised to see how small a proportion of the gross profit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1906.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1932.0", "colnum": "1932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "preceding_text": "I am not prepared to go to a Division without expressing my views. The defence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer—with great respect to him—struck me as the manner of an apologist ashamed of what he is doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1932.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1932.0", "colnum": "1932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "preceding_text": "iticism which fell upon him, for the House is wideawake, and I am glad it is. In the course of his speech he said that in one sense we are losing £400,000. I asked him what sense he meant, and he replied, \"in every sense, if you like.\" What on earth did the right hon. Gentleman mean by saying losing in one sense? He might not have been trying, but he was successful in deceiving the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1932.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1933.1", "colnum": "1933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "preceding_text": "together. My hon. Friend the Member for Farnham (Mr. A. M. Samuel) does not like to see the clerks and accountants making up their balance sheets afresh, nor does he wish to see the balance sheets ripped open. As a matter of fact, the hon. Gentleman knows as well as I do that Super-tax is paid out of next year's income. We all pay our Super-tax out of the income we earn in the year when we pay it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1933.1", "colnum": "1933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RENDALL", "preceding_text": "ill probably be the case with these private companies. These are not companies in the real sense of the term. They ought to be called \"evasion companies.\" Why we should protect them after we have decided that they should not be allowed to do what they have done I do not know. Here is £400,000 to be given away simply because the Chancellor of the Exchequer makes some private arrangement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1960.0", "colnum": "1960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, oh\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " the pressure on the House that some other trades do, the Government might give them more consideration. I do not believe for one minute that widows' pensions are ever going to be reconsidered. No one is going to bring them up, and I feel that, if we want to do anything for them, we have get to do it now, because we shall never have another chance. I know the Solicitor-General is in full sympathy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1965.1", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "The Solicitor-General in the course of his speech made an extraordinary statement when he said that this Amendment had really nothing to do with Income Tax. If that was so he would have to bring in a Pensions Bill year by year as he raised or lowered the Income Tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1966.4", "colnum": "1966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "emption, but their sons got it and that they thought was unfair. Everybody should pay Income Tax according to their means. There ought not to be any exemptions at all in my opinion. There might have been some argument before people had the vote, but they have the vote now, and I would point out to the hon. Member for Plymouth, and the widows she is so anxious to champion that widows have the vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1966.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1966.4", "colnum": "1966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not necessarily.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "and that they thought was unfair. Everybody should pay Income Tax according to their means. There ought not to be any exemptions at all in my opinion. There might have been some argument before people had the vote, but they have the vote now, and I would point out to the hon. Member for Plymouth, and the widows she is so anxious to champion that widows have the vote. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Oh, yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1966.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1977.1", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOHLER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOHLER", "preceding_text": "ilor's widow has received a pension. Surely that is more than any other widow has got, as a right. Presume the widow is getting £135 a year. She is free of tax, and up to £500 she pays only 2s.6d. in the pound. Let us consider all these facts, and is there a Member of the Committee who, having considered them, will, in the present financial stringency, propose to extend these exemptions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1977.1", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOHLER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOHLER", "preceding_text": " intolerably on them, and more particularly on the poorest of the poor. I protest against the notion put forward that this is only a small sum. We have acted generously and rightly by these widows, and I believe they recognise they have been dealt with fairly. I believe this is purely and simply a \"stunt\" for election purposes by the Labour party, and I trust the Chancellor will stick to his guns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1985.4", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "I rise to support this new Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1985.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1996.6", "colnum": "1996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": "asiest way to set the wheels of industry going again is to reduce the burden of indirect taxation, for all that is saved in taxation of that sort will be spent on the necessaries of life, and more people will be employed in consequence. Many concessions have been made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer this year, but every concession that has been given has been in the interests of the well-to-do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1996.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1996.6", "colnum": "1996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": " in the interests of the well-to-do. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Surely hon. Members will agree that the workers have at least some cause of complaint that, of these millions that have been saved by the reduction of expenditure or by other means, all has gone to one class of the community. They can with truth say that, in the making of the laws there is one law for the rich and another law for the poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1996.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1996.6", "colnum": "1996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": " a pint of beer a day were consumed by every individual, there would be no need for prohibition or even for local option, and that is the sort of thing that we are pleading for. With the present price of beer, if one man meets another and says, \"Are you going to have a glass of beer?\" the other has to say, \"I will have one, but I cannot afford to pay for two, and consequently I must go by myself.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.1996.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.2004.2", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "\"Pussyfoot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "More beer, more drunkenness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.2004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.2004.3", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "I hear someone use the term \"Pussyfoot.\" I think it is generally understood that the larger consumption of beer, the more trouble there is throughout the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.2004.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.2004.3", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": " upon a large increase in the consumption of beer as being inimical to our social well-being. If the duty on the standard barrel be reduced from 100s. to 70s.—that, I understand, is the proposal—and the Revenue is maintained, the consumption must increase—and I ask the Committee to remember these figures—from 18,896,000 standard barrels to 27,000,000 standard barrels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.2004.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.2010.1", "colnum": "2010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Sixpence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "ave got to look at the state of the revenue. I have told the Committee that the reason why we could give no reduction in the Sugar Duty was because it cost so much. A reduction of 1d. on the Sugar Duty would cost £11,000,000. The reduction of ld. in the price of the pint of beer would cost £22,000,000. I see no other way of making up that revenue than by reimposing 1s. on the Income Tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.2010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.2010.1", "colnum": "2010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cut your expenses.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "hat the reason why we could give no reduction in the Sugar Duty was because it cost so much. A reduction of 1d. on the Sugar Duty would cost £11,000,000. The reduction of ld. in the price of the pint of beer would cost £22,000,000. I see no other way of making up that revenue than by reimposing 1s. on the Income Tax. [HON. MEMBERS \"Sixpence.\"] Sixpense will not do it in the present year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.2010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.2017.0", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. CLOUGH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. CLOUGH", "preceding_text": "derstand from the Member for Bodmin (Mr. Foot) that drinking of beer is not a good thing, but whether it be a bad thing or not, we must admit that beer is the Englishman's national beverage. One can claim with fairness and without any undue boasting that the beer-drinking Briton is at least as good a citizen as the wine-drinking Frenchman, the coffee-drinking Turk, the whiskey-drinking Scot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.2017.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.2022.0", "colnum": "2022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "e men teetotallers by compulsion, and that is what you are doing at the present moment in thousands of cases throughout the country. There is the added danger that, by making it expensive to drink beer, the men who want alcohol will turn to spirit drinking, with worse results. A man who wants alcohol will take to spirit drinking, and is doing so now in many cases, I am advised, with harmful result", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.2022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.2024.1", "colnum": "2024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FRANCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FRANCE", "preceding_text": "o far there has been only one speech in favour of the Government. I do not want to discuss beer as a beverage, or the amount a man may with advantage drink. I am not going into extraneous details as to my own habits. All I would say, as one who is privileged to employ a few people to assist in certain enterprises, is that I know for myself which class of person I find most efficient in their work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.2024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.2027.2", "colnum": "2027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": " have taken place with the brewers on the question of the extent to which they are able to make a reduction in the price of beer. I have had conversations with a number of brewers in which they thought they could reduce the price of beer. I understand that there is great division of opinion among the brewers concerned and that they can reduce the price of beer. I have been going into some figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.2027.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.2027.4", "colnum": "2027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"£22,000,000!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer has told us that a reduction of 1d. on the pint of beer would result in a loss of £24,000,000 to the revenue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.2027.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-27", "file": "debates1922-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ca0c4f7cd67a2870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.2029.5", "colnum": "2029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "This duty is levied on alcohol, and there is alcohol in beer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-27a.2029.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-28", "file": "debates1922-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "03c40467a8e18c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-28a.2085.6", "colnum": "2085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "bts; perhaps arrears of rent have accrued. The keeper of the little corner shop has made certain advances in the hope that more regular employment will be obtained by this particular casual worker. The second quarter being the one which would bring the worker under review for Income Tax, he has first to fulfil the obligations left over from the bad quarter, by meeting his debts and arreas of rent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-28a.2085.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-28", "file": "debates1922-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "03c40467a8e18c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-28a.2145.1", "colnum": "2145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "preceding_text": "acquired for public undertakings of one sort or another. It is very desirable, when land is acquired for public purposes, that the price paid for the land should not be in excess of its fair value. It is not a bad principle that the same value should be applicable where a. tax has to be paid by the owner of the land and where money has to be paid to the owner of the land for the acquisition of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-28a.2145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-28", "file": "debates1922-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "03c40467a8e18c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-28a.2148.0", "colnum": "2148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The War!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "preceding_text": "ling that those who are constantly aggravated by this constant requirement for official particulars should continue to be. Some of us—solicitors and others—arc never without a form to be filled up. When that Budget, about which I have really to restrain myself when I speak—when that Budget which has been responsible for all the mischief and all the evils that have followed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-28a.2148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-28", "file": "debates1922-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "03c40467a8e18c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-28a.2172.0", "colnum": "2172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. YOUNGER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. YOUNGER", "preceding_text": "very early morning in discussing the Finance Bill, and I feel that I ought merely to say now that I do not and cannot accept the statements made by the hon. Member for Kilmarnock. Those statements are all capable of contradiction. The statement as to the station in Kilmarnock, which he described as being sufficient to supply Ayr, is directly contradicted by the evidence of the Kilmarnock engineer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-28a.2172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-28", "file": "debates1922-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "03c40467a8e18c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-28a.2203.3", "colnum": "2203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOULD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOULD", "preceding_text": "ght, and it is a responsibility which he must take on his own shoulders. This is a valuable industry; this industry is of very great value to the nation; it is a national asset. It is an industry in which at least £40,000,000 is invested. It employs some 120,000 people—musicians, attendants, and electricians. At the present moment these places are closing down at the rate of four a day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-28a.2203.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-28", "file": "debates1922-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "03c40467a8e18c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-28a.2215.1", "colnum": "2215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "y which must necessarily become depressed to a certain extent as time went on and as the poorer establishments got weeded out, but recollect that they were also 3,500 new centres of entertainment added to all the centres of entertainment which already existed in the country and which had previously supplied the people of the country with all the forms of entertainment which they seemed to require.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-28a.2215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-28", "file": "debates1922-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "03c40467a8e18c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-28a.2201.3", "colnum": "2201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. FRASER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. FRASER", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to take up the time of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-28a.2201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-28", "file": "debates1922-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "03c40467a8e18c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-28a.2233.3", "colnum": "2233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "preceding_text": "I regret that the Chancellor of the Exchequer does not see his way to accede to this Amendment. In the first place, the Amendment would cost £1,150,000 in the full year", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-28a.2233.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-28", "file": "debates1922-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "03c40467a8e18c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-28a.2270.7", "colnum": "2270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "at, it is impossible to establish the English tobacco growing industry. It is worth while establishing. It is an industry which was destroyed by Act of Parliament. It is an industry which gives a-n enormous amount of employment in countries in Europe. In France at this moment there are over 32,000 acres under tobacco, and they are all farmed by very small men. Indeed there are over 40,000 growers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-28a.2270.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-28", "file": "debates1922-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "03c40467a8e18c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-28a.2279.1", "colnum": "2279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PENNEFATHER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Justice all round!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PENNEFATHER", "preceding_text": "o all corporations of cities. The point is that these Commissioners are only appointed in London and Liverpool. I cannot speak for London. It seems to have gone to bed, but although it is a quarter to four in the morning, Liverpool is awake. The Liverpool Corporation employés only ask to be placed on the same footing as the employés of great towns like Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-28a.2279.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-29", "file": "debates1922-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "9d127ced8258794b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-29a.2365.0", "colnum": "2365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "issue. He knows perfectly well that if he disbands these London patrols it is going to have a bad effect throughout the country. It is going to give a handle to the reactionary local authorities, who are only too glad to get women out of anything. He knows that he is only putting a weapon into their hands. Much as we deplore it, there is a section of the community who hate the very sight of women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-29a.2365.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-29", "file": "debates1922-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "9d127ced8258794b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-29a.2377.5", "colnum": "2377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Stand firm!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "That is uniformed patrols. For this year, if they were brought up to 30 or 50, as the case might be—[HON. MEMBERS:\" No, no!\"]—There is no catch-penny business about it. Cannot the Home Secretary meet some Members of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-29a.2377.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-29", "file": "debates1922-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "9d127ced8258794b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-29a.2396.0", "colnum": "2396", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEE", "preceding_text": "nd brought to justice owing to the very skilful work of this Special Branch. What has happened to these men? In all these cases they were convicted of attempting arson, destruction of property, and shooting at the police. I think the Committee and the country will be surprised to hear that the men convicted of such crimes in this country have all been released. They were released in February last.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-29a.2396.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-29", "file": "debates1922-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "9d127ced8258794b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-29a.2398.2", "colnum": "2398", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The sentences were too heavy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "This is a statement of fact. The men were convicted of shooting at the police. They were sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude, and they were let out after a few months' imprisonment. That is a statement of fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-29a.2398.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-29", "file": "debates1922-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "9d127ced8258794b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-29a.2452.1", "colnum": "2452", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "d to the charwomen. That remunera- tion is not princely. If the hon. Gentleman the Under-Secretary will look a little lower on the page he will see that there are a certain number of labourers engaged by or at the Home Office, and one of these receives 34s. weekly—personal to himself! I do not know whether he does any work at the Home Office? \"The labourer,\" we know, \"is worthy of his hire.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-29a.2452.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-30", "file": "debates1922-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "7517a8c1566273bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-30a.2508.2", "colnum": "2508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING OF MACHINERY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. NEWTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. NEWTON", "preceding_text": "I will conclude my remarks, having, I think, now made my point, by saying that this is a very complicated matter. Anything which is going to take, as this will, 30 per cent. of the rates off certain people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-30a.2508.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-30", "file": "debates1922-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "7517a8c1566273bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-30a.2520.1", "colnum": "2520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING OF MACHINERY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. REMNANT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. REMNANT", "preceding_text": "il 1926 is obviously in order to save the enormous amount of expense which revaluation would entail, especially as revaluations have been made in the City of London and elsewhere for the next quinquennial period, and therefore the immediate operation of the Bill would inflict a hardship we are anxious to avoid If I understand the suggestion correctly, we are to be allowed to get this Bill through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-30a.2520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-30", "file": "debates1922-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "7517a8c1566273bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-30a.2543.6", "colnum": "2543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING OF MACHINERY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "The principle was raised in the Amendment to which I am calling attention, and there was a distinct promise made from the Chair that we should have a discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-30a.2543.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-30", "file": "debates1922-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "7517a8c1566273bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-30a.2544.1", "colnum": "2544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING OF MACHINERY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNES", "preceding_text": "think can be shown by stating the fact that that very point is one which, in the interpretation of the Scotch Act, has been carried to the highest Court of Appeal, and it formed one of the principal points in the case to which I have already referred. The Scotch Act has the word \"removal,\" and, seeing that what we are being asked to do is practically to accept the Scotch Act in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-30a.2544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-06-30", "file": "debates1922-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "7517a8c1566273bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-30a.2547.1", "colnum": "2547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING OF MACHINERY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the beer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNES", "preceding_text": "Precisely. The machinery of the industry. Under this Bill he would, for example, go into a brewery, and would say, if you take away the vats and the tanks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-06-30a.2547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-04", "file": "debates1922-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "6082f5b28d50ef4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-04a.237.0", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "e—Ceylon. During this next year, if the hon. Gentleman would visit Ceylon, he might be led to appreciate the excellence of the British tradition, and the undesirable character of this communal representation. So far as that is concerned the Report is excellent. I only wish that in dealing with these constitutional questions, the hon. Gentleman had carried his new Liberalism a little further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-04a.237.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-04", "file": "debates1922-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "6082f5b28d50ef4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-04a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "rect rule of the Colonial Office than under the Union of South Africa. Is this to be done in order that terms may be struck with the Chartered Company? Why should not the problem be solved in the way decided on by the Law Courts? Why not follow the decisions of Lord Cave's Committee and Lord Buxton's Committee and find out what is owed. If, as is not improbable, we do not owe then! a penny.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-04a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-04", "file": "debates1922-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "6082f5b28d50ef4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-04a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How about whisky?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ed very much by Europeans, but very largely by the Indians and the Arabs. The tax had already been raised from 10 to 15 per cent., and it was further raised to 25 per cent. The tax on pulse was raised from 15 to 30 per cent., and that on ghee, which is the ordinary Lea and Perrins sauce of every Indian meal, was raised from 30 to 90 per cent. They invented a tax of 50 per cent. on imported timber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-04a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-04", "file": "debates1922-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "6082f5b28d50ef4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-04a.292.2", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "tion that Palestine was not included in these territories, as it is believed by all the Arab people to be. It is true that in the last statement made by the right hon. Gentleman the Colonial Secretary there is a suggestion that it only included territories to the west of Damascus. That may be, but the territory now in question is not to the west of Damascus. It is clearly to the south of Damascus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-04a.292.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-04", "file": "debates1922-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "6082f5b28d50ef4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-04a.302.7", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is part of it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "r Palestine should have been an agricultural scheme and not a commercial one. There was a very important scheme put before the Palestinian Government by two eminent English engineers for the development of a large agriculture scheme which would have irrigated 1,200,000 acres of Palestine land and which would have brought prosperity to the agricultural inhabitants. That is not the Rutenberg scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-04a.302.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-04", "file": "debates1922-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "6082f5b28d50ef4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-04a.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why should there be?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "If my right hon. Friend knows the contours of Palestine, and I know I hat he does, he will agree with me that nothing like 1,200,000 acres of land could be dealt with under this contract. Another important point is that there is no provision whatever for any benefit for the manufacturers of Great Britain. There is no Clause providing that any orders should be placed in Great Britain at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-04a.304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-04", "file": "debates1922-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "6082f5b28d50ef4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-04a.307.0", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "e alone. The repercussion of any appearance of cowardice or change, of policy on the part of His Majesty's Government in Palestine will be felt very far outside Palestine. It will be felt, among other places, in the Sudan, where the Arabs, who have been the most whole-hearted supporters of the British r)gime, are already beginning to wonder whether, after all, Great Britain means to stay anywhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-04a.307.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-04", "file": "debates1922-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "6082f5b28d50ef4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-04a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "t there will be public works initiated as a result of it. These will give employment to the right kind of immigrants. It will be work for skilled people and also for unskilled. Consequently the Arabs, and especially the workmen, will be brought into direct contact with the productive standard of the Jewish workman. That is also, I think, of inestimable value. The last point I want to make is this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-04a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-04", "file": "debates1922-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "6082f5b28d50ef4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-04a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "arty, the right hon. Member who then represented Barnard Castle (Mr. A. Henderson) strongly supported the policy, and the right hon. Member for Gorton (Mr. Hodge), then Minister of Pensions, said: I fully sympathise with the view expressed in Mr. Balfour's letter. Further, may I express a hope that the end of the War may speedily see the realisation of the Zionists dream. Lord Sydenham said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-04a.329.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-04", "file": "debates1922-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "6082f5b28d50ef4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-04a.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "the Minister responsible is always abused as a pickpocket, who has given away valuable public concessions to private speculators. The result is that the development of your possessions is far below what it might be, and that you suffer in your employment continuously by the fact that these great estates are not brought up to a high level of economic development. I come to the Rutenberg concession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-04a.336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-04", "file": "debates1922-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "6082f5b28d50ef4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-04a.345.1", "colnum": "345", "heading": "MURDERS, MACROOM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "y were not acquainted with the position in the past I hope that the words which I have used to-night will make it perfectly clear. The rescue of a man who has been captured is the first definite step to be taken by the military authorities. My right hon. Friend asked what we are going to do in the future. We are going to do everything we can, but we are going to rely on the Provisional Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-04a.345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-05", "file": "debates1922-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6cb091cc807eb53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-05a.384.12", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRISH OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "preceding_text": "every day, or on many days, the hour allotted to questions has not been exhausted by the number of questions on the Paper. In these circumstances, I submit to you that if on any day the number of questions, when asked and answered, has not exhausted the time allowed, on the second call you should permit Members to ask questions which they may have put down in excess of what is called the \"ration.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-05a.384.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-05", "file": "debates1922-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6cb091cc807eb53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-05a.408.0", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE-BRABAZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is your authority?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE-BRABAZON", "preceding_text": "he boy's mind upon some subject and get him away from thoughts of sex until an age when it does not matter very much. It is a very different thing when you are dealing with girls, because the early 'teens of a girl is the one age when any great exertion is quite impossible, and consequently the thoughts of girls turn to sex much more naturally than they do with boys. Having established that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-05a.408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-05", "file": "debates1922-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6cb091cc807eb53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-05a.414.0", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir GEORGE HAMILTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no '\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir GEORGE HAMILTON", "preceding_text": "ndment of the Clause last year. Clause 1, as drawn now, means that if a boy and girl of the same age, say 15, are travelling in a railway carriage, and the girl, feeling sex very strongly within her. assaults the boy, and the boy then kisses her, it is a criminal offence on the part of the boy, and the girl is held perfectly innocent. That is the meaning of Clause 1 as printed in this Bill to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-05a.414.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-05", "file": "debates1922-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6cb091cc807eb53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-05a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HAMILTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HAMILTON", "preceding_text": "s the law of the land as it is to-day. A boy or young man commits the offence of having carnal knowledge of a woman: he has reasonable cause to believe that the woman who encourages him and commits the same moral offence as he does, who is morally as bad as he is, is, by her appearance, by her statement —possibly even by the fact that she shows him her elder sister's birth certificate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-05a.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-05", "file": "debates1922-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6cb091cc807eb53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-05a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HAMILTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Have you known a case?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HAMILTON", "preceding_text": "aged. The girl is anxious to become engaged, and she produces a certificate—her sister's—showing that she is 18 years of age, though she is actually 15 years. With her encouragement and consent impropriety takes place. The moral offence—and I want to repeat and emphasise this—is just as bad in the case of the girl as of the boy. Then they quarrel; they never become engaged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-05a.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-05", "file": "debates1922-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6cb091cc807eb53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-05a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What:\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": "I thought I had said as clearly as possible that the Government are agreed that something should be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-05a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-05", "file": "debates1922-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6cb091cc807eb53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-05a.443.0", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir THOMAS BRAMSDON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir THOMAS BRAMSDON", "preceding_text": ", it will be found that men will not commit offences, because they know too well that if they do so they will be liable to prosecution and will not get off. Do we not want to protect young girls? Is not the young girl's virtue her prin- cipal asset; and is there not a difference between the destruction of the virtue of a girl and the destruction of the virtue, if I may repeat the phrase, of a boy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-05a.443.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-05", "file": "debates1922-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6cb091cc807eb53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-05a.490.0", "colnum": "490", "heading": "MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir CROYDON MARKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Plymouth gin!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir CROYDON MARKS", "preceding_text": " against those who are thus applying such names to the goods unless they happen to live in the town. There arc plenty of goods sold to-day which have towns or geographical names associated with them by custom. For instance, there are Oxford shoes, which no one imagines need be made in Oxford. They are an ordinary description of a certain class of goods. Banbury cakes are sold all over the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-05a.490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-05", "file": "debates1922-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6cb091cc807eb53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-05a.521.3", "colnum": "521", "heading": "BRITISH NATIONALITY AND STATUS OF ALIENS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. BAIRD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. BAIRD", "preceding_text": "ct. If both the father and the child are anxious that the child should be a British subject, the faculties are given him. That covers the gap which has existed between 1915 and now, and therefore deals with the case of the children of the men who went out and fought for us, and, obviously, all the children who were born after the Act of 1914 was passed. There are really no Committee points at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-05a.521.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-05", "file": "debates1922-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6cb091cc807eb53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-05a.535.2", "colnum": "535", "heading": "OIL IN NAVIGABLE WATERS BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "a number)' of other iniquitous proposals in this Bill which have not been explained. What is the meaning for the extraordinary Sub-section (1)— It shall not be lawful between the hours of sunset and sunrise to transfer any oil to or from any vessel lying in any harbour unless notice of intention so to do has been given in accordance with the Section. … I am not experienced in shipping.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-05a.535.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-05", "file": "debates1922-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6cb091cc807eb53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-05a.541.1", "colnum": "541", "heading": "OIL IN NAVIGABLE WATERS BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLMES", "preceding_text": "Yes, I see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-05a.541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-05", "file": "debates1922-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b6cb091cc807eb53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-05a.545.3", "colnum": "545", "heading": "ANGLO-PERSIAN OIL COMPANY (PAYMENT OF CALLS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": " our own men and our own yards. That is the point I was putting, but I do not want to come into conflict with your ruling, Sir. I have now only to thank the House for the courtesy which they have extended to me and you, Mr. Speaker, for your kindness in letting me get in the points I have put. All I want to say, in conclusion, is that I hope the Minister will take note of the three considerations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-05a.545.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-06", "file": "debates1922-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "69f0935745060718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-06a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Watered capital!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "nd those who know the iron trade, know quite well that, owing to the high cost of these two minerals, we are unable to reduce our price in competition with foreign countries, and are unable to re-start our industry. The price of coal is very nearly double what it was before the War. Where has the difference gone? The miners have not got it, so they say. The coalowners have not got it, so they say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-06a.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-06", "file": "debates1922-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "69f0935745060718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-06a.650.0", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": " the past six years, and even went back upon arrangements in existence prior to the War which had obtained there for the last 20 years. It is all very well talking about a disposition to co-operate with the miners, but the real fact of the situation is this, that for years past the miners have had the whip hand and to an extent they used it: the other side has got it to-day, and they are using it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-06a.650.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-07-06", "file": "debates1922-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "69f0935745060718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-06a.706.4", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "And wages.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "t I should have got credit for economy. The important question that has been raised in this recent Debate has been the question of wages. There is no one here who is not sick at heart to think of the sufferings which some of those engaged in the mining industry are undergoing. I do not say all of them, but there are a large number who undoubtedly, owing to short work more than anything else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-06a.706.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-06", "file": "debates1922-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "69f0935745060718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-06a.708.1", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "I cannot say. The price in January was 23s. 10d. a ton, and in February 22s. 3d. Since then it has risen slightly to 22s. 8d. and 22s. 10d. It is a small comfort, but ii is some satisfaction to think that the export trade has been recovering what was lost during the stoppage last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-06a.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-06", "file": "debates1922-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "69f0935745060718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-06a.709.4", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SUTTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SUTTON", "preceding_text": "Do you want those men to starve like the miners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-06a.709.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-07", "file": "debates1922-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "9e4ed4dba5f0b681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-07a.781.0", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOLICITORS BILL [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": " country. I notice he is singularly silent on this Bill, We do not hear him to-day. And there are exceptions amongst the working classes in the way of rising in the world. In spite of all that has been suggested, in spite of the obstacles put in the way, there are exceptions, and one is in this House. I refer to the hon. Member for Wednesbury (Mr. A. Shortt) who commenced his life inside a boiler.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-07a.781.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-07", "file": "debates1922-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "9e4ed4dba5f0b681", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-07a.795.3", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOLICITORS BILL [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "That is going beyond the point as to the general knowledge examination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-07a.795.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-10", "file": "debates1922-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a3b7a2172cecc9c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-10a.847.5", "colnum": "847", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I trust that the House will assent to the suspension of the Eleven o'Clock Rule. The Orders referred to were of a purely non-controversial character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-10a.847.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-10", "file": "debates1922-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a3b7a2172cecc9c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-10a.884.3", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Much better!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "elation to the Menai Bridge. Am I right in saying that that has been taken over by the North Western Railway? I am not quite sure, but, at any rate, there is no reason at all for keeping a Ministry to manage the Menai Bridge. Then there are some powers in connection with the Caledonian and Crinan Canal. The Secretary for Scotland can manage that canal at least as well as the Ministry of Transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-10a.884.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-10", "file": "debates1922-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a3b7a2172cecc9c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-10a.919.0", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major GRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major GRAY", "preceding_text": "ter—I am sorry he is not in the House at the moment—realises the conditions under which we are called upon to discuss this Bill. I notice that the order for the printing was given on 6th July I managed to get a copy on Saturday, but not until Sunday was I able to spend an hour over the contents of this Bill, and I did spend Sunday afternoon and evening trying to understand the Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-10a.919.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-10", "file": "debates1922-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a3b7a2172cecc9c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-10a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FISHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FISHER", "preceding_text": "vision for the education of children between the ages of five and six whoso parents desire that they shall attend school. Every parent has a claim to have his child educated at school and at the public expense, and there is nothing in this Bill which infringes that very legitimate right. I would like to say something about the general allegation that we have here, a reversal of educational policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-10a.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-10", "file": "debates1922-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a3b7a2172cecc9c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-10a.957.0", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER SHAW", "preceding_text": "and experience behind it, and I hope that he will be disposed to consider either withdrawing this particular Clause altogether, or, if he will not do that, that he will be favourably disposed to consider confining it to small burghs, burghs, say, with a population below 20,000 or 30,000. If my right hon. Friend will do that, a great deal of the objection by important burghs like Kilmarnock —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-10a.957.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-10", "file": "debates1922-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a3b7a2172cecc9c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-10a.986.0", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": ". But, no. When you want to practise economy you begin with the people who have least opportunity of hitting back. You begin with the children in the matter of education. Our children in the East End of London, in the great mass of cases, have nowhere to play but in the streets. But now the age is to be extended before they can enter a school, and they have got to play another year in the streets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-10a.986.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-10", "file": "debates1922-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a3b7a2172cecc9c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-10a.986.0", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "ses, have nowhere to play but in the streets. But now the age is to be extended before they can enter a school, and they have got to play another year in the streets. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] All that is optional. But those who are out for economy in local districts, and think less about their children than they do about the rates, now have the right to say that the children shall stay in the gutter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-10a.986.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-10", "file": "debates1922-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a3b7a2172cecc9c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-10a.987.10", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "down in this Bill, We can afford to meet any situation so far as it concerns those in high places. I have seen economy practised during the past couple of weeks. I have seen it in the picture papers, for I have not been able to visit the places personally. I have seen it at Wimbledon and at Ascot and at Henley, and next Friday, in the newspapers, I shall see more economy at the Royal garden party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-10a.987.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-10", "file": "debates1922-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a3b7a2172cecc9c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-10a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\" and \"Sit down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": " according to its title. What I say is, that if you are to talk about economy, begin at the top. Who pays for all these royal functions? Who pays for all this national expenditure? Who pays for the joy rides round the world that great people are allowed to have, while you are trying to rob our children of education. You have paid £500,000 for a young gentleman to have a trip round the Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-10a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-10", "file": "debates1922-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a3b7a2172cecc9c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-10a.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " annum for practically doing nothing. They reduce the jobs for doctors, but not for lawyers. The Geddes Committee said with regard to the Judiciary in Scotland: We recommend that an independent Committee, comprising members conversant with Scottish legal procedure, should be appointed to consider the possibility of reforms in Scottish judicial arrangements, with a view to economy. Therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-10a.994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-10", "file": "debates1922-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a3b7a2172cecc9c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-10a.1008.3", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATIES OF WASHINGTON BILL [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " of night. The need is not so great for other legislation that a more fitting occasion could not be found to take this Measure's Third Reading. In the Second Beading Debate the hon. Member for East, Leyton (Mr. Malone) referred to the fact that if the Treaties had been worked by the Prime Minister we would have had the trumpets blaring and the flags flying and a trained claque of Members to cheer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-10a.1008.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-10", "file": "debates1922-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a3b7a2172cecc9c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-10a.1008.3", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREATIES OF WASHINGTON BILL [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " negotiations. I do not think I will be out of order in saying that this is the one real diplomatic success that has been accomplished since the Armistice and the greatest example of the new diplomacy which we can hold up to coming generations. I wish to point on in reference to one or two of the Clauses of this Bill where they might have been embodied in different terms and under a better Treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-10a.1008.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-11", "file": "debates1922-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "82d55ff9f137647c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-11a.1049.6", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "Have not these officers rendered very valuable service to the State, and were the services rendered not out of all proportion to the small salaries receive.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-11a.1049.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-11", "file": "debates1922-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "82d55ff9f137647c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-11a.1140.0", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS' ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I wish to say a few words with regard to the Island of Cyprus. I want to ask the Under-Secretary whether the Government have any fixed policy with regard to that island? A good many people look upon the retention of Cyprus as a crime after all that has happened since 1914.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-11a.1140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-11", "file": "debates1922-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "82d55ff9f137647c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-11a.1181.2", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right!\" and \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NAYLOR", "preceding_text": "Does not the hon. Gentleman think that for that £5,000 paid out the public gets more than a return?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-11a.1181.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-11", "file": "debates1922-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "82d55ff9f137647c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-11a.1182.2", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. BAIRD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Welsh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. BAIRD", "preceding_text": "antities as at the moment required are obtained by tenders which are received only from paper mills in the United Kingdom? With a few exceptions, the whole of the paper required by the Department is obtained in this manner, and is issued, as demanded, for office use or to the printing and binding contractors. Invitations to tender are issued to English, Scottish, and Irish makers indiscriminately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-11a.1182.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-12", "file": "debates1922-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98f4cad6500063b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1265.0", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NO. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MALONE", "preceding_text": "ore the Prime Minister, he showed quite clearly that it was a question of a tug-of-war between the ratepayers and the taxpayers. What does this competition between ratepayers and taxpayers mean in areas such as that which I have the honour to represent, where there are not rich people residing? The competition between the ratepayers and the taxpayers is a competition between the rich and the poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1265.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-12", "file": "debates1922-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98f4cad6500063b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1270.0", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NO. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GEORGE RENWICK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the work?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GEORGE RENWICK", "preceding_text": "are the men who deserve employment, and if we relieve the guardians of that responsibility, they will no longer act in that capacity, and there will be more claims than ever before the Unemployment Committee. Very large numbers of workmen in my constituency are utterly opposed to this unemployment benefit. They recognise that it leads large numbers of men to shirk work instead of looking for work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-12", "file": "debates1922-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98f4cad6500063b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1291.0", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO parallel.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "g that the same principle, the same concession which was refused to the workman, should be granted to the royalty owners of the country. In these circumstances the Chancellor cannot look for anything else being said to him from these benches, than that he is prepared to give concessions to the wealthy section of the community which he is not prepared to give to the poorer section of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-12", "file": "debates1922-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98f4cad6500063b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1291.0", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "cue_text": "\"HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "s House provide an object lesson to everyone of us on these benches. They never scruple in asking for concessions, whether those concessions amount to £15,000 or £50,000. Indeed, we look for them coming along and asking for such concessions, but what we object to is, that when they do come along, the Chancellor lends them a ready ear and grants their requests without much trouble at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-12", "file": "debates1922-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98f4cad6500063b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1322.1", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He should get married!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": " this road there is no point at which you can stop. One could put in a plea for the bachelor who finds himself bound to have somebody look after his house. Why, in those circumstances, should he not be equally favoured with the widower? He has precisely the same difficulties to meet, so far as maintenance is concerned, upon an income which he does not enjoy in any greater measure than the widower.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-12", "file": "debates1922-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98f4cad6500063b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1340.1", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The reply was made long ago\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "y at The Hague in regard to the rights of private property. What have they got to say to their opponents in that discussion if they deliberately annex the money of the taxpayer which has been wrongfully extracted from him. They have not a leg to stand upon. It is not honest. The Solicitor-General ought to make us some reply, but apparently there is going to be no reply from the Government Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-12", "file": "debates1922-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98f4cad6500063b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1345.0", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. BARTON", "cue_text": "Laughter. .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. BARTON", "preceding_text": "ou have a man with these goods in stock and he has paid a tax upon them. Another trader obtains them without the payment of the tax and they are put in a totally unequal position. I am sorry to press the hon. and learned Gentleman, but I ask him to take his courage in both hands. This is not a matter of law or of tactics or of one party attacking the other. It is simply a matter of common honesty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-12", "file": "debates1922-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98f4cad6500063b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1347.3", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLACE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a matter of common honesty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLACE", "preceding_text": "ock which they have sold and on which duty-was wrongfully charged. It is quite impossible for them to return the amount of the overcharge to their clients. If any feasible plan could be suggested whereby that could be done I would support the Amendment. I am opposed to the Safeguarding of Industries Act in every form, but I contend that the principles of Free Trade are not involved in this at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1347.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-12", "file": "debates1922-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98f4cad6500063b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1352.1", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "preceding_text": "s came within the scope of the tax. How many more cases of that kind there may be it is impossible to say, but it is perfectly clear that if you are to repay tax in all cases where the duty has been imposed and the referee decides that it ought not to have been imposed, you can only do it if, conversely, you impose a tax on articles that have gone through without duty, when the referee so decides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-12", "file": "debates1922-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98f4cad6500063b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1363.4", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Russia !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. SHAW", "preceding_text": " of us have been engaging the earnest attention of thoughtful people in every maritime country in the world. May I read a resolution passed, not by a national, but by an international shipping conference that met in November of last year? There were delegates present from America, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Japan, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and Great Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1363.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-07-12", "file": "debates1922-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98f4cad6500063b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1378.3", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. SHAW", "preceding_text": "I had hoped that in view of the feeling on both sides of the House the Chancellor would have accepted the Clause. But as he has not, then in response to what he has said I ask leave to withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1378.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-12", "file": "debates1922-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98f4cad6500063b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1390.1", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "ld friend of his, and I commend to him in relation to this new Clause the first canon of taxation laid down by Adam Smith. Adam Smith, whose memory, no doubt, is warmly cherished by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said this in relation to taxation. The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the Government as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective ability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-12", "file": "debates1922-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98f4cad6500063b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1394.0", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": " peculiar tax which was originally a War tax. If the entertainment industry had been a monopoly industry there might have been some reason for retaining a peculiar tax upon that industry, but as a matter of fact this is the only new War tax which has been retained since the Armistice was signed. In every other direction the Chancellor has relieved industry from the taxation imposed during the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-12", "file": "debates1922-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98f4cad6500063b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1396.0", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEDDON", "cue_text": "laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEDDON", "preceding_text": " I want to say that an entertainment, while it may be a luxury, is a necessity. The great mass of the people of this country, who are more or less cabined and confined in narrow quarters, must have some outlet and means of enjoying the social amenities of life outside their own homes. You either have the public-house or the house of entertainment. The house of entertainment, especially the cinemas", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-12a.1396.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-13", "file": "debates1922-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "325a8e12350407d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-13a.1432.6", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether they will or not. I suppose there will be a small air force in the possession of the Irish Free State, if they wish to have one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-13a.1432.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-13", "file": "debates1922-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "325a8e12350407d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-13a.1586.0", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBKR: \"Oh, no; we will vote for him all right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "spoken from the Government Benches in this Debate have endorsed the attitude taken by the Labour party and other colleagues on these benches. Not one voice has come from any section of the Committee, other than the Front Bench opposite, backing up the Minister of Labour. Everyone has been in support of this, or, at least, too ashamed of the attitude taken up by the Minister of Labour to stand up.,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-13a.1586.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-14", "file": "debates1922-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "c3b4f337d894ad32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-14a.1637.1", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ing into prison, and they cannot all avoid that. Generally in England there is a rather higher standard of doing our duty by the intentions of Parliament than employing a clever solicitor or accountant in order to evade the law. The Super-tax dodgers get £400,000 cash down and an unknown amount by the postponement of the date from which these single men companies would get into trouble—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-14a.1637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-14", "file": "debates1922-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "c3b4f337d894ad32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-14a.1658.0", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir THOMAS BENNETT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir THOMAS BENNETT", "preceding_text": "ut I think I have satisfied most of them that it was to their advantage, to the advantage of the greater number at all events, that this year the Beer Duty should remain at its present rate. But I have ventured—and I think I have shown some courage in doing so—in promising those who have written to me that next year they might be sure that the reduction they ask for now would be given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-14a.1658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-14", "file": "debates1922-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "c3b4f337d894ad32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-14a.1676.0", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "preceding_text": "sold at a loss, because these men refused to go to the guardians until they were compelled. Therefore I claim that due consideration is not given to the proportion of burden borne by the working community. If this were a wise and just assembly there would be full time given for an analysis of the proportions of burdens that are borne. I do not claim to knew all that there is to know about finance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-14a.1676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-14", "file": "debates1922-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "c3b4f337d894ad32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-14a.1685.3", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Were you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "oing to pay, under this Bill, for the articles she buys to place on her table, roughly 3s. 9d. in taxes. Can anyone justify that, especially when you are giving remission of taxation to the excess profits taker, the profiteer during the War, the man against whom you had to pass a special Act of Parliament to-prevent his plundering the people of this country while the young men were dying overseas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-14a.1685.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-14", "file": "debates1922-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "c3b4f337d894ad32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-14a.1686.6", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "It is quite true, I am not ashamed of what I did during the War, and never have been ashamed, and the people who sent me here knew what I did during the War. [An HON. MEMBER: \"The more fools they!\" Yes, the more fools they. And there are a lot of fools in this House, and they were sent here by a lot of fools. After the next election there will be a big change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-14a.1686.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-17", "file": "debates1922-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bc75a56746da904a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1719.0", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "I am asking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1719.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-17", "file": "debates1922-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bc75a56746da904a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1757.1", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HONOURS LISTS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "her. There were charges against both sides, and a phrase which is bandied about now was a commonplace of the Debate—\"These scandals.\" Here is an extract from the speech of an hon. Member who played the part which my hon. Friend the Member for Wood Green has played in this matter. He asked questions, and I think he worked up an agitation. Certainly he took a very prominent part in the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1757.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-17", "file": "debates1922-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bc75a56746da904a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1765.1", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HONOURS LISTS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We never suggested that !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "on as ourselves. Let anyone who cares to look into the matter read some of the authorities, classical authorities accepted for their impartiality even by those countries themselves. These are alternatives which I ask the House to consider very carefully before they make up their minds that they are going to strike out the whole of the honours recommendations made as rewards for political services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-17", "file": "debates1922-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bc75a56746da904a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1765.1", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HONOURS LISTS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "sk the House to consider very carefully before they make up their minds that they are going to strike out the whole of the honours recommendations made as rewards for political services. [HON. MEMBERS: \"We never suggested that !\"] Very well, if that be so. you come to the second point—whether in your political recommendations you ought to say that no man who contributes to party funds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-17", "file": "debates1922-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bc75a56746da904a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1783.1", "colnum": "1783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HONOURS LISTS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "preceding_text": "In the eyes of a grateful country, he was created a Baronet for his wonderful service to the Empire and to the Allies, but, within a year of that, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, another gentleman was created a Baronet who happened to have been convicted of the most serious case of food hoarding during the whole of the War, and on whom the heavy penalty known in the War was inflicted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1783.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-17", "file": "debates1922-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bc75a56746da904a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1810.0", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HONOURS LISTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"He is not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the hon. Member for Canterbury (Mr. McNeill) for having appeared to have interrupted him. What I wanted to get at was whether notice had been given to a member of the firm who was still a Member of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1810.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-17", "file": "debates1922-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bc75a56746da904a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1810.3", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HONOURS LISTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "at fund, after they have appealed to them to save the country from the present Government and to place power in the hands of a Government made up of Die-hards? I do not see much difference between them. There is not much difference between the Diehard group and their programme and the programme of the present Government. I am told they have collected £20,000. That is the price of a baronetcy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1810.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-17", "file": "debates1922-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bc75a56746da904a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1810.3", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HONOURS LISTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To fight the Bolshevists!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "alled captains of industry, men who plundered the people during the War, men who sold ships to the Government at £40 per ton when the pre-War rate was £9 per ton. Men who coined fortunes out of the necessities of this nation, now come and put down large sums of money as an election fund for the present Government to fight Labour at the next election. They are not afraid of the Die-Hards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1810.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-17", "file": "debates1922-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bc75a56746da904a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1824.2", "colnum": "1824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HONOURS LISTS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to interrupt the hon. Member for one moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1824.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-17", "file": "debates1922-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bc75a56746da904a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1832.2", "colnum": "1832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HONOURS LISTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "preceding_text": "man could easily transcend that particular point of brilliancy. When we have one of these Noble Gentlemen who write all about the Bolshevist conspiracy from Bristol to Bagdad telling the other House that he knew someone who had approached someone else who had heard a letter read out offering peerages and baronetcies at varying prices, one can only wish that this Com- mission, if set up will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1832.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-17", "file": "debates1922-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bc75a56746da904a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1851.1", "colnum": "1851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HONOURS LISTS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "in another place. If there is anything in the power of the House of Lords you make him into a person who for good or ill can alter the destinies of his country, and you do so for nothing more or less than a money payment. I think it scandalous that there should be even the suggestion that-such a system is respectable or is to be defended. I do not know if the Government is going to make any reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1851.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-17", "file": "debates1922-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bc75a56746da904a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1852.0", "colnum": "1852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HONOURS LISTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr.AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN (Leader of the House)", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"What has that to do with it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN (Leader of the House)", "preceding_text": "pe I am respected by him. I welcome the clash of divergent thought, above all, on the Floor of this House, where we are accustomed to listen to men from whom we profoundly disagree, but where in the long run any man, however unpopular his cause, if he be honest, if he be single minded, does not fail to obtain a hearing or to win respect, and even more than respect, the affection of his colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-17", "file": "debates1922-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bc75a56746da904a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1857.1", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HONOURS LISTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ry, or anyone else, tells me that so-and-so has been an active supporter of our party and a generous donor to our funds through his life, and I find him otherwise worthy of the honour which it is suggested he should have, the fact he has been such a generous donor would be to me, and has been to me, in the short time during which I have had to deal with these matters, an additional recommendation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-17", "file": "debates1922-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "bc75a56746da904a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1861.1", "colnum": "1861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HONOURS LISTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman desires to impugn the advice the Prime Minister gave to the Crown, let him put a Motion on the Paper impugning that advice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-17a.1861.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-07-18", "file": "debates1922-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a5230a23e430c896", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-18a.1881.8", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order, order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MURRAY", "preceding_text": "What difference does prima facie make?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-18a.1881.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-18", "file": "debates1922-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "a5230a23e430c896", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-18a.1950.0", "colnum": "1950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have we ever tried it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "aft carrier will be sunk, because it will be concentrated upon for a start in all probability. On the other hand, if you have an airship cruising above the Fleet, her aeroplanes can be slipped at a proper height. They will not have to spend time in climbing up to that height, and they are in a position to counter-attack at once. That is why the Burney airship scheme is so valuable to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-18a.1950.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-19", "file": "debates1922-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "7a6f86584ae20570", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-19a.2116.3", "colnum": "2116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHOOL TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major GRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are a bad debt.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major GRAY", "preceding_text": "of deduction would be comparatively simple if all the salaries had remained stable during June and July. But there are rising scales, and there are different amounts. Further, some of the teachers have already left the service of the local authorities which paid their June salaries. How are you to collect their contributions? A few have departed this life. How will you collect their contributions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-19a.2116.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-19", "file": "debates1922-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "7a6f86584ae20570", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-19a.2220.1", "colnum": "2220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILK AND DAIRIES (AMENDMENT) BILL [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MYERS", "preceding_text": "s. A quarter of a pint per day per head of the population is altogether insufficient. This Bill makes no attempt to improve the supply available. We have a mass of unemployment. We are talking about land settlement. For every 100 acres of arable and pasture land there are only half the number of milch cows that there are in Belgium, Holland and Denmark. Then with re- gard to the question of price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-19a.2220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-19", "file": "debates1922-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "7a6f86584ae20570", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-19a.2238.10", "colnum": "2238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ISLE OF MAN (CUSTOMS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir John Baird)", "cue_text": "HON MEM BERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir John Baird)", "preceding_text": "e to see. I do not know whether the House wishes that I should go through the various Resolutions. If that is the desire of the House it is possible to do so, but I may perhaps give a summary of them. Certain existing import duties, annually imposed, are continued for a further year. The Isle of Man adopts the British Budget and levies on cocoa, and there is Imperial preference as regards imports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-19a.2238.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-23", "file": "debates1922-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec28cbbca7a0fc3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-23a.1535.3", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MURDER OF FIELD-MARSHAL SIR H. WILSON, M.P.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only by the Government\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "No, Sir; no instructions of that kind were given. But undoubtedly it is the case that, owing to what was thought to be the improved conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-23a.1535.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-24", "file": "debates1922-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "a8522b87e878a3d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.75.1", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANADIAN CATTLE EMBARGO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PERCY", "preceding_text": "ituation. The Farmers' Union, as mentioned by my hon. Friend, have taken a very considerable part in propaganda on this question. They may speak for the breeders, but hey have no, authority to speak for the feeders. There is no general consensus of opinion between the breeders and feeders. The breeders of stock are entirely in favour of the embargo. The feeders of stock are bitterly opposed to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.75.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-24", "file": "debates1922-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "a8522b87e878a3d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.78.0", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANADIAN CATTLE EMBARGO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST EVANS", "preceding_text": "attle. The result of the removal of the embargo would be that what the Commission contemplated as a contingency would be a certainty, that is, that the home supplies would be considerably diminished, though possibly not to the full extent of the imported supply. Despite what the hon. Member who spoke last said, I think this is a newspaper stunt. We all know that it was started by Lord Beaverbrook.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.78.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-24", "file": "debates1922-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "a8522b87e878a3d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.93.3", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANADIAN CATTLE EMBARGO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "It was known to the whole world. It was given to Canada. It was published here; it was known to the British people; and it has never been repudiated to this day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.93.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-24", "file": "debates1922-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "a8522b87e878a3d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.93.3", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANADIAN CATTLE EMBARGO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "It was known to the whole world. It was given to Canada. It was published here; it was known to the British people; and it has never been repudiated to this day. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Does anyone say that it has been?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.93.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-24", "file": "debates1922-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "a8522b87e878a3d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.93.3", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANADIAN CATTLE EMBARGO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "He added, quite properly: I agree it is a matter for the House of Commons to decide. I want the House of Commons to realise what they are asked to do to-night. They are asked to repudiate, after five years, those pledges which have been understood by Canada, by the whole of the Dominions, and, indeed, by the whole world, as definite and binding pledges given on behalf of the Government of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.93.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-24", "file": "debates1922-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "a8522b87e878a3d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.96.2", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANADIAN CATTLE EMBARGO.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes, you did!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "preceding_text": "ges, given at the Conference in 1917. In my capacity as Minister of Agriculture, I intended, and I still intend, to deal with the matter from the agricultural standpoint. In view of the speech of the right hon. Gentleman opposite, I will at once say something about the pledge, as it is called, which is the principal argument put forward to-day, although at the Dudley election we never heard of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.96.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-24", "file": "debates1922-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "a8522b87e878a3d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.98.6", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANADIAN CATTLE EMBARGO.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not many!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BOSCAWEN", "preceding_text": "represent the consumer, should be caught so entirely in the tentacles of these capitalist gentlemen. They are simply preparing the way for the meat trust. The great obstacle to the meat trust collaring our meat supply in this country is the small British breeder. You cannot rope into the combine these small men, these small farmers, these smallholders, these ex-service men whom we put on the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.98.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-24", "file": "debates1922-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "a8522b87e878a3d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.120.0", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANADIAN CATTLE EMBARGO.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GRANT MORDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GRANT MORDEN", "preceding_text": "nless we bring in legislation in this country that the embargo will he withdrawn. This statement is only part of a statement, and gives an entirely false impression. Then they state that \"the pledge has been honoured.\" I submit that this is not only a misstatement, but a violation of the truth. They refer again to the Royal Commission—I am sorry it takes so long to go into this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.120.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-24", "file": "debates1922-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "a8522b87e878a3d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.120.0", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANADIAN CATTLE EMBARGO.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GRANT MORDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GRANT MORDEN", "preceding_text": " beg to move that. The CHAIRMAN: Mr. Prothero accepts that, and there is an end of it. Can there be anything more clear than that pledge? I had a personal conference on the matter with Lord Long and my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture and the Canadian High Commissioner, and Lord Long definitely told my right hon. Friend at that meeting that a pledge had been made and must be honoured.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.120.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-24", "file": "debates1922-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "a8522b87e878a3d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.149.0", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANADIAN CATTLE EMBARGO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "preceding_text": "te recently this matter, from the Canadian point of view—I say it with all respect to them—has been a political question rather than a practical question. I do not blame them in the least, but what do they want? They have now got a. 30 per cent tariff against their cattle in the United States staring them in the face, and what do they want to do? They want an extra string to their bow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-24", "file": "debates1922-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "a8522b87e878a3d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.169.3", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANADIAN CATTLE EMBARGO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Have you read it all?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ily take their stand. That volume, with its many hundreds of pages, represents one of the greatest scientific investigations of the age. We cannot all claim to be agricultural experts. The House, I know, is almost exclusively composed of agricultural experts. We who have to give a vote to-night on broad, general principles find this solid volume a very firm foundation on which to base our opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.169.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-24", "file": "debates1922-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "a8522b87e878a3d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.169.3", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANADIAN CATTLE EMBARGO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ique centre of the world in this respect—if it can be shown that these priceless herds, the pride of Britain and a most valuable element in our export trade, were to be endangered, then I agree that that would be the kind of issue on which ordinary Members, who have no special aptitude in regard to agriculture, would be bound to take a very decided part. But is there any question of disease?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.169.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-24", "file": "debates1922-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "a8522b87e878a3d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.169.3", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANADIAN CATTLE EMBARGO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ngs; it is one of their definite recommendations that there is no danger from disease. On all the evidence which has been brought before us in the House during the whole of this controversy, the argument that we are shutting out Canadian cattle, because we are afraid they will infect our herds with disease, is mere pretence and indeed is no longer sustained by any of those who championed it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.169.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-24", "file": "debates1922-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "a8522b87e878a3d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.174.1", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANADIAN CATTLE EMBARGO.", "cue_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\" and \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "preceding_text": "t by the Prime Minister at the Imperial Conference constitutes a pledge, then a fresh pledge has been given on 29th July, by the Prime Minister. The right hon. Gentleman then said: Of course, if the embargo were withdrawn, it would have to be withdrawn all round. I wish the House to understand, when they go into the Division Lobby, that they will be voting for the removal of the embargo all round.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-24a.174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-25", "file": "debates1922-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "fcd4d28290517dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.231.1", "colnum": "231", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE, WORK OF SESSION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN (Leader of the House)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN (Leader of the House)", "preceding_text": "ideration in the Autumn Session are the following: Agricultural Holdings Bill for England and Scotland respectively, Clinical Thermometers Bill, Coal Mines (Temporary Provisions as to Safety Lamps) Bill, Economy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill (further stages), Fishery Board (Tenure of Office of Chairman) (Scotland) Bill, Legitimation Bill, Measuring Instruments Bill, Merchandise Marks Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-25", "file": "debates1922-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "fcd4d28290517dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE, WORK OF SESSION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. REMNANT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. REMNANT", "preceding_text": "y hon. and learned Friend opposite, it has undergone vast revision, and was prevented from getting its Third Reading in this House owing to the same tactics that were utilised, and are so well known in this House, when Members are anxious to stave off subsequent Bills. The Rating of Machinery Bill, I venture to think, is one that is undoubtedly of great necessity to the industries of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-25", "file": "debates1922-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "fcd4d28290517dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.243.2", "colnum": "243", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE, WORK OF SESSION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Start earlier!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "t later than our normal hour. When his time comes, I shall follow with interest the development of the plan by which he will secure that all the business which the Government find it necessary to ask the House to pass, is passed with adequate discussion, with no more than adequate dicussion, strictly within the normal hours allotted to business, and without encroachment upon private Members' time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.243.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-25", "file": "debates1922-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "fcd4d28290517dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE, WORK OF SESSION.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "There are several questions I should like to put, and I have a few observations to make. In respect to the Sale of Bread Bill, as I was one of those who put my name down in opposition to it, I would like to inform the right hon. Gentleman that it is only Scotland that objects to it. If you are to exclude Scotland from the operation of the Bill a satisfactory settlement might be arrived at.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-25", "file": "debates1922-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "fcd4d28290517dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE, WORK OF SESSION.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Acts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "onsible for the passing of the original Act, and consider that it needs no amendment. The right hon. Gentleman seems to think that the merits of the Government can be made known by an enumeration of the Bills that have been put forward. My right hon. Friend stated that they had brought in 59 Bills, and the right hon. Gentleman retorted by saying that the Liberal Government in 1908 passed 69 Bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-25", "file": "debates1922-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "fcd4d28290517dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE, WORK OF SESSION.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "enumeration of the Bills that have been put forward. My right hon. Friend stated that they had brought in 59 Bills, and the right hon. Gentleman retorted by saying that the Liberal Government in 1908 passed 69 Bills. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Acts.\"] Yes, but the difference was that the 59 Bills brought in by the Government are mostly bad, and the 69 Acts passed by the Liberal Government were mostly good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-25", "file": "debates1922-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "fcd4d28290517dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE, WORK OF SESSION.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\" and \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": " before the House will be prorogued. An Irish Free State Bill will be essential. There must be an Irish Indemnity Bill. There will be a great deal of Finance, and the remaining stages of Government Bills which have been held over from this part of the Session. It is obvious that there will not be time even for a Measure abolishing the Ministry of Transport, which I think would be, widely welcomed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-25", "file": "debates1922-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "fcd4d28290517dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL.", "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": "a woman, say, of 30, and has been led astray by her, and to expect that boy to give evidence against her, is almost more than you can expect of human nature. It would be very difficult ever to make a Clause of this kind workable. It would be highly contentious here, and highly contentious in another place. It may be that it is perfectly logical that you ought to protect the boy as well as the girl", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-25", "file": "debates1922-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "fcd4d28290517dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.374.2", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "I am not insulting them. It is an economic fact. The streets of our great towns are full of girls who, because of the conditions under which they have been compelled to live, have been forced by economic circumstances to surrender themselves to other people's opportunities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.374.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-25", "file": "debates1922-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "fcd4d28290517dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.375.6", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "I wish to say that if anyone in this House has an idea that I suggested that my class can be bought—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.375.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-25", "file": "debates1922-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "fcd4d28290517dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.375.9", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did not say that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "I say that, as far as the majority of my class are concerned, they are more virtuous than the members of your class.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.375.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-25", "file": "debates1922-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "fcd4d28290517dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.375.9", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "I say that, as far as the majority of my class are concerned, they are more virtuous than the members of your class. [HON. MEMBERS: \"You did not say that!\"] I am always saying that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.375.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-25", "file": "debates1922-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "fcd4d28290517dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.380.0", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORTT", "preceding_text": "I disagree entirely with my hon. and learned Friend that kissing can be an indecent assault. I am told that numbers of members of this House have come to the conclusion that a man can be prosecuted for kissing a girl. I would ask members of the House have they ever heard of such a thing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-25", "file": "debates1922-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "fcd4d28290517dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.389.3", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. NEWMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. NEWMAN", "preceding_text": "id consent will have the result that no action will be taken as far as the man is concerned because of the fear the girl herself would be put into the dock. As far as this Amendment is concerned it really reduces the age of consent down to 14. Let me take the case one step further. Suppose the girl is brought before a judge and jury, what is the charge against her? That she has committed adultery!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.389.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-25", "file": "debates1922-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "fcd4d28290517dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.391.0", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. HERBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "I only want to say two words on this matter, which I hope may have some weight with a good many Members of the House, and perhaps even with the hon. Baronet the Member for Exeter (Sir R. Newman). If I can first of all get this idea into his head—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.391.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-07-25", "file": "debates1922-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "fcd4d28290517dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.400.3", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Indecent behaviour.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAIITLAND", "preceding_text": "Of course it is Quarter Sessions. An hon. Member who spoke laid stress on the hardship which might be inflicted on a young fellow of sixteen who had committed an indecent assault with a girl of 15.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.400.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-25", "file": "debates1922-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "fcd4d28290517dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.401.2", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"As much as you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "I have listened patiently quite a long time to what you and your lot have said. I can be as insulting as you if I want, but I want to get something which every society in England which deals with girls is desperately anxious should be passed. It is all very well for Members who think they know about these things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.401.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-25", "file": "debates1922-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "fcd4d28290517dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e cannot be a party to an Amendment which would not only affect this particular Bill but would nullify the Act of 1885. I would ask my right hon. Friend if there is not very considerable legal doubt. You have created the very extraordinary offence of an assault by consent under Clause 1. Surely where the girl consents also to criminal intercourse that comes under the same head of indecent assault.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-25", "file": "debates1922-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "fcd4d28290517dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide! Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "5. I would ask my right hon. Friend if there is not very considerable legal doubt. You have created the very extraordinary offence of an assault by consent under Clause 1. Surely where the girl consents also to criminal intercourse that comes under the same head of indecent assault. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"] There is a danger of the House voting under a misapprehension, and I would ask them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-25", "file": "debates1922-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "fcd4d28290517dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.411.2", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. ADKINS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. ADKINS", "preceding_text": "I hope I may be allowed to say two sentences. If this has been agreed to by certain sections of the House and accepted by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-25", "file": "debates1922-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "fcd4d28290517dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.411.2", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. ADKINS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That applies to 16!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. ADKINS", "preceding_text": "f the House and accepted by the Government—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It has not!\"] I only said \"if.\" I would merely say, as one of those who supported Clause 2 in its original form, that I very much doubt whether this Amendment is likely to work well. It is difficult and dangerous to draw a purely artificial line like 23 between those who can claim this particular kind of defence and those who cannot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-25", "file": "debates1922-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "fcd4d28290517dec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No; just once!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "This Amendment ought not to be accepted by the House because it is, perhaps, one of the most serious of all the attempts that have been made to defeat the purpose the Bill has in view if you are going to permit full licence to the young manhood up to the age of 23 to commit an offence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-25a.414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-26", "file": "debates1922-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5266814be4e495f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-26a.515.0", "colnum": "515", "heading": "HAGUE CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I beg to move to reduce the Vote by £100. I congratulate the Parliamentary Secretary on the speech he made so ably.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-26a.515.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-26", "file": "debates1922-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5266814be4e495f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-26a.515.0", "colnum": "515", "heading": "HAGUE CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "a must have, and have quickly, if the country is to be developed. That would be the beginning of the revival of Russia. The need is very great for new transport, the repair of existing transport, the re-conditioning of the ports, agricultural machinery, fertilisers, etc., and the £400,000,000 spread over five years would be a credit for the supply of those goods, and would make work possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-26a.515.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-26", "file": "debates1922-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5266814be4e495f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-26a.526.0", "colnum": "526", "heading": "HAGUE CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Eighteen shillings!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "d him that we do not know everything, and that the youngest of us does not know it all. We stand for the reopening of Europe after the greatest catastrophe in the history of the world. We all know who started the issuing of paper money. What is the English pound note worth from the standpoint of intrinsic value? It is hardly worth the paper on which it is printed from the standpoint of real value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-26a.526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-26", "file": "debates1922-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5266814be4e495f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-26a.547.0", "colnum": "547", "heading": "HAGUE CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "sible for what happened afterwards. I have never been able to accept that point of view. Hon. Members opposite assume that there was a Russian Government established in Russia—something which was called a Soviet Government, controlling and governing the whole of Russia—and that we wantonly invaded Russia in the face of that Government, and stirred up strife, civil tumult and rebellion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-26a.547.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-26", "file": "debates1922-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5266814be4e495f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-26a.548.1", "colnum": "548", "heading": "HAGUE CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "rade before the War. Unless their interests be made secure. and encouraged, I do not know of any other agency by which you can do it. Our Government cannot do it, and who has to do it? The people who are interested in that kind of trade. But how can anybody expect them to do this when the investment in private property in Russia is not regarded as a sacred trust to be undertaken by the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-26a.548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-26", "file": "debates1922-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5266814be4e495f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-26a.548.1", "colnum": "548", "heading": "HAGUE CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The same as South Wales!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "t? The people who are interested in that kind of trade. But how can anybody expect them to do this when the investment in private property in Russia is not regarded as a sacred trust to be undertaken by the Government? [ Laughter. ] Hon. Members on the Labour benches laugh, but supposing, instead of this being property that has been confiscated, it had been wages. I will put the ease quite fairly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-26a.548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-26", "file": "debates1922-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5266814be4e495f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-26a.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "HAGUE CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": " was necessary because of the failure of Cannes, and Cannes was necessary largely because of the failure of Versailles. The failure of one probably requires the putting in of another, and it seems to me that when we come to examine the present condition of Europe, there is no possibility of denying that the fundamental error which has been committed was the error which was committed at Versailles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-26a.576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-26", "file": "debates1922-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5266814be4e495f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-26a.577.1", "colnum": "577", "heading": "HAGUE CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "est. After all, the people of this country depend, in the main, upon the happiness of their relationships with other countries abroad. Indeed, the persistence, the survival, of English trade depends on those harmonious relationships. When, therefore, a Peace Treaty is signed such as was signed at Versailles, which had the effect, temporarily, at least, of ruining our foreign market for coal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-26a.577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-26", "file": "debates1922-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5266814be4e495f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-26a.577.1", "colnum": "577", "heading": "HAGUE CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "e time, that I conceive that those who invested their money in Russia invested it with the full knowledge of the risks involved. if they did not invest with that in their mind's eye, then they were very foolish investors indeed. If they invested with the full knowledge of how matters stood, then, obviously, they have no right to ask us to come along and pull the chestnuts out of the fire for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-26a.577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-26", "file": "debates1922-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5266814be4e495f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-26a.580.1", "colnum": "580", "heading": "HAGUE CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": ", but I think I can prove my point —who are suffering hunger and starvation from the absence of the international market. We decline to re-establish commercial intercourse with Russia because there are certain people who have lost money in Russia. I admit that is unfortunate, but why, simply because a number of people have lost money in Russia, should the millions of children go on starving?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-26a.580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-26", "file": "debates1922-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5266814be4e495f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-26a.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "HAGUE CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who will pay for them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": " in this condition of starvation, but you have no right to impose a condition of famine upon these children of Russia. That is an elementary thing to say, I admit, but bad as the Bolshevists may be they require boots. The Bolshevists wear clothes. The Bolshevists want ploughs and railways—and a good number of them from what the Prime Minister says—and we are people who can supply them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-26a.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-26", "file": "debates1922-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "d5266814be4e495f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-26a.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "HAGUE CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With Lenin and Trotsky!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "I was in Russia myself and I spoke with all types of the Russian people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-26a.590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-27", "file": "debates1922-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c360c8254e869a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-27a.742.1", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "employés. The Government of the day have in their hands the complete power of nominating its Members. There is another advantage which the Government have in regard to it. The right hon. Gentleman referred to its limited powers of reference. It only deals with increases of remuneration. I should have thought that was a real advantage to the Government, because they cannot appeal on decreases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-27a.742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-27", "file": "debates1922-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c360c8254e869a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-27a.761.1", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer told us exactly the reverse. However, I will not say they were ejected, but that they replaced three who would have been officials by three Members of Parliament. Three experts have been replaced by three common Members of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-27a.761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-27", "file": "debates1922-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c360c8254e869a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-27a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "Yes, some did, and sonic did not. The workmen, because they were patriotic, are now going through the mill. What is the good of asking me to be a patriot, when I discover that other people when they get the opportunity are going to do their best to pull me down again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-27a.771.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-27", "file": "debates1922-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c360c8254e869a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-27a.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "out his building programme, and to tell us how he is gradually overcoming the obstruction to building by so-called organised labour. Another item refers to the National Insurance Audit Department. Are we spending over £123,000 on this work? Surely one of the numerous branches of the Exchequer could do the work without our having a separate item of this kind. The next item I do not understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-27a.798.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-27", "file": "debates1922-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9c360c8254e869a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-27a.814.0", "colnum": "814", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I do not see why the Under -Secretary should suggest to the House that we should put questions to him on the Second Reading of this Bill. Why does he not stand up at the Treasury Box and explain this Measure? Why does he not go over the Schedule of the Acts proposed to be continued, and of those it is proposed to discontinue, and the different sections of the Act?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-27a.814.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-28", "file": "debates1922-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "eeb5549adede7e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-28a.904.3", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLOTMENTS BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "I should like to ask why we have been spending the last hour in Debate if this is merely a question of a drafting Amendment which makes no difference. Why did not the right hon. Gentleman move it as a drafting Amendment, in which case there would have been no opposition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-28a.904.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-28", "file": "debates1922-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "eeb5549adede7e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-28a.923.0", "colnum": "923", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "at guarantee have the newspapers got that their copyright will be secure? I am all in favour of the maximum circulation of news, and the freest communication between people, as a civilising influence, but I think the newspaper Press is at least entitled to be assured that their copyright in this matter is not being interfered with. I have no desire to take up more time of the House than necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-28a.923.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-28", "file": "debates1922-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "eeb5549adede7e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-28a.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "is idea that they are carrying on their business and their occupation for their own good. That is the last thing they could think of. The man who is engaged in industry or a profession should always have regard to the customers and serve his clients' interests to the best of his ability. In doing so he would know that if you render the best possible service all other things will be added unto you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-28a.943.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-07-31", "file": "debates1922-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "5ad9a8a29ce7ce4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.996.2", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "resentation and another country has not, although it might be willing to compensate on the same lines as Czecho-Slovakia and Rumania? My question is whether the British Government, provided the Russian Government is willing to act on the same lines as those two other Governments, are willing to recognise it to the same extent as those two other Governments? I should like to have an answer, please.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-31", "file": "debates1922-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "5ad9a8a29ce7ce4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1006.4", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SWAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SWAN", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Gentleman be prepared to recommend to his Government that the same principle should apply here as in Egypt—of putting into prison the political opponents of the Cabinet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1006.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-07-31", "file": "debates1922-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "5ad9a8a29ce7ce4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1065.2", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "120.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "There are four here, which we are asked to sanction, and 23 had no primâ facie case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-31", "file": "debates1922-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "5ad9a8a29ce7ce4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1070.3", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"McKenna.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "the President of the Board of Trade. This may be said to be, and in one sense it is, a comparatively small case, but if you once admit it you will find out that you are starting on an inclined slope which will lead you the whole distance to Protection. Protection, as all experience shows, once admitted grows with what it feeds on. The case in the fable is an example of that of which I am speaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1070.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-31", "file": "debates1922-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "5ad9a8a29ce7ce4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1085.0", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "One of the most extraordinary facts manifest in this House is the attitude of the Labour party towards questions of this character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1085.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-31", "file": "debates1922-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "5ad9a8a29ce7ce4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1099.6", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Sir RYLAND ADKINS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir RYLAND ADKINS", "preceding_text": "ed the Government, under the influence of some evil star, to select this particular matter as the subject of the first part of the Order. My right hon. Friend the Member for Blackburn (Sir H. Norman) has suggested that the hand of the hon. Member for Chippenham (Mr. Terrell) is in the glove. I think the hon. Gentleman's hand goes into many places. It will not be content to remain in fabric gloves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1099.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-31", "file": "debates1922-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "5ad9a8a29ce7ce4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1099.6", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Sir RYLAND ADKINS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir RYLAND ADKINS", "preceding_text": " of this afternoon—are still remembered by many of us. But take up the pamphlet to which the hon. Member for Chippenham has devoted his mature intelligence and his settled emotions, and we find that the second part of it is prefaced—the hon. Member having raked through English literature for the purpose—with the very quatrain which is the most insulting to England and Lancashire,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1099.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-31", "file": "debates1922-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "5ad9a8a29ce7ce4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1099.6", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Sir RYLAND ADKINS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir RYLAND ADKINS", "preceding_text": "s mature intelligence and his settled emotions, and we find that the second part of it is prefaced—the hon. Member having raked through English literature for the purpose—with the very quatrain which is the most insulting to England and Lancashire, [HON. MEMBERS: \"Read!\"] No, it is not for me to deprive the House of the opportunity of hearing it, as no doubt we shall, in a few minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1099.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-31", "file": "debates1922-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "5ad9a8a29ce7ce4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Major ENTWISTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ENTWISTLE", "preceding_text": "No. I have been asking quite recently. The only advantage which these fabric gloves have is their cheapness. There are various other forms of gloves, for example, kid gloves and wash leather gloves, and the chief, or perhaps the only, merit of the fabric glove is its cheapness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-31", "file": "debates1922-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "5ad9a8a29ce7ce4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Major ENTWISTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ENTWISTLE", "preceding_text": "lso subject to the possibility of being lost by the effect which any of these duties will have on the price of fabric gloves, and I say quite confidently that the effect of this duty will be an increase in the price of these gloves. That will not bring any trade to the British manufacturer, because at the present moment the English customer will pay more for a German glove than for an English one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-31", "file": "debates1922-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "5ad9a8a29ce7ce4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1111.1", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Major ENTWISTLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ENTWISTLE", "preceding_text": "in any way. It rests entirely on hearsay. I submit that a case has not been made out even on that fundamental fact. All the facts we have had which have arisen since the report put an entirely different complexion on this case. I have said that the prices of German gloves have gone up 25 per cent. German labour costs have gone up since the Committee reported. I was in Germany only a few weeks ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-31", "file": "debates1922-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "5ad9a8a29ce7ce4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1132.0", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"What size mills?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ect about 83,500,000 worth of yarn, and so far as I can make it out—and one has some little experience in working out calculations of this sort—if the lower basis be taken—that is to say, the basis of the fabric glove makers—I should imagine that three mills, working full time, would do the work, and if the higher basis be taken, six mills would certainly supply the demand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-31", "file": "debates1922-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "5ad9a8a29ce7ce4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1144.3", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TERRELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TERRELL", "preceding_text": "It is in consequence of the double value of the German mark. That is the deliberate act of the German Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-31", "file": "debates1922-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "5ad9a8a29ce7ce4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1145.5", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TERRELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TERRELL", "preceding_text": "That is how the exchanges affect industry in this country. There is not the slightest doubt—it has been said again and again, I think, without contradiction—that the great agitation which is going on in this country is not only organised by the importers and retailers in this country, but also has German assistance behind it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1145.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-31", "file": "debates1922-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "5ad9a8a29ce7ce4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1148.2", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "gow (Mr. Bonar Law) instanced the German iron and steel trade, and said that so far it had not been able to make effective competition in this country. On the thesis of the Government there is far more reason for this trade to ask for protection against exchange competition than the trade of fabric gloves, for the reason that the raw materials of their competitors are largely contained in Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1148.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-31", "file": "debates1922-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "5ad9a8a29ce7ce4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1156.4", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FRANCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Politics!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FRANCE", "preceding_text": "The interjection was drawn from me only by the appeal which the hon. Member made that this question might be decided without prejudice on its merits. What on earth have Whips to do with either its merits or the question of deciding it without prejudice?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1156.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-31", "file": "debates1922-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "5ad9a8a29ce7ce4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1156.5", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why did he take so long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "at the Com- mittee could not have come to any conclusion other than that to which they came, and that my right hon. Friend could not possibly have come to any other conclusion than to recommend the imposition of the duty to this House. unless he was satisfied, and this House was satisfied, that there was some over-riding reason, such as a greater danger to come to another and more important trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1156.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-31", "file": "debates1922-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "5ad9a8a29ce7ce4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1156.5", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Did you vote against it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": " of 33⅓ per cent. Another quarter to which the German is to turn is to Switzerland. I well remember, in the course of the Genoa Conference, the Swiss representatives urging that they could not vote against a system of prohibition and licence because they had to keep the right to have prohibition with licence against Germany, in order to prevent their market being flooded out by German goods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1156.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-31", "file": "debates1922-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "5ad9a8a29ce7ce4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1193.0", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KILEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KILEY", "preceding_text": "ace, and the Committee in their wisdom came to the conclusion that there was not sufficient justification for the Order to be made. That was to say, they included glass articles which had to be mounted in metal or silver, but they made no reference whatever to the glassware required by cabinetmakers, and there must be some hon. Members present who know that fewer bottles are mounted in wood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-31", "file": "debates1922-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "5ad9a8a29ce7ce4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1195.4", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KILEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KILEY", "preceding_text": "he Board of Trade wishes it to be passed, there is a reference to tumblers that are pressed, but I am advised that Belgian tumblers are not only pressed tumblers but loaded tumblers. The trade are desirous of knowing whether the recommendation of the Committee in paragraph 7 is to be carried into effect or if it is not. If it is not to be carried into effect we would certainly like to be told why.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1195.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-07-31", "file": "debates1922-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "5ad9a8a29ce7ce4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1211.0", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "inquiries very fairly, were on the whole altogether impartial and well fitted for their task. I do not know by name even one of the gentlemen who formed this Committee who sat on the case of domestic utensils. On page 7 of their Report they make a very remarkable statement. They say there is no industry which uses aluminium hollow-ware mate- rial, in other words, unlike the Committee who sat on it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-07-31a.1211.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-08-01", "file": "debates1922-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "2cd7e4495d93e5e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-01a.1259.0", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PEACE TREATIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Genesis!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that, according to the assessment in this and other cases, this unfortunate man is assessed in a lean quarter on the previous fat quarter, and that the earnings of the fat quarter go to pay the assessment, and the arrangement works out that subsequently, being assessed in a lean quarter, the man has no money to pay?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-01a.1259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-08-02", "file": "debates1922-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "bf3a7ff4bff12c95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-02a.1441.5", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "May I ask your ruling, Mr. Speaker, in regard to this matter'? May I explain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-02a.1441.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-08-02", "file": "debates1922-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "bf3a7ff4bff12c95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-02a.1561.0", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS DAVIES (Cirencester)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS DAVIES (Cirencester)", "preceding_text": "case I have been met with the greatest possible sympathy. I am speaking of the Ministry as I find it, and hon. Gentlemen opposite can speak of it as they find it, but I wish to bear my testimony, which is perfectly independent, to the fact that nothing could exceed the courtesy, the kindness, and the promptitude with which the various matters brought by me before the Ministry have been dealt with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-02a.1561.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-08-02", "file": "debates1922-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "bf3a7ff4bff12c95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-02a.1584.1", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "preceding_text": "ion this committee and to be heard. On this occasion there was no opposition to the Clause of that kind and it would be most interesting to the members of the Local Legislation Committee if we could only get to know the real motives which prompted the Mover and Seconder of the Motion for the rejection of the Clause. They are not subject to its ramifications because neither of them lives in Bolton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-02a.1584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-08-02", "file": "debates1922-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "bf3a7ff4bff12c95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-02a.1592.2", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. POLLOCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. POLLOCK", "preceding_text": "I would remind the House that these Pension Appeal Tribunals were set up to meet the desire of the ex-service man. I will also remind the House that those tribunals consist of three persons, one of whom is a lawyer, one a medical man and the third is an ex-service man if it is the claim of an ex-service man which is brought before them. The ex-service man is directly represented upon the tribunal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-02a.1592.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-08-02", "file": "debates1922-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "bf3a7ff4bff12c95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-02a.1593.3", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Who nominates him?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. POLLOCK", "preceding_text": "It is laid down by this House that where the claim is by an officer, one member shall be an officer, and where the claim to be heard is that of a man, one member shall be a man who is drawn from the ex-service class.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-02a.1593.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-08-02", "file": "debates1922-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "bf3a7ff4bff12c95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-02a.1593.5", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. POLLOCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. POLLOCK", "preceding_text": "Are we to draw distinctions between ex-service men?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-02a.1593.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-08-02", "file": "debates1922-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "bf3a7ff4bff12c95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-02a.1599.1", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member will allow me to make this speech it will be all right. Now when these men require pensions the \"stunt\" on the Government Benches is \"economy.\" You must not pay those men to subsist now in the country for which they fought. Is it not a matter for comparison that the Prime Minister, who is absent now, who is always absent when ex-service men's claims are being put forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-02a.1599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-08-03", "file": "debates1922-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "deeccf2bb2b43d1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-03a.1655.7", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EGYPT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Why not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEAL", "preceding_text": "Certainly!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-03a.1655.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-08-03", "file": "debates1922-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "deeccf2bb2b43d1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-03a.1770.0", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS SHAW", "preceding_text": "international Organisation connected with it. I know that wages in that trade have gone up 14 times, or had done a few months ago, but it is extremely doubtful if wages now are 20 times what they were in 1914, and I am positively certain that the ordinary cost of living is at least twice 20 times more than it was in 1914. The Noble Lord shakes his head. I venture to express again the same opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-03a.1770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-08-03", "file": "debates1922-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "deeccf2bb2b43d1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-03a.1770.0", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS SHAW", "preceding_text": "gument. The hon. Gentleman's practical sense of humour escapes me. I was trying to state a serious thing in a serious way, and there is no levity about the condition of affairs. There was a few months ago at. Charlottenburg an investigation into the condition of the children attending a school in a middle class district. It was found that 30 per cent of the boys in that school were without shirts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-03a.1770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-08-03", "file": "debates1922-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "deeccf2bb2b43d1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-03a.1832.1", "colnum": "1832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Scottish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "intain law and order, but is fast allowing all property to be destroyed in that part of His Majesty's Dominions in which, unfortunately, it has control, and is allowing the lives of the citizens to be sacrificed by bands of roaming robbers, for they are nothing else, who go about seeking whom they may devour? Does my hon. and gallant Friend, who, I know, is a conscientious English gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-03a.1832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-08-03", "file": "debates1922-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "deeccf2bb2b43d1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-03a.1836.2", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are censored!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "y a remarkable spectacle to be presented to the world as the dominant feature in the Irish situation at the present time. I only wish that Members of the House of Commons and of the House of Lords, and the editors and leader writers in our great and very active newspapers which play so great a part in our affairs at the present time would make a point of reading the Irish newspapers of all parties", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-03a.1836.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-08-04", "file": "debates1922-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "1b811c3c25910352", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-04a.1964.0", "colnum": "1964", "heading": "WIRELESS BROADCASTING.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "mbine, I say at once, so far as I am concerned, that, as a business man, I would not dream of putting any money into this undertaking, which is of the highest speculative character, if I were told that forthwith, subject to a limit of a small percentage, I am to have no chance of making any money. I want to refer to another matter that affects London very considerably, namely, the licensing hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-08-04a.1964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.49.0", "colnum": "49", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " the House of Lords upon the Rent Act —a decision which applies mainly to Scotland. I should like to ask him if he has any such proposals, and, if so, what form does he propose the legislation should take? Further, could he give us any idea what the length of this Session is going to be? Consistently with our public duty, we wish that Session to be as short as possible. We are very worn out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.49.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.49.0", "colnum": "49", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What would you do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "are concerned not with the ameliorative measures that the late Government prepared. Who cares in the least about them? After all these ameliorative measures have been brought in, after all the millions of pounds that have been spent upon them, your streets to-day witness processions of unemployed, and your official records show that 1,300,000 people are still requiring those ameliorative measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.49.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.49.0", "colnum": "49", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " I had visions that those doctrines and that conduct might embarrass the feet of those who would be his successors. The right hon. Gentleman them seemed to me to be snipping, snipping away with the shears at those tender cords of consent, restraint, and good sense that alone keep the complicated fabric of civilised and international relationships together. I shall never be a party to such conduct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.49.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.58.0", "colnum": "58", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Bonar Law)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Bonar Law)", "preceding_text": " another question which is very important—what is to happen about the Bent Restrictions Act? As I have said, I have appointed a Committee already to examine the matter. I have not got its recommendations. Whether it will suggest anything which can be done in this Session, I cannot tell, but we shall take care to give plenty of warning. The Estimates are all Estimates for money already spent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.58.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.63.3", "colnum": "63", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "Some other countries have. America had unemployment greater than ours. The hon. Gentleman raised what is obviously the issue between him and his followers and the rest of the House. He rather scoffed at the idea that the necessary improvement is to come from better trade. That is the real difference between hon. Gentlemen opposite and the rest of the House. I am not going to argue that now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.63.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.63.3", "colnum": "63", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all,\" \"Risk it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ue between him and his followers and the rest of the House. He rather scoffed at the idea that the necessary improvement is to come from better trade. That is the real difference between hon. Gentlemen opposite and the rest of the House. I am not going to argue that now. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Perhaps it is trying hon. Members opposite too high to give arguments on that subject at this early stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.63.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.63.3", "colnum": "63", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, quite wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ite and the rest of the House. I am not going to argue that now. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Perhaps it is trying hon. Members opposite too high to give arguments on that subject at this early stage. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all,\" \"Risk it.\"] I will give them shortly. The real difference between them and us is that they think there is a surplus kept by capitalists, a pool, which will supply all the needs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.63.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "s, and those lines only, that I believe we can find a way of escape from the entanglements and embarrassments of the existing international situation. I believe the Government will not dissent from that view. I hope they will not. If they not only accept and adopt that view, but pursue it in practice, I believe I can promise them the whole-hearted support of every section of opinion in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. -Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. -Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "but I do ask the right hon. Gentleman to consider whether we cannot make now a gesture, whether we cannot say that perhaps the time has not yet passed when we can use our influence in the direction of clemency, and whether the Government does not think it would be a wise policy, as I think it would be, to be generous and to try and rave this man. He is, I believe, technically an Englishman.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.79.0", "colnum": "79", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "preceding_text": "ot going to sit down with the scale laid down by the Ministry of Health in the last Parliament. We are demanding the scale of the National Unemployed Workers' Committee. We are demanding 36s. per week for man and wife. We are demanding also an amount of rent up to 15s. per week, if necessary, and we are going to get it. If we do not get it inside this Chamber, we shall get it outside this Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.79.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.79.0", "colnum": "79", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "preceding_text": "tative of the Communist International has had the chance of standing at the foot of the Throne. It is not the last— not the last by a long chalk! I was glad to hear that the King was interested in unemployment. I was glad to know that his Ministers are interested in unemployment; but it would have been a lot better if they had spent a little less money upon that tomfool show of theirs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.79.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why do you not go then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "preceding_text": ", the Bank of England. That was the voice of Baring Brothers. That was the voice of the Rothschilds. You have to have it this time, Gentlemen. That was the voice of Glyn, Mills, Currie, and Company. His master's voice! With what a delicate air you skirted around the subject of Russia. I am proud that I belong to the same army, and that I am rallied under the same flag as Oulianow Lenin, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.82.2", "colnum": "82", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "preceding_text": "of Russia. Do not forget that when you speak of Russia you are speaking of the oldest Government in Europe. Do not forget that the Russian Government is standing despite all that you have done, despite all that has been done by you and by your Allies, and by the so-called bankrupt neutrals or the mortgaged neutrals, if they are not bankrupt. Do not forget that in the banner of Soviet Russia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.82.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.82.2", "colnum": "82", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So will you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "preceding_text": "e are firms—and I can name them—that are going into the Bankruptcy Court. Their workers are out on the streets. You and I know how close you are to ruin. When that ruin comes; when there is no food because your export system is finished, what is going to happen to you? You will have to produce. You say you work to-day. Oh, yes, you work to-day, but you will have to work at useful work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.82.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.83.1", "colnum": "83", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "preceding_text": "all be sorry for you. You will then only the more inflame the people. What has sent me to Parliament? What has doubled my vote in four years? The discontent of the masses. Unemployment. Vile housing. The topic of back-rent. It is not mere propaganda. It is not this or that propaganda. Propaganda does not make revolution. Conditions make revolution. That is why you are so desperately afraid to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.83.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.83.2", "colnum": "83", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Major WHELER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How long?\" and an HON. MEMBER: \"Make it a short run!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major WHELER", "preceding_text": "We have listened to an interesting address from the hon. Gentleman opposite, but I do not propose to follow him beyond saying this, that we on this side of the House differ fundamentally from everything he says. While we yield to no one in our sympathy in the difficulties of the situation, we think we have remedies which we believe iii the long run prove far more efficacious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.83.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.91.0", "colnum": "91", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was under the Czar.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "as the Communist party. The hon. Member spoke about the immorality caused by bad housing. He referred also to Russia, but I do not think he realised the immorality which exists in Russia among young children, an immorality so appalling that Lenin and the Commissioners have had to hold a special inquiry into it. I would ask the hon. Member to bear that in mind if he wants this to be a moral nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.91.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.91.0", "colnum": "91", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "to Russia, but I do not think he realised the immorality which exists in Russia among young children, an immorality so appalling that Lenin and the Commissioners have had to hold a special inquiry into it. I would ask the hon. Member to bear that in mind if he wants this to be a moral nation. [An HON. MEMBER: \"That was under the Czar.\"] No, I am referring to what exists under the Communist regime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.91.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.91.0", "colnum": "91", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Keep your sympathy to yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "tion. [An HON. MEMBER: \"That was under the Czar.\"] No, I am referring to what exists under the Communist regime. [ Interruption. ] I do not want to fight hon. Members about that. It is easy enough to fight, and if I desired I could give a good answer to their interruptions. I am tired of the Labour party assuming that they are the only people interested in progress. I have much sympathy with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.91.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.91.0", "colnum": "91", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Keep a civil tongue in your head.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "t to fight hon. Members about that. It is easy enough to fight, and if I desired I could give a good answer to their interruptions. I am tired of the Labour party assuming that they are the only people interested in progress. I have much sympathy with them. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Keep your sympathy to yourself.\"] I will suggest to hon. Members to keep civil tongues in their heads until I have finished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.91.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.91.0", "colnum": "91", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, talk!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ssive housing programme; and it is a little hard that we who have given so much time and thought to the problem should be held up as the capitalist party who do not care how the working classes are housed. It is not true. As regards unemployment, I am certain that there is not a Member on this side of the House who would not stay here and talk for 10 years if he thought it would settle the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.91.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.101.0", "colnum": "101", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ESMOND HARMSWORTH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ESMOND HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": "nalisation, however efficient it might be, when it is managed, as it must be, by Government Departments. The Labour party's way of settling the problem of unemployment is by capital levy and nationalisation. A capital levy is nationalisation, because if you take the wealth that belongs to a person, even to some Members of this House who are connected with various businesses, you take the business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.101.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.101.0", "colnum": "101", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ESMOND HARMSWORTH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ESMOND HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": " by the War, but there is a great deal of expenditure that we have to vote which is not caused by the War, which is continuing, and is caused by the cost of the overgrown staffs of Government Departments and the various commitments that have been made. In the Labour party manifesto many promises are made. They promise old age pensions for all people over 60 and pensions for widows of whatever age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.101.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.101.0", "colnum": "101", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ESMOND HARMSWORTH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ESMOND HARMSWORTH", "preceding_text": "l and good, but it is not right that the British taxpayer, the employers and the employed, should be taxed for the upkeep of those countries. Those who are employed and those who employ them should not be made to pay for Iraq and Palestine, especially when we have masses of unemployed in the streets. It does not matter to what party we belong, we are all anxious to end the problem of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.101.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.104.0", "colnum": "104", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": "fidence and admiration at the present moment for our own? In 1918 we finished the War the most venerated nation on the face of the earth. Now we have fallen so low in the international scale that one of the new members of the Cabinet openly acknowledges that he has gone into the Government in order to restore the credit of Britain. One hon. Member shakes his head. What I am saying is a plain fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.132.0", "colnum": "132", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "y never worked in their lives, and if they had to do so they could not. On the Clyde, people are beginning to think that there is something rotten, not in the state of Denmark, but in Britain, and that is the reason that they have sent us down here, in order that we might create a new atmosphere in this building. As far as it is humanly possible, with all due respect to my leader, MacDonald—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "ll not take place. We have come through the fiery test. Some of us have been in prison several times. Some of us have been more than in prison—we have been deported. The last Prime Minister deported me for 16 months. But you can see whether all that they have done has in any way crushed our spirit. Hon. Gentlemen may take it from me that the spirit which is propelling me at the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " been in prison several times. Some of us have been more than in prison—we have been deported. The last Prime Minister deported me for 16 months. But you can see whether all that they have done has in any way crushed our spirit. Hon. Gentlemen may take it from me that the spirit which is propelling me at the moment—[ Interruption ]—I have never taken alcoholic spirits in my life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.136.0", "colnum": "136", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Did they keep their word? No. They never kept their word. The ruling classes of this country never kept their word to the working people of this country. The writing is on the wall. Their doom is written.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Great?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " to my speech or to any of the other speeches that have been made. Apart from myself, hon. Members have come here with large majorities, and this is supposed to be a democratic Assembly; but there has been no attempt to answer the speeches at all. It is treating the House of Commons with effrontery. During the whole evening we have had no speeches from that great party, the National Liberal Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "n raise any question under the sun. They can raise the age-long grievances of the people of Scotland or of any other part of these islands. They can raise any subject they like, and heaven knows there are enough subjects that need ventilation and exposure in this House. Here we are at ten minutes past nine o'clock, and we have come to a complete stop. The Adjournment was moved because nobody rose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ant Gentleman whose office in the Government I have not yet grasped. I think it is the India Office—no, it is the Colonial Office. He has taken the place of the late Member for Dundee, Mr. Churchill. I do hope that hon. Gentlemen will support me in getting some reply. It is treating the House of Commons, and, what is more, the Opposition, with contempt, and we shall have to stand up to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ffice—no, it is the Colonial Office. He has taken the place of the late Member for Dundee, Mr. Churchill. I do hope that hon. Gentlemen will support me in getting some reply. It is treating the House of Commons, and, what is more, the Opposition, with contempt, and we shall have to stand up to them. [ Interruption. ] Hon. Gentlemen who, like my hon. Friend opposite, are usually inarticulate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.141.3", "colnum": "141", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "ose who are at present unemployed because there is no demand for their labour. The facts are undoubted. We ended the War with a huge debt of between £7,000,000,000 and £8,000,000,000. The annual interest on that debt is about £350,000,000 a year, or £1,000,000 a day. That taxation has to come from somewhere, and the only class who have paid so far have been the working classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.141.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.145.0", "colnum": "145", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Stirlingshire!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "untry, a situation which I believe has not existed in any other area in this country at any time before. Hon. Members to whom I have spoken say that in order to deal with that situation a total change of our present system is required. That argument has held the field in the West of Scotland. I think it is safe to say that in the Glasgow area, in Lanarkshire, Dumbartonshire and Renfrewshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.145.0", "colnum": "145", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Try it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "e change of system which these hon. Members recommend, otherwise I should be sitting with them. It is solely because I do not believe that by means of that change of system we shall improve the lot of the great majority of our people in this country that I stand here. I do not. believe if you have industry in this country in what is equivalent to a bankrupt condition, nationalisation will cure it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.145.0", "colnum": "145", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And succeeded!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "uld be sitting with them. It is solely because I do not believe that by means of that change of system we shall improve the lot of the great majority of our people in this country that I stand here. I do not. believe if you have industry in this country in what is equivalent to a bankrupt condition, nationalisation will cure it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Try it!\"] They have tried it in some other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.145.0", "colnum": "145", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We had not the power! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "ody believed that wages were going to be better and hours shorter, and that this was going to be a land fit for heroes to live in. I do not dissociate the Labour party from these promises, because I recall a certain programme issued by the Labour party at the late General Election which was quite as glowing, if not so picturesque, as anything issued by the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Answer that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "Yes, but my statement is absolutely true. If the right hon. Gentleman had wanted to carry that argument further he should have handed back those profits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Gasworks!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "We speak of what we know in this matter. Take, for instance, the Glasgow gasworks, and in this matter I am sorry the right hon. Gentleman the Member for West Swansea (Sir A. Mond) is not present, for I should have liked him to hear what I had to say. In order to crush the miners, Glasgow had to purchase American coal, which could not be used successfully and had to be removed as waste —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.157.0", "colnum": "157", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MUIR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MUIR", "preceding_text": "ll they were 15; you would have made it possible for boys and girls to get their education continued in day continuation schools. But it was going to cost money, and you were more concerned about economy and the saving of money. I see the grin appears on one face again. One can understand a grinning ape, but one cannot understand a grinning human when there is poverty and destitution and hardship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.157.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.165.0", "colnum": "165", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PIELOU", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PIELOU", "preceding_text": "I am like the schoolboy who has been referred to before, with this exception, that I happen to be a Board School boy, and have sat here most of the afternoon, and have heard various reflections cast upon my party. Unfortunately, there were not as many of my party present as I should have liked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.165.0", "colnum": "165", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PIELOU", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Minority representation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PIELOU", "preceding_text": " I do not think it fair for any hon. Member to refer to any other ns a monkey. We have heard some Scottish humour this afternoon that might make Sir Harry Lauder look to lus laurels. I have seen many grins on the other side. I was born in Glasgow, and served with a Scottish regiment, and naturally I do not like the remarks of those people who are here as representatives of the views of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.165.0", "colnum": "165", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PIELOU", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PIELOU", "preceding_text": "ns on the other side. I was born in Glasgow, and served with a Scottish regiment, and naturally I do not like the remarks of those people who are here as representatives of the views of the people. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Minority representation!\"] I know better than some of these so-called leaders of Labour what it is to suffer. I have been unemployed, and I know what it is to tighten my belt for a meal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-23", "file": "debates1922-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "273e40c0384ac282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.167.0", "colnum": "167", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ren of the country whom they represent. They have been putting up proposals to the Government of the day. They have been asking the Government what they intend to do regarding the condition in the country, and the Government has sat silent. Speech after speech has been made and no reply has been given from the Government bench which has remained? almost empty during the whole course of the Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-23a.167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-24", "file": "debates1922-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae6cf84429aef0d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-24a.185.5", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "preceding_text": "e record of the group system in the past four years, I think any unbiased observer will agree that the balance of achievement is very much in favour of the League. Take a couple of illustrations. The solution of the very serious dispute between Sweden and Finland was successfully brought about. The Upper Silesian problem, which the Supreme Council gave up in despair, was also (successfully solved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-24a.185.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-24", "file": "debates1922-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae6cf84429aef0d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-24a.193.0", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did the Greeks do in the retreat?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": " British Colony that lived in that city. She saw people bayoneted by the advancing Turks. In one instance twelve Greek girls were dragged away by the Turks and taken into a house. The next morning their bodies were found mutilated in the streets. They had been murdered after being ravished. These are the things that led some of the journals of this country to rejoice over the victory of the Turks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-24a.193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-24", "file": "debates1922-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae6cf84429aef0d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-24a.193.0", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Turkish sovereignty?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "e a necessary supplement to this that we should in the first place have a limitation of the army and gendarmerie in Eastern Thrace and the other parts which have been restored in Asia Minor. We should have, too, only a certain number of the army and gendarmerie, and we ought to have European commissioners and officers to control and to report, and if not to control certainly to observe and report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-24a.193.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-24", "file": "debates1922-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae6cf84429aef0d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-24a.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"£2,000,000,000.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "preceding_text": "ch which he delivered in Glasgow he took note of Mr. McKenna's support. Am I to infer from that that the Prime Minister endorses Mr. McKenna's views on reparation? Let me remind the Prime Minister of Mr. McKenna's views on that subject. Speaking a few weeks ago in New York to the bankers of that country, he said that the total sum which Germany could pay today was a sum of about £200,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-24a.215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-24", "file": "debates1922-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae6cf84429aef0d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-24a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "being inflicted upon so many of our people and for so long a time. I make no apology for asking to be allowed for a few moments to return to that problem. The picture drawn by speakers from the Labour Benches yesterday was the spectacle of a Government, and, indeed, of a House of Commons, sitting with feeble, nerveless hands during all this long time of depression and doing nothing or very little.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-24a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-24", "file": "debates1922-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae6cf84429aef0d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-24a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": " not entirely exhausted. What the people are entitled to ask is this, that the Government and the municipalities, working together, shall do all they possibly can to mitigate the hardship of the situation. They are entitled to ask that. The question I put to myself is this: Have we done that? Are we doing it? My hon. Friends on the Labour Benches will say, \"No.\" Let me utter a word or two on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-24a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-24", "file": "debates1922-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae6cf84429aef0d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-24a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In amount it is a dole.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "en that those who are receiving, on the emergency side, benefit in advance of contribution will repay that when they are lucky enough to get back to work. I say that that is a great scheme. I will make only this comment about the benefit. I have always challenged the description of the benefit as a dole. You cannot call it a dole when three-fourths of the money comes from other than State sources.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-24a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-24", "file": "debates1922-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae6cf84429aef0d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-24a.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": " a very proper question. It irritated some people, but did not annoy me in the least. The question was, \"What would the Labour party do?\" Let me run over one or two things we would do. We would build houses for the people. We would build schools, because some of the elementary schools of this country are in such a condition that some hon. Member on the other side would not keep their dogs in them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-24a.243.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-27", "file": "debates1922-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "83c154a2cbc746c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-27a.389.2", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWSPAPERS (GOVERNMENT INFORMATION).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "rought to bear upon them in the future. Suppose only the papers that publish these inspired statements anonymously are to receive Government information. It puts a very powerful weapon in the hands of the Government of the day against the Press. The late Government, whatever they did, used to invite the sheep and the goats and everyone to their Press Conferences. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Did they?\"] Yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-27a.389.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-27", "file": "debates1922-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "83c154a2cbc746c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-27a.397.0", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWSPAPERS (GOVERNMENT INFORMATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ring the War it may have been necessary, I am not admitting that it was. I am only saying that from the point of view of hon. Members opposite it may have been necessary; but it is not necessary to-day. It is an insult to the whole of the Labour movement to send police of all kinds to take down our speeches in a very rough-and-ready manner. I was sent to prison for a speech that I never delivered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-27a.397.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-11-27", "file": "debates1922-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "83c154a2cbc746c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-27a.402.2", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWSPAPERS (GOVERNMENT INFORMATION).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw! Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I have never led any men in a riot of any sort or kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-27a.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-27", "file": "debates1922-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "83c154a2cbc746c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-27a.406.3", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWSPAPERS (GOVERNMENT INFORMATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"And he did not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ister to quote precedents, not alone from the late Government, but from years ago, because it is obvious that he himself must have been very disturbed in his own mind as to public opinion on this \"doping\" of the Press. The very first speech which the right hon. Gentleman delivered in Glasgow referred to it. He said quite openly, so far as he was concerned, he did not intend to influence the Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-27a.406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-27", "file": "debates1922-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "83c154a2cbc746c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-27a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWSPAPERS (GOVERNMENT INFORMATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lock-out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "The dates are against the Prime Minister. Let me point out what this has developed from, because our complaint arises from the fact that this is a continuation of a practice. During the miners' strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-27a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-27", "file": "debates1922-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "83c154a2cbc746c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-27a.410.5", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWSPAPERS (GOVERNMENT INFORMATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\" and \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "to whether a riot might have occurred. I do not want to be tempted into an argument as to what the Press might have said, because a selected number of the Press might easily have been told some of the incidents that have happened in the House of Commons in the early days when I was a Member. They could have been told of some of the speeches made in the other place about \"damning the consequences.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-27a.410.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-27", "file": "debates1922-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "83c154a2cbc746c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-27a.411.1", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEWSPAPERS (GOVERNMENT INFORMATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROBERT MURRAY", "cue_text": "How MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh,\" and \"strike.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROBERT MURRAY", "preceding_text": "udgment and to make what use he pleases of it, is a totally different thing from sending out information to practically all the newspapers of the country with one exception. The latter course was meant to poison at once all possible sources of information on this matter. That is nothing new. We journalists grew familiar with it during the War. We knew it so far as the miners' strike was concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-27a.411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-27", "file": "debates1922-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "83c154a2cbc746c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-27a.426.0", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "\"HON. MEMBERS: \"We pay in Customs and Excise!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "t official. We attempt to scrap the Minister of Pensions, and he comes back within a fortnight of his post being dispensed with, and we find ourselves up against a new post of £8,000 a year for the Governor of part of Ulster. In every other of our Colonies and our Crown Colonies the expenses of the Governor are found by the Colony, but apparently in the case of Ulster we are to pay the piper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-27a.426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-27", "file": "debates1922-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "83c154a2cbc746c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-27a.428.3", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "That is quite another question. I think we may take it that the division of the revenue coming from Ireland is going quite as much to Ireland as to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-27a.428.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-27", "file": "debates1922-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "83c154a2cbc746c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-27a.458.2", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": " of this contribution which they are offering as a gift to upkeep of the Empire, the only Dominion which is paying directly a sum to the Imperial Exchequer for the upkeep of the Imperial expenses of Great Britain. An attack is made by the free Liberals on the so-called ground of economy, which is an argument that comes badly from people who desire to drive Ulster out from the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-27a.458.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-27", "file": "debates1922-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "83c154a2cbc746c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-27a.468.1", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": ", what alteration there is in view of the changed circumstances wt this moment compared with the promise made earlier. Here is to be £1,500,000 for the benefit of ex-service men who served in His Majesty's Navy, Army and Air Force in Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland, but where is there to be something of this kind for members of His Majesty's Navy, Army and Air Forces at home in England?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-27a.468.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-11-28", "file": "debates1922-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d00ae6fb934ce47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.485.6", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order, order! Turn him out.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "You dirty dogs!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.485.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-28", "file": "debates1922-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d00ae6fb934ce47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.489.0", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRAQ.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. CHAPPLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. CHAPPLE", "preceding_text": "In determining policy in this matter, will the hon. Gentleman take into consideration that the nerve disease and distress to the whole population are often very much greater from a dread of air raids than the injury to life and limb, and will he look into this as—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.489.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-28", "file": "debates1922-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d00ae6fb934ce47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.543.4", "colnum": "543", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE CONSTITUTIONBILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": " for the explanation he has given. I understand now that the reason for the rejection of my Amendment is that the Irish Parliament has agreed to this Constitution, and therefore it is impossible to accept any Amendment because it is now too late. What does that mean? It means that, owing to certain circumstances, whatever is put by the Irish Parliament into this Constitution we have got to accept.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.543.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-28", "file": "debates1922-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d00ae6fb934ce47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE CONSTITUTIONBILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. BANBURY", "preceding_text": "I think not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-28", "file": "debates1922-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d00ae6fb934ce47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.582.0", "colnum": "582", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether it is possible to pursue this arithmetical calculation as to whether the North or the South sent more men to the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-28", "file": "debates1922-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d00ae6fb934ce47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.582.0", "colnum": "582", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Ulstermen as well!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether it is possible to pursue this arithmetical calculation as to whether the North or the South sent more men to the War. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] Because it takes no account of the thousands of Irishmen, exiles from overseas, who came forward with the Dominion troops and did noble service in the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-28", "file": "debates1922-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d00ae6fb934ce47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.623.1", "colnum": "623", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-G0RE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-G0RE", "preceding_text": "I would like to point out to the hon. Member for the Gorbals Division (Mr. Buchanan) that if they ever get Home Rule for Scotland, I am quite sure they will want a Governor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-28", "file": "debates1922-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d00ae6fb934ce47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.627.0", "colnum": "627", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. ALLEN", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Are there no differences in Belfast?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. ALLEN", "preceding_text": "Irish to shake hands with themselves, because there is not the slightest chance, I can assure them, of any rapprochement between North and South until they come to some arrangement amongst themselves. So that I would recommend my hon. Friends, when they talk of unity between the North and the South, to be very careful that the speeches they make will not prevent the Southern Irish coming together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.627.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-28", "file": "debates1922-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d00ae6fb934ce47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.628.3", "colnum": "628", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. ALLEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lord Somebody or other!\" and \"The man who gets it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. ALLEN", "preceding_text": "ot forget that in the taxes which you collect from Northern Ireland that money is included. We pay our share of this. While it is just possible that some hon. Members opposite—I think there is something in that point—would like to know what value they will get for this money, I want to ask who gets the £8,000? Will hon. Members apposite try and answer that question for themselves?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.628.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-28", "file": "debates1922-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d00ae6fb934ce47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.628.3", "colnum": "628", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. ALLEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He buys groceries with it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. ALLEN", "preceding_text": " that point—would like to know what value they will get for this money, I want to ask who gets the £8,000? Will hon. Members apposite try and answer that question for themselves? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Lord Somebody or other!\" and \"The man who gets it!\"] I am sorry the minds of hon. Members opposite cannot go any further than that. Eight thousand pounds is handed over to (his man. Who gets it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.628.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-28", "file": "debates1922-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d00ae6fb934ce47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.628.3", "colnum": "628", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. ALLEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not give it to the employés direct?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. ALLEN", "preceding_text": "over to (his man. Who gets it? [An HON. MEMBER: \"He buys groceries with it!\"] I suppose the hon. Member buys groceries also. I have no doubt hon. Members will begin to realise that the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and in future both the Governor of Northern Ireland and the Governor-General of Southern Ireland, will spend far more than that sum, which will go into the pockets of their employés.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.628.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-28", "file": "debates1922-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d00ae6fb934ce47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.630.0", "colnum": "630", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "To talk in the twentieth century of appointing a Governor of a free people is to insult that free people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.630.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-28", "file": "debates1922-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d00ae6fb934ce47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "I do not think it is necessary the Committee should jeer at the suggestion that a Governor is unnecessary in the 20th century. A certain distinguished American, about 60 years ago, remarked that nobody had yet been born good enough to govern another. That is the principle by which we hold on these benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-28", "file": "debates1922-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d00ae6fb934ce47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or any other arrangement could be made!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "d with his conduct. Do not let him go back too far. As for this pledge, the Committee ought to observe that it was merely a statement in a speech by the previous Colonial Secretary, to the effect that if Northern Ireland declined to go into partnership with Southern Ireland, there should be set up in Northern Ireland some head of the Government, in accordance with the wishes of that august people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-28", "file": "debates1922-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d00ae6fb934ce47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.643.3", "colnum": "643", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ase at the present time in a very large number of business concerns—would now be standing in a queue at an Employment Exchange waiting for a- dole: but when we have a House that is very largely composed of lawyers, they look after their own interests, and they taunt-Members on this side of the House, who are sent here as Labour Members, with trying to look after the interests of the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.643.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-28", "file": "debates1922-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d00ae6fb934ce47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.645.2", "colnum": "645", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I should apologise under normal circumstances for once again raising the question I am going to raise now. The Prime Minister is not in his place, but I gave him notice at Question Time that I intended to raise the question of the unemployed marchers. The importance of the question is to be found in the fact that the men art still here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.645.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-28", "file": "debates1922-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d00ae6fb934ce47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.645.4", "colnum": "645", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order Hopkinson!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "y him or to bury him here. I told the right hon. Gentleman privately, and I have told this House, that you are dealing with a set of men who are worn out physically, with their vitality at its very lowest ebb. Members of this House can have seen their leaders with me in the Lobby, with the physique crushed out of them, and there will be more of them dying. I went home last night after a good meal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.645.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-28", "file": "debates1922-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d00ae6fb934ce47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.645.4", "colnum": "645", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "cab and ride home, and those unhappy men living in Poplar, herded together in lodging houses, would have to come out and walk about the streets in the inclement weather, vainly trying to get themselves heard in this metropolis by the Government. What I want the House to realise is that you and we are responsible for whatever happens to any of these men. If more of them die we shall be responsible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.645.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-28", "file": "debates1922-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d00ae6fb934ce47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.648.3", "colnum": "648", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MBERS: \"No, and\" Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "of these men, a large proportion of them sat with only their coats on while their shirts, almost in rags, were taken to a steam laundry to be washed, ironed, aired, and brought back. Those are the men, 90 per cent, of whom fought for you and the country throughout the Great War. Are, you treating them decently by saying in effect, that you do not care what they suffer from or what happens to them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.648.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-28", "file": "debates1922-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d00ae6fb934ce47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.655.0", "colnum": "655", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. J. MATHEW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. J. MATHEW", "preceding_text": "as I understand it. Some, of us are extraordinarily anxious that there may be no unnecessary ill feeling towards what may be considered an ill judged visit to London. But they are here. I still venture to hope that though it is still possible to refuse to see the deputation, it may be possible for a deputation of Members of this House to be received, and they may bring some of these men with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-28", "file": "debates1922-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d00ae6fb934ce47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.657.0", "colnum": "657", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROTHERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROTHERTON", "preceding_text": "s House There are 1,500,000 adult persons registered in your own books as unemployed, and is it suggested for a moment that the men and women who have been endeavouring to draw the attention, not only of the Prime Minister, but also the Government of this and the late Parliament, are all rogues, criminals and the rest of it, as the Prime Minister has tried to induce this House to believe they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-28", "file": "debates1922-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d00ae6fb934ce47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.663.0", "colnum": "663", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURNER", "preceding_text": "us this day our daily bread.\" These men are asking for their daily bread. They are asking for suggestions and advice, co-operation and sympathy. They are asking for the wherewithal and the means of life, and they ask the Prime Minister, as the head of the Government of the greatest country in the world, to give them that advice, co-operation, and sympathy, and the answer is not bread, but a stone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.663.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-28", "file": "debates1922-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d00ae6fb934ce47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.663.0", "colnum": "663", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURNER", "preceding_text": "d sympathy. They are asking for the wherewithal and the means of life, and they ask the Prime Minister, as the head of the Government of the greatest country in the world, to give them that advice, co-operation, and sympathy, and the answer is not bread, but a stone. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"] They asked for bread and got a refusal to discuss the question of bread by the Prime Minister of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.663.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-28", "file": "debates1922-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6d00ae6fb934ce47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.663.0", "colnum": "663", "heading": "IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURNER", "preceding_text": " Minister, as the head of the Government of the greatest country in the world, to give them that advice, co-operation, and sympathy, and the answer is not bread, but a stone. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"] They asked for bread and got a refusal to discuss the question of bread by the Prime Minister of this country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I am right in my statement. They asked for bread and they got a stone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-28a.663.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-29", "file": "debates1922-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ed1ef454b21d1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.675.13", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARBORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARBORD", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Member, in view of the failure of the herring fishing, not only this year but for the past two years, whereby great distress is caused—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.675.13"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-29", "file": "debates1922-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ed1ef454b21d1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.675.13", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARBORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARBORD", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Member, in view of the failure of the herring fishing, not only this year but for the past two years, whereby great distress is caused—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"] I think it is a legitimate question. [HON. MEMBERS: \"You are reading it!\"] Will he take such steps as would result—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.675.13"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-29", "file": "debates1922-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ed1ef454b21d1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.707.2", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREECE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Serbia!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "There is certainly, I think, such precedent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.707.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-29", "file": "debates1922-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ed1ef454b21d1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.707.6", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREECE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "o!\"] I think so. The first step we took was to inform the Greek Government that if this action, which we feared might be taken, was actually taken, we should withdraw our Minister. We thought it a barbarous act. We took the step we did in order, if possible, to prevent it. Now that it has taken place, I shall be greatly surprised if the great body of public opinion, not only in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.707.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-29", "file": "debates1922-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ed1ef454b21d1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE CONSTITUTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "s that compelled me to reconsider the views which I held in regard to the position of the Nationalists. I have seen many things, and other hon. Members must have seen even more things, that made mc ashamed of being associated with people who could be responsible for some of the actions that I saw. I have seen men throw heavy-iron rivets at little school children merely because they were Catholics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.760.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-29", "file": "debates1922-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ed1ef454b21d1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE CONSTITUTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McENTEE", "preceding_text": "ing of what I experienced. The history of the riots of the 12th July prove it. I have heard some people talk about the treatment meted out to the Loyalists in the South of Ireland, and I deprecate that treatment as much as anybody, but let us not forget the treatment meted out to Catholics in the North of Ireland. I have seen it myself, and I know it. I was foolish enough to take part in it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.760.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-29", "file": "debates1922-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ed1ef454b21d1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.790.2", "colnum": "790", "heading": "HOUSING (UNEMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Give us a panacea!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "n of building new houses must fall upon private enterprise. But, and this is quite enough for all the local authorities in this country, conversely, the only possibility and prospect of clearing slums is by the action of local authorities. If local authorities will concentrate on that they will find that the burden of work thrown upon them will be quite as much as they or their officials can bear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.790.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-29", "file": "debates1922-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ed1ef454b21d1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.808.0", "colnum": "808", "heading": "HOUSING (UNEMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL CHAPMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL CHAPMAN", "preceding_text": " That is the spirit in which to deal with social questions of this kind, and, as one who was brought up at the feet of Lord Shaftesbury, I entirely agree with the sentiments which the hon. Member has expressed. I am not surprised to see so many hon. Members of extreme opinion returned for the great city of Glasgow. If I had to live in such houses, I doubt very much if I should be on those benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.808.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-29", "file": "debates1922-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ed1ef454b21d1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.808.0", "colnum": "808", "heading": "HOUSING (UNEMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL CHAPMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL CHAPMAN", "preceding_text": " Edinburgh, and I am quite sure from what I know of them that the electors there would like me, on the occasion of my maiden speech, to say that if that well-housed population can do anything to assist in getting better houses, we must throw our whole heart and soul into it and do whatever we can to support a resolute Government in doing a resolute action. The only point I presume to make is this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.808.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-29", "file": "debates1922-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ed1ef454b21d1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.808.0", "colnum": "808", "heading": "HOUSING (UNEMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL CHAPMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has been used in Wales.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL CHAPMAN", "preceding_text": "t it is a practical suggestion which I throw out to those who will have to deal with the housing question. Cannot we extend this Act and advance money on reasonable terms to private individuals, in order that they themselves may build houses? I inquired into this question nearly ten years ago for a particular purpose, and I found that the only city in the Kingdom which had used the Act was Dublin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.808.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-29", "file": "debates1922-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ed1ef454b21d1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.812.0", "colnum": "812", "heading": "HOUSING (UNEMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "oman, certainly no mother, who knows of the conditions under which children are born and bred but who must be keen about housing schemes. If hon. Members on the opposite side of the House will use their heads as much as their hearts, and if hon. Members who sit on this side will use their hearts as well as their heads, I think we can get on very well. You must have a combination of head and heart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-29", "file": "debates1922-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ed1ef454b21d1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.812.0", "colnum": "812", "heading": "HOUSING (UNEMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"We are teetotallers in Scotland, and we are not responsible for the housing conditions!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " be all to the good. I hope they will look forward and not backward. One of the tragedies of the world is that people are always looking backward and raking up somebody's horrible past. We know perfectly well that if the ordinary man had been as interested in his home as in drink we should have had better housing to-day. I admit that the home has driven many a man to drink. I put the two together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-29", "file": "debates1922-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ed1ef454b21d1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.812.0", "colnum": "812", "heading": "HOUSING (UNEMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We know it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ay. I admit that the home has driven many a man to drink. I put the two together. [An HON MEMBER: \"We are teetotallers in Scotland, and we are not responsible for the housing conditions!\"] I am not surprised that there are teetotallers coming from Glasgow. We all know that these two things, drink and bad housing, go together. I ask hon. Members to realise that this is not a Socialistic Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-29", "file": "debates1922-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ed1ef454b21d1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.812.0", "colnum": "812", "heading": "HOUSING (UNEMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We shall!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " not responsible for the housing conditions!\"] I am not surprised that there are teetotallers coming from Glasgow. We all know that these two things, drink and bad housing, go together. I ask hon. Members to realise that this is not a Socialistic Government. [HON. MEMBERS: \"We know it!\"] Well then, face facts. Go and persuade the country that you are right, and you will get a Socialist Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-29", "file": "debates1922-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ed1ef454b21d1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.812.0", "colnum": "812", "heading": "HOUSING (UNEMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Roll your r's\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ood trying to impose Socialistic schemes on this Government, because you will not get them through. If housing reformers on that side of the House will combine with housing reformers on this side to press the Government to go as far as it can we may make progress. Let us work together, instead of hon. Members on the other side shaking their r's at hon. Members every time housing questions come up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-29", "file": "debates1922-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ed1ef454b21d1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.812.0", "colnum": "812", "heading": "HOUSING (UNEMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "country, and I know that many men and women are ready for that revival, but how on earth can you preach to people living in the conditions under which they have to live? We know that it is absolutely impossible. I hope that, no matter how much the Government may have to economise in other things, they will allow nothing to stop them from progressive housing reform. I am all for private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-29", "file": "debates1922-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ed1ef454b21d1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.812.0", "colnum": "812", "heading": "HOUSING (UNEMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are not economic failures! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "rth can you preach to people living in the conditions under which they have to live? We know that it is absolutely impossible. I hope that, no matter how much the Government may have to economise in other things, they will allow nothing to stop them from progressive housing reform. I am all for private enterprise. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Yes, it is generally the economic failures who are against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-29", "file": "debates1922-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ed1ef454b21d1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.819.0", "colnum": "819", "heading": "HOUSING (UNEMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES ROBERTS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is responsible for the present conditions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES ROBERTS", "preceding_text": " the local authorities acting where they think they can act. I would give them a free hand, but I do not think they ought to have a monopoly. I think all agencies should be called in to help— public utility societies, building societies and private individuals. This is a problem which should be tackled on all sides and by all agencies. Private enterprise has been sneered at in some quarters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.819.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-29", "file": "debates1922-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ed1ef454b21d1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.819.0", "colnum": "819", "heading": "HOUSING (UNEMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES ROBERTS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "ty, which was bad before the War. Certainly private enterprise before the War was supplying a large part, though I will not say the whole, of the housing needs of the country. I do not think it is true to say that the building societies and the co-operative societies, which were building fairly good houses up and down the country, were only creating slums. I do not think that is true in the least.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.819.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-29", "file": "debates1922-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ed1ef454b21d1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.825.0", "colnum": "825", "heading": "HOUSING (UNEMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "that housing policy. He said in effect: Remember the times we were living in. Revolution was stalking over the land, and if we could lay the spectre of revolution by a few promises which were intended to be broken, surely we performed a national service. Sir George McCrae was only stating publicly, and in his political innocence, what was in the hearts of all the supporters of the late Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.825.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-29", "file": "debates1922-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ed1ef454b21d1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.825.0", "colnum": "825", "heading": "HOUSING (UNEMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\" and \"What about the Labour party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "ain, we came up against the question of private ownership and private enterprise. You say we must get houses. Of course we must. \"Our people must have healthier conditions, our little children must have opportunity to blossom forth, as we are a great people \"—and all that nonsense, because when it comes to practical politics, it is only nonsense that we hear from the other side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.825.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-29", "file": "debates1922-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ed1ef454b21d1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "HOUSING (UNEMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "That is a very pertinent question. The Noble Lord is quite right. In the City of Glasgow the local authority attempted to stop it. They appointed a committee, which had every case brought before it and, to the credit of the city, Moderate and Labour members alike opposed the granting of permission for the erection of these cinemas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-29", "file": "debates1922-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ed1ef454b21d1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "HOUSING (UNEMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about 1913? Was it not successful then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "ant that, whereas in 1913 each house had to contribute £6 per annum in interest, in 1920 each house was expected to contribute £66 per annum in interest. It was compelled to contribute 11 times more in 1920 than it had to contribute in 1913. Hon. Members will see how successful private enterprise is! Private enterprise can put up the value of an investment by 11 time in about five years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-29", "file": "debates1922-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3ed1ef454b21d1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.837.0", "colnum": "837", "heading": "HOUSING (UNEMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "preceding_text": "id not meet the needs of the situation. The hon. Member for the Shettleston Division of Glasgow (Mr. Wheatley) suggested that there was never any intention of making that scheme a success. I beg leave to differ from him. I believe the opinion of every Member of the House, with the exception of the hon. Member, is that there was a determination on the part of everyone to make the scheme successful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-29a.837.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.943.5", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "at meeting. I see that he has met or is to meet representatives of the great railway interests. These, indeed, are much more Departmental questions than the general question of unemployment. This line of inclusion and exclusion does create the impression among the unemployed that the Prime Minister felt that he could afford to ignore men of the very poorest class whose patience would be exhausted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.943.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.943.5", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": " of the great railway interests. These, indeed, are much more Departmental questions than the general question of unemployment. This line of inclusion and exclusion does create the impression among the unemployed that the Prime Minister felt that he could afford to ignore men of the very poorest class whose patience would be exhausted. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I am speaking of the impression created.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.943.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.943.5", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": " If that be their best, then their best has been a failure and is in no sense equal to the needs of an industrial nation like ours. The Prime Minister, in his election speeches, asked us to give some attention to the development of Empire trade. I agree, and I do not want to belittle in any degree the assistance or the development of Empire trade, but it is a comparatively secondary consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.943.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.943.5", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There was 5s. for the wife!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "e individual unemployed worker. Bereft of an opportunity for a job, he, -naturally, wants to know what a grateful country can do for him. What the Government did do about two years ago was to reduce the benefit, which stood at 20s., to 15s., and at the same time it fixed a sum of 1s. a week as the amount to be paid to an unemployed father to enable him to maintain for a week his child of 16 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.943.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.957.0", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Montague Barlow)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is no consolation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Montague Barlow)", "preceding_text": " 1,379,000. That is to be expected with the seasonal variation of employment. But in spite of that, I believe slowly, terribly slowly, if you will, but still slowly and steadily, the unemployment curve is improving. People often talk as if the unemployment crisis was confined to this country. As a matter of fact, many nations in the world are suffering from the same difficulty as we are ourselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.957.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.957.0", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Montague Barlow)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\".", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Montague Barlow)", "preceding_text": "edy which he and his friends would propose was a new social order, and he went on to tell us that he and his friends could only lay the foundations of the new social order. He implied, in fact I think he stated, that it must be a matter of time, and of considerable time. May I reply to my hon. Friends who take that view that the unemployment problem is an urgent one? It will not wait——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.957.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.957.0", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Montague Barlow)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The same old story! \"and\" You were in the Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Montague Barlow)", "preceding_text": " I explain what has been done in the past it will be very difficult to make intelligible the measures which the Government now propose. It is often said that nothing has been done. That is not only untrue, but it is cruel, because it tends to engender despair. What ha6 been done? It is perhaps a little difficult to make this Government responsible for what took place four years before it was born.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.957.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.962.4", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. BARLOW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is the interpretation of the regulations that is wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. BARLOW", "preceding_text": "There is a period of apprenticeship for those who are not accustomed to the work, during which 75 per cent, is paid, and when the man becomes skilled at the work the full rate is paid. If a man is already accustomed to the work, the full rate is paid to him at the start. These are the regulations, and if my hon. Friends will give me any instances to the contrary I will look into them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.962.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.964.1", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. BARLOW", "cue_text": "HON. MKMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. BARLOW", "preceding_text": "I was careful not to say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.976.2", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PATRICK HASTINGS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PATRICK HASTINGS", "preceding_text": "quiry of a nature which the Government alone would be in a position to set up. May I take an example, because these things can only be made clear, if at all, by examples? It will be known to every Member that during the recent election the party to which I am, I may say at once, proud to belong, was, in my view, the only party which sought to put forward a constructive programme before the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.976.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.976.2", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PATRICK HASTINGS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PATRICK HASTINGS", "preceding_text": "t the country as a whole. I am sure that if it were true the mere fact that it would injure certain persons who were sufficiently wealthy to have to pay the debt would be no answer to its advisability. I hope my hon. Friends, who, I am sure, are fair-minded, will-appreciate the force of the analogy I am putting forward. If we are right, that should be done; if we are wrong, that should be dropped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.976.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.976.2", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PATRICK HASTINGS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PATRICK HASTINGS", "preceding_text": "ent, but of the country as a whole. A very learned judge, one of the greatest judges I have ever known, once said to me: \"In my view, when two litigants come before me, it is more desirable that they should go away satisfied that their case has been fairly, impartially, and fully heard, than that a right decision in point of law should be given in such a way as to cause dissatisfaction to either.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.976.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.976.2", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PATRICK HASTINGS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEBS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PATRICK HASTINGS", "preceding_text": "amental and economic importance should be publicly ventilated, than all the schemes such as those which we have heard to-day put together. T do not hesitate to say that the schemes we have heard to-day are, in my opinion— and, I fancy, my hon. Friends here will consider them—inadequate, and in no way-deal with the problem. I fear that I have taken up the time of the House far too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.976.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.983.0", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We cannot hear you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "preceding_text": " adopted by the hon. and learned Member's party at a rather recent date. I remember that the proposal was originally made by an hon. Member who sat for one of the Yorkshire seats—a member of the Liberal party. It was very much investigated, and dropped by all people who thought seriously on the subject, including, I think, most of those who flirted with it here or on the Continent of Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Let them die!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "port a given population at any given time. There is no particular reason why the population should be 36, 38 or 40 millions, and, therefore, the first thing you have to consider is whether or not some fundamental factor has occurred in the economic system of the world which makes it more difficult, and may render it impossible, for us to go on supporting a population of 38,000,000 in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBEK: \"Under your system!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "atting, who made some remarks as to the relative, economy of paying people for doing nothing and giving them work. The figures show that an enormous amount of capital is required in order to employ a relatively small number of people. I commend that to those who desire to destroy capital. When you add all these things together, the financial burden becomes heavier than one would otherwise imagine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "on to enable him to get a job. He is as much entitled to the money by law as to the National Health benefit or Life Insurance benefit, and therefore it cannot be taken compulsorily from him. Why, therefore, should you not allow him to take the money and go to the employer, with proper safeguards, of course, and say, \"If I give you this money, will you give me a full-time job at trade union rates?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"German coal!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": " of the exchange is not because of the Treaty of Versailles or German reparation. The exchange is bad because they have a heavy debt and an inflated currency. As a matter of fact, the Italian exchange would be much better if they had some reparation from Austria. Take France. When I was in my constituency recently I found the coal trade there was stopped with France because of the French exchange.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.992.0", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HOUSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HOUSTON", "preceding_text": "I have listened very carefully to the speech of the right hon. Gentleman who moved this Amendment, and, although he was very severe in his denunciation of the Government for their laches and misdeeds, he was singularly silent upon unemployment caused through strikes directly and indirectly. Strikes' have largely been the cause of a great deal of unemployment, and particularly the coal strikes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.992.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.1021.1", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "om the burden of national taxation you will also increase employment and diminish unemployment, surely, I say, if that be true, that policy ought to commend itself to the right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues. But if they do not like the capital levy, we offer the Government and their supporters an alternative. The programme of the Labour party includes the policy of the taxation of land values.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.1021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.1021.1", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hawk-like messenger.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "silly policy the Government have adopted of ca-canny. In the statement last night I saw a gleam of hope. It is no use for the right hon. Gentleman to build unto himself an ark, and take with him a few of his speeches in order to save himself from the deluge which is bound to come, if he does not \"buck up\" and do something. He may send out his dove-like messenger in the shape of private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.1021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.1034.2", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "preceding_text": " hon. Member touched the kernel of the case when he spoke of the population of this great country. We must never forget that within the last century we have quadrupled our population, and it becomes a question how far we can sustain it. That is a question which is involved in this large question of unemployment. At present England and Wales is probably the most densely populated area in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.1034.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "e are oppressed by something which does not oppress hon. Members on the opposite side. We are oppressed by a deep sense of responsibility. Having acquired all the experience which we believe they possess, we have in addition the responsibility to-day of providing employment. It is that which makes us have regard to the real solution of this problem, and which tells us to approach it very gingerly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Not petty!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": " rags and poverty. The employing class in numbers is small. We can go down and suffer, we are small in number. Do you think we are concerned for our own suffering, our own poverty? Is it not the great mass in this country whom we stand here to protect? Do you think we have descended to the level that we stand here as men in this great tribunal of the people, defending our personal petty interests?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"HON, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "e effect to it, maintenance by work, I am sure that it would have the support of everyone on the Government Benches. How are we to achieve maintenance by work? The present policy is obviously only a palliative. I think the Government is generally taking the right step to give effect to employment, in a temporary sense, to bridge over the next few months. I warn hon. Members not to expect too much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.1047.0", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The coal strike!\" and \"The lock-out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "what is the result on the Wear, Tyne and Clyde? The workers are out of work. Again, take coal. Reparation is exacted from Germany in coal, mostly paid to France. What has been the result on us? For months our export trade in coal has been reduced almost to nothing. It is to a certain extent recovering now, but for months and months the disaster to our coal trade was directly due to the reparation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.1047.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.1047.0", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "e policy pursued by the late Government, and I think—at any rate, judging from the speech of the hon. Gentleman who has just sat down—is still the view of those sitting opposite. The argument for the policy pursued has been this: \"We must recover our lost markets; we must limit the cost of production at home,\" which, being interpreted, is: We must lower the wages of our own population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.1047.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.1052.0", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir ARTHUR HOLBROOK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who else has any right?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir ARTHUR HOLBROOK", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Wallsend (Mr. Hastings) said he thought the Labour party were entitled to be heard in this Debate. I have sat here for two or three days, and I think the House generally will agree that the Labour party have had a very good innings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.1052.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.1052.0", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir ARTHUR HOLBROOK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir ARTHUR HOLBROOK", "preceding_text": "d have done if he were in the House of Commons and had to hear the speeches of the new Members of the Labour party. They complained that an hon. Member for one of the divisions of Lanark made an election speech, but each of them in succession edified us by repeating his election speeches and trying to prove that the Labour party were in the right and had a monopoly of sympathy with the unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.1052.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.1052.2", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. HOLBROOK", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. HOLBROOK", "preceding_text": "leaders of the Labour party. Do not forget the long duration of what you call the coal lock-out, but what your leaders when they are not thinking call a strike. One hon. Member this evening has reminded the House that owing to the long duration of the coal strike the demand for coal has been reduced by from 22 to 25 million tons a year because of the conversion of steamships into oil-driven ships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.1052.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.1061.8", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Major TRYON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "I am very anxious to continue this discussion on the lines of the very helpful spirit which was shown by hon. Members opposite in the Debate last night, but I cannot allow without protest references made not to the policy of the Government but to individuals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.1061.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-11-30", "file": "debates1922-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1c0fb46d18a52094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.1061.8", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Major TRYON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "I am very anxious to continue this discussion on the lines of the very helpful spirit which was shown by hon. Members opposite in the Debate last night, but I cannot allow without protest references made not to the policy of the Government but to individuals. [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members, having taken up two-thirds of the time, are now endeavouring to prevent' me stating my case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-11-30a.1061.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-01", "file": "debates1922-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "90bc243a58049c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1071.10", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Hoy. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ner the market becomes glutted by goods which the majority of the people have not the effective power to buy. The only way in which we can solve the problem of normal unemployment is by bringing production and effective demand into closer relationship, and that can only be done by a progressive increase in the purchasing power of the workers who, after all, are the main customers of the merchants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1071.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-01", "file": "debates1922-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "90bc243a58049c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1071.10", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " that course we should gain immeasurably. Before we can have any large volume of trade with Russia they will have to improve the transport system. If, through the recognition of the Soviet Government, British and other capital were attracted to Russia, in a short time trade with Russia would revive far more than is possible under present conditions. 12.n I am afraid I have already spoken too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1071.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-01", "file": "debates1922-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "90bc243a58049c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1094.0", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "nitions, for example, for peace purposes? It is extraordinary that he should make a speech of that sort without being much more precise. Before the Election, the Labour party were more precise. They issued a manifesto, which said: Our industrial policy involves the prompt nationalisation of the mines, the nationalisation of railways, and other measures for the protection of the workpeople. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1094.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-01", "file": "debates1922-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "90bc243a58049c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1094.1", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "I know. That is honest. You really mean it. But Mr. Arthur Henderson— I am sorry he is not in this House—went a bit further. He said the nationalisation of mines and railways was but a step to the nationalisation of industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-01", "file": "debates1922-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "90bc243a58049c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1094.1", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have not you got there yet?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "eman the Member for Platting said. He skated round that subject altogether. He said, \"Yes, there is a duty upon the Government to find employment; why, if we can organise in war, should we not be able to organise in peace?\" Does that mean nationalisa- tion? Is that what he means? If he does mean that, why should he not say so? It would be a good deal better that we should really know where we are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-01", "file": "debates1922-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "90bc243a58049c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Cooperative Wholesale Society.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "I would suggest to the Noble Lord that the people who say that they have had losses have done fairly well during the last three or four years. Their hardships cannot at any rate be compared to the sufferings of 1,500,000 unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-01", "file": "debates1922-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "90bc243a58049c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. RAEBURN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. RAEBURN", "preceding_text": ", and it has always been a marvel to me that our Governments for years have given so little attention and so little care to the question of emigration. There must be an outlet for our surplus population. It is not an unreasonable pro position, and I do not know why the Labour party always seem to oppose it. Why should people be penned up here in the miserable streets of our cities and large towns?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-01", "file": "debates1922-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "90bc243a58049c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1124.3", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "preceding_text": "referred to that to-day, the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Platting was a little indignant that the House should have been led to think that he did not attach very much importance to the British Empire. I must, however, remind him of his actual words. He said yesterday, referring to the proposal of the Prime Minister for developing Empire trade: It is a comparatively secondary consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1124.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-01", "file": "debates1922-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "90bc243a58049c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1127.1", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is the money to come from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "preceding_text": "at I suggest is that new colonies of settlers should be formed in undeveloped territories in the old Dominions, and that, if the Dominions will give the land, the mother country will provide a host, if they desire to go, of new settlers for the permanent enrichment of those Dominions. As a first step I suggest that Great Britain should finance the building of the railways in those new territories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-01", "file": "debates1922-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "90bc243a58049c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1130.0", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Waste!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "on the House, and in regard to which I should like to have an expression of opinion from the Prime Minister on behalf of the Government. Over the whole scene, over the whole economic area of Europe, there still loom two spectres, reparations and indebtedness, and until they are laid, and finally laid, the prospect of restoration to anything like economic stability is hopeless. It is an idle dream.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-01", "file": "debates1922-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "90bc243a58049c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1135.2", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That accounts for your majority.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": ". The difficulty with them was this. As long as they were describing the evil conditions of the present time, they were on perfectly firm and strong ground. I listened to every one of them. But when they come to the time when they are going to tell us the exact remedy, the speech breaks down. Obviously, that is not so easily noticed by a platform audience. Therefore I can understand their success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1135.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-01", "file": "debates1922-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "90bc243a58049c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1135.2", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On wealth!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "s Duty. But I think we were right, and I think so for this reason, that we are going through troubles now which nations that have not faced their problem have got to go through later. But, believe me, this policy which we have adopted has had some very grave evils. I know hon. Members opposite think that any amount of taxation on capital does not matter. Perhaps, there are one or two who think so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1135.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-01", "file": "debates1922-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "90bc243a58049c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1143.0", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The truth lies somewhere!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "ry evil effects of trade disputes. Yes, I do not say strikes, I do not say lock-outs. I say trade disputes. Where I part company with those who spoke about this yesterday is this: that when they go through the evolution of a trade dispute and come to the point when Labour acts, then they say that that is the reason for it all. The hon. Member for Hampstead said yesterday, \"The truth is somewhere.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-01", "file": "debates1922-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "90bc243a58049c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1146.1", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "y two years ago since a conference of French and German trade unionists met in Switzerland and came to an agreement by which German labour should restore the French devastated districts, and if that has not been done it is certainly not the fault of those of us who sit here or the organisations with which we act. The French would not have it because there are so many capitalist interests involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-01", "file": "debates1922-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "90bc243a58049c51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1150.0", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By confiscation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "paying that tribute. Wages cannot go on bearing the taxation which is necessary to pay it. It is imposing such heavy taxation that a scientific system of taxation is quite impossible. It cannot be done. Yet business men with large economic and industrial interests, with which we associate the party opposite, are laughing at us for producing a scheme by which the National Debt can be reduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-01a.1150.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1188.3", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No, no!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. BARLOW", "preceding_text": "That is a hypothetical question with which it is rather difficult to deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1188.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1189.0", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " I am certain that if the Minister of Health had been here he could not possibly have answered as the right hon. Gentleman has done. The Minister of Health continually issues Orders to boards of guardians instructing them what to do, and those Orders we have to carry out. How it can be said that the Minister is not responsible, and his conduct cannot be called in question, is to me quite hopeless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1285.2", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "On both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1285.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1295.3", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"YOU have always done it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "ter part of these Acts. I have dealt with dyes and with the other key industries, There remains only the questions of dumping and collapsed exchanges. With regard to that, I can hardly be contradicted if I say that unfair competition has nothing whatever to do with Free Trade. To build up an industry on dumped goods is at least as inconsistent with Free Trade as building it up behind tariff walls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1297.1", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEKS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": " the most diffi- cult situations any Government in any country ever had to face. The old arguments seem to me entirely waste of time and entirely unsuitable to the occasion.\"— [OFFICIAL REPORT, 9th May, 1921; col. 1603, Vol. 141.] What are we legislating against? We are legislating simply against the bounty due to the depreciated exchanges. I do not want to go into the whole of the argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1300.0", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The agricultural industry!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "rs, of those of our competitors who take advantage of the fall in exchanges in order to undercut us. I ask the right hon. Gentleman to consider the sad position of the trade and to consider whether he cannot do for our trade what he has done for the trade in magnetos. Step out'. Advance Protection! Do not let us have just the halfway house. Some of us have to pay so that a few may get the benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1301.1", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or the right hon. Member for Swansea.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ugh for the present time. Let us stick to practical politics; to practical illustrations of what Protection can do. We, particularly on these benches, the Labour party, are not really interested in the rival joustings of those who committed this country to Protection, whether it was Mr. Walter Runciman or wheher it was Mr. McKenna, or whether it was the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Paisley.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1301.1", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "it means to unemployment? After all, if the consumer has to pay more for the goods he wants, the money he has got, whether it be his wages or unearned income, does not go so far as it otherwise would do in buying those things. If you tax him by protective tariffs for the benefit of the protected manufacturers, it means that his wages do not run to buying the new suit of clothes for his wife—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1301.1", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "the consumer has to pay more for the goods he wants, the money he has got, whether it be his wages or unearned income, does not go so far as it otherwise would do in buying those things. If you tax him by protective tariffs for the benefit of the protected manufacturers, it means that his wages do not run to buying the new suit of clothes for his wife—[ Laughter ]—I mean costume—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1308.0", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "preceding_text": "ever, with that. What we ask for in our Amendment is an impartial inquiry, by Members of both Houses, to go very much further than that, and really to examine the whole problem de novo in a different atmosphere from that in which we embarked upon this legislation some years ago. As far as I am concerned, I feel, though with some regret, that I cannot vote for the Amendment of my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1318.3", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a fraud!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "Categories, at any rate, Categories of commodities. Six thousand three hundred categories. A catalogue of categories which are grouped together comprehensively under the generic name of \"key industries.\" The thing is a perfect farce. It is worse than a farce", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1318.3", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": " were made out where there was what I may call an organised attempt on the part of foreign producers acting, as they very often do, in rings and combinations under the shelter of a Protective Tariff of their own to try to undermine, oust and destroy particular branches of British production, there is nothing in the doctrine of Free Trade which compels me or any Free Trader td take that lying down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1321.0", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "It is no use the right hon. Gentleman shaking his head. I am stating a fact, witness to which is borne by the terms of the Act itself, because it was found necessary to introduce in Committee a Clause preserving the authority and the integrity of these commercial treaties. What is the result?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1321.1", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the bankers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "preceding_text": " the agents. The right hon. Member for the Spen Valley (Sir J. Simon) said he had been at a meeting of merchants who condemned this Act. They are out to kill the Act. They are not manufacturers; they do not employ labour; they are simply merchants and agents, getting one per cent, or one and a half per cent, for buying foreign stuff and shipping it abroad, and not giving our industries any chance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1321.1", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why mention them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "preceding_text": "they could produce for them 80to 90 new colours, it would be sufficient to put them on to something else. We have produced 500 new colours, and we have also produced 516 colours which are the equivalent of German colours, but these latter colours are not in circulation at the present time and I dare not mention them, because it is a trade secret. I will, however, show them in confidence to anyone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1327.0", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. H. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"From Germany!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. H. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "ing said in Debate. It seemed to me that the hon. Member gave his own case away. He said that if we repeal this Act Germany would simply swamp our infant dye-making industry. Well, if it could do that why is it not swamping the infant Swiss dye-making industry, which is very much alive to-day and which undoubtedly saved the British textile industry during the War by supplying us with various dyes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1341.0", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "When this Act was a Bill in the last Parliament, many of us—and I was one—supported the Government in every Clause and line, and helped them to get the Bill through. I will tell the House, if I may, why I, at any rate, supported the Bill so that it might become an Act. I will say now frankly, too, that I am not satisfied with the working of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1341.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1360.2", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "then he is the grandfather of it. This is a product of the Asquithian Government. I need not recall all the circumstances, for I am sure that hon. Members remember them, especially the condition in which we found ourselves in the War through lack of absolutely vital and essential commodities that were required for the presecution of the War. There were things like magnetos which we could not make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1360.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1361.1", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dolls' eyes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "eech which was important, because there he deplored—which is a matter which I hope the House will keep clearly in view to-night in giving a Vote on this question—the folly which we had shown in the past in leaving ourselves so much at the mercy of other countries in the production of elements of vital importance. He pointed out that we had been blind, but that now our eyes were opened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1367.1", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Runciman!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "h, Tariff Reform and the Ten Commandments. I hope the right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues will stick to those principles. What has the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer to tell us? First he revived the assertion re-echoed by the hon. Member for North Edinburgh (Mr. Ford) that the paternity or grand paternity of this Measure belongs to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Paisley (Mr. Asquith).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1367.1", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Permanent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "ce of an economic threat by the enemy. They were nothing else. I do not know whether the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer ha3 in his mind the terms of the Resolutions? Let me refresh his memory for one moment. The preamble which governs the Resolutions says they are intended to facilitate the organisation on a permanent basis of the economic alliance of the representatives of the Allied Governments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1369.1", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "danger of protective legislation? The right hon. Gentleman says \"No.\" I was very much interested in reading accounts of the election in the right hon. Gentleman's own constituency. This is from the \"Times\": The Liberal candidate is of course, a Free Trader, and would, if elected, seek to repeal the Safeguarding of Industries Act. Mr. Amery, on the other hand, believes in the usefulness of the Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1372.1", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "I should not be ashamed to say that, for I hope to see the peoples of the countries friends, and brotherhood established.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1372.1", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "I should not be ashamed to say that, for I hope to see the peoples of the countries friends, and brotherhood established. [ Interruption. ] What the hon. Gentleman does not understand by his foolish observation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1372.1", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": " the people who fought in the War are the people who are determined to establish peace! May I just draw attention for a moment to one other very remarkable aspect of this legislation. The hon. Member for Hampstead (Mr. Balfour) suggests that I am determined to be the German manufacturers' friend. That is an odious charge to make because I do not believe in keeping German goods out of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1372.1", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "attention for a moment to one other very remarkable aspect of this legislation. The hon. Member for Hampstead (Mr. Balfour) suggests that I am determined to be the German manufacturers' friend. That is an odious charge to make because I do not believe in keeping German goods out of this country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why!\"] I say I do that primarily in the interests of British workers and manufacturers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1374.1", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman say that to differentiate between one country and another is to apply equality of treatment? When the President of the Board of Trade is at Genoa he tells them to treat all countries on the same footing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1374.4", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "right hon. Gentleman had any policy. He quoted some words of his own upon this subject, in which he laid clown the conditions under which this bounden duty should be carried out. What were those conditions? The first was that you were not to divert labour or capital from essential industries. The second was that you were not to foist upon the British consumer inferior articles at excessive prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1374.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1377.0", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " take any steps whatsoever to carry their sympathy into practical effect. The Amendment contains three dogmatic assertions, not of opinion but of alleged facts. It states that these Measures —that is, the Safeguarding of Industries Act—are raising prices, hampering trade and limiting employment. We have not had, throughout this Debate from beginning to end one title of evidence —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1377.0", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "matic assertions, not of opinion but of alleged facts. It states that these Measures —that is, the Safeguarding of Industries Act—are raising prices, hampering trade and limiting employment. We have not had, throughout this Debate from beginning to end one title of evidence —[HON. MEMBERS: \"We have!\"]— either that prices have been raised or that employment has been limited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1377.3", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes,\" and Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "All that hon. Members have done is to repeat, over and over again, that these Measures must raise prices, but they have not shown that prices have actually been raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1377.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1378.4", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And his profits.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ared that what he was out for was to preserve the right of British merchants to buy freely in foreign markets. That is his point. I ask the House to consider which is the best to preserve for this country, a British merchant, who employs a few clerks and gives employment to people in Germany, or a British manufacturer, who, at any rate, employs workpeople and, if he can, increases his works—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1378.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1389.4", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Reparation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "nent. We have had too many of these loans in the past. For my own part, I agree with the Prime Minister when he said that we could not be policemen for the world. I say, too, that we cannot be moneylenders for the world. I would ask my right hon. Friend whether he, as a business man, would put his own money into this Austrian loan? If not, why does he put the money of the British taxpayer into it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1389.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1395.0", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "A Soviet Government?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLES BUXTON", "preceding_text": "d be treated, if not with indignation, at any rate with ridicule; a law by which the Parliament is asked virtually to commit suicide; a law by which the Parliament is asked, of its own pretended volition, to give up its own essential life, power and prerogative. The Austrian Government has to lay before its Parliament a law \"giving, during two years, to any Government which may be in power\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1398.0", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "preceding_text": " the Republic of Austria. At the same time, I cannot but be glad that an opportunity has been given not merely to this House, but to the peoples of Europe and the world in general, to see the kind of thing which awakens the sympathetic interest and the undaunted enthusiasm of the League of Nations. Belonging as I do to the Communist party, I regard the League of Nations with disgust and abhorence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1398.0", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "preceding_text": "rom the Rothschilds of Paris. Austria, Vienna, has been mortgaged from 1816 to the present time, to the very hilt to the great international houses of Rothschilds. That is the group which has Austria, and which is responsible for this last poor attempt to save Austria from ruin not in the interests of civilisation or of Europe, but in the interests of a bond-holding clique of unscrupulous rascals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1398.0", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "preceding_text": "nternational houses of Rothschilds. That is the group which has Austria, and which is responsible for this last poor attempt to save Austria from ruin not in the interests of civilisation or of Europe, but in the interests of a bond-holding clique of unscrupulous rascals. [HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"] I did not expect that it would be the duty of His Majesty's Opposition to please His Majesty's Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1398.0", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What did you do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "preceding_text": "urkey, Rumania and Greece, and now over the necks of the little children whom you have not been able to get into their coffins, otherwise in the city of Vienna. During the War hon. Members opposite, and certain hon. Members who sit on the Front Bench on this side of the House—Privy Councillors who have since recanted—have been talking about the self-determination of small nationalities", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1400.6", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Lloyd George\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "preceding_text": "We have heard a great deal about self-determination of small nationalities. Hon. Gentlemen opposite discovered the Czecho-Slovakians and began to tell the nation in general about them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1400.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1402.1", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "preceding_text": "That, I believe, will arise in another discussion. The Sudan is the territory, as hon. Members know, through which passes the Nile—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1402.1", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Syria is French.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "preceding_text": "icy. Having arrived that far, I shall turn aside until a future Debate. The right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer has told us that Egypt, or, rather, the Sudan, is a region in which it is possible to grow long staple cotton, but you have that to-day also in Kenya Colony, Uganda, Iraq, and Syria, and other regions which you have got mandated to you under the League of Nations.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1402.1", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Silk worms.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "preceding_text": "eans, you are driving as straight as you can go to another world war. Hon. Members opposite do not crowd those Benches and support these Resolutions in the interests of liberty, in the interests of equality, in the interests of justice, but in the interests of the Stock Exchange, in the interests of the bankers, in the interests of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, in the interests of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1402.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1404.4", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are a party of one!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the hon. Member. It was a sweeping assertion that he made. I only wish to make a remark about the paragraph which deals with Austria at this stage because I wish to move an Amendment to the first part of the Resolution. But before doing so I think it is right to say that the objection we have on this side, at least, speaking for the Members I can speak for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1404.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1407.0", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Closing time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "o be discussed by this Committee at a quarter to one in the morning. I am sure, however anxious the House may be to terminate the Session, everybody who is seriously interested in the problems raised in this Resolution would prefer to sit a day or two longer than sit up all night; as a matter of fact, not discussing the merits of the Resolution at all. Hilarity grows very profusely after midnight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1413.2", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Leader of the Opposition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "We are glad to hear of course what the leader of the Labour Opposition has said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1413.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1417.4", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " That does not add to common sense and decency at all. The point is that you cannot, without discussion, sensibly make laws for any country. You shout when we talk in a certain fashion as if you did not come here to talk and discuss. That shows how thoroughly ignorant you must be of the function of this place, which is to take the proposals laid before it and discuss them in a common-sense manner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1417.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1418.2", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Through the Chair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "It is also a rule when an interjection is made for the speaker to answer that interjection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1418.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1418.4", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "I am convinced that the arguments of Members on this side are having an effect. It is obvious hon. Members opposite are not in a fit condition to legislate any further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1418.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1439.1", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Red Sea!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "he treatment of the inhabitants of that country by the present Egyptian Government. The regime of martial law, which I am sorry to see is supported by British bayonets, is bound, sooner or later, to lead to trouble in that country. In these circumstances I regard it as very foolish to guarantee loans in that country. It is perfectly true that we have an outlet from the Sudan into the Indian Ocean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1446.0", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You pay your money and you take your choice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": " a question of really being enterprising and adventurous and taking risks. Then private enterprise is gone. From Plymouth to Pimlico there is not a word of private enterprise. I submit that the plan as put forward by the Government to-day in the shape of a guarantee is a worse burden upon the taxpayer and, if I may be allowed to say so, a more dishonest burden than if it were one thing or another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1446.0", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "f Dundee used to work about five to six times that quantity of jute in the Dundee mills. But in 1921 the Dundee mills were compelled to do their work on only about 600,000 bales, while the jute mills in Bengal, where the jute grows, worked upon 4,300,0000 bales, or seven times as much as the Dundee workers. The workers in India were overworking, and the workers in Dundee had to shut up their shop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1449.1", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "d the taxpayer who has to pay, not only for your loss, but for your expeditions of revenge. Not only that, but as sure as the sun rises you will in process of time go further into the Sudan and you yourselves will be the bosses and the owners of the raw material. You will put factories there, you will exploit the labour with the positive design of ill-treating and degrading labour in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1460.0", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "suitable- country for growing long-staple cotton, and we were told that if the Government would only build some more palatial consulates and send out officials of a superior type to those districts, it might be expected that there would be some great developments in Brazil that might lead to production of long-staple cotton. It seems to me we are rather in danger of overdoing this cotton business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-04", "file": "debates1922-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "b306da0039e792b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1464.0", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir P. Lloyd-Greame)", "cue_text": "Ax HON. MEMBER: \"Would it be for Housing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir P. Lloyd-Greame)", "preceding_text": "re is that of Lord St. Davids Committee, under which a large amount of money has been set aside for exactly those undertakings by public authorities to which he has referred. As to roads, there is a large sum set aside out of the Road Fund, which was enlarged upon in the Unemployment Debate. Moreover, this Act is open to the local authorities just as much as to a public company, or to anyone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-04a.1464.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1513.4", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. DAVISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "Will the tight hon. Gentleman consider the advisability of limiting the speeches of Members?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1513.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1586.2", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir RICHARD WINFREY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir RICHARD WINFREY", "preceding_text": "ll not be satisfied if the Government cannot meet us considerably further than that. The depression in agriculture has this year very much extended and deepened. I am not going to paint too gloomy a picture, because I am one of those who farmed through the dark days of the early nineties, and I realise that the depression is not so great or serious up to the present moment as it was in those days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1586.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1586.2", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir RICHARD WINFREY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Coalition Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir RICHARD WINFREY", "preceding_text": "their property, and they very often have heavy bank overdrafts. It is the duty of the State now to lend such men money at a reasonable rate of interest, and to place them in a more secure position. That is the only reasonable course which can be taken. I come next to the tenants. First of all I want to deal with the ex-service men. The ex-service men have been abominably treated by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1586.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1586.2", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir RICHARD WINFREY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who got the money?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir RICHARD WINFREY", "preceding_text": "r year. I do not think the House wishes that that should be the result. Let us cut our losses. It makes one's heart bleed to see the waste of public money, but it was done by a Government Department with their yes open. They insisted upon county councils buying this land at excessive prices. The nation will have to bear the loss and these men must get their land at something like reasonable rents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1586.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1586.2", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir RICHARD WINFREY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who got the money?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir RICHARD WINFREY", "preceding_text": ", but it was done by a Government Department with their yes open. They insisted upon county councils buying this land at excessive prices. The nation will have to bear the loss and these men must get their land at something like reasonable rents. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who got the money?\"] New Members of this House do not seem to understand. This £20,000,000 has been invested in lands and buildings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1586.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1586.2", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir RICHARD WINFREY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir RICHARD WINFREY", "preceding_text": "remedy. I have tried to state the case, and I have done so, inadequately perhaps, but I have not exaggerated, and I ask now that we should have an all-round Government in- quiry. I am glad to see the Prime Minister here. We do not consider that an inquiry into the middle man's profits is enough. It may be said, and, I believe, is going to be said, that the problem is so urgent that we cannot wait.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1586.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1601.9", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"C3!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " drawing the population—the same hæmorrhage of the soil. They did not allow it to bleed white, as we did in this country. Their soldiers said, \"This is a serious problem. Sturdy, vigorous, robust, enduring people were reared on the soil; those have vanished, they are flocking into the towns; you will have a population grown under the unhealthy, depressing conditions of industrial life.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1601.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1601.9", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did you not do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "tons. The British farmer produces; a negligible quantity of sugar: the German farmer produces 2¾ tons. That is a very remarkable testimony to what can be accomplished by a great, earnest, serious patriotic effort to lift an industry from a condition of depression to a condition of productivity, where it enriches its own land, and where it provides profitable employment for a large population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1601.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1601.9", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nor anyone else.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ished by a great, earnest, serious patriotic effort to lift an industry from a condition of depression to a condition of productivity, where it enriches its own land, and where it provides profitable employment for a large population. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did you not do it?\"] An hon. Member asks why I did not do it. In the first place, during the War I made my effort. I was not satisfied with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1601.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1601.9", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not the whole story.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman who interrupts wishes to be offensive, that really does not help debate. That agricultural effort, which included compulsory cultivation, a very remarkable principle to introduce, increased the amount of food produced in this country from food for 14,500,000 to food for 19,000,000 people. When the hon. Gentleman is able to do by one act as much as that, I will listen to his criticism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1601.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1601.9", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ng workers with no work for them, those years will be years of misery. More than that, they will be years of peril; because this surplus population living on allowances is a source of irritation to the body-politic which at any moment might develop into a formidable fever. Therefore the risks of not doing things are greater than the risks of making a mistake. But is unemployment a temporary state\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1601.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1610.3", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "There is nothing with which I am better pleased to be interrupted in the middle of a speech than to hear that the Irish Free State Constitution Act has been placed upon the Statute Book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1610.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1628.1", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRETYMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And to middlemen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRETYMAN", "preceding_text": " has been said on that subject. In regard to railway rates, that is a very pressing subject from the point of view of agriculture. The mere figures that were given by my hon. Friend who moved the Motion, when he spoke of people who send their produce to the market in considerable quantities and only get back half-a-crown, shows the urgency of this question. The money largely goes in railway rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1641.0", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMB", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Come across to the Labour Benches.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMB", "preceding_text": "on some future occasion, but I would finish by making this statement. Ever since the world has been there has been an obligation lying upon land, and that is lo find food and to produce food for the people who live upon it, and no man has any right, either to own land, occupy land, or work upon land, if he is going to deprive the land of the opportunity of performing its obligations to the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1641.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1648.0", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NOEL BUXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NOEL BUXTON", "preceding_text": "h puts you off with one article on an agricultural subject, but even the \"Field\" is more sporting than agricultural. You would hardly find anything serious in that direction on the newspaper table, except, I think, the publications of the Central Landowners' Association. That is really our complaint against Conservative policy, that it has allowed landowning to become a recreation in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1648.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1648.0", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NOEL BUXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!:\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NOEL BUXTON", "preceding_text": "ernment is, apparently, that there should be an inquiry, but I trust that inquiry is to cover the case of the labourer. That we do not yet know. So far the Minister of Agriculture, in reply to questions of mine and other Members, has declined an inquiry, and we must assume that there is no intention of re-establishing the Board. Virtually, the proposal on the other side is, reduce the wages first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1648.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1659.0", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "d of now showing sincerity with regard to that point. He was a pioneer in trying to improve the wages of the agricultural labourers of this country, and he had to endure the obloquy of a great many people because of the attitude that he took upon that point. As a Scottish Member, I feel proud that I was associated with him, and I also feel proud that the ploughmen of Scotland still believe in him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1659.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1662.2", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "preceding_text": "h the fact that we ignored the Report of the Royal Commission before the War, which reported that at times there were only six weeks' supply of wheat in this country. Agriculture came to the rescue. We grubbed our hops in Kent and laid down wheat instead. From 1870 up to 1914 we lost nearly 4,500,000 acres of cultivated land. We got back 1,750,000 acres during the War, but we have lost that again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1662.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1669.0", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord ROBERT CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Nationalisation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord ROBERT CECIL", "preceding_text": "s a tantalising speech. It seemed as if he was going to tell us something, but it never materialised. The same criticism applies to the Labour party on this occasion. I listened to the speech of the hon. Member who preceded me, and I listened to the speech of the hon. Member for Ince (Mr. S. Walsh), and there was not any suggestion as to what was the Labour party's policy in regard to this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1669.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1669.0", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord ROBERT CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tax it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord ROBERT CECIL", "preceding_text": "sures which have been advocated by Members of the Labour party in the country, though they have not been advocated in this House. My Labour, opponent was very keen on the nationalisation of the land. How is that by any conceivable possibility going to help agriculture at the present time? I do not suppose it is suggested by anybody that the land is to be taken for nothing. You are going to buy it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1669.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1673.4", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He pinched it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "How did Abraham get his?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1673.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1674.1", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"TO you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "some of my hon. Friends will consider seriously where they are going. If they maintain the present system without change, I am satisfied that you cannot endure, that you will be obliged to have some form of compulsion, some interference by the State, and, personally, unlike hon. Members opposite, I am against that interference. I do not believe it answers. I believe it will do more harm than good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1674.1", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have no reason!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": " and, personally, unlike hon. Members opposite, I am against that interference. I do not believe it answers. I believe it will do more harm than good. [HON. MEMBERS: \"TO you!\"] Hon. Members are very ready to think that everybody except themselves are either dishonest or unfair. But it really is not so. We are quite as honest as they are, and I think we are not moved by such vehement class feeling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1677.0", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLAREN", "preceding_text": "This is the first time I have had the honour of addressing this House, and I hope I shall enjoy a tolerance which I am afraid some hon. Gentlemen find it rather difficult to extend towards this part of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1677.0", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLAREN", "preceding_text": "the House will not at this juncture do something for the oppressed masses outside, then I am afraid, much as is said regarding lack of allegiance to constitutional government, the warring of those interests outside will lead to utter disregard for the deliberations of the House. We on these benches would very much regret that. The Labour party has a definite policy, and I am going to enunciate it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1677.0", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLAREN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLAREN", "preceding_text": "enterprise. I ask, How is private enterprise encouraged with regard to agriculture? Agriculture is an operation performed on the face of the earth. I have got to say that, because I want the basis of my argument to be clear. One man has a piece of land and he uses it not— and there are many such. Another has a piece of land and uses it—he puts manure into it and puts buildings upon it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1677.0", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLAREN", "preceding_text": "ow from the opposite side. I should have thought hon. Members opposite, being the champions of private enterprise, would have at last agreed—no, I will put it this way. Hon. Members opposite will surely agree with me that the farmers and agricultural smallholders would be able to carry on their operations with much more ease if the heavy burden of rates were not levied on their improvements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1677.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1683.1", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What did the Noble Lord mean, then?", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "indicated dissent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1683.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1683.3", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLAREN", "preceding_text": "ges of the railwaymen have been kept in a deadly rut through the low wages of the agricultural labourer, who have been easily recruited into the railway service owing to that circumstance. Instead of the land of' England being used by the men of England as it was on one occasion before the land was foreclosed, when you had what was relatively the golden age, as Professor Thorold Rogers points out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1683.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1684.1", "colnum": "1684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLAREN", "preceding_text": "it. But on that basis we go on and say that whatever value is in the land by virtue of the presence and demands of the human community upon it we will appropriate that for communal purposes. That is the Labour policy on the land problem. I wish to refer to another question which has been raised in the earlier part of this discussion with regard to the game laws. I am instructed that my time is up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1684.1", "colnum": "1684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"GO on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLAREN", "preceding_text": "that whatever value is in the land by virtue of the presence and demands of the human community upon it we will appropriate that for communal purposes. That is the Labour policy on the land problem. I wish to refer to another question which has been raised in the earlier part of this discussion with regard to the game laws. I am instructed that my time is up. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] I am very sorry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1684.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1690.1", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. WINFREY", "preceding_text": "As the Prime-Minister, in reply to my right hon. Friend the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George), has promised to widen the scope of the Inquiry, and has also promised to confer with my right hon. Friend, and to state before the House adjourns what are the terms of that Inquiry, and what are his proposals, I beg leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1690.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1692.0", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "same relation in regard to war experience as those industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1699.1", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "dustry. In these circumstances there should be a clear direction to the Committee to whom these questions are referred that such a result should not come about. The Amendment has been brought to my mind by reason of an application which has been made to the Trade Facilities Committee. It affects the paper-making industry in this country, and as a section of my constituents are engaged in it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1699.1", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "the paper-making industry in this country, and as a section of my constituents are engaged in it— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"]—I thought it my duty to them to take the first opportunity to protect their interests here. This was why early to-day I endeavoured, under somewhat difficult conditions, to put this matter before hon. Members. I will not repeat the arguments I then used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1703.1", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "have given me notice, and I would have had the whole list of the Committee scrutinised most carefully. But I say at present that there is no foundation for his charge. I invite him to mention any member of the Committee who has any shares in Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. If he cannot mention the name, he has no right to make such a charge against a Committee which is voluntarily doing admirable work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1704.3", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "I made no insinuation either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1704.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1709.5", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DARBISHIRE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You will not have any!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DARBISHIRE", "preceding_text": "s that \"the recommendation of the Geddes Committee in favour of the abolition of that office shall be carried into effect at the earliest possible moment. I have had some experience of it in the Straits Settlements, and we have driven it out of the place there, because we found it was an absolutely unnecessary and Useless Department, and I trust that when I have any influence in this House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1709.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1710.1", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DARBISHIRE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DARBISHIRE", "preceding_text": "I admit that my speeches during the Election did cause the Tories to get very angry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1712.1", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "preceding_text": "sidy on trade in this country. That is the only question at issue. I am not concerned with the remark of the hon. Member for the Shettleston Division of Glasgow (Mr. Wheatley) that I belong to the \"insincere party.\" I was a member of the \"insincere party\" when it was 25 strong in this House, and adversity is a good test of sincerity. Let me ask the hon. Member, is he a member of the sincere party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1713.0", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Their application would not have been granted.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "ight, and I wish to correct the hon. and gallant Member for Leith (Captain Benn) on the question of sincerity. In his constituency there is one of the larges frame manufacturing machinery for the production of paper, that I know of, in this country. I suggest that had this contract gone to the firm of Bertram's in Leith, the hon. and gallant Gentleman would not have opposed the Government subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1713.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1713.3", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "not his logic always been, that the greater the competition, the better for the people? Has not his logic always been that the more narrowly you restrict trade and commerce, the dearer you make the article, with the consequent reaction against the big bulk of the people in this country? To-night the hon. and gallant Gentleman says that if we restrict competition we are going to benefit the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1713.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-05", "file": "debates1922-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "45067f9713f94bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1718.0", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Ronald McNeill)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBEE: \"The hon. and gallant Member says it will not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Ronald McNeill)", "preceding_text": "I do not in the least complain of the three questions put to me. I will only say that I think it was rather unnecessary that so much heat should have been developed in putting them. The first question is as to whether this land, which is to be irrigated under this scheme, will or will not bear crops of long staple cotton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-05a.1718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1745.1", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBRHS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Gentleman explain to the House that these women cannot be taken into domestic service unless they are trained?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1745.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1762.9", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that quite a large number of those who have died are vaccinated adults?", "preceding_speaker": "Major BOYD-CARPENTER", "preceding_text": "I will convey the request to my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1762.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1844.0", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "ny rate, have among us at the present time a considerable number of leaders in industry who really wish to make their own way in industry without sponging on the taxpayer by means of devices of this sort. Unfortunately in recent years there has grown up, simultaneously with the growing up of the dole-taker among the working people, a class of dole-takers among the capitalists of this country also.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1857.1", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": " debt and the army. I am greatly disappointed with the Government's attitude towards unemployment, because, after all, this Bill is brought forward ostensibly to increase trade, to facilitate commerce, and to provide work for our people. It is an astounding fact that our people are poorer to-day than ever they were, and, unfortunately, the rich of the country are richer than they ever were before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1866.0", "colnum": "1866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FREDERICK BANBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FREDERICK BANBURY", "preceding_text": "shown any very good grounds for making such a loan. In considering the question whether we are to reconstitute nations whom we have conquered, ought we not to ask ourselves whether we can afford to do these things? After all, what has put us in this position? We have been put in this position because Germany and Austria declared war upon us, or, rather, took action which compelled us to go to war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1866.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1873.0", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "igations to which we are already committed, I shall not be able to do so. I think this Debate has proved that nothing can be more unfortunate for the reputation of this House as a deliberative assembly, for its constitutional traditions and its importance before the world, than that we should be assembled to discuss the relations of the British Treasury to privately-controlled industrial concerns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1873.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1873.0", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "particular interests of separate industrial enterprises. It is also very unfortunate that we are compelled either to support this Bill or to oppose it, in view of the fact that there are parts of it which we should wish to support and there are also parts which we might oppose. The speech of the hon. Member who has just sat down was in the nature of a plea ad miseri-cordiam for a special industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1873.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1873.0", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " support this Bill or to oppose it, in view of the fact that there are parts of it which we should wish to support and there are also parts which we might oppose. The speech of the hon. Member who has just sat down was in the nature of a plea ad miseri-cordiam for a special industry. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"] Because this House is not assembled for the purpose of considering special industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1873.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1873.0", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYLE-SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "such that one ought to accept it, that the circumstances of the guarantee of this sum that is being found by the Government are; such that no commercial or banking institution would find the money. The money is badly invested. The investment is a bad investment. I know it is dangerous to prophesy, but I say that this is a bad investment, and that the House will know it within the next three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1873.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1899.1", "colnum": "1899", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Might!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": " German witnesses: German witnesses admitted that, as regards wages, the German manufacturer, paying the current rate equivalent at the time to about 2½d. per hour, had an advantage over his English competitor who paid 7d. per hour. I should not have thought 7d. per hour was an excessively high rate of wages, and one might indeed hope, if this industry can get a chance, that wages might rise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1904.0", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Major ENTWISTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ENTWISTLE", "preceding_text": "th, who has not the experience of the more highly technical and long-developed industry in some other country, and that we will have those of our industries, which rely upon these materials, suffering from the fact that we have to keep going certain industries which, obviously, have not experience enough to work on economic lines. We have an instance of this only too well in the fabric glove case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1904.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1904.0", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Major ENTWISTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ENTWISTLE", "preceding_text": "materials, suffering from the fact that we have to keep going certain industries which, obviously, have not experience enough to work on economic lines. We have an instance of this only too well in the fabric glove case. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] There, in order to keep alive a few manufacturers who started the business for the first time during the War, we are doing harm to the great cotton industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1904.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1904.0", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Major ENTWISTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ENTWISTLE", "preceding_text": "ch you have to compare with the German pre-War price of 17s., an increase of more than 300 per cent. Is not that far more than is necessary to allow the British manufacturer to compete? Would it not be enough, if he is able to sell at double the price which obtained before the War? I would ask Members of the Labour party, are wages, on the average, more than 100 per cent. above the pre-War figure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1904.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1914.0", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "There is no dumping.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. NORTON-GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "ing was: That this public meeting of the electors of Wandsworth and Streatham, representing over 4,000 gas mantle workers, draws attention to the serious unemployment in the gas mantle industry caused by the importation of mantles from abroad and demands that this industry be reinstated in the list of key industries, and further that this industry shall be protected against further German dumping.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1914.1", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. NORTON-GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is that what makes them happy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. NORTON-GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "antle industry in this country, and to-day there are only very few- over 1,000 working. Recently I had an opportunity to visit several of the works at Wandsworth which I have seen under different circumstances, and I can assure the House, without any exaggeration at all, that they are living from hand to mouth, not knowing how long they are going to keep going or when they are going to be shut up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1915.5", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. NORTON-GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In Germany?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. NORTON-GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "I should say about 150 when I went there, and I have seen something approaching 600 when working full time. Another had something like 600. I believe some of the companies have other works elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1915.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1916.2", "colnum": "1916", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. NORTON-GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Seventy millions!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. NORTON-GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "I am certain that the firm in question would not object to show the balance sheet to the hon. Member, and it would be instructive to look at. That, is my best answer to the hon. Member's questions. It is generally known amongst people who had studied this matter that the total consumption of gas mantles in this country in one year is about 50,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1916.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1916.2", "colnum": "1916", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. NORTON-GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Report says 7d.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. NORTON-GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": " mantles could have been kept out of this country, it would have, meant in one week wages of, approximately, £8,000, most of which would have gone to the girls and to women to whom I refer. In 1921–and I ask the Members of the Labour party to bear this in mind—the average rate of wage paid abroad compared with what we were paying was 2½d. per hour as against our 9d. per hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1916.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1918.1", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. NORTON-GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. NORTON-GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "May I get back to gas mantles, and draw the attention of the House to the nature of the opposition to the inclusion of gas mantles in this Act? Where did it come from, and what was it? The opposition to gas mantles being included in the Bill came from the gas mantle trade, the merchant side of it, the middleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1919.7", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. NORTON-GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. NORTON-GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "10th May last year. We are to-day to a greater extent repeating many of the things which were then said, and I would ask hon. Members who were not in the House then to read that Debate. A question was asked recently as to what duty was obtained from gas mantles imported into this country during a certain month. Fortunately I have the information. I will not weary the House with full details—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1919.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1925.0", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETO", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wait and see!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETO", "preceding_text": ";that whatever reasons they may give for this ancient system, which I regard as being rapidly discredited in the eyes of the working classes, do not let them carry it to extremes. Do not let them carry it so far as to refuse such assistance as the inclusion of industry after industry under this part of the Act will give to employment. I beg of them not to oppose this, and I do not think they will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1925.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1932.1", "colnum": "1932", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No,\" and \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "stages for four hours. I am not going to imitate some hon. Members here who begin a long speech by the observation that they will not detain the House for more than a few moments; but I will conclude with this: I am surprised that while a speaker has gone through this question as briefly as I have done, that the moment one gets up to give the technical side there is an endeavour made to crush him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1936.0", "colnum": "1936", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Six thousand!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "preceding_text": "y so, very much impressed by the argument of the hon. Member for Hampstead (Mr. G. Balfour). His defence of this particular imposition and addition to the cost of production is that it is only a little one: but may I remind him that he himself has voted also for taxing the illuminating glassware that is used in factories, for taxing the chemicals used in trade, and for taxing endless other things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1937.5", "colnum": "1937", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "f this kind combined with import restrictions and other interferences has been to reduce the proportion of German exports coming to this country from 14 per cent, to 6 per cent., it had the effect of stimulating the proportion sent to other countries. In the case of America, it has recovered its pre-War figure, and in the case of neutrals it has risen from 7.6 per cent, to 11 per cent., and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1937.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1937.5", "colnum": "1937", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "tly what the Report tells us has happened. The British export trade in mantles has fallen from 57,000 to 21,000. And moreover we find that when we forced the German convention of mantle manufacturers to raise the price to us, they sent the same mantles to America, only they make a lower price, because the Americans are not so foolish as to insist on a high-priced article coming into their country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1937.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1940.1", "colnum": "1940", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Since when?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "We regard a breach of faith as something that is serious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1941.3", "colnum": "1941", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Was he at the breakfast table?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "Then it is quite clear that the \"Times\" Parliamentary correspondent was wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1941.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1942.5", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS (Secretary, Overseas Trade Department)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS (Secretary, Overseas Trade Department)", "preceding_text": "I do not propose to take up time in giving detailed replies to the points that have been raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1942.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1942.5", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS (Secretary, Overseas Trade Department)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are doing it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS (Secretary, Overseas Trade Department)", "preceding_text": "r Report. May I put this to hon. Members of the Labour party. I presume that they will say to me that I am perfectly at liberty to go to Germany, take my capital there, and build a factory there; that it is desirable in British interests that I should do so; that I should employ German workmen at starvation wages and manufacture mantles there and bring them in here to destroy the industry at home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1942.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1942.5", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS (Secretary, Overseas Trade Department)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the miners [...", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS (Secretary, Overseas Trade Department)", "preceding_text": "at they will say to me that I am perfectly at liberty to go to Germany, take my capital there, and build a factory there; that it is desirable in British interests that I should do so; that I should employ German workmen at starvation wages and manufacture mantles there and bring them in here to destroy the industry at home. [HON. MEMBERS: \"You are doing it!\"] I am not saying it is not being done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1942.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1946.1", "colnum": "1946", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "When I rise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-06", "file": "debates1922-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a99be77454a7c582", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1946.7", "colnum": "1946", "heading": "SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT, 1921.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ten to one!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "Sir John Barran was not only a Liberal Member of this House, but he was also private secretary to the late leader of the Liberal party, who described him as one of the best economists in the House. Then there was a Mr. Moore, a business man, a merchant, and last, but not least, Mr. Arthur Pugh, a member of the Parlia- mentary Trade Union Congress. Is not that satisfactory to hon. Members opposite?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-06a.1946.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-07", "file": "debates1922-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "452a29fe668ae3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.1970.1", "colnum": "1970", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Major PAGET", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major PAGET", "preceding_text": "Is it not the fact that these dismissals have been made in order to provide employment for ex-service men?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.1970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-07", "file": "debates1922-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "452a29fe668ae3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.1981.1", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman consider the possibility of answering questions himself in the absence of the Minister of Health?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.1981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-07", "file": "debates1922-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "452a29fe668ae3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2049.2", "colnum": "2049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Sir Robert Sanders)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Sir Robert Sanders)", "preceding_text": "lies especially to the proceedings in Committee on the Bill. I have had experience enough in this House to be aware that any very small section of hon. Members who wish to prevent us carrying the Bill this Session can do so, and can do so without resorting to what could legitimately be called obstruction. I suggest to them that to do such a thing would not be in the wider interests of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2049.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-07", "file": "debates1922-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "452a29fe668ae3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2071.0", "colnum": "2071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMES GARDINER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMES GARDINER", "preceding_text": "ke is this: We were told in the last House, when the question of Canadian cattle was proceeding, that if we were dependent upon Canadian cattle wholly and one day they failed us we should have no store cattle for the farmers of this country. However that may be, I would like to point out to hon. Members that the number of store cattle coming from Ireland to Great Britain is diminishing every year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2071.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-07", "file": "debates1922-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "452a29fe668ae3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2106.0", "colnum": "2106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": " can cut out his neighbour, the more appreciation is given to him as an excellent and thoroughly qualified business man. To such an extent has this grown under our present sytem that it becomes an inducement to men to drive what they call \"business,\" so far, that they become unscrupulous, and eventually even Members of this House have to enter another house which is termed the house of correction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-07", "file": "debates1922-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "452a29fe668ae3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2113.0", "colnum": "2113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-07", "file": "debates1922-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "452a29fe668ae3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2152.0", "colnum": "2152", "heading": "TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And unskilled, too!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "sly, British labour will play a very large part in all those contracts. I only mention it for this reason, that I understand one contract has been given to an American firm, and it is not at all unlikely that that firm might introduce into its works some skilled labour from the other side of the water. I should like some assurance, as far as it can possibly be given, that all skilled labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-07", "file": "debates1922-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "452a29fe668ae3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2156.1", "colnum": "2156", "heading": "TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "I can understand the desire of the hon. Gentleman to interrupt the proceedings, but I can assure him I was not referring to him as a profiteer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-07", "file": "debates1922-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "452a29fe668ae3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2164.1", "colnum": "2164", "heading": "TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Member carrying his principles of free importation so far that he would allow this foreign material to come in?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-07", "file": "debates1922-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "452a29fe668ae3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2164.4", "colnum": "2164", "heading": "TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2164.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-07", "file": "debates1922-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "452a29fe668ae3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2164.9", "colnum": "2164", "heading": "TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "le apt to answer in the manner of an election meeting. I believe we have all got exactly the same object in view—to get as much employment as possible. That is the object which the hon. Member and I have at heart, and though it may be we differ in many ways, we can on this matter decide on taking a practical step on which we are both agreed. We have had a very full discussion on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2164.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-07", "file": "debates1922-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "452a29fe668ae3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2167.3", "colnum": "2167", "heading": "TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not Australia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "is. Austria is suffering in a very acute form, because of her peculiar circumstances, from the disease from which all Central Europe is suffering, and that is the lack of an assured market, and the assured market exists near the Austrian frontiers—I refer to the Russian market. The only outlet for Austrian products to-day, for her skilled engineering products, and for her textiles is Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2167.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-07", "file": "debates1922-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "452a29fe668ae3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2171.0", "colnum": "2171", "heading": "TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "p upon which he pinned so much of his faith two nights ago is, in view of the questions I have put, not now more explicable? Before the British nation finds another three and a half millions to be sunk in the operations of a concern like this the House ought to have the fullest, freest, frankest and most above-board explanation on all these points as to which I have asked for information to-night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-07", "file": "debates1922-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "452a29fe668ae3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2176.0", "colnum": "2176", "heading": "TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "preceding_text": "r, to rediscover, that it is apparently the same crush that went into the Rand many years ago that is again developing the Sudan under this syndicate, and I trust that we shall have in the course of this Debate a statement from one of the directors who sits on the benches opposite, because it would be interesting to know if he can throw any light upon the support on those benches for this Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-07", "file": "debates1922-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "452a29fe668ae3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2176.0", "colnum": "2176", "heading": "TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We!\" and Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "preceding_text": "oney in their cash boxes, and for the unemployed money in their ledgers, are quite right, from their class point of view, representing as they do in reality rent, interest and profit, while we, on these benches, represent salaries and wages. It is quite fit and proper for those hon. Members to choose people to defend their interests. Whatever hon. Members around me may think, we of my party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-07", "file": "debates1922-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "452a29fe668ae3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2176.0", "colnum": "2176", "heading": "TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "preceding_text": " be frank enough to state that they are your interests. We, on this side, so far as I speak for myself ( laughter )—I know I speak for very many members of the Labour party—represent the interests of the workers by hand and by brain, and nobody else. You are here representing your crowd. Go on doing it. We, on this side, will represent our interests, the interests of the workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-07", "file": "debates1922-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "452a29fe668ae3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2176.0", "colnum": "2176", "heading": "TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When do you work?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEWBOLD", "preceding_text": "o far as I speak for myself ( laughter )—I know I speak for very many members of the Labour party—represent the interests of the workers by hand and by brain, and nobody else. You are here representing your crowd. Go on doing it. We, on this side, will represent our interests, the interests of the workers—[HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"] I do not suppose hon. Members opposite think they do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-07", "file": "debates1922-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "452a29fe668ae3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2179.2", "colnum": "2179", "heading": "TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Insinuation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "I make no charge. I asked for explanations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2179.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-07", "file": "debates1922-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "452a29fe668ae3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2180.4", "colnum": "2180", "heading": "TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "or of the Exchequer commenced his speech, he went up in my estimation because of his exceeding modesty. As he progressed in his speech, I could understand quite well that he spoke with his tongue in his check, and that modesty, as far as he was concerned, was conspicuous by its absence. The right hon. Gentleman has engaged to-night in one of the cheapest debating tricks I have heard for some time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2180.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-07", "file": "debates1922-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "452a29fe668ae3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2180.4", "colnum": "2180", "heading": "TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Paisley?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "e sums of money are involved. An attempt has been made to bring the right hon. Member for Platting (Mr. Clynes) into this discussion. That right hon. Gentleman can speak for himself, but in so far as I may be permitted to express a view, with which I think he will not disagree, he on that deputation, representing, as he does, a Lancashire constituency, was interested in the cotton industry.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2180.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-07", "file": "debates1922-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "452a29fe668ae3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2180.4", "colnum": "2180", "heading": "TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"HOW do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "ncy, was interested in the cotton industry.—[An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Paisley?\"]—The hon. Member who spoke about Paisley knows that the situation in Paisley as far as the cotton industry is concerned is vastly different from the position in Lancashire so far as the cotton industry is concerned The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Platting has no relatives who are concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2180.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-07", "file": "debates1922-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "452a29fe668ae3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2182.2", "colnum": "2182", "heading": "TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How, again, do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "tted that private enterprise did exceedingly well during the War and that none of those who were engaged in private enterprise during the War required to approach the boards of guardians and similar authorities, and that none of those who are associated with private enterprise now, despite the alleged losses, require to approach the boards of guardians to-day or to line up at employment exchanges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2182.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-12-07", "file": "debates1922-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "452a29fe668ae3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2182.3", "colnum": "2182", "heading": "TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order, order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "nd similar authorities, and that none of those who are associated with private enterprise now, despite the alleged losses, require to approach the boards of guardians to-day or to line up at employment exchanges. [An HON. MEMBER: \"How, again, do you know?\"] May I suggest to the right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer that there is something in what he says about the absence of brains.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2182.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-07", "file": "debates1922-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "452a29fe668ae3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2194.0", "colnum": "2194", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "We had a bargain to close at one o'clock. That means that we shall not be able to discuss other items, and the McGrigor's Bank estimate will have to go through without discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-07", "file": "debates1922-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "452a29fe668ae3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2195.6", "colnum": "2195", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "senting the hon. Members behind must make them. Your Labour as well as your Liberal Whips have made them and unless we are prepared to honour these agreements we cannot carry on proceedings in this House. Labour after all has scored to this extent that in return for what the Prime Minister has done to-night they will get a full-dress Debate to-morrow on unemployment. I think we must agree to this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-07a.2195.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2225.0", "colnum": "2225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"YOU have brought wages down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "inal and real value is not in the interests of the working classes, and on that account we have not gone further than was absolutely necessary in the policy of borrowing. We have got the cost of living down from 176 per cent, in November, 1920, to 78 per cent. That is all to the good. We should not have got it down to that extent if we had gone in for a wide policy of pledging the national credit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2230.2", "colnum": "2230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ding, and as to the rest the parents are told to go to the parish council. They were told that-only after three months' delay, and the children have starved in the meantime. We who come from the Glasgow district to this House have had many lectures on etiquette, on how to conduct themselves, from right hon. and hon. Gentlemen on the other side of the House and on this side. There is Dr. Macnamara.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2230.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2231.1", "colnum": "2231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On your side too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "blic duties of this Chamber. I say further that the unemployment relief money paid through the Employment Exchanges is known by right hon. and hon. Gentlemen here to be quite inadequate for the support of a home. Think of it! Fifteen shillings a week for a man, 5s. for his wife, and 1s. for each child. Not one hon. Member on the other side would attempt to live for one day in London on such a sum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2242.0", "colnum": "2242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Major HALSTEAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HALSTEAD", "preceding_text": "d cigars. Occasionally I have had them presented to me. I want hon. Members of the Labour party to know that I claim to be one of themselves. I started work, not as a half-timer, but at the age of eight. I had to go to the mill at six o'clock in the morning, and come back to breakfast, go to school, and after the school had closed at four o'clock in the afternoon I had to go to the mill until six.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2242.0", "colnum": "2242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Major HALSTEAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HALSTEAD", "preceding_text": "ant hon. Members of the Labour party to know that I claim to be one of themselves. I started work, not as a half-timer, but at the age of eight. I had to go to the mill at six o'clock in the morning, and come back to breakfast, go to school, and after the school had closed at four o'clock in the afternoon I had to go to the mill until six. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"] But it was necessary in our case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2266.0", "colnum": "2266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": " misery to those who are told they will benefit by them. Anyone who doubts me has only got to look at what has happened in South Wales in the Ebbw Vale. There, machinery was provided for settling disputes, yet an hon. Member of this House went down there and counselled the people of that area—so I read in the newspapers—not to take advantage of that machinery but to come out on strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2269.2", "colnum": "2269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBEE: \"Racing roads!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "Will he say how many miles of that road are now in use? I am sure hon. Members want to get work and good wages for the unemployed. Here is a road that is badly wanted. The existing roads are hope lessly congested, and it would be of immense advantage to trade in and around London if the construction of that road could be prosecuted with energy, and not only of that road but all other road schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2269.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2269.2", "colnum": "2269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "th Road at Colnbrook, across which an enormous amount of traffic flows, which has got a level crossing; the Southampton and Plymouth Road at Sunningdale has got a level crossing, the Brighton Road has two or three level crossings over it, and so you could go on right the way round London, and across nearly all the main roads around London you will find level crossings. They are a source of danger.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2269.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2277.2", "colnum": "2277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BURGESS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\" and \"Is that the view of the Labour party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BURGESS", "preceding_text": "I am glad the hon. and gallant Member has referred to that. I want to give my personal experience. I felt more at home in the United States than I have felt in some of the Colonies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2277.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2277.2", "colnum": "2277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BURGESS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BURGESS", "preceding_text": " experience. I felt more at home in the United States than I have felt in some of the Colonies. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\" and \"Is that the view of the Labour party?\"] Whether it is the Labour party point of view or not, I am speaking from personal experience. I want to assure the House on this point, and anybody who has travelled, particularly in Canada, will realise what I am saying is perfectly true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2277.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2284.1", "colnum": "2284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. BARLOW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A large proportion,' not 'every one.'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. BARLOW", "preceding_text": "berwell. The right hon. Member for Platting said it was true that as a result of the efforts of the late Government, and of the present Government, a good deal of work had been initiated by the local authorities, but he went on to claim—and I rather admire his hardihood in so doing—that every one of these schemes would have been initiated even if the Government had given no assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2287.3", "colnum": "2287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. BARLOW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course it is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. BARLOW", "preceding_text": "That may be, but it is infinitely ahead of anything that any trade union ever contemplated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2287.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2288.1", "colnum": "2288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. BARLOW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no. It is a separate branch!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. BARLOW", "preceding_text": "Yes, but I do not doubt arguments have been urged in favour of the view that frequently the trade union payments are compulsory too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2290.0", "colnum": "2290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. BARLOW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What portion?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. BARLOW", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman must bear in mind, when he is always pressing for this big building programme, that, as far as we can see, with the experience we had two years or so ago, a big building programme launched now would again have that effect. You might start a large number of houses, but, as far as we can gather, certain portions of the transaction would get held up for want of the necessary skilled men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2290.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2296.0", "colnum": "2296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETO", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETO", "preceding_text": "There are several points to which I wish to draw attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2296.0", "colnum": "2296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETO", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETO", "preceding_text": "tween the extent of the evil and any of the schemes that are put forward. The Minister of Labour dealt meticulously with the details of the allotment of money for land drainage and explained with absolute accuracy the various figures £80,000, £170,000 and £450,000. I could not help feeling when I heard them the want of proportion between these figures and the amount of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2305.0", "colnum": "2305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has repudiated the insinuations!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "ars of the financial basis and the financial operations of this scheme. I do not understand that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Paisley controverts in any way whatsoever any statement of fact or question of fact made inferentially in the questions I addressed to His Majesty's Government this morning. No single statement of fact, no single figure, has he attempted to controvert in any way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2305.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2306.2", "colnum": "2306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "ccessful contractor in this new, big scheme in the Sudan, amidst these tremendous profits of 35 per cent., with the British Government Exchequer handing over £3,500,000 to extend and develop—the successful contractor, curiously enough, is a firm which is called Pearson and Sons, with which, I under stand, a prominent supporter of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Paisley is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2306.4", "colnum": "2306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "ers that they had been invited by the Sudan Government to co-operate with them in a new and a fresh development, which does not yet appear to have come before this House, but which, doubtless, will come before this House on some future occasion, and a new company has been formed to exploit a further great cotton district. Why does the old company not suffice? Why form a new Kassala Cotton Company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2306.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2307.4", "colnum": "2307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or indirect!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "—that he has no direct—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2307.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2307.4", "colnum": "2307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "—that he has no direct—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Or indirect!\"]—personal financial interest in this Sudan Syndicate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2307.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2308.0", "colnum": "2308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did reflect!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " is going to stand. The Sudan Company is one thing, and, so far as that is concerned, I hope my hon. Friend will withdraw absolutely nothing. Its connection with that deputation, and with the interests of the right hon. Member for Paisley, is a totally different thing, and I think it is due to this House that my hon. Friend makes it perfectly clear that anything he has said that might reflect upon", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2308.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2309.0", "colnum": "2309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Withdraw, withdraw\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "night. My hon. Friend appears here for the first time. Those of us who have been longest here know how very difficult it is to observe with the most perfect rectitude the relationships that exist between hon. Members on all sides of the House. Therefore I am perfectly certain that the House will view with fairness and generosity the incident, the rather painful incident, that has just taken place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2308.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2309.2", "colnum": "2309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES AND LOANS GUARANTEE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Oh, oh!\" and interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "In response, Mr. Speaker, to the appeal made by my right hon. Friend the leader of the Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2311.0", "colnum": "2311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST INDIA AND PANAMA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "employment for many, many years, and unemployment which is due entirely and unquestionably to the complete collapse of the capitalist system as a means of carrying on the necessary services of this country. We might pass along the whole range of our discussions to the one which is before us now, and more particularly in view of the suspicion aroused by the discussion to which we have just listened", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2312.0", "colnum": "2312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST INDIA AND PANAMA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "no doubt about it that amongst the great mass of people outside this House, and also in the minds of many hon. Members on this side of the House, there is a real suspicion with regard to the operations of big capitalists and the influence they have in directing the policy of this House. Sometimes it is said that we of the Labour party are people engaged in a class war trying to stir up discontent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2316.0", "colnum": "2316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST INDIA AND PANAMA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "preceding_text": "o do not accept in so easy a manner the way in which the right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues from time to time bring before the House agreements of this character. All that we are asking is that some light should be thrown on this Agreement—light which would enable us to pass judgment, to express an opinion which, at any rate would satisfy not merely our conscience, but our intelligence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2321.1", "colnum": "2321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST INDIA AND PANAMA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite ask, and I excuse them for the question, why should the right hon. Gentleman know who are the shareholders. (HON. MEMBERS: \"Why should he?\"] To which I reply that the right hon. Gentleman is negotiating an Agreement between his Department and this particular company, and he ought to know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2321.1", "colnum": "2321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST INDIA AND PANAMA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "I am asked to SO elsewhere for information of this kind, I reply that that information ought to be at the disposal of the Postmaster-General, and if he cannot furnish information of this kind, I suggest very respectfully that he ought not to occupy such a prominent position in the Government. Hon * Members opposite appear to be very much annoyed at the attitude adopted by Members on these benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2322.2", "colnum": "2322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST INDIA AND PANAMA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO; you said the list of shareholders!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ich is referred to specifically in this Resolution, and thereby had suggested to Members that they might familiarise themselves with the Agreement. The Motion for the Adjournment of the Debate ought to be considered. Some hon. Members opposite were inclined to smile at the suggestion that in business circles business men would at least endeavour to ascertain what Was the financial stability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2322.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-08", "file": "debates1922-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f6325473dd3c7aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2324.3", "colnum": "2324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST INDIA AND PANAMA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We told you who they were, and that is what kicked up all the row!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "they will stultify a great deal of their own influence and the influence of the House. Already this afternoon, they have voted for guarantees to the amount of £50,000,000 to a great number of firms up and down the country, and even abroad, in order to provide work and assist the solution of the unemployment problem. No one asked for the names of the shareholders of any one of these companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-08a.2324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-11", "file": "debates1922-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "4cbab26a26136541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2334.6", "colnum": "2334", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "Is it not the fact that the excessive dues are attributable to the extraordinary wages claimed by dock workers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2334.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-11", "file": "debates1922-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "4cbab26a26136541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2335.6", "colnum": "2335", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that representations have been made to the right hon. Gentleman's Department and to his predecessor, which go to prove that many of the men so victimised have been men who saw service during the War, who suffered from submarine warfare—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2335.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-11", "file": "debates1922-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "4cbab26a26136541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2364.1", "colnum": "2364", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman consider the advisability of the House meeting at 10 o'clock in the morning?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-11", "file": "debates1922-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "4cbab26a26136541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2419.7", "colnum": "2419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAUTLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAUTLEY", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, in Subsection (2, a ), after the word \"marked,\" to insert the word \"indelibly.\" I should like to add the words \"and easily seen.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2419.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-11", "file": "debates1922-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "4cbab26a26136541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2427.1", "colnum": "2427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FALCONER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FALCONER", "preceding_text": "Before the learned Attorney-General replies, may I say that I see no objection to the Amendment so far as Canadian cattle are concerned? The only objection I can see is that it will give a direction to the Minister which he will not only have to apply to Canadian cattle, hut to all cattle. If the Attorney-General said it would be so drafted as to limit it to Canadian cattle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-11", "file": "debates1922-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "4cbab26a26136541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2442.0", "colnum": "2442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FALCONER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FALCONER", "preceding_text": "I suggest that the true solution of the difficulty is to leave the animals coming from Canada to be subjected, when they are made fat, to all the rigours of examination and inspection to which we subject our own fat cattle when we send them to market. That is the real place where the protection of the people is carried out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-11", "file": "debates1922-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "4cbab26a26136541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2445.1", "colnum": "2445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "preceding_text": "Bill. This is going to say that whereas in respect of home-grown meat there is to be no need for any test of any sort or kind at all, before a Canadian beast can be brought in for slaughter it has to pass these rigorous tests to satisfy everyone that it has not got tuberculosis. Having regard to the fact that tuberculosis is probably far more prevalent in Great Britain than in Canada to-day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-11", "file": "debates1922-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "4cbab26a26136541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2448.3", "colnum": "2448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. SIMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Misprint!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. SIMPSON", "preceding_text": "r to abort. I know that a spayed heifer cannot abort, and I also know quite well that an animal is chiefly dangerous from the point of view of infection after she has aborted. But the Bill does not provide sufficient security for spaying the animal. It is true that Subsection (8) says, \"The expression store cattle means castrated male or splayed female bovine animals.\" I presume it means \"spayed.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2448.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-11", "file": "debates1922-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "4cbab26a26136541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2457.1", "colnum": "2457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "reater detail the Bill that they are putting before the House. I do not remember any case previously where the Minister has prepared answers written for him and has been unable to answer the simplest questions put afterwards by any Member who is interested in the Bill. As to the last Amendment, I do not suppose that there was a single Member, apart from the Mover, who understood what it was about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-11", "file": "debates1922-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "4cbab26a26136541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2459.5", "colnum": "2459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "d of Agriculture. British breeding cattle are the finest cattle in the world. Agriculturists to-day have a very severe task before them, and surely, if we are debarred from sending our cattle—the finest in the world—to Canada without all these restrictions, then the same restrictions ought to be imposed upon cattle coming from Canada into Great Britain. I want some kind of reciprocity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2459.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-11", "file": "debates1922-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "4cbab26a26136541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2479.2", "colnum": "2479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir DOUGLAS NEWTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DOUGLAS NEWTON", "preceding_text": "I am not quite clear, from the explanation made, whether it would be possible to issue an Order which would discriminate as between Irish stores and stores imported from Canada. I gather such discrimination would be possible?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2479.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-11", "file": "debates1922-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "4cbab26a26136541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2486.0", "colnum": "2486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "rovision at all? I understood from my right hon. Friends opposite, and I am sure they spoke in perfectly good faith, that the Government had been willing to meet us in this case. Let me explain to the Committee what is the real point at issue. If there be disease in Ireland, the Government have full powers by administration to exclude Irish cattle. I believe they are excluding them at this moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-11", "file": "debates1922-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "4cbab26a26136541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2486.0", "colnum": "2486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "e seller. But suppose that the cattle are not sold. They still must be detained, and they are detained at the expense of the owner of the cattle. I do not profess to know what that would cost, but anybody can see that, if the Irish cattle be not immediately sold, the expense of the six days' detention falls on the cattle seller from Ireland. That is a very heavy burden upon the Irish cattle trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-11", "file": "debates1922-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "4cbab26a26136541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2486.0", "colnum": "2486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "kill more than I have during this Debate. Cattle comes from Scotland as well as from Ireland. Are they going to get this six days' detention? Cattle comes from Wales, but, even now, when a brilliant Welshman is no longer head of the Government, Wales is taken care of. They can come from the South of England to the North. Is there any detention then? No. The only cattle in the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-11", "file": "debates1922-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "4cbab26a26136541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2503.2", "colnum": "2503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": " the ultimate cost of stamping out outbreaks of disease and providing for losses through isolation or slaughter. That is not quite the end of the question. We look at this matter entirely from the consumer's point of view, and we say that he has the first right to be consulted. We admit the argument of the Irish Members that ultimately there might be a slightly enhanced cost to the consumer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2503.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-11", "file": "debates1922-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "4cbab26a26136541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2507.1", "colnum": "2507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. ALLEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. ALLEN", "preceding_text": "m sorry he has not been here in order to hear the arguments in regard to my country and the way in which it has been treated under this Bill. Not long ago he sent a message to Ireland on the passage of the Free State Bill, a message, I suppose, of encouragement, wishing them prosperity, and the very next action of this British Government is to do Ireland a most serious and lasting economic injury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-11", "file": "debates1922-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "4cbab26a26136541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2507.1", "colnum": "2507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. ALLEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. ALLEN", "preceding_text": "my country and the way in which it has been treated under this Bill. Not long ago he sent a message to Ireland on the passage of the Free State Bill, a message, I suppose, of encouragement, wishing them prosperity, and the very next action of this British Government is to do Ireland a most serious and lasting economic injury. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I hold that it will injure the Irish cattle trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-11", "file": "debates1922-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "4cbab26a26136541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2528.0", "colnum": "2528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain ERNEST EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ERNEST EVANS", "preceding_text": "ent will not last four or five years, and even if the Government does last five years, it is possible that the present Minister of Agriculture may, like a predecessor, be promoted to another sphere, and the new Minister may not take the same view of this question as the present Minister does, yet in this Bill we are giving power to the present Minister and to his successors for all eternity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2528.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-11", "file": "debates1922-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "4cbab26a26136541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2532.1", "colnum": "2532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEKS: \"They have discovered it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "It seems to me that this is giving way to clamour which is instigated by the Protectionist theorists. I cannot understand why, if the Board of Agriculture discovers that there is no risk in importing cattle from Australia or South Africa, they should be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-11", "file": "debates1922-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "4cbab26a26136541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2532.1", "colnum": "2532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "exactly that restriction on the importation of cattle, store cattle, and breeding cattle that we urgently require here from the point of view, not particularly of the producer, but of the consumer. Those of us who stand for Free Trade, doctrines in this House must register our protest against the conception of this Bill as being one which is solely directed to the interests of the producers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-11", "file": "debates1922-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "4cbab26a26136541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2533.0", "colnum": "2533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that the Minister of Agriculture should give way in this timid fashion to some of his disgruntled followers. It is positively amazing, I confess, and I cannot understand the reason of it. No case has been put up against the Government on this particular issue. It is perfectly true that one speech was delivered from these benches", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2533.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-11", "file": "debates1922-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "4cbab26a26136541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2533.5", "colnum": "2533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or Mesopotamia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "f the three counted for anything, it was the strongest argument that could be presented—that this Bill applies, and was understood to apply originally, only to the importation of cattle from Canada. After all, you cannot apply the question to Canada without having regard to the importation of cattle from other parts of the world. You cannot disregard the claims of India, Australia or Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2533.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-11", "file": "debates1922-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "4cbab26a26136541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2534.0", "colnum": "2534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "Captain Fitzroy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-11a.2534.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2571.3", "colnum": "2571", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "He does not know.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HAMILTON", "preceding_text": "Can nothing be done to expedite this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2571.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2662.0", "colnum": "2662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major PAGET", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Gunmen!\" and \"They were not kept out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major PAGET", "preceding_text": "It is over these frontiers that the troubles arise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2662.3", "colnum": "2662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "ents so sternly, and I am afraid I must say sometimes so selfishly, the agricultural interests of England in this House—did he say that Ireland was a country especially cursed with disease On the contrary, as everyone knows, and as statistics prove, Ireland has one of the cleanest bills of health of any country in the world, better than America, better than Canada, better than England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2679.2", "colnum": "2679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORTATION OF ANIMALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. CHAPPLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. CHAPPLE", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman assumes that if Clause 4 had remained in the Bill it would have rested with the Minister by regulation to admit cattle from South Africa with blackwater, rinderpest and other diseases. That is an entire misrepresentation of the Clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2679.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2706.0", "colnum": "2706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": " those coins back again at the end of four weeks. The hon. Member for Oxford University (Sir C. Oman), referring to the coins that were bad, said they broke up in his pocket. They do not break up in ours. We shall be glad if the Chancellor of the Exchequer will tell us what was the alloy which went wrong; whether it was due to overheating in the pots, or whether the metal was too cold when rolled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2745.0", "colnum": "2745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HASTINGS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does it mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HASTINGS", "preceding_text": "ively a small increase, because in this House, of course, we are in the proud position of being able to talk about £70,000 in a way which outside the House we should talk in the neighbourhood of 1s. or 6d. Although this figure is comparatively small, we find that it is Further provision required owing to the expenditure arising out of disbandment being greater than was originally anticipated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2745.0", "colnum": "2745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HASTINGS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HASTINGS", "preceding_text": "eed any breach of trust, but I say quite frankly to any hon. Member of this House who goes into the Lobby tonight and votes in favour of these. Estimates, unless he has a great deal more information than I have got, I should like to have an opportunity of cross-examining him, and would undertake to say that when I had finished, he would say that lawyers were a pest both in the House and out of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2745.0", "colnum": "2745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HASTINGS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"GO on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HASTINGS", "preceding_text": "reat deal more information than I have got, I should like to have an opportunity of cross-examining him, and would undertake to say that when I had finished, he would say that lawyers were a pest both in the House and out of it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] I am quite sure my -right hon. Friend the Attorney-General will join in the universal applause. I say I do not wish to weary the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2762.0", "colnum": "2762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. BUTCHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the unemployed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. BUTCHER", "preceding_text": "n out of their homes, and telling them that if they did not furnish that account by the 1st of January next the disbandment allowances, which they had already received and spent, would be deducted from their pay. I would ask the House to say that this is not a fair way to treat these men. They served the British Government faithfully and well, and many of them served it at the cost of their lives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2773.0", "colnum": "2773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. H. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, Order\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. H. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "Is not that an error of judgment, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2775.1", "colnum": "2775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " He has simply admitted my contention that because certain individuals occupy a certain status in society, the money which they receive is designated salary, while the money received by others who are in another station in life is designated wages. I am not getting away one little bit from what is here. The next word we come to that strikes me as requiring some explanation and translation —?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2776.0", "colnum": "2776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "That is a pity for the other people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2776.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2776.0", "colnum": "2776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "That is a pity for the other people. [ Laughter. ] This is no laughing matter for me. This is for household expenses extra. \"Household of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland for three months £1,360.\" I should like to ask the hon. Gentleman—I do not know whether he is gallant or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2776.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2778.2", "colnum": "2778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I rise to a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2778.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2787.2", "colnum": "2787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does the hon. Gentleman say that 211 have been settled under this scheme?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "preceding_text": "vided, I gather that this is practically the final Vote for the training of ex-service men in Ireland in this manner: 211 ex-service men have undergone a special course of agricultural training in Ireland and a good many have already finished it and are coming under the Settlement scheme. I am given to understand that the results, so far as Ireland is concerned, have been very fairly satisfactory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2787.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2792.0", "colnum": "2792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or in Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "Estimate practically increases the original Estimate by one-third; and when I tell the House that the original Estimate for ex-service men in this country was over-estimated by £10,000,000–that is to say, that their pensions are economised upon to that extent—I think the House will agree that it is much better to be an ex-service man in Ireland than in England at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2800.4", "colnum": "2800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Northern Ireland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "tholic or a Protestant, or whether he came from the North or the South. The other question that the hon. and gallant Member asked me was who was to be responsible for the money that this Committee had spent. I can reassure the House on this point, for the Provisional Government have accepted full responsibility for the whole of the funds that we have spent on the relief of refugees from the South.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2800.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2801.0", "colnum": "2801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "What about Northern Ireland?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": " Ireland?\"] I myself went over to Dublin during the summer and I discussed this question with Mr. Cosgrove. There was no difference of opinion between us on the subject. The Provisional Government accepted full responsibility for the expenditure, and in due course we shall no doubt be reimbursed both for the original Vote and for the Supplementary Vote we are asking the House to pass this morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2800.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2802.2", "colnum": "2802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": " floor, I can say I always found twelve hours' work was sufficient anywhere. Having now performed fifteen hours' work on behalf of the community, I think we have done very well indeed, and I hope that the Government under these circumstances will accept this Motion. I have personally a claim on the National Health Insurance and it might affect the funds of the nation if I have to do without sleep.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2802.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2803.2", "colnum": "2803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Good old Monte Carlo!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Of course, if the House would consent as we would like them to consent to continue to sit into next week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2803.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2804.1", "colnum": "2804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "That is not the way to carry on business. Your own supporters are almost in rebellion now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2804.1", "colnum": "2804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "That is not the way to carry on business. Your own supporters are almost in rebellion now. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] You have got the big battalions. You can vote us down. Do you think you can get much satisfaction from that process, and I am quite certain that the country outside will realise what it means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2804.3", "colnum": "2804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is your leader?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " before us is to have this discussion again to-morrow night instead of to-night. As we are here now, let us go on now. If the Government will consent even now to extend the debate and the sitting of the House into next week, so that we can get proper and decent discussion, that will be the best solution. I am only sorry that the Prime Minister is not here in order that he might hear our arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2804.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2805.0", "colnum": "2805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I want to join in the appeal that we should go home. I have had at least a dozen ancient members as ancient as myself, ask me for a pair in the last three hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2805.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2805.2", "colnum": "2805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member opposite asks is that all. It is the measure of our intelligence if we do not realise that the unemployment problem is of far greater importance than any other dis- cussed in this House. Do hon. Members realise that you are going to compel us to go home on Friday for four, five, or six weeks and leave that question practically untouched?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2805.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2806.1", "colnum": "2806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ody knows that Members opposite will not debate at all. You will just leave the Debate to us right through the night. That will prove to the unemployed that we really are in dead earnest about the question. It will prove that you think more about your holidays next week than about them. We ought to have some consideration for the people that are employed about this place. I think it is a disgrace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2808.2", "colnum": "2808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "hallenge hon. Members opposite to go to their constituents and say to them that at this hour in the morning they propose to discuss the question of unemployment. I question very much whether the unemployed in the constituencies, and unfortunately there are no constituencies in the country without unemployed, will take that kind of action lying down. I submit that since you have kept us here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2808.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2810.1", "colnum": "2810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Payment by results!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "of fatigue at a time like this. He knows we can adapt outselves both to the Rules of the House and the Debates before us by adopting different methods from those at present in operation. Might I suggest to hon. Members opposite, who so frequently tender advice to the working classes as to the desirability of adopting the three-shift system, that we might adopt the three-shift system in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2816.0", "colnum": "2816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "were far larger than those of the North, could come to an agreement while the North are still negotiating. It seems to me that the South have come through a period of worse trial than that of the North. They have had to face difficulties that are not comparable with the difficulties in the North. Their Government has not got the stability that the North has got, and yet in spite of all that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2816.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2829.0", "colnum": "2829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. HOLBROOK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. HOLBROOK", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I think it is unfair of the hon. Member to charge officers of the Army of being concerned in the swindle. That is what I object to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2829.1", "colnum": "2829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But coming back!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "moral law. But if the Government sitting in Parliament says that they must make up the loss with the avowed enterprise of protecting them, it was setting a bad example and degrading the dignity of the House. The Government appointed these people as Army agents, and their appointment was inducive to the depositors going to this particular concern and not only going to this particular concern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2829.1", "colnum": "2829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It will!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": " properties belonging to others are dealt with in privacy, the profits accruing therefrom being pocketed by those who call themselves private enterprisers, and when their recklessness or carelessness or inability, or even their dishonesty, brings the whole thing to ruin, the position of the present Government is that the taxpayer is called upon to reimburse the losers. If this scheme passes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2829.1", "colnum": "2829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "amble with it rather than save it in a State Savings Bank. The whole question is that there is no real financial need. This time it is not the failure of the needy and the poor ones; it is not the failure of those who would be dragged to the gutter absolutely in their old age by having lost these fortunes. This is money belonging to a class of officer who evidently, after living fairly well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2843.9", "colnum": "2843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "anything about it, the War Office had taken a decision to come to the aid of these people to whom they thought they had an obligation and yet at the same time they clearly said that it is an ex gratiâ grant. I want to put this point. Times are changing in this country. There are those of us who sit on these benches who use all the influence we can against class feeling and against bitterness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2843.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2843.9", "colnum": "2843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "ntry; but as far as I am concerned I shall not be moved by the statement given from the Government Benches from the conviction that there is no difference between the people who lost their money in Farrow's, and from whom we have received time and again letters of the most pathetic nature, and the Army people, except this, that they are considered to belong to another class and another profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2843.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2850.0", "colnum": "2850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"An agent!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": " profits in other industries in which the Government had a really tangible interest in the form of control. If it is good to support it in this connection it must also be good to support the British miner's case. \"We are not responsible for the bankers,\" so we have been told a hundred times since I came into the House three minutes ago. Yet we are assuming responsibility for the failure of a bank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2850.0", "colnum": "2850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Jew!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "re are several agents with whom they bank. It is for the Government's side to clear up this mess. We are not responsible for the private banks, and had we had a real business sense in this country none of the money belonging to the people would have passed outwith the Bank of England. McGrigor spelt with an \"e\" would be a Scotsman, but spelt with an \"i\" he belongs to the Northland across the seas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2863.1", "colnum": "2863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Montague Barlow)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Montague Barlow)", "preceding_text": "ts in aid of wages; this Committee are placing in the hands of the corporations, acting, as a rule, in conjunction with the Unemployment Committees, of the Labour Exchanges large sums of money, and many corporations have great difficulty now, not so much in finding sufficient money, because Lord St. David's Committee has considerable funds at its disposal, but in discovering plans for useful work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2863.1", "colnum": "2863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Montague Barlow)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Montague Barlow)", "preceding_text": "the corporations, acting, as a rule, in conjunction with the Unemployment Committees, of the Labour Exchanges large sums of money, and many corporations have great difficulty now, not so much in finding sufficient money, because Lord St. David's Committee has considerable funds at its disposal, but in discovering plans for useful work. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no.\"] I assure my friends that that is so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2863.1", "colnum": "2863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Montague Barlow)", "cue_text": "An HON.MEMBER: Why not sink the Navy and give them all work?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Montague Barlow)", "preceding_text": "d I am now able to announce that the Admiralty are undertaking their share in this programme, and during the winter work under four categories will be put in hand, repair of dockyard machinery, repair of buildings, reconditioning of guns and acceleration of Government contracts. That will involve a cost of something like £365,000 and will supply 5,600 men with work over a considerable period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2863.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2869.3", "colnum": "2869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Taxation of land values.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "will go up again Large numbers will not be able to find work, and especially will that be true in the country districts. Why should you not start organising technical training for these children in agricultural pursuits? Denmark 70 years ago was the poorest country agriculturally in the world. Today she is the richest country agriculturally. Nobody is very rich in Denmark, and nobody is very poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2869.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2869.3", "colnum": "2869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or the Sudan!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "920. We asked for a dry dock from Manchester Road Bridge into the South Dock Basin at Poplar, which was an improvement. The Dock Company, or rather the Port of London Authority, has agreed it is necessary to have powers to carry it through if only the money is found for it. Why you should find or guarantee money for the South Eastern and Chatham Railway and not for an authority of this kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2869.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2869.3", "colnum": "2869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "hat democracy has been educated, and it is the first time in history that a mass of men like ourselves can come to stand for a new social order. I believe the world is at the parting of the ways. I believe our country has an opportunity of taking the lead, and it is because I believe that, I am here talking to you men to try to make you see as I see. I tell you, who are cleverer than we are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2869.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2877.0", "colnum": "2877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "ious in the future and never to go back to the old days, and while we were attempting to put that into practice by refusing to accept the conditions the employers were attempting to enforce upon us, those at the head of the organisation I have referred to and who are represented in this House to a very large extent—their intentions were to bring the working classes down to the pre-war level,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2877.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2883.0", "colnum": "2883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. C. MORRISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Let us have another little war!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. C. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "k down. Why should it? Large sums are paid into local funds for educational purposes, and the educational machinery does not break down. The suggestion of building two battleships in order to provide work for the unemployed comes somewhat strange from people who have said that unemployment is abnormal owing to the War. They are putting some of the unemployed to build battleships for the. next war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2883.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2886.5", "colnum": "2886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD (standing)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD (standing)", "preceding_text": "It is a disgrace, Mr. Speaker, that this should be allowed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2886.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-12", "file": "debates1922-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "cb4363d114682d1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2886.5", "colnum": "2886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1922–23.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD (standing)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD (standing)", "preceding_text": "It is a disgrace, Mr. Speaker, that this should be allowed. [ Interruption. ] I have led the unemployed, I have been battened in the streets of Glasgow, and I will be again, if necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-12a.2886.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3003.0", "colnum": "3003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "ocket of every other member of the community and paid over to the miners of the country to maintain for them a completely uneconomic wage. Hon. Members who protest against that know perfectly well that that was the case, and they know also that that was the reason, and the only reason, which induced the railway men and the transport workers to refuse to enter into a struggle along with the miners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3003.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3003.0", "colnum": "3003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not complaining of that,\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "st for endeavouring to carry out their somewhat humorous device, because the railway men did exactly the same thing in respect to the miners, and, what is more, they succeeded where the miners failed. Every miner at this present moment is paying over quite a considerable proportion of his weekly wage, small as it is, to maintain the \"standard of living\" wage of the railway workers of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3003.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3004.1", "colnum": "3004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member is very proud of himself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "curity and without interest? I think rather we should praise him for doing it. When this time last year I found that my men, under the profit-sharing scheme, were heavily indebted to me, I did not regard them as having been reduced by my action to the position of bond slaves. I rather congratulated myself that I was able to let them have that money for their use without charging them any interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3012.2", "colnum": "3012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MURNIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MURNIN", "preceding_text": "nfortunate state of the people working in the mining industry in Great Britain. Have the brains of the captains of industry become so bankrupt that they cannot suggest something to improve the conditions of these people? They know themselves that they can do it, but the reason that they will not do it is that, in the present depressed conditions, they are quite comfortable, while we are suffering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3012.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3018.1", "colnum": "3018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lock-out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "preceding_text": "ce. The contention of the miners in regard to that is not correct, because we have to bear in mind that you cannot have the benefit of shorter hours and at the same time, under the conditions existing to-day, the same relative earning power of labour. I admit without argument that in 1920 the average wages in the industry were £4 5s. per week. What happened in that year? We had a coal strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3018.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3019.0", "colnum": "3019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Am I to understand from the hon. Member that in Scotland the miners have free houses?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "preceding_text": ". Friends will admit, and I am sure that there can be no contention about the matter, that the cost of living as far as the miner is concerned cannot be regarded in the same ratio as it is for other people. In the first place, especially in the North of England and Scotland, there is free housing. That is calculated, probably, to be worth at least 5s., 6s., or 7s. a week. Then there is cheap coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3019.1", "colnum": "3019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"You said free houses!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "preceding_text": "I said cheap houses or free houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3020.5", "colnum": "3020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has not been agreed! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "preceding_text": "Then miners are given cheap coal. Coal is supplied to the miners at 3s. 6d. a ton. This is the latest figure given in the Board of Trade Return. The cost of coal entering into the calculation of the cost of living is put down at five points. If we add to the 63 per cent, which has been agreed, these five points in respect of coal, we arrive at 68 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3020.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3020.5", "colnum": "3020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "preceding_text": "l position is that the rate of wages received by the miner is very much in excess of what the public presume it to be. First of all you have the admitted figure of 43 per cent, above the pre-War standard, and next the admission that the cost of living in 1914 was 5s. or 6s. a week above the subsistence level, which means another 20 per cent. Then you have the further five points in regard to coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3020.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3021.5", "colnum": "3021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "preceding_text": "I do not. I put them forward for my side. I have the figures for the whole of Scotland. Now I will take Yorkshire. I will give figures relating to one- colliery in Yorkshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3021.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3022.3", "colnum": "3022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Directors' fees, managers' fees!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "preceding_text": "ain the 1913 standard, plus the 80 per cent, increase in the cost of living. The seven-hour day is the cause of the trouble. A great deal has been said in regard to cost. It is said that they are piled on by the coalowners in order to fleece the miners. What are the costs? Stores, timber, insurances of various kinds, local rates, workmen's compensation and additional workmen's compensation claims.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3022.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3023.1", "colnum": "3023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not saying much! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "preceding_text": "f 1914 and the steel workers 54 per cent. In the shipbuilding there are 36.3 per cent, unemployed, and the wages of all trades are only 44 per cent, above the subsistence level of 1914. In the engineering trade there are 22 per cent, unemployed, and wages only 47 per cent, above the subsistence level of 1914. The mining industry has got a far better position than any other industry in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3023.1", "colnum": "3023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "preceding_text": "sistence level of 1914. In the engineering trade there are 22 per cent, unemployed, and wages only 47 per cent, above the subsistence level of 1914. The mining industry has got a far better position than any other industry in the country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not saying much! \"] It may not be, but it might be worse, for they might be out of work. The position is that they want to be subsidised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3023.1", "colnum": "3023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are 'we'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "preceding_text": "going is that coal is too dear. Do hon. Members realise that coal is required to make steel, that we cannot compete at present with Germany, America, or Belgium, and that we have to compete with them in order to get business? And I say this sincerely, without wishing in any way to talk platitudes, that we have come now to a position in industry in which we are making great sacrifices to get trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3023.1", "colnum": "3023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More sob stuff\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "preceding_text": " furnaces. The miners may be able to get their subsidy, but it will be at the expense of every other trade and industry in the country. That is a condition which the country cannot face. This is a time for plain speaking. We have had all this sob stuff, and it is time we made it clear to the country that while our sympathy lies with the miners, our sympathy also lies with those unfortunate people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3023.1", "colnum": "3023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"High profits\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "preceding_text": "l industry, the shipbuilding trade, the textile trades and the pottery trades who have not been asking us for subsidies but for work, and if there is going to be any real sympathy the country is prepared to give it to them and not to those who have work and are asking for something additional. What the House forgets is this, that in the cycle of high wages which were given from 1915 to 1921–", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3023.1", "colnum": "3023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "preceding_text": "f economics, with our subsidies and our interference with the regulation and control of trade, and by trying to divert it from its normal channels into channels organised by us. That cannot be done and we are paying the price to-day. Hon. Members opposite say that we do not appreciate their point of view We have been silent. We are not going to be silent very much longer. What we want to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3032.0", "colnum": "3032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Lieut. -Colonel Lane-Fox)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At the expense of the miners! \"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Lieut. -Colonel Lane-Fox)", "preceding_text": "ver, he has made this picture rather too dark. I do want to say this at once. I am quite sure that the industry deserves all the help and support and sympathy which this House can give it. Whatever may have happened in the past, nobody can deny that since the troubles of 1921, masters and men in this industry have pulled together. They have, I believe, done their utmost to pull the industry round.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3032.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3036.3", "colnum": "3036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel LANE-FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are falling.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel LANE-FOX", "preceding_text": "gue that on its merits, for this reason, that it is no use arguing a thing that is not within the present range of possibilities. You could not possibly go back to longer hours except by agreement, and this is not an agreement with which you could expect the men to come at the present time. They see their output well up, and apparently no corresponding, at any rate no serious, rise in their wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3036.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3036.3", "colnum": "3036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel LANE-FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel LANE-FOX", "preceding_text": " within the present range of possibilities. You could not possibly go back to longer hours except by agreement, and this is not an agreement with which you could expect the men to come at the present time. They see their output well up, and apparently no corresponding, at any rate no serious, rise in their wages. [HON. MEMBERS: \"They are falling.\"] Wages are beginning to rise in certain districts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3036.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3081.0", "colnum": "3081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "s I know are 11s. a week; I am talking about houses with two rooms up and three rooms down, How can there be arrears if there are no rents made? Then you talk about not having to pay for coal. We use a quality of coal that the ordinary consumer would not buy, a quality of coal far inferior, and we pay for it on an average of 3s, a week, which we are supposed to get free. These things cannot go on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3077.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3082.0", "colnum": "3082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "ave been reduced to seven. We have had experience of the working of seven hours, of eight hours, of nine, ten and eleven hours. Why is not that experience made available for us in a proper way? Is it proof that the seven hours' experiment has given results which would justify hon. Members opposite saying that production must be limited on account of the reduction of the hours? I do not believe it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3082.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3082.0", "colnum": "3082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "tion from that commonplace to say that when you do get good trade, good general trade, again you will have to solve difficulties, and so you may banish them now? I would warn hon. Members opposite if they are indulging in a thought of that kind. Let me give the House two very simple facts. In the week ending 18th November the coal production amounted to 5,376,000 tons, almost a pre-War production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3082.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3086.4", "colnum": "3086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Like Mr. Justice Sankey!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "is a Board composed partly of employers and partly of the men, and it was created for [...] at specific purpose only. My hon. Friends would never think of suggesting that the inquiry should be conducted by a body consisting of half of employers and half of the men. We want an impartial inquiry which will take employers and workmen as witnesses, and which will hear the ease as a judicial authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3086.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3087.1", "colnum": "3087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "efficiency still in existence? Perhaps that is the explanation of the objection of the hon. Member for Central Cardiff (Mr. Gould) to a further inquiry. The Sankey Commission suggested economies in production, in transit, and in distribution. They said: All these can undoubtedly be effected, though it is difficult to place any money value on them at the present moment. Have these things been done?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3087.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3087.1", "colnum": "3087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "ifficulties of the coal trade? Why do hon. Members opposite fear an inquiry? Here is another extract from the same Report: Even upon the evidence already given, the present system of ownership working in the coal industry stands condemned and some other system must be substituted for it, either nationalisation or a method of unification by national purchase or by joint control. Has that been done?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3087.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3088.1", "colnum": "3088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Misrepresent!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "iners' standard of living. But we have to take this into account, and it is undoubtedly true, that, bad as is the position of the coal mining industry, it is not nearly so bad as that of many other trades at the present time. Take, for instance, two trades which greatly concern and interest some of the new recruits in the present Parliament who have come from the city which I also represent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3088.1", "colnum": "3088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "s in the case of the miners, and, therefore, the wage rate, as compared with the cost of living, is very much the same. The figure in the case of the miners, I think, is 43, as against 45 or some figure like that. Consider another factor, and it is a terrible one— unemployment. The coal mining trade is, I think, as free from unemployment as any industry in this country at the present moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3088.1", "colnum": "3088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": ". The figure in the case of the miners, I think, is 43, as against 45 or some figure like that. Consider another factor, and it is a terrible one— unemployment. The coal mining trade is, I think, as free from unemployment as any industry in this country at the present moment. [ Interruption. ] I am talking of the trade as a whole. The unemployment in the trade as a whole is under 5 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3093.1", "colnum": "3093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ent fall was not the Agreement, that, on the contrary, it was the best arrangement that has ever yet been evolved for dealing with this question, he said something that was obviously true. There is nothing wrong with the fundamental principles of the agreement. They are better than any principles which have operated in any previous agreement. Let us see exactly what is possible in this connection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3096.0", "colnum": "3096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What we all want!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "the enthusiasm of his hon. Friends behind him—that the existing National Board could not deal with these things at all, because it is to deal with the agreement. There is the answer, unless you assume that you are going to alter the whole system, and have another inquiry, which deals not so much with coal mines as with the nationalisation of coal mines. And that is what my hon. Friend wants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3096.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3096.0", "colnum": "3096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "want to avoid, that is, to prevent an improvement in the conditions of the miner. Although the hon. Member showed that he had taken great trouble, as I did myself, to understand the trade, I do not think he understood it fully. The things to which he referred in the Sankey Report and in regard to which he asked \"Have they been done?\" are things which in my opinion the National Board can do to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3096.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-13", "file": "debates1922-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7add2d51329e2261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3096.0", "colnum": "3096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are useless!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "n the conditions of the miner. Although the hon. Member showed that he had taken great trouble, as I did myself, to understand the trade, I do not think he understood it fully. The things to which he referred in the Sankey Report and in regard to which he asked \"Have they been done?\" are things which in my opinion the National Board can do to-day. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I think I am right about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-13a.3096.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-14", "file": "debates1922-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "43b40e76a23250d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3241.1", "colnum": "3241", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND INTER-ALLIED DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " trade. Why should we not say so? We are not ashamed of trading. We are not ashamed of the position that this country by historical accident, perhaps, and as a matter of fact, has become a great producing nation for the world, and that this country carries a population the industrial distribution of which his beer, determined by the fact that while this country has neglected its agriculture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-14", "file": "debates1922-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "43b40e76a23250d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3258.1", "colnum": "3258", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND INTER-ALLIED DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOREL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOREL", "preceding_text": "e Russian archives, the publication of the Franco-Russian military agreement, to say nothing of the book of General Buat, the head of the French Military Staff, and the books of such men as that distinguished ex-French civil servant, M. Georges Demartial, M. Pevet, and others—after all these, the idea, the myth, that France was the victim of wanton aggression in 1914 is blown sky-high—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-14", "file": "debates1922-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "43b40e76a23250d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3258.1", "colnum": "3258", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND INTER-ALLIED DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOREL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Gold marks?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOREL", "preceding_text": "ou never see it suggested that Germany has paid, and is paying, vast sums to the Allies. If not paid under \"Reparation,\" what are they, if they are not reparations? The mere upkeep of the Allied armies on the Rhine has cost Germany £297,000,000, or £47,000,0000 more more than the total indemnity imposed upon France by Germany in 1870. Those are figures which are not, I believe, disputed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3258.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-14", "file": "debates1922-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "43b40e76a23250d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3263.1", "colnum": "3263", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND INTER-ALLIED DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "that he won the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-14", "file": "debates1922-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "43b40e76a23250d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3263.4", "colnum": "3263", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND INTER-ALLIED DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOREL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOREL", "preceding_text": "What is going to happen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3263.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-14", "file": "debates1922-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "43b40e76a23250d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3263.4", "colnum": "3263", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND INTER-ALLIED DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOREL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOREL", "preceding_text": "enture to make a prediction—which is usually a very rash thing to do—and it is this, that if you have this political and economic collapse of Germany as a result of French action that within four months from now you are going to add 500,000 to your unemployed. Politically, if I wanted to make a sensational or a scare speech, I should add a great deal more to what I am about to say now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3263.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-14", "file": "debates1922-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "43b40e76a23250d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3263.4", "colnum": "3263", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND INTER-ALLIED DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOREL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bead it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOREL", "preceding_text": "erests of this country, apart from any question or any other considerations, wash your hands of the situation and allow France to trample Germany under foot. An hon. Member has kindly given me extracts from the speeches of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) which he made before the last Election in 1918. Here is the speech at. Bristol. \"Let me summarise.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3263.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-14", "file": "debates1922-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "43b40e76a23250d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3263.4", "colnum": "3263", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND INTER-ALLIED DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOREL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bead the third!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOREL", "preceding_text": "e before the last Election in 1918. Here is the speech at. Bristol. \"Let me summarise.\"[HON. MEMBERS: \"Bead it!\"] If hon. Members will allow me to proceed: I am reading it— First, as far as justice \"is concerned, we have an absolute right to demand the whole cost of the War from Germany. The second point is that we propose to demand the whole cost of the War.…The fourth point is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3263.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-14", "file": "debates1922-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "43b40e76a23250d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3265.3", "colnum": "3265", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND INTER-ALLIED DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOREL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hanged!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOREL", "preceding_text": "ore we come to the question of what the Committee said or did not say, there is this sentence alleged to be by the right hon. Gentleman: The second point is that we propose to demand the whole cost of the War. Did he say that or did he not? Everybody knows that the Election of 1918 was won on two great cries: that Germany would be made to pay the cost of the War and that the Kaiser would be tried.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3265.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-14", "file": "debates1922-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "43b40e76a23250d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3265.3", "colnum": "3265", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND INTER-ALLIED DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOREL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOREL", "preceding_text": "d have liked to have asked him a few questions. There are very sinister rumours going about as to the character of the conversations which took place in Paris the other day between M. Millerand and Sir William Tyrrell of the Foreign Office, and regarding the conversation in Paris between M. Poincaré and Lord Curzon on 18th November. I do not know one need usually attach importance to rumours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3265.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-14", "file": "debates1922-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "43b40e76a23250d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3269.0", "colnum": "3269", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND INTER-ALLIED DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A tricky way and a straight way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": "There are two ways of doing things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3269.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-14", "file": "debates1922-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "43b40e76a23250d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3269.0", "colnum": "3269", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND INTER-ALLIED DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about your Navy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord R. CECIL", "preceding_text": " was not guilty—substantially guilty—of the world War. To my mind, the broad, great facts of the international situation are much stronger than any logic chopping as to who was guilty. No one really can doubt the fact, if he chooses to keep his eyes open, that Germany, for years and years, was building up a great military machine, the only purpose of which could be ultimate aggression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3269.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-14", "file": "debates1922-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "43b40e76a23250d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3282.0", "colnum": "3282", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND INTER-ALLIED DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "as potash, timber, almost negligible, sugar, not so negligible. Before the War we received £10,000,000 worth of sugar annually from Germany. Expressed in present values, that would amount to nearly £20,000,000. It would be possible in such specified commodities as that to receive considerable payment even if the right hon. Gentle man insists on continuing the present basis of reparation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-14", "file": "debates1922-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "43b40e76a23250d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3329.0", "colnum": "3329", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND INTER-ALLIED DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " Member for Central Bradford (Mr. Leach) will permit me to congratulate him not only on his maiden speech but in introducing a new subject at the end of a long discussion. I venture to say that that speech is most relevant to the question of unemployment which is at present occupying our attention. I must just say one word about another part of the Debate, and I will put it as briefly as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-14", "file": "debates1922-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "43b40e76a23250d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3329.0", "colnum": "3329", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND INTER-ALLIED DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "derstand that no section of any party here is prepared to advance to further military adventures in Germany. I believe if we did that we should arrive at a sensible solution for France, and that it would be arrived at without bitterness or quarrel. We are told that we must not be the only nation to pay. I am not certain that our debt to America may not prove a blessing to us rather than otherwise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-14", "file": "debates1922-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "43b40e76a23250d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3329.0", "colnum": "3329", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND INTER-ALLIED DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is oil there!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "tland Division of Liverpool (Mr. T. P. O'Connor) is not a fair-weather friend. He has espoused the cause of Greece, and he will continue to do so, in good repute and in ill repute. I admire him for it. We have dropped Greece. The Government have withdrawn their patronage from Greece. Have they discovered a new protégé? Is Rumania our new pawn? Is that to be the new ally in the Black Sea?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-14", "file": "debates1922-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "43b40e76a23250d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3329.0", "colnum": "3329", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND INTER-ALLIED DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "had only vague innuendoes and vague statements, and I should like to nail down the fact, if I may. I do know that we have, as a relic of the War, a vast Secret Service. It has to justify itself. I do not say that it invents evidence, but it makes the most of any little piece of evidence, and exaggerates it, in order to justify its existence. In any case, the best way to stop this propaganda—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-14", "file": "debates1922-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "43b40e76a23250d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3338.1", "colnum": "3338", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND INTER-ALLIED DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is what they want.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "ng in this country for the next twenty-five years. If the payment of £1,000,000,000 lowers our standard of life for 25 years, what is going to happen to those people in the centre of Europe if you are going to compel them to pay twice the amount? You are going to lower the standard for fifty years. If you keep their standard lowered for fifty years you will inevitably lower your own standard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-14", "file": "debates1922-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "43b40e76a23250d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3338.1", "colnum": "3338", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND INTER-ALLIED DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "e debt of France, but if you cancel the French debt and we cancel yours, your debt and theirs cancel one another, but we are doing all the cancelling, and there is no one to cancel our debt.\" The Americans say also, \"It is all very well for you to come to us asking ns to cancel your debt when as the result of the War you got several colonies.\" We got Kenya Colony, part of Togoland and Mesopotamia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-14", "file": "debates1922-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "43b40e76a23250d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3338.1", "colnum": "3338", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND INTER-ALLIED DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "War you got several colonies.\" We got Kenya Colony, part of Togoland and Mesopotamia. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"] A mandate is only an elegant phrase for possession. That is their point of view—that we took whatever we could. They say that we have got territories with a potential worth of thousands of millions of pounds and then we talk of being let off the payment of a paltry £1,000,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-14", "file": "debates1922-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "43b40e76a23250d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3344.2", "colnum": "3344", "heading": "REPARATIONS AND INTER-ALLIED DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He said he did not know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. and learned Gentleman know if he did or did not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-14a.3344.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-15", "file": "debates1922-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ff98a7815c6a9f0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-15a.3353.5", "colnum": "3353", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PROROGATION (QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "House of Commons ordered to be placed on the walls, of the remarkable scene that took place when certain Members of the House wished to enforce the right of the House to decide for itself whether it should or should not adjourn, and so conserve its liberty to meet and debate public questions without interference from the Crown or from any outside body. On that occasion, as you will remember—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-15a.3353.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1922-12-15", "file": "debates1922-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ff98a7815c6a9f0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-15a.3353.5", "colnum": "3353", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PROROGATION (QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "hat this House should be kept in Session. I cannot imagine that the condition of England 300 years ago could possibly have been worse than at the present moment for the working classes. I feel that it is a crime against the working classes for us to go home without having done anything. I know that I may be told that we have spoken and, perhaps, not put any constructive proposals before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1922-12-15a.3353.5"}