{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-08", "file": "debates1924-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "29638d394648ba35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-08a.8.0", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Preamble", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. WARD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. WARD", "preceding_text": ". Speaker's eye, and have failed to do so, even though it was known that there was no other Member in the House who had more detailed knowledge of the subject under discussion. Members have gone to Mr. Speaker and have been informed that they are too late, that the Party Whips have sent in the names of those whom they wished to speak, and they are so numerous that there will be no time for others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-08a.8.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-08", "file": "debates1924-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "29638d394648ba35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-08a.16.0", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Preamble", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "or its attraction to the limelight. You took all that great work upon your hands, and, before you reached the high office you now occupy, you had prepared yourself for it by years of unmitigated, tireless, ceaseless drudgery in the service of the House. One word only in conclusion. I must be brief, because an intimation has been conveyed to me that the Prime Minister is anxious to disappear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-08a.16.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-09", "file": "debates1924-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "f1a89d1002d685fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-09a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Preamble", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "May I now be allowed to ask a question? When will it be possible for me to raise the question of the treatment that the House of Commons has received in another Chamber this afternoon? After all, are we going to stand by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-09a.18.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-09", "file": "debates1924-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "f1a89d1002d685fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-09a.18.5", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Preamble", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS:\" Order ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "First of all, Mr. Speaker, I do not want to disobey your ruling— [Interruption] —I want to obey the Constitution. I am a social democrat. But I want to know where the House of Commons stands in the kind of treatment they have received from another Chamber. We have been deeply insulted this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-09a.18.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-09", "file": "debates1924-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "f1a89d1002d685fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-09a.18.10", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Preamble", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J0NES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J0NES", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-09a.18.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-15", "file": "debates1924-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "c5d9356496b745b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.50.0", "colnum": "50", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS:", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"You are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " to elect a Chairman of Ways and Means, and a Deputy-Chairman, at this sitting. There is no use, however, shutting our eyes to any of the facts. We are meeting to-day in most unusual, most exceptional circumstances, and I think it would be a profound pity if we started with a Division at this time upon this subject. We are going to have a great many difficulties during the life of this Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.50.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-15", "file": "debates1924-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "c5d9356496b745b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.51.0", "colnum": "51", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS:", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. WARD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. WARD", "preceding_text": "ernment would be ill-advised if they accepted the suggestion of the hon. Member for Aberavon, and delayed this matter, especially as this old House is a peculiar institution and the hon. Member for Aberavon is no doubt counting his chickens, but they may be lost even yet. The hon. Members behind him, I suppose, occasionally sing that verse in their particular song about Craving for power and pelf.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.51.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-15", "file": "debates1924-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "c5d9356496b745b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.52.0", "colnum": "52", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS:", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "ime Minister, we would be electing the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Central Sheffield (Mr. J. F. Hope) as Chairman of Ways and Means, and the hon. and gallant Member for Daventry (Captain Fitzroy) as Deputy-Chairman. That would be an assumption on the part of the Government, and an admission on the part of the House, that these appointments were within the gift of the Government of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.52.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-15", "file": "debates1924-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "c5d9356496b745b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS:", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"YOU ought to be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "I am one of those who believe in spoils to the victors, and I believe that this is an attempt to queer the pitch. Instead of being in the House of Commons, I imagine I am in Petticoat Lane.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-15", "file": "debates1924-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "c5d9356496b745b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS:", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": ". and gallant Member for Stoke (Lt.-Col. J. Ward), who always stokes up, who is always lecturing us on this side of the House about our imperfections, has, I am glad to see, turned over to the other side of the House. We are gradually finding him out. We were members of the same labour organisation when I was 17 years of age and he now becomes a reactionary and talks to me about constitutionalism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-15", "file": "debates1924-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "c5d9356496b745b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS:", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "n this side of the House about our imperfections, has, I am glad to see, turned over to the other side of the House. We are gradually finding him out. We were members of the same labour organisation when I was 17 years of age and he now becomes a reactionary and talks to me about constitutionalism.[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\"] I am prepared to go on with it. This Gentleman knows more about it than I do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-15", "file": "debates1924-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "c5d9356496b745b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS:", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "ary and talks to me about constitutionalism.[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\"] I am prepared to go on with it. This Gentleman knows more about it than I do. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\"] This hon. Gentleman, if I may he allowed to say so, cannot give me any lectures on constitutionalism. I want to see the officials of this House properly appointed, and we claim the right to appoint them, and we are going to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-15", "file": "debates1924-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "c5d9356496b745b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.56.16", "colnum": "56", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS:", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\" and \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "riminal in its character, then in no case has the House asked for the discharge of the Member of Parliament who was imprisoned. Subsequently there arose a new type of case. When Acts were passed suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus, it was frequently the practice of Parliament to insert an express provision dealing with arrests under the terms of such Acts, and I think I could quote the provision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.56.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-15", "file": "debates1924-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "c5d9356496b745b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS:", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "\"Please give this letter the same publicity you did to the notice of to-day.\" That letter, Mr. Speaker, from Mr. Cahir Healy has been suppressed. I am not going to read all the letters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-15", "file": "debates1924-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "c5d9356496b745b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.64.0", "colnum": "64", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS:", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not interned in this country\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "ns to remember that when orders are made for the internment of persons who have never been put on trial, or charged with any crime and have never been sentenced or convicted, they cannot be described as persons guilty of an indictable offence or contempt of court. If the hon. Member for Fermanagh and Tyrone had been placed in an internment camp in this country by order of the Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.64.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-15", "file": "debates1924-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "c5d9356496b745b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.69.2", "colnum": "69", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS:", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "n country first, do we not? I hope we do. This man's crime has not yet been alleged against him. He has never been on trial; he has simply been interned because he is supposed to be a dangerous person in the eyes of the Government of Northern Ireland. They are more dangerous to England than Mr. Cahir Healy ever was, because they are creating a feeling among the Irish people of Great Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.69.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-15", "file": "debates1924-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "c5d9356496b745b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.72.3", "colnum": "72", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS:", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I desire to ask your ruling whether the character of the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland is relevant to this matter, in view of the fact that the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland had nothing to do with the letter. It was written by a subordinate official of the Home Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.72.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-15", "file": "debates1924-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "c5d9356496b745b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.81.3", "colnum": "81", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS:", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BANKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no\" and \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BANKS", "preceding_text": "London, in order to discuss in detail a policy which has been accepted in principle by previous Imperial Conferences. They have expressed, in that impressive gathering, certain opinions and certain wishes, with which His Majesty's Ministers concurred; and deliberately to flout those opinions would, it seems to me, and, I believe, will seem to them, to be little short of a national breach of faith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.81.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-15", "file": "debates1924-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "c5d9356496b745b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.81.3", "colnum": "81", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS:", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BANKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BANKS", "preceding_text": " the means limit of old age pensions. I can only say on that score: Let the galled jade wince, my withers are unwrung. It is recognised that a soldier in the industrial army is entitled to the care of the community when he becomes a veteran, and I have never been able to see why a man should forfeit that right because he has exercised the qualities of prudence and thrift in the days of his vigour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.81.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-15", "file": "debates1924-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "c5d9356496b745b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.88.0", "colnum": "88", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS:", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": ". To-day we have listened to two speakers. One is an old friend whose sense of combativeness must have been restrained with a very master hand before he consented to don the Fontenoy garb, and show himself to us as he has done this afternoon. It has been a difficult part, which he has played admirably. I am not sure whether the speech of the Noble Lord who seconded the Address was a maiden speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.88.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-15", "file": "debates1924-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "c5d9356496b745b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.88.0", "colnum": "88", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS:", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "aneous collection of odds and ends. I can imagine how ponderously the Government scraped and searched for every item to put in its shop window in order to avert a probable calamity. It reminds me very much of the stock-in-trade of a penny bazaar. I do not like to say that any items have been stolen; certainly a great many items have been borrowed. The goods borrowed and stolen from us on this side", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.88.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-15", "file": "debates1924-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "c5d9356496b745b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.88.0", "colnum": "88", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS:", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "whole-hearted binding together of men and women of good-will of all parties to try to prevent it, and to try to bring back to it the sane, serious, solemn influence of this country in order that a new leaf may be turned over, with better prospects for all the peoples of Europe. We want new minds to deal with these problems. We need very skilful handling of the diplomacy that arises out of handling", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.88.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-15", "file": "debates1924-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "c5d9356496b745b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.92.1", "colnum": "92", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS:", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "dence reposed in the right hon. Gentleman and his Government. It is absurd; it does not stand to good-humoured common sense that the right hon. Gentleman, having put the nation to the expense of an election, having broken his own word, having risked the steady development of European policy, having left his offices unattended, and having roused all sorts of passions and class hatred in the country", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.92.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-15", "file": "debates1924-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "c5d9356496b745b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.108.3", "colnum": "108", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS:", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "es had imposed upon Germany. They treated their own document, which, by force of arms, they compelled Germany to sign, as a scrap of paper. What has happened? I remember quite well in 1919 the French military generals on the Rhineland attempted to engineer a Separatist movement. They were dealing then with M. Clemenceau—as straight a man as any with whom one could have the honour of dealing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.108.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-15", "file": "debates1924-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "c5d9356496b745b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.111.0", "colnum": "111", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS:", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "d-bye. The King's Speech, he said, was a miscellaneous collection of odds and ends. Then he said how pleased he was for the first time we had taken into consideration the extension of juvenile centres, additional aid to public utility works, and 50 forth. Of course, he must remember this: That we went to the country with our own proposals to relieve unemployment. Those proposals were not accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-15a.111.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-16", "file": "debates1924-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "225286c0988bc64d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.126.5", "colnum": "126", "heading": "BALLOT FOR BILLS AND MOTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not a prorogation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "preceding_text": "Is it in Order, Sir, to ask you what will be the state of affairs if—as we understand may take place in a certain eventuality—there is on Monday a prorogation of the House", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.126.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-16", "file": "debates1924-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "225286c0988bc64d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.126.5", "colnum": "126", "heading": "BALLOT FOR BILLS AND MOTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wait and see!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "preceding_text": "Is it in Order, Sir, to ask you what will be the state of affairs if—as we understand may take place in a certain eventuality—there is on Monday a prorogation of the House [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not a prorogation!\"]—an Adjournment of the House", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.126.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-16", "file": "debates1924-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "225286c0988bc64d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.136.3", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear. hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "where there has been give and take as between the three parties concerned, both the French Government and the Spanish Government would like very much, in certain particulars, to have got more than they did get. That is quite true, but I am happy to say that since the document was signed provisionally by the Spanish representatives, the French have, to a large extent, shown an accommodating spirit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.136.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-16", "file": "debates1924-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "225286c0988bc64d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.137.3", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not true\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": ". It would appear that the share capital in this international company was registered on the following basis:—French, 30 per cent.; Great Britain, 20 per cent.; Spain, 20; per cent.; the Sherefian Government, 10 per cent.; the International Administration of Tangier, 10 per cent.; other countries, 10 per cent. Consequently, out of it all there is only 30 per cent. in the hands of the French.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.137.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-16", "file": "debates1924-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "225286c0988bc64d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "o me to have a side glance at his principal lieutenant, who is probably likely to be the navigating lieutenant. But that is not the only discordant voice in the chorus. There is another very significant one, because I notice that in all the speeches which he has made—and they have been numerous—Viscount Grey has never put any blame upon the Government for the conduct of foreign policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-16", "file": "debates1924-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "225286c0988bc64d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.150.4", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "I desire to make a protest to the Prime Minister. I suggest, with all deference, that the matter of the 74 and 26 per cent., to which the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs referred yesterday, should not be left to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as it is a Foreign Office matter. The Germans have put into operation a try-on against us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.150.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-16", "file": "debates1924-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "225286c0988bc64d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.151.7", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "nd must dissociate ourselves from all its consequences. That is the policy which we have hitherto endeavoured to pursue. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Paisley (Mr. Asquith) goes far beyond any such mere individual question as that. He says in quite general language that the conduct of foreign affairs by the present Government has been a record of unbroken impotence and humiliation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.151.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-16", "file": "debates1924-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "225286c0988bc64d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "the House why is it that there is no mention of legislation of this sort in the King's Speech. Room has been found in that wonderful document for all sorts of things which are much more remote from the life of the people than the Rent Restrictions Act, and I can only think that it has been left out because the Government are very largely indifferent to the sufferings of those poor helpless people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-16", "file": "debates1924-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "225286c0988bc64d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. G. SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about lockouts?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. G. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": "s of the hon. Gentleman's party, what they really know of the sufferings and anxieties of the working masses of these people. If they had worked alongside them, as I have, they would not have dared to do some of the things they have done, or to make the glib promises they have made. They would not have dared to organise and direct the strikes which have dislocated the trade of this country —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-16", "file": "debates1924-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "225286c0988bc64d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. G. SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. G. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": "this country, and would not have raised the objections they do raise to emigration from this country to our own Colonies and other places abroad. I notice that in the King's Speech a reference is made to the question of housing. We are assured that the undertaking given that the scheme under the Bill brought in last year is going to be extended. We are told that this scheme has not been a success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-16", "file": "debates1924-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "225286c0988bc64d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.197.0", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Repeat it again!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": " what he gets and for what Re wants. If you kill this individuality you kill the thing which has made this country one of the most powerful countries in the world. We were sneered at yesterday for the policy on which we went to the country. After all, is there much to sneer about, considering that we polled 1,000,000 more votes than the Socialists and 1,250,000 more than the wait and see Liberals?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-16", "file": "debates1924-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "225286c0988bc64d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.197.0", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Common sense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": " the Socialist policy. God forbid! Surely the boot is on the other foot. I noticed in a newspaper a few weeks ago that the Glasgow Corporation were considering the placing of a contract for certain engineering materials, and had decided to accept a foreign tender. But on the motion of the Labour party this was rescinded and the order was placed in this country. Is this Tariff Reform or Free Trade?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-16", "file": "debates1924-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "225286c0988bc64d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. CONWAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. CONWAY", "preceding_text": "ng people, and no one more sporting than hon. Gentlemen opposite, it is considered right that if the one that ran first happens to be disqualified, it must necessarily follow that the prize goes to the second. That is the sporting point of view. I have yet to learn, however, that a General Election is a sporting event, or that the analogy of sport is one which may be rightly brought into politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.218.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-16", "file": "debates1924-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "225286c0988bc64d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.228.2", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PENNY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Some are in the workhouse!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PENNY", "preceding_text": "At the present time there are ex-service men and their dependants in my constituency who are grateful for the consideration accorded them by the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.228.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-16", "file": "debates1924-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "225286c0988bc64d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.228.2", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PENNY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have done it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PENNY", "preceding_text": "partment of this nature, so that final settlements can he arrived at, but in all these cases I wish to impress upon the Ministry that they should be so administered that the pensioner receives the greatest consideration for his case. I should be very grieved, as I am sure would all hon. Members of this House, if any economy, no matter how small, were effected at the expense of the pensioner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.228.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-16", "file": "debates1924-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "225286c0988bc64d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.228.2", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PENNY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They will get it from over here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PENNY", "preceding_text": "uld all hon. Members of this House, if any economy, no matter how small, were effected at the expense of the pensioner—[An HON. MEMBER: \"You have done it!\"]—at the expense of those men who responded to the call of duty and came to the aid of the country in the hour of need. They are entitled to, and I am asking that they receive, the greatest consideration at the hands of the Ministry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.228.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-16", "file": "debates1924-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "225286c0988bc64d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.228.2", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PENNY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have had the chance!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PENNY", "preceding_text": " the call of duty and came to the aid of the country in the hour of need. They are entitled to, and I am asking that they receive, the greatest consideration at the hands of the Ministry. [An HON. MEMBER: \"They will get it from over here!\"] I have just as much interest in these men as you have on that side, and hon. Members on this side will give way to none of you in regard to the ex-service men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.228.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-16", "file": "debates1924-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "225286c0988bc64d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.230.0", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PERRY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What wages were they paying?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PERRY", "preceding_text": "on of useful goods instead of being disposed of, it would have been well. I had the opportunity of going through Krupps when I was out in the Ruhr. After the Armistice they so re-organised their works that they were actually at that time employing 10,000 more men than they were before the War—not in the production of armaments, but in the production of agricultural machinery and other goods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-16a.230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.240.8", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "rose. HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"] It is not fair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.240.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.241.2", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": ": \"Order!\"] The Minister has told us that he has given us the reply to one specific question on the Paper. As a matter of fact, the Minister has replied to half a dozen questions that appear in different places on the Paper, and he has not answered the points raised in the half dozen questions he has answered collectively. I put it to you that we should be allowed, by supplementary question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.241.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.266.16", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was not in the Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": " by this Government to make good these repeated professions? It is true they can point to the special and valuable services of Viscount Cecil, but that is balanced by the ill-services of other associates of the present Government. How can the League of Nations be strengthened and raised to its place of influence and dignity in the affairs of the world by the aid of associates like Lord Birkenhead?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.266.16"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.319.4", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not a point of Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "The Minister of Health stated just now that he could get more houses built—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.319.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.319.4", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "uses built—[HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not a point of Order.\"] Mr. Speaker will tell me if it be not a point of Order. You, gentlemen, need not try to dictate to me as to what I am to do. Mr. Speaker is the only man I will have any dictation from in this House. The Minister stated that if it were not for the shortage of labour he could get more houses built. I say, Sir, that statement is untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.319.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.320.2", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "ke my point quite clear. About 20 years ago—in 1901 to be precise —there were 101,000 bricklayers, and today there are only 53,000. There can be no doubt about these figures. There were 27,000 plasterers, and to-day there are only 13,000. There were 8,400 slaters, and to-day there are only 2,880. There is practically no unemployment in the skilled sections of the building trade to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.320.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "til we have some houses built, remember, we cannot tackle the slum clearances, because we must build houses to put the people into—I say, quite definitely, as the responsible Minister here, that there is ample work for the present building trade. I am speaking now of the skilled operatives. There is ample work in sight for them and for at least a 25 per cent. dilution for the next ten years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.326.0", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"GO on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": " Gentlemen are going t vote, and what they are going to do. There is another gentleman, the hon. Member for Cleveland (Sir C. Starmer), who has come into the House, who said: Socialism means no freedom, loss of export trade, more unemployment, greater poverty, industrial conscription. In Socialism there is grave danger. How is he going to vote? I will not bother the House with any more quotations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.326.6", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is what you are being turned out by!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": ". Tariff reform has gone, but the bad Labour policy is still there. Now I want to say a word about the other leader of the Liberal Party, the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George), who said: Socialism has no appreciation of freedom. It is the negation of freedom. Freedom of enterprise goes, freedom of labour goes, under Socialism. You see what you are to be kept in office by.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.326.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel CROFT", "preceding_text": "g about that. They had a remedy. Unemployment was the thing they discovered, like Columbus, and they made themselves the champions of those who were unemployed, and said, \"We will have a Capital Levy, which is the panacea for all ills. Return us to power, and in a moment we will show you what the Capital Levy will do.\" But did the Socialist leader, in his fine Liberal speech on Tuesday last—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "preceding_text": "There is only one question that I should like to ask my hon. and gallant Friend who has just addressed the House. I will not follow him all through his speech, but when he says they stand firm to their faith and to this gesture of good will to the people that he and his friends put before the country, how many of them stand firm?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "preceding_text": "rm? [HON. MEMBERS: \"All!\"] Then we are to understand, including the Prime Minister, that the whole of the party opposite is still committed to Protection as the cure for unemployment and as the proper course for this country to follow, and, therefore, we on these benches need have no further doubt as to which way we ought to vote, not on the question of Socialism, but on the simple question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "preceding_text": "d never have had, the smallest doubt as to what my course should be if a Vote of Censure were proposed in these terms. We are now asked to consider what the results of that Vote will be. I think it is a fair question to ask what the results will be, but let us just make it quite plain what is the duty o all Free Traders in the first instance. They have to do what their conscience tells them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "preceding_text": "esent advisers and their Protectionist plans. I will come now to the argument that the result will be that a Socialist Government will come into power. That is a much more difficult thing to tackle, because the first question is, \"Will a Socialist Goverment come into power? \"That is a matter of surmise. Who knows whether a Socialist Government will come into power? Will they even come into office?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.348.0", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FRANK HODGES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FRANK HODGES", "preceding_text": "scientifically using your produce your mines would be as remunerative and profitable as those other mines?\" Instead of that we are wasting our national resources, with men in the deepest misery, and, what is more, under the present arrangement, with very little hope of improving their lot. I think this House has always appreciated the character, danger and hazard of the calling of the miner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.348.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.348.0", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FRANK HODGES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"What about America and Canada?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FRANK HODGES", "preceding_text": "r plan for industrial reorganisation will not affect the general productivity of our country. They must come further, they must come nearer. We shall submit, we are bound to submit, plans for this industrial reorganisation, and we shall use that term—[HON. METTBERS: \"Nationalisation!\"] Why not, if nationalisation can be demonstrated to be the only means of scientifically organising industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.348.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.348.0", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FRANK HODGES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FRANK HODGES", "preceding_text": " political axe to grind. There is one further point which must give cause for reflection to hon. Members when they consider how foolish, how uneconomic and how unproductive was their particular plan for the reorganisation of industry in this country. It is to be admitted that they have a plan. That plan was to stimulate production through low cost, and the low cost was to be effected by low wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.348.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.356.3", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wait and see!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "preceding_text": "eople who support the Conservative party, but at the same time I say that when people talk about re-slaying the suicide, as the right hon. Member for Paisley did talk, there will be no suicide to re-slay when the next Election comes along, after the prostitution of promises and policies which has been perpetrated by the Liberal party. You will be killed. You will be damned by your own performance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To the mineowners!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "preceding_text": "children to school in decent circumstances. But if we are prepared to make it more we ask, \"What are you prepared to do to us?\" Work and let work. Earn and let people earn! I am afraid that we have been acting under a fallacy and misunderstanding, and that we have not realised that we are not living in the days of 1916, 1918, and 1919 when the State paid out of its bottomless purse untold amounts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not, lecture!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "preceding_text": "oming to the State as the result of a Socialist Government, I want to put this question clearly the House, and I do so without consideration of ray party—for I say quite frankly that I should put my country before my party any time, and I would sacrifice my party every time if need be—I say to the Members of the Liberal party, that they have got a great responsibility thrust upon them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Never\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "preceding_text": " who will not listen. But to-day the responsibility that they bear is a burden, and they may find themselves carrying the Liberal party on a bier into the graveyard. Perhaps they think that being the minority party in this House they are still going to be the controlling factor in legislation and administration. What a hope! I am a business man, and I ask: \"How can you control the uncontrollable?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about your own party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "preceding_text": "party. It is the Socialist party pure and simple. It is an unholy alliance which is about to be perpetrated upon the country in order to turn out a weak and unsatisfactory Conservative Government —one of the most unholy and inexpressible alliances of political parties that has ever taken place in this country. Why do they not do the obvious? The Liberal party is united in name and name only.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GOULD", "preceding_text": "belief but that which is the considered opinion of those of us who are more or less responsible for the industry of the country. This opinion I believe will be endorsed in most responsible quarters—and I may say this, that had the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs gone in his youth into the city he might now have been adorning that select band where Jabez Balfour now is!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What party do you belong to?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "The House has been regaled this evening with a phenomenon which is usually confined to the Press. We have heard from the benches opposite, including the Treasury Bench, the loud lamentations of panic stricken plutocracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.372.0", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "ing the speech by which we have all just been entertained, should take up a position between the Member for Merthyr (Mr. Wallhead) and two of the Members for Clydeside. I think the environment was quite suitable to the occasion. It seems to me that there is a section of the people opposite who do not seem to realise the forces that are raised up against the constitutional elements in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.372.0", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So have we all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "allhead) and two of the Members for Clydeside. I think the environment was quite suitable to the occasion. It seems to me that there is a section of the people opposite who do not seem to realise the forces that are raised up against the constitutional elements in this country. [Laughter.] It is all very well for hon. Members opposite to laugh, but I have gone through the Election a few weeks ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.372.0", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "n. It seems to me that there is a section of the people opposite who do not seem to realise the forces that are raised up against the constitutional elements in this country. [Laughter.] It is all very well for hon. Members opposite to laugh, but I have gone through the Election a few weeks ago. [HON. MEMBERS: \"So have we all!\"] I went with a Liberal colleague, who can contradict every word I say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "latting (Mr. Clynes) to make such a speech as we have listened to this afternoon, a mild and moderate speech I agree, but behind the forces of Labour such as we see represented on the benches in this House there are far more sinister forces ranged. There are in my constituency on the register no fewer than 1,000 known members of the I.R.A. There are behind them again the forces of naked Communism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "what he says: The only safe way to keep out the Socialist candidate is to vote Liberal. What will be said next time in Norwich of the Liberal party if it puts such men as founded the Union of Democratic Control and Soldiers' and Sailors' Councils into power? Are ex-service men up and down the country, and women too, who do not know where they are going to get a job or another crust of bread—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To put you out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame)", "preceding_text": "at the most essential thing of all for trade and, therefore, for unemployment, is certainty and security. Out of the Debate which has taken place hitherto but one fact emerges with certainty, and it is that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Paisley (Mr. Asquith) is going to lead as many of his party as he can get to follow him into the Lobby in order to put a Socialist Government into power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame)", "preceding_text": " security as the introduction of those Measures themselves. What is the effect of that? The effect is alarming insecurity, as one sees in other countries, and certainly it does not lie, whatever they may think is the ultimate power in this matter, with the, Liberal party to give any guarantee as to what Measures are likely to be introduced by a Socialist Government. Capital will leave the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is capital?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame)", "preceding_text": "at Measures are likely to be introduced by a Socialist Government. Capital will leave the country. [Laughter.] That appears to be an intensely amusing suggestion to hon. Members opposite. Then may I ask, if they regard with such equanimity the prospect of capital leaving the country, what success they hope from a Capital Levy? Capital will certainly not be invested. They must surely realise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Translate!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame)", "preceding_text": "Minister not infrequently in the course of the election for not going sufficiently into detail, but they themselves do not even know the outline of the policy they are now going to support. venture to think that possibly even in this division there will be some—and increasingly will there be more in the future—who will be inclined to exclaim: \" Non tali auxilio nee defensoribus istis.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame)", "preceding_text": "of the policy they are now going to support. venture to think that possibly even in this division there will be some—and increasingly will there be more in the future—who will be inclined to exclaim: \" Non tali auxilio nee defensoribus istis.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Translate!\"] I will give a free translation: \"We decline to go into action under the Red Flag or to sail under the Jolly Roger.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who made it so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame)", "preceding_text": "e!\"] I will give a free translation: \"We decline to go into action under the Red Flag or to sail under the Jolly Roger.\" [Interruption.] I am glad to observe in that interjection that hon. Members opposite appreciate that the adventure they are now going to engage in is in the nature of a privateering expedition. There is no doubt whatever that the trade position to-day is still extremely serious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Hear, Hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame)", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentlemen is not at all likely to alter for the better, at any rate, as regards the interests of this country. In 1992 our exports of manufactures were only doing 67 per cent. of our corresponding exports in 1913, and in 1923 we were only doing 71 per cent. of that trade. This, surely, is not the time when one can afford to make very extreme experiments at the expense of capital in industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The Tory policy is based on fallacies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame)", "preceding_text": "ts in 1913, and in 1923 we were only doing 71 per cent. of that trade. This, surely, is not the time when one can afford to make very extreme experiments at the expense of capital in industry. [An HON. MEMBER \"Hear, Hear!\"] No doubt the hon. Gentleman will be able to explain to his constituents who are interested in employment why it is he supports a party whose whole policy is based on Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has not all left the country, then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame)", "preceding_text": "rants is a far larger amount than has been sanctioned for local authorities or public utility companies in any previous year. In addition to that, the railway companies, at the direct instigation of the Government, have quickly accelerated the progress of their programmes. Apart from the guarantees which they have obtained under the Trade Facilities Act, they amount to upwards of £30,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "ry soon call him to account. Let me turn from the rather barren prospect that would follow even the most cordial recognition extended to Russia to a field that affords a far brighter prospect, the field of the markets that lie within the Empire. I was indeed delighted to hear the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Miles Platting (Mr. Clynes) speak as he did about Empire development and migration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What Press?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "es of financial co-operation with the Dominions to refuse to give them in return trade in our market. I put these two facts very strongly to hon. Members opposite. The first is that the. whole of these proposals were really no part of the issue which was fought out at the last General Election. Their own Press at the time stated that these things were within the realm of oar present fiscal system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-17", "file": "debates1924-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "e0a0f88d5d6b6282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": " them in return trade in our market. I put these two facts very strongly to hon. Members opposite. The first is that the. whole of these proposals were really no part of the issue which was fought out at the last General Election. Their own Press at the time stated that these things were within the realm of oar present fiscal system. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What Press?\"] The \"Daily Chronicle\" said that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-17a.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.397.5", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, not yours!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "atements made. For instance, I should like to bring it up to date by quoting a few things said about hon. Gentlemen below the Gangway which are similar to the things said about us: that will make a complete picture A gentleman by the name of Mr. Winston Churchill, who, I suppose, is one of the best authorities in this country on the question of parties, in as much as he has sampled them all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.397.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.397.5", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To chuck them out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "le ours until we get a chance of sitting opposite. At all events I remember Mr. Winston Churchill expressing his opinion about hon. Gentlemen sitting on the benches opposite. He summarised it. This is what he said: So far as the Government are concerned they are brainless, spineless, and dangerous. That is why he asked the people of Leicester to send him to the House to get them out of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.397.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.397.5", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "s out the terrible evils that will arise if on Monday next the Liberals make the great mistake. I want to draw attention to the significance of these words. He reviews the present political situation and expresses the opinion that the enthronement in office of a socialist government will be a serious national misfortune such as has unually befallen great States only on the morrow of defeat in war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.397.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.397.5", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, he does not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "atriotism was not the monopoly of a class. It ill-becomes one to talk of war to those who gave their lives and entrusted them to people who thought they were something with which to gamble. There is another interpretation. Labour is only to come into power following either a defeat in war—the defeat I have mentioned—or a bloody social upheaval. That is the imputation of that statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.397.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.397.5", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ld put it to those who say that they still have a majority, I would remind them, that two months ago they had a majority in this House of 80. They said: \"We cannot use our majority, we cannot deal with the unemployed unless a certain remedy is introduced.\" They promptly went to the country with that majority and they were returned, the only people whom the country said: \"We have no confidence in.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.397.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.397.5", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Was it roubles?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ley (Mr. Asquith) stands for nothing. That was followed by a clear intimation that if we were returned to the House of Commons we would not only be under the influence of Germany, but also in the pay of Russia. I happen to be the only Member of our Party, so far as I know, that has received Russian gold. I got two thousand. I felt it was so tainted that, much as I could do with it, I gave it away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.397.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.423.4", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ial position of our people—men and women who are not only distressed but genuinely anxious to find a remedy.\" We are only denied one thing, and it is our misfortune. The only thing that most of us lack is the opportunity of culture and education that some of you enjoy. I do not feel bitter towards you for it; it is only my regret. I am remedying it so far as my own family is concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.423.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not say 'Go on'!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "t hon. Friend knows, not one word would have escaped me that would reflect upon a name which I revere, and I want to correct my right hon. Friend. I did not say that. I was most careful, because I knew the facts. What I said and what I repeated was that Mr. Bonar Law made a statement which I summarised in these words: \"I think you arc wrong; I do not agree with: but go on, and I hope you succeed.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.425.0", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ed to suggest. I would just make this further comment, that, while my right hon. Friend condemned the Government for their inaction with regard to France, he failed altogether to explain to us what he would have done in similar circumstances. He said that real friendship does not consist in pretending that all is well when all is not well; but does he accuse us of making any such pretence as that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.425.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "o the conclusion that even if Europe did become settled competition from the nations of Europe would be greater in the future than in the past, that we formed the opinion that more drastic measures must be taken and that in future we should have to protect ourselves from such competition and such unfair competition. The country rejected our proposals, not because they objected to Protection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.430.3", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ible. I listened, I must say, with some concern, to what the Leader of the Opposition said on this subject. He said, indeed, as I understood him, that his party did not object to remitting duties on Empire produce, in cases in which duties had already been imposed for revenue purposes, but that, when it come to imposing new taxation in order to give preference, he put that in a different category.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.430.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.430.3", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ven to risk a rise in prices of those necessaries, even though it be proposed to put duties only on those foods which come from foreign countries, and not from the Empire.\" I could understand that principle. But if food is to be interpreted as including everything which a human being can eat, then I do not understand a principle which says, \"We can tax a man's boots, his hats or his clothes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.430.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.438.0", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "preceding_text": "lure young people of 16 and upwards to these centres. 1.0 P.M. I believe it would be most useful to develop this system of juvenile unemployment centres, and I feel sure it is a proposal which will appeal to many of the women of this country. It seems strange to me that hon. Members are going to vote against the Government when in doing so they are opposing a proposal to extend this useful system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.438.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENNIS HERBERT:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is no bargain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENNIS HERBERT:", "preceding_text": "ped red and yellow; or is it to be a case of the Socialist party obeying the behests of the Liberals, and only acting in such a way as the Liberal party may sanction? What is the bargain? That is a matter upon which we have had no light yet, from any responsible Member, at any rate, of either party, and I would ask if there is any Liberal sitting on those benches now who knows what the bargain is?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENNIS HERBERT:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENNIS HERBERT:", "preceding_text": " followers of any party in this House? To put into office members of the Socialist party, with no bargain, no arrangement. And that is the action of what claims to be one of the great constitutional parties of this country. Just let us see what it is It is an attempt to help to put into office a Government which has got no assurance or guarantee whatever that it can carry on the King's Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT:", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So do we!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT:", "preceding_text": "What I want to know is, if the hon. Member, who belongs to a party which calls itself a constitutional party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.449.3", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT:", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not worry about us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT:", "preceding_text": "se to address to them as to what they should do. What is going to happen? It may be that hon. Members who answered so glibly for the Liberal party that there was no bargain are not entirely in the confidence of same of their leaders. Possibly there may yet be a bargain, but let us assume for the moment that there is not. What then, in addition to that, is going to happen to their particular party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.449.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.449.3", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT:", "preceding_text": "late reunion of the Liberal party bids fair to result in another split along other lines—a split which will never be healed—and the disintegration of the party, a part of it being swallowed up by the alligator and the more respectable members of it coming over to a purely Conservative party as the only refuge for those who hold what have hitherto been called sound constitutional views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.449.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.449.3", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To help it\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT:", "preceding_text": "right hon. Gentleman the Member for Derby (Mr. Thomas). Are hon. Members below the gangway so guileless as to believe that what he says about the Socialist International represents the truth and the whole truth? That International according to the right hon. Gentleman is an international organisation to end war. An organisation apparently, then, set up to compete with the League of Nations —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.449.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.457.6", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Russia!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA:", "preceding_text": "nd girls at a total cost of about £1,000,000, half of which has been put up by the Treasury and half by the Central Committee from the funds at their disposal from the National Relief Fund and the Queen's Work for Women Fund. When I last dealt with this matter, in July 1922, I found that the Central Committee could get together another £100,000—where they got it from I do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.457.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.461.2", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sweaters!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " Japan in 1882 those countries were almost unknown from a commercial point of view. At that time this country had at least 80 to 85 per cent. of the trade. By degrees the Germans and the Americans have encroached upon those markets, legitimately, because they have had the great benefit of having their home markets protected. We in this country have left our home markets at the mercy of any person.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.461.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.461.2", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is the same here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " trade. By degrees the Germans and the Americans have encroached upon those markets, legitimately, because they have had the great benefit of having their home markets protected. We in this country have left our home markets at the mercy of any person. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Sweaters!\"] I am pleased to hear the hon. Member say that, because on the Continent there is more or less sweating, or there was!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.461.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.461.2", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And aggravated it !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "me markets, and they reply, \"We want, our labour protected, but the product of our labour must be open to the competition of the whole world.\" That argument has, I think, been proved absolutely fallacious. We fought this election, and the Prime Minister went to the country, after having tried, not only this Government, but the Coalition Government, to cope with the fearful disease of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.461.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where does the regret come in?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": " that enormous extension of the franchise has coincided the Labour party's rise as a separate party. I frankly say to them that I have a great regret. I had the honour of a seat in this House at the same time as, and I worked with, Mr. Thomas Burt—than whom there was ne more respected Member of this House—with Mr. Broadhurst, Mr. Fenwick, Mr. John Wilson, and others. But they are gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "ouse at the same time as, and I worked with, Mr. Thomas Burt—than whom there was ne more respected Member of this House—with Mr. Broadhurst, Mr. Fenwick, Mr. John Wilson, and others. But they are gone. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Where does the regret come in?\"] I candidly confess I cannot agree with my Friends of the Labour party. They say quite frankly that they want to kill the Liberal party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": " may be said, the La-hour vote has made astonishing progress in the last few years, and we cannot get away from that fact. It is stated, I think in \"The Times\" of yesterday, that in 1900 there were 62,000 Labour votes cast, and in 1923, 4,348,000. They are the second largest party in this House, and, perfectly constitutionally, they are elected here. There has been some violence at meetings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "last few years, and we cannot get away from that fact. It is stated, I think in \"The Times\" of yesterday, that in 1900 there were 62,000 Labour votes cast, and in 1923, 4,348,000. They are the second largest party in this House, and, perfectly constitutionally, they are elected here. There has been some violence at meetings— [Interruption] —I hope my hon. Friends will accept the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": " fact. It is stated, I think in \"The Times\" of yesterday, that in 1900 there were 62,000 Labour votes cast, and in 1923, 4,348,000. They are the second largest party in this House, and, perfectly constitutionally, they are elected here. There has been some violence at meetings— [Interruption] —I hope my hon. Friends will accept the facts. [Interruption.] Well, let us say on both sides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are out of date!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": " word would have been said against their taking office. Why, therefore, am I to deny to the Labour party what I certainly should claim for the Liberal party? I do not pretend to be in sympathy with the policy of hon. Gentlemen here. I am not in favour of Nationalisation; I am not in favour of the Capital Levy; I am not in favour of the system of doles which marches under the name of Social Reform.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-18", "file": "debates1924-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "3fa87c459949aeca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.470.0", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of LABOUR (Mr. Betterton)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do you take credit for that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of LABOUR (Mr. Betterton)", "preceding_text": "on, though I have no means of knowing whether the work has been completed or whether what I am saying exhausts it. The London, Midland and Scottish Railways have now stated definitely that they have placed contracts with different firms for 127,000 tons of steel rails, 5,000 mineral and merchandise wagons, and 150 locomotive boilers, representing expenditure to the extent of about £2,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-18a.470.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.496.1", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too late!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "My information is that the effect is not as stated by the hon. Member, and that 98 per cent. of the total deficiency is made up. If the hon. Member will send me particulars and details of the county of Somerset or of his own constituency, I will at once enquire into it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.496.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.531.10", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Nor you.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "It will not be you, that is certain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.531.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.532.15", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "which he himself made before and during the General Election. The scene which we are witnessing to-day is not an execution; it is an inquest, an autopsy; and there can seldom have been a case in which the cause of death is more easily determined by the declarations of the deceased. Only last October, at Plymouth, the Prime Minister described unemployment as the most crucial problem in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.532.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.532.15", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "he General Election. The scene which we are witnessing to-day is not an execution; it is an inquest, an autopsy; and there can seldom have been a case in which the cause of death is more easily determined by the declarations of the deceased. Only last October, at Plymouth, the Prime Minister described unemployment as the most crucial problem in the country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] So it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.532.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.532.15", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"This is not a self-respecting Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "everybody who was suspected of belonging to that party. So much for the Home Secretary. Then, next to him I see on the Bench the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary for Air (Sir Samuel Hoare). The right hon. Gentleman was so much impressed by the Plymouth speech, that he told his Chelsea constituents this: No self-respecting Government faced with the present state of unemployment could go on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.532.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.589.1", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": " to the professional panic mongers, or to the obvious partisan. It is true that there exists in the country, among steady, serious, sober people, a real anxiety as to what may be the ultimate consequences of turning this Government out of office, and if the House will allow me I would like to speak on that part of the subject with the greatest frankness. I am not a Socialist; I am a Liberal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.589.1", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "an HON. MEMBER: \"Duty to whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "imate consequences of turning this Government out of office, and if the House will allow me I would like to speak on that part of the subject with the greatest frankness. I am not a Socialist; I am a Liberal—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—and no good is done by ignoring or minimising the differences between the two, but in deciding on what my duty is, having regard to the recent Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.596.0", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That you are in a minority\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "n. and learned Member for Spen Valley—have exchanged nothing but back-handed compliments. But just before the Election they apparently exchanged back numbers of their old speeches, and out of the material so provided they succeeded in constructing an address, to which nobody paid any attention, and which, therefore, they are able to claim that the country did not reject. The result is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.596.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.596.0", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not the close!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ectionist policy of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, and it rejected with equal decision the Socialist policy of the Government which the right hon. Gentleman is going to put into power. What did it want? It wanted something of the spirit, of the method, of the policy of Mr. Bonar Law, and I think it would not have been unbecoming my right hon. Friend, at the close of a great career—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.596.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.614.2", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": " of this magnificent English greatness were the masses of the people struggling daily for a daily wage. I was at that time a strong Nationalist. I have since been with equal vehemence and conviction an even stronger internationalist. I differ from hon. Members opposite fundamentally in this. They and their party have always had a distrust of the voice of the people in the Government of the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.614.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.614.2", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": " I have since been with equal vehemence and conviction an even stronger internationalist. I differ from hon. Members opposite fundamentally in this. They and their party have always had a distrust of the voice of the people in the Government of the nation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"] In my own day I have seen them oppose every effort to increase the political power of the masses of the people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.614.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.622.0", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": " right hon. Gentleman the Member for Camberwell and the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Burghs (Mr. Lloyd George) saying a man could live on 15s. per week? What could be more hideous than sentencing a child to live on 1s. a week, less than you pay to keep your dog? The Labour party is supposed to be a Socialist party. This is not a Labour party. The Labour party are in the factories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.622.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.622.0", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": " see this or that little reform. The mass of the people who worked and voted for Labour worked and voted for a new conception, for a higher standard of life for our people. I think you can only make the poor richer when you start to take from the rich and give to the poor. Your conception in the last Parliament was the opposite. You passed legislation which took from the poor and gave to the rich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.622.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " in the twelve or thirteen months of office. We have done one or two things. We have more nearly carried out what we promised in the King's Speech than any Government which has been in office for years. You may say that the King's Speech of a year ago was but a poor thing, but it is better to tell the truth, and what we undertook we carried out almost in its entirety. We settled the American debt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "essitated that worst of all things, retrospective legislation. The housing problem was in a state of unsettlement. The Tangier question had not been touched, and there was unemployment, to which we devoted a great amount of consideration, and in regard to which we did more than any previous Government had done. If we are defeated to-night, we leave for our successors no outstanding problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Housing!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "done. If we are defeated to-night, we leave for our successors no outstanding problems—[ Interruption ]—except the problem as regards the reparation question, and the French question, which is looking, far as it may be from settlement, more hopeful to-day than it has been for a long time. We leave also as a legacy the question of unemployment, as to which I shall say a few words later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Imports!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "he working man. If it be true that we are getting to that state, it makes it all the more necessary to examine most carefully whether we are not entering on an economic stage where certain restriction of exports is necessary, both for the exchanges and for the welfare of this country. I think that is a field which is very well worth the investigation of all those who devote expert attention to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.635.4", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "The party to which I belong helped in the work of settlement, but the friends of the Noble Lord resisted again and again. One of the most disgraceful spectacles which have ever been seen in this House was the / case of a General in India who committed a crime which was equal to the worst deeds committed by any Turkish General in Armenia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.635.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.636.5", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "The Noble Lord himself played a noble part in the controversy, but those who sit with him and with whom he will vote tonight did all they could to prevent the settlement. Again I refer to the hon. Member for Eastbourne, who will not deny what I am saying now. We kept Egypt under martial law, and bombed the wretched native villages with aircraft. This was the Conservative party in action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.636.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "pass a Bill for the protection of young children—a Bill to raise the age of consent of young girls and to protect them from indecent assault. That was resisted by several hon. Members, including Sir George Hamilton, who was then Mr. George Hamilton. The Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative party made him a knight and invested him with one of the orders for chivalry for his services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.640.0", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GUEST", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GUEST", "preceding_text": "in the three-cornered contests the Liberal candidate had to face representatives of both. Am I not entitled to say that if we are to be given an opportunity by the Labour Amendment of voting no confidence in the existing Government, then we are entitled to claim —if it can be obtained by Parliamentary and constitutional methods—an opportunity of registering our anti-Socialist feelings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.640.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "large degree of Socialism during the War, and I, for one, quite admit that, when a country like ours is engaged in a European war, there must be a large degree of Socialism in its government, because—and here I am afraid my hon. Friends opposite will not agree with me—Socialism is the easiest way of getting at capital resources and rendering them available for immediate spending—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "d I must admit, as I think many of us on these benches must admit, that, although there may be members of the coming Government whom we regard with suspicion, whose intelligence we regard with suspicion, yet there were plenty of members of the late Government on this side whose intelligences we regarded, not with suspicion but with a convinced disapproval, which has been again and again justified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "hom we regard with suspicion, whose intelligence we regard with suspicion, yet there were plenty of members of the late Government on this side whose intelligences we regarded, not with suspicion but with a convinced disapproval, which has been again and again justified. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"] I have named them in the course of the Election. If we regard the position of the late Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": " perdere prius dementat, this trusted, this loved Government, I think I may say, suddenly commits suicide, just as a Conservative Government had committed suicide a political generation ago, and the whole thing was, if I may use a vulgarism, thrown into the soup again. Confidence disappeared. A Cabinet Minister managed to put down the sterling exchange on New York by 20 cents in a fortnight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": " Government. After what I have said, I think hon. Members opposite will give me credit for not being in a panic. I am not Lord Rothermere. I am not even Lord Beaver-brook. But I must say that speaking for myself I fear nothing from a Labour-Socialist Government, because the deeper that Government goes into Socialistic practices the more powerful will it make the capitalist section in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "will nail Protection to the keel, which is the only bit of the ship that can now be reached, and that is what they, like all weak men, call courage. I was very much struck with the Prime Minister's speech this evening—very much struck with his courage and his cheerfulness, which were enormous. In essence what he said was, \"Lo my army is defeated, my hosts are practically exterminated\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "ry much struck with his courage and his cheerfulness, which were enormous. In essence what he said was, \"Lo my army is defeated, my hosts are practically exterminated\"—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"]—well, perhaps I exaggerate— \"my hosts, at any rate,\" if I may use a vulgarism, \"have taken a very nasty knock indeed, and are suffering very severely. The battle is completely lost\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "ss is still higher.\" I do think the Prime Minister might have thought a little more about his army and about those who stand to suffer from his defeat, the damage from which may extend to very many more than his own army. But this, at all events, we must keep before us—we must really get down now, once for all, to the basis of a true Conservative party We have been playing the fool too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.655.0", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "art of his speech, except in one thing, and that was where he informed us that Socialism was interested in finding an easy way of getting hold of capital in order to spend it. Exactly the opposite. The hon. Member knows, I know, and I think my friends around me know, that the man or the nation that finds an easy way to lay hands upon capital in order to spend it is going into the Bankruptcy Court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.655.0", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "argument. That is the argument we use against them, and apparently it is a discovery for them. Capital that is used for anything except for the specific economic purpose for which capital ought to be used—renewing capital, expanding capital, expanding the effective capital force of the country—is being misused. That is a firm, sound, fundamental Socialist attitude in regard to capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.655.0", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "ght use the illustration, during this Debate, somewhat in the position of Rebecca in \"Ivanhoe,\" with an enemy and a champion. She looked on, and a knight came from that end of the lists and a knight came from the other end of the lists; they fought, they knocked each other on the head, they unhorsed each other, and, as a result, she became free. My hon. Friends opposite look really already beaten.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.655.0", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "uring this Debate, somewhat in the position of Rebecca in \"Ivanhoe,\" with an enemy and a champion. She looked on, and a knight came from that end of the lists and a knight came from the other end of the lists; they fought, they knocked each other on the head, they unhorsed each other, and, as a result, she became free. My hon. Friends opposite look really already beaten. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.655.0", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"except!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "tion. I am bound to confess that, from the point of view of the needs of the nation, my conviction is that we have been wasting time in these Debates. Let us get on with the work. The Prime Minister says that he is leaving no outstanding problems. In my heart I never like to disagree with my right hon. Friend. I wish I did not disagree with him in regard to that statement. No outstanding problems!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.655.0", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "the Laigh of Moray from Aberdeen, and you can produce your agricultural schemes, and you can offer your inducements to the farmers to vote for you, and, in the end, nothing will be done because the very first essential of a good agricultural programme has been over looked, namely, to get the town and the country united together in a national policy which will include the well being of agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.655.0", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Voluntarily?\" Voluntarily. I am prepared at this moment to receive all criticisms of this from the other side. Yes, quite dearly that statement means voluntarily. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "ir money than their own corporation, which, after all, means their very existence. Under Labour the privileges of these corporations would be generously enlarged, and they would be able to become bankers, and with the invested capital of their own inhabitants have a balance for them which could be utilised for the improvements which would make for the well-being of all the inhabitants of the town.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.655.0", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To take the savings.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "aid some hon. Members know what is coming. Of course, it is voluntarily. Should be empowered to receive money. What are we doing? Are we stating facts or are we quibbling? I defy any right hon. or hon. Member opposite to say otherwise than that the meaning of this, as is perfectly clear from the context, is \"Why should not the local authority be given power to have the savings of the inhabitants.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.655.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If you had known them better you would not have been surprised at anything.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "preceding_text": "ty. We are out against all that his party stands for. [HON. MEMBERS \"King's Speech!\"] I am coming to the King's Speech. But the Liberals, at any rate before the Election, were as anxious as we were to expose all the elaborate fallacies of Socialism such as capital levy and other proposals made by hon. Gentlemen opposite. And therefore it is the Liberals at whose attitude we are a little surprised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "preceding_text": "orge), when he spoke first for the Liberal party, claimed that this was his programme, that it was, as he called it, not at all a bad programme, and really a re-hash of the Liberal manifesto. If they both think it so good, why are they so anxious to prevent our legislating? Nobody suggests—at any rate I have not heard anyone suggest—that we cannot claim the merit at least of sincerity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "preceding_text": "have thought they would at least have recognised that our sincerity stood beyond challenge. One hon. and gallant Member of the Liberal party interjected the other day that it was not our sincerity which they challenged, but our capacity, and therefore, presumably, a vote in favour of substituting a Socialist administration for our own is based upon the theory that their record is better than ours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ireland!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "preceding_text": "ed, but our capacity, and therefore, presumably, a vote in favour of substituting a Socialist administration for our own is based upon the theory that their record is better than ours. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] I am glad to hear that that meets with the approval of hon. Members opposite. I had proposed discussing in some little detail what it was that we had achieved during the last 14 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More than any other party!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "preceding_text": "ommonwealth, and that the class struggle is their means of realising that end? The hon. Member for Aberavon, with obvious sincerity, complained somewhat bitterly of what he said was an encouragement of class hatred from some members of the Conservative party. But at least we can claim this: that it is no part of the constitution of the Conservative party to stir up class struggle and class hatred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is an invention.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL (Sir Douglas Hogg)", "preceding_text": "arty to stir up class struggle and class hatred. [An HON. MEMBER: \"More than any other party!\"] An hon. Gentleman opposite says, \"More than any other party.\" Does he know that the Socialist parties and the Labour parties of this country are allied with the Socialist International? Does he know that the Labour and the Socialist International is a union of such parties as accept the principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.670.2", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "n common in the present position of the two parties—that they occupy, as I think the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Spen Valley said, a great deal of common ground. Before the Election the Liberal party occupied a good deal of common ground with ourselves, though some of them seem to have evacuated that part of the country. Well, Sir, I had rather face an open enemy than a false friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.670.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.670.2", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "als would remember the old Gladstonian days, and the pride with which they called themselves Liberals. It meant something in those days. Where was that to-day? There was miserable time-serving and speechifying, studying one side and then the other; and then the speaker said they were the great moderate party. He was disgusted with that sort of political work. That was the hon. Member for Aberavon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.670.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.670.2", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " great moderate party. He was disgusted with that sort of political work. That was the hon. Member for Aberavon. [ Interruption. ] That, Sir, the Liberal party will be glad to know, is the real opinion held of them by the man whom they are going to put in power. The Liberal party\"— he went on— was occupied, not with a political principle, but with mere expediency. My time is nearly up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.670.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-21", "file": "debates1924-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "1c01a9e0464777ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.680.2", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DOYLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DOYLE", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. In view of the fact that the closure was not put—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-21a.680.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-22", "file": "debates1924-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "dd700a02adf8d35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-22a.693.3", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS (SEATING ACCOMMODATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "I understand that there are certain seats on the Front Government Bench which belong to certain people. It appears to me that, as there are only a certain number of seats for the 615 Members, it might be possible to ballot for those seats at the beginning of the Session, and retain them till the end of the Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-22a.693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-22", "file": "debates1924-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "dd700a02adf8d35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-22a.705.3", "colnum": "705", "heading": "RESIGNATION OF GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member for Aberavon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "I rise to oppose the Motion which has just been made by the ex-Prime Minister. I am indeed relieved to find that hon. Members opposite, spite of their vaticinations of yesterday, are prepared for three weeks to leave the country to the tender mercies of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Aberavon (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-22a.705.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-22", "file": "debates1924-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "dd700a02adf8d35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-22a.707.9", "colnum": "707", "heading": "RESIGNATION OF GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "preceding_text": "I wish to say a few words on a subject. which I had intended to raise at an earlier stage in our proceedings. I am sure the House would not wish to separate without the subject being mentioned. I refer to the question of war pensioners. The right hon. Member for Aberavon (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-22a.707.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-22", "file": "debates1924-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "dd700a02adf8d35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-22a.707.9", "colnum": "707", "heading": "RESIGNATION OF GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "preceding_text": "hout the subject being mentioned. I refer to the question of war pensioners. The right hon. Member for Aberavon (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald) —[Interruption] —.is about to form a Government, but he will take three weeks before he is in a position to meet the House. I know that from that quarter of the House the greatest sympathy has always been expressed and felt for the war pensioners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-22a.707.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-22", "file": "debates1924-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "dd700a02adf8d35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-22a.707.9", "colnum": "707", "heading": "RESIGNATION OF GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "preceding_text": "rter of the House the greatest sympathy has always been expressed and felt for the war pensioners— [Interruption] —but I do want to urge upon the right hon. Gentleman that when his Pensions Minister has been appointed he should draw that gentleman's attention to the very complicated nature of the Royal Warrant and of the Ministry of Pensions instructions issued under the Royal Warrant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-22a.707.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-22", "file": "debates1924-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "dd700a02adf8d35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-22a.707.9", "colnum": "707", "heading": "RESIGNATION OF GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "preceding_text": "2;but I do want to urge upon the right hon. Gentleman that when his Pensions Minister has been appointed he should draw that gentleman's attention to the very complicated nature of the Royal Warrant and of the Ministry of Pensions instructions issued under the Royal Warrant. [Interruption.] The Warrant and the instructions are operating in a very detrimental way on the interests of war pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-22a.707.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-22", "file": "debates1924-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "dd700a02adf8d35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-22a.707.9", "colnum": "707", "heading": "RESIGNATION OF GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "preceding_text": "arrant and the instructions are operating in a very detrimental way on the interests of war pensioners. [Interruption.] It is perfectly well known that under instructions issued by the Ministry of Pensions a great number of people are being deprived of their pensions. They are entitled, it is true, to appear before the Appeal Tribunal, but as a rule they are not qualified to represent their eases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-22a.707.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-22", "file": "debates1924-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "dd700a02adf8d35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-22a.707.9", "colnum": "707", "heading": "RESIGNATION OF GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "preceding_text": ". [Interruption.] It is perfectly well known that under instructions issued by the Ministry of Pensions a great number of people are being deprived of their pensions. They are entitled, it is true, to appear before the Appeal Tribunal, but as a rule they are not qualified to represent their eases. [interruption.] That is common ground. The matter has been ventilated in the Press and in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-22a.707.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-22", "file": "debates1924-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "dd700a02adf8d35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-22a.708.1", "colnum": "708", "heading": "RESIGNATION OF GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "preceding_text": "The pensioner may be entitled to representation, but it is another thing to obtain representation. Everyone knows that perfectly well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-22a.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-22", "file": "debates1924-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "dd700a02adf8d35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-22a.708.1", "colnum": "708", "heading": "RESIGNATION OF GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "preceding_text": "ed—I believe the statement was made by the Minister of Pensions himself—that in 90 per cent. of the eases where men go before the Appeals Tribunal they lose their appeal. On the other hand, it has been claimed that where the British Legion has had an opportunity of representing the men they have won something like GO per cent. of their appeals. That has not been seriously controverted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-22a.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-22", "file": "debates1924-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "dd700a02adf8d35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-22a.708.1", "colnum": "708", "heading": "RESIGNATION OF GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "preceding_text": " the other hand, it has been claimed that where the British Legion has had an opportunity of representing the men they have won something like GO per cent. of their appeals. That has not been seriously controverted. [Interruption.] The suggestion I make is. and I hope the Government will adopt it, that just as poor persons are entitled to free legal advice before the Courts of this country —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-22a.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-01-22", "file": "debates1924-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "dd700a02adf8d35c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-22a.708.1", "colnum": "708", "heading": "RESIGNATION OF GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "preceding_text": "rtunity of representing the men they have won something like GO per cent. of their appeals. That has not been seriously controverted. [Interruption.] The suggestion I make is. and I hope the Government will adopt it, that just as poor persons are entitled to free legal advice before the Courts of this country — [Interruption] —war pensioners appealing before the Appeals Tribunal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-01-22a.708.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-12", "file": "debates1924-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d92d975faafa670d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.746.6", "colnum": "746", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "at we were to ft come in. I want to offer my most sincere thanks to those calm-minded, sane-minded and responsible men of business who told the country and investors not to make fools of themselves by playing into the hands of merely mischievous panicmongers. The result is that the security that my right hon. Friend opposite (Mr. Baldwin) tried hard to get, and failed to get, has been given to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.746.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-12", "file": "debates1924-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d92d975faafa670d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "we come to the problem of labour. We have had a great deal of criticism—and some of it indeed to-day—about how the only problem relating to the building of houses is trade union conditions, the refusal of dilution, and so on. It is nothing of the kind. That is not the problem. To-day we have only 50 per cent. of the men in the building trades whom we had in those trades before the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-12", "file": "debates1924-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d92d975faafa670d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.759.3", "colnum": "759", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Capital levy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "loyment, but on the restoration of trade. We are not going to diminish industrial capital in order to provide relief. I saw the other day one of those periodical attacks upon us, by people who really do not know what they are writing about—attacks which assume that. our only conception of capital is that we should raid it, distribute it for consumption, and so bring the nation to bankruptcy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.759.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-12", "file": "debates1924-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d92d975faafa670d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hoar, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " drawing off from the normal channels of trade large sums for extemporised measures which can only be palliatives. That is the old, sound, Socialist doctrine, and the necessity of expenditure for subsidising schemes in direct relief of unemployment will be judged in relation to the greater necessity for maintaining undisturbed the ordinary financial facilities and re sources of trade and industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-12", "file": "debates1924-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d92d975faafa670d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.761.0", "colnum": "761", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A hundred years ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "rs below the Gangway have been appointed for the purpose of shelving questions. But here, with a colossal Debt, with an enormous revenue to be raised under conditions that almost defy scientific accuracy in the distribution of its burden. this country is faced with a financial problem, a budgetary problem, that it has never had to face until the first financial results of the War began to be felt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-12", "file": "debates1924-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d92d975faafa670d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Undiluted individualism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ountry. The Government feel perfectly convinced that all extraneous aids to agriculture are only likely to result in a further deterioration of the agricultural mind, and an increased tendency and process on the part of farmers to trust to the power of the State and their influence in Parliament to get doles from the public purse, instead of solving their own problems by applying their own energy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-12", "file": "debates1924-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d92d975faafa670d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.778.0", "colnum": "778", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WARD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WARD", "preceding_text": "l to the money. That is exactly the situation and it is an attempt really to hoodwink the public. The hon. and gallant Gentleman opposite (Lieut.-Commander Kenworthy) said it is only to give the British trader credit. Quite The Government gives him credit until such time as he can get his payment from the other side. If he never gets it it is the British taxpayer who will be paying for this trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-12", "file": "debates1924-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d92d975faafa670d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.780.5", "colnum": "780", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WARD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why are you talking about it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WARD", "preceding_text": "should try to direct our energies into supporting trade with those countries which we know will act honestly towards those with whom they are trading? The mere fact that it happens to call itself a Socialist Government ought not to weigh with us in deciding in what direction we shall try to steer the trade of the country. I am not going to oppose recognition, because it is not worth talking about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.780.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-12", "file": "debates1924-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d92d975faafa670d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.780.5", "colnum": "780", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WARD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yours is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WARD", "preceding_text": "east during the first year. I should have more confidence, though my hon. Friends opposite may not think so, when once it was agreed in principle, in those hon. Gentlemen opposite applying those principles effectively and efficiently than even in those who adumbrated them. I believe at least that you are determined to do something, that it is not mere window dressing that you are giving us to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.780.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-12", "file": "debates1924-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d92d975faafa670d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.790.0", "colnum": "790", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "cue_text": "Hex. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST BROWN", "preceding_text": "e from the Front Bench this afternoon. When I heard the Prime Minister say that the Government scheme --this was the only practical part mentioned by him, the only thing that was not made general—was to build houses at approximate cost of £500 and let them at a rent of about 9s. to 10s. a week, I wondered when the new Jerusalem was going to be built in England's green and pleasant land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.790.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-12", "file": "debates1924-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d92d975faafa670d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "preceding_text": " other countries. That is the best way of handling the old private debts, as distinguished from Government debts. But, as far as the utilisation of the Export Credits scheme for the future is concerned, it seems to me that if the Russian Government will give us some kind of general undertaking that the goods which are sent from this country to firms trading in Russia will not be confiscated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-12", "file": "debates1924-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d92d975faafa670d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Under the old Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "it was often necessary to follow them over the frontier to bribe the railway officials, the station masters and others on the other side of the frontier, otherwise you might be perfectly certain that the goods would not arrive except after weeks of delay, but would be left perhaps in a railway siding somewhere, perhaps with a torn tarpaulin thrown over them, and exposed to and damaged by the rain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-12", "file": "debates1924-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d92d975faafa670d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.806.0", "colnum": "806", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STRANGER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STRANGER", "preceding_text": "r a minimum wage to protect him. Of the two, in my opinion, the wages board is the better, but I cannot lose sight of the fact that, at any rate, in my own constituency, and since I went to it, there are a number of gentlemen who have thought it essential to say \"Because So-and-so got in, we are unable to pay the wages we did, and for that reason we are reducing your wages from this time onwards.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.806.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-12", "file": "debates1924-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d92d975faafa670d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.825.0", "colnum": "825", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAVERACK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAVERACK", "preceding_text": "at work just as much as any inventor who may invoke the aid of the Patents Acts. That is a very important matter which we must bear steadfastly in mind. From the speeches on both sides, it seems to me that this is not a matter which should be dealt with in a private Bill, but one that should receive grave and serious consideration from the Government, because it outrages international conventions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.825.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-12", "file": "debates1924-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "d92d975faafa670d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.825.0", "colnum": "825", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAVERACK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAVERACK", "preceding_text": " aid of the Patents Acts. That is a very important matter which we must bear steadfastly in mind. From the speeches on both sides, it seems to me that this is not a matter which should be dealt with in a private Bill, but one that should receive grave and serious consideration from the Government, because it outrages international conventions. [HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"] And it outrages several treaties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-12a.825.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.851.1", "colnum": "851", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where did he say it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "ther you can repeat, with success what the right hon. Gentleman has said. That is the view of one of the two participants in these endeavours to bring about peaceful relations. Let us see what the other side have to say, and for this purpose I will quote Mr. Zinovieff, the most powerful personality and the most responsible personality in the Government of Russia to-day. He has said recently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.851.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.854.1", "colnum": "854", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "—\"and long before,\" that propaganda really does mean something, and that it is one of the gravest perils to which the world is subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.865.6", "colnum": "865", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBLRS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "But he did not take evidence. He refused. I do not want to interrupt unfairly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.865.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.865.7", "colnum": "865", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To relieve destitution.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "ry week, sent to the Ministry of Health returns showing in what respects they had done so. They were perfectly straightforward and I am not making any imputations against them from that point of view. Those reports came weekly to the Ministry of Health and showed a flagrant, avowed and I would say quite honestly conscientious determination on the part of the guardians to disregard the Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.865.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "cinded? Why are the surcharges which have been incurred under it to be remitted? It is not a question—otherwise I would not labour it to the House at this stage, but I attach the very greatest importance to it—that affects Poplar alone. Everybody knows the terrible conditions which exist in Poplar, but they do not exist only in Poplar. They exist in the surrounding unions and boroughs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Equally?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "I attach the very greatest importance to it—that affects Poplar alone. Everybody knows the terrible conditions which exist in Poplar, but they do not exist only in Poplar. They exist in the surrounding unions and boroughs. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"] They exist in many parts of the country, in the north, in Wales, and elsewhere, and the guardians who, in these equally necessitous areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.867.0", "colnum": "867", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The destitute poor! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "are they to be subjected to these attacks? That is why I attach so much importance to this question. It is encouraging, it is almost inciting boards of guardians to follow the Poplar example, and it is discouraging and paralysing these men of public spirit and a sense of public duty, open to every temptation to which men can be exposed to transcend the boundaries of law, in the interests of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.867.2", "colnum": "867", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The £180,000 for deportees to Ireland was illegal!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "and the only remedy which the ratepayers, many of whom, remember, have no votes—in Poplar 55 per cent. of the rates are paid, I believe, by people who have no votes, docks, railway companies and so on, and their money, the money they have contributed, is expended by these guardians for purposes which are admittedly illegal. Indeed, the guardians glory in it. They know they are illegal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.867.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.881.1", "colnum": "881", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "I hope the right hon. Gentleman's investigations will take him much further than that, because I am sure he will find, that clerks and their families are in just as great a difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.881.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.898.0", "colnum": "898", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are all reasonable and just on this side!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "forms which the nation is hound to have if it is to continue to be one of the greatest nations in the world. But we realise that these reforms cost money, and this question of money is not as easily solved as a great many of our Socialists appear to think. The Prime Minister was reasonable and just, and I do hope and pray that the reasonable and just men of all parties in this House will hack him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.898.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.898.0", "colnum": "898", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Your place is over here! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "t have got a better chance than any other Government. They have got to see that the workman for a fair wage will give a fair day's work. But they have also got to see that the employers must give their men more interest in their work, more interest in industry itself. I think that this is a very vital question. Workmen to-day are not going to work in the conditions in which they have been working.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.898.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.898.0", "colnum": "898", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bright red!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "hearts, want to do what is right, and, with due respect to hon. Members opposite, in the, party to which I have the honour to belong, we have got as many high-minded Christian men as any other party in the country. Very often the men who are not so high-minded or so Christian make most noise. But that happens in all parties. Every party has got its dark spots as we all know, dark and bright spots.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.898.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.898.0", "colnum": "898", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Not the Navy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "the Navy. I am thinking of nothing of the kind. I am thinking of the civilisation based on Christianity throughout the world. I welcome the League of Nations and will fight every reactionary who opposes it, but I do not want to see the League of Nations take the place of the British Navy. I welcome the Washington Conference, I welcome any other Conference which has anything to do with disarmament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.898.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AYLES", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AYLES", "preceding_text": "tances might be against it for the moment. After all is said and done in this world of ours, we have to live together. I am profoundly opposed to those who are associated with the hon. Member for Plymouth, so far as their particular views are concerned. I find it exceedingly hard to believe that those who are associated with her arc the high-minded Christian men and women to whom she has referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AYLES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AYLES", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member says \"hear, hear!\" Then why, instead of attending to the well-being of the rich who can look after themselves, not go and eliminate the slums and cease to talk about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.903.3", "colnum": "903", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AYLES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AYLES", "preceding_text": "sent was having certain effects. It was her own reference that led me to make the remarks I have made. I was making the most necessary point that sometimes it is exceedingly difficult for us to have the spirit of love in our hearts for the slum landlord and the sweater, who are now condemned, I understand, by the hon. Member for Plymouth and by all her associates on the opposite side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.903.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.903.3", "colnum": "903", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AYLES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Begin at home!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AYLES", "preceding_text": "eople might be bettered; we are working in order that we may see that the actions of members of society are of such a character that one would believe from their actions that they have love in their hearts. If you could get a state of society in which men acted as if they loved one another, gradually you would generate in their hearts that feeling of love and confidence which we ought all to have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.903.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AYLES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AYLES", "preceding_text": "ea, and in the streets when I was denied the right of speech elsewhere. I fought it through seven different prisons, and I would have fought through seventy prisons in order to stop the War and bring about a better feeling in Europe. Do not think for one moment you show your Christianity by slaughtering your brother. You can never imagine Jesus Christ dressed in khaki with a rifle on His shoulder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.913.0", "colnum": "913", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN PENNEFATHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN PENNEFATHER", "preceding_text": "ectly clear that the Government have no intention of drawing off from the normal channels of trade large sums for extemporised measures which can only be palliatives.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 12th February, 1924; col. 760, Vol. 168.] That has been understood in many quarters, and I have seen references to that effect in the Press, to mean that the present Government has abandoned the capital levy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.913.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.913.2", "colnum": "913", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. PENNEFATHER", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. PENNEFATHER", "preceding_text": "criticising the Prime Minister. I am not suggesting that there was intentional ambiguity. I am merely drawing attention to the fact that there was some ambiguity. The Prime Minister afterwards referred to the National Debt and he suggested that a Committee should be set up—a really reliable and authoritative Committee—to consider the whole question of the National Debt and of taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.913.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.915.2", "colnum": "915", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bar you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "alked this afternoon, one would imagine that we had had an impartial, judicial inquiry into our affair. What are the facts? I only want to get this out to-night in order to catch up the statements of the right hon. Gentleman while they are red hot. Who was Mr. Cooper? He was Clerk to the Bolton Board of Guardians, and a very estimable gentleman, no doubt, like everybody in this place is estimable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.915.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.923.0", "colnum": "923", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUKE THOMPSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUKE THOMPSON", "preceding_text": "tion of the shipbuilding community or country and built 83 per cent. of the world's tonnage, it is a. fact that last year we only built 39½ per cent. of the world's tonnage. Over that period there has been a gradual decline. We are building less and less ships for foreign owners, with the result that even in my own constituency last year there was not a single vessel built for foreign owners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.923.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.923.0", "colnum": "923", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUKE THOMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUKE THOMPSON", "preceding_text": " was beaten by a Dutch firm, who quoted £3,000 or £4,000 lower for a particular ship. I think the time has come—I think it is a reasonable position to assume that if it is desirable to set up a Committee as suggested by the Prime Minister to look into the incidence of taxation, it is also reasonable to set up a Commission to look into the whole question of industry in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.923.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.926.6", "colnum": "926", "heading": "PROTECTION OF HOME INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW MILNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW MILNE", "preceding_text": "£25,000,000 of capital could safely be engaged in it, and bacon and pig products could be produced here. In that way an enormous saving could be made in the purchases we are now making from abroad, and all this would accrue in addition to the enrichment of the soil. He declares that this result could be brought about without raising the cost of these products to the consumer by one halfpenny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.926.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.926.6", "colnum": "926", "heading": "PROTECTION OF HOME INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW MILNE", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW MILNE", "preceding_text": " that the price would not unduly rise above normal to the consumer. There are various other examples that could be given, but. I will pass on to the other side of the question. There is a second aspect of it in connection with our industry. I agree again that the country at this moment—for how long I do not know—has decided that it will not have a tariff to protect our home industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.926.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.926.6", "colnum": "926", "heading": "PROTECTION OF HOME INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW MILNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW MILNE", "preceding_text": " everything can be dumped over our garden wall and we cannot dump anything back again? Free Trade is a game which must be played fairly on both sides, but, in this case there is no such thing as fairness. If things continue as they are we shall have to face the fact that there will be more unemployment, because our manufacturers cannot compete in many cases with the conditions which obtain abroad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.926.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "PROTECTION OF HOME INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DARBISHIRE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DARBISHIRE", "preceding_text": "hat bacon, even for the six months during which we enjoyed the benefit. He then stated that Cobden in some speech had declared that if we adopted Free Trade or, rather, repealed the Corn Laws, every nation would go Free Trade. We challenged him, and when he quoted what Cobden had said, we found that the words were not that every nation would go Free Trade, but that they would change their tariffs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "PROTECTION OF HOME INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DARBISHIRE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quote fairly!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DARBISHIRE", "preceding_text": "lared that if we adopted Free Trade or, rather, repealed the Corn Laws, every nation would go Free Trade. We challenged him, and when he quoted what Cobden had said, we found that the words were not that every nation would go Free Trade, but that they would change their tariffs. [ Interruption. ] We have allowed your champion to speak, and I hope you will allow me to proceed with-out interruption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.938.3", "colnum": "938", "heading": "PROTECTION OF HOME INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DARBISHIRE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To follow our example!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DARBISHIRE", "preceding_text": "A change of tariff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.938.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.938.3", "colnum": "938", "heading": "PROTECTION OF HOME INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DARBISHIRE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Largely!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DARBISHIRE", "preceding_text": "illings, it is simply Protection. We are asked to approve a Committee to advise us on the question of Protection. Hon. Members opposite s [...] em to imagine that if you can stop imports coming into this country you are going to improve employment in this country. The ex-Prime Minister before the last Election told us that the unemployment in this country was due to imports from foreign countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.938.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.938.3", "colnum": "938", "heading": "PROTECTION OF HOME INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DARBISHIRE", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"He did!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DARBISHIRE", "preceding_text": "tion. Hon. Members opposite s [...] em to imagine that if you can stop imports coming into this country you are going to improve employment in this country. The ex-Prime Minister before the last Election told us that the unemployment in this country was due to imports from foreign countries. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Largely!\"] Largely due. He never gave us any facts or figures in support of that statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.938.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.942.3", "colnum": "942", "heading": "PROTECTION OF HOME INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DARBISHIRE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There has been a war since!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DARBISHIRE", "preceding_text": "And also in the 15 years before the War, so far from there being a high bank rate, the average bank rate was only 3.1 per cent., which does not point to any serious drain of gold in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.942.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.947.3", "colnum": "947", "heading": "PROTECTION OF HOME INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WIGNALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about France!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WIGNALL", "preceding_text": "ntry to-day. Some of us have travelled and travelled pretty widely, and, when we travel, we mix among the people that are affected by the economic conditions of the country. We see the workers, we mix among them, and we go and discover facts exactly as they are. I challenge anyone to point to any tariff protected country in which unemployment is not a terribly distressful thing just as it is here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.947.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.949.2", "colnum": "949", "heading": "PROTECTION OF HOME INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "did not interrupt the hon. Member when he was speaking. I challenge any member of the Labour party to quote a single community in the whole world which has established a protective economic system that wishes to change it. Did the hon. Member for the Forest of Dean (Mr. Wignall) in his investigations in the United States find any statesman or party anxious to change their present protective system", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.949.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.949.2", "colnum": "949", "heading": "PROTECTION OF HOME INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are the importers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "loyment and, at the same time, there are exposed to view in every shop in Birmingham masses of goods from foreign communities which ought to have been made by the working classes of that. community. What; is your remedy except to exclude these goods and give these men a chance? Are you going to expose the working men of this country for all time to every device and trick of unscrupulous importers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.949.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.951.3", "colnum": "951", "heading": "PROTECTION OF HOME INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "ch a reasonable and carefully considered measure of protection as enabled our local producers to get some share of their own home market for themselves. We are only asking in this Motion to apply in this country, under the difficult, circumstances in which we are existing, with one and a quarter million people walking the streets, for whom nobody on the other side seems to have any sympathy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.951.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.951.3", "colnum": "951", "heading": "PROTECTION OF HOME INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They voted against you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "hemselves. We are only asking in this Motion to apply in this country, under the difficult, circumstances in which we are existing, with one and a quarter million people walking the streets, for whom nobody on the other side seems to have any sympathy—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"]—or any sense of obligation—we are pleading for these people, who are walking our streets to-day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.951.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.953.0", "colnum": "953", "heading": "PROTECTION OF HOME INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Unemployment!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "preceding_text": "ing and shipbuilding, bring this little island of ours into close contact with the whole of the world in every sea and in every port; and by cheap transport over these thousands of miles of ocean, this little island, with its huge population and limited natural resources, holds a position in the world, which to me, and I think to any reflecting person, is astounding in the great world of industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.953.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.953.0", "colnum": "953", "heading": "PROTECTION OF HOME INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not Socialism!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "preceding_text": "nds on this side. It is not a question of difference between Socialism and no-Socialism, but between two kinds of Socialism. Our friends on this side stand for Socialism with public control. Our friends opposite on the Protectionist side stand in effect for Socialism without public control. They want to build up a system of industries living upon tariff profits of, say, 20, 30, 40 and 50 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.953.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.961.1", "colnum": "961", "heading": "PROTECTION OF HOME INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "preceding_text": "You have only just come in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.961.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.961.3", "colnum": "961", "heading": "PROTECTION OF HOME INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw, withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "I think it is clearly a misunderstanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.961.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.961.5", "colnum": "961", "heading": "PROTECTION OF HOME INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME:", "preceding_text": " the value which the Dominions attach to this Preference from the representatives of the Dominions who come to this country—representatives not only of one party in the Dominions—when, year after year, at Imperial Conference after Imperial Conference, Prime Minister after Prime Minister from all the Dominions, Labour, Liberal and Conservative, have followed one consistent policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.961.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.962.1", "colnum": "962", "heading": "PROTECTION OF HOME INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME:", "preceding_text": "I said he gave a Preference. And let us assume his Preference was a movement towards freer trade. But what was the argument of the hon. Member? It was that these Dominions did not want our Preferences, but wanted Free Trade: and if it is getting nearer to Free Trade within the Empire, it is getting nearer to what they want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.964.3", "colnum": "964", "heading": "PROTECTION OF HOME INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME:", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME:", "preceding_text": "his kind is done between the Mother Country and the Dominions, and because such business relationships are growing between Dominion and Dominion and Dominion and Crown Colony, such action will sunder the whole bond of Empire. Surely those who guide the destinies of our Dominions, and who proved what Imperial Unity is, and what a reality it is, by fighting side by side and dying with our men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.964.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.964.3", "colnum": "964", "heading": "PROTECTION OF HOME INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up, we cannot hear you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME:", "preceding_text": "n the Mother Country and the Dominions, and because such business relationships are growing between Dominion and Dominion and Dominion and Crown Colony, such action will sunder the whole bond of Empire. Surely those who guide the destinies of our Dominions, and who proved what Imperial Unity is, and what a reality it is, by fighting side by side and dying with our men— [Interruption] —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.964.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "PROTECTION OF HOME INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "People speak earnestly about things in which they earnestly believe. I would have the hon. Member know that if he tested this question in an election, or at any other time, the great majority would be in favour of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.972.0", "colnum": "972", "heading": "PROTECTION OF HOME INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\" and Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "This Resolution concerns a most important. problem affecting the lives of every man, woman and child in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.972.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-13", "file": "debates1924-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "f8e5b9c8167ab4b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.972.0", "colnum": "972", "heading": "PROTECTION OF HOME INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": " and will see that it can do no harm whatever to have this question carefully considered by a Committee of experts, so that the very best brains of this country may be called in to deal with it, and so that we may have the opinions of those who are interested in employment, those interested in the carrying and distributing trades and all the other trades which make up the industry of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-13a.972.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-14", "file": "debates1924-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9b327a5db0f9709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1005.1", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Commander LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "is the hon. Gentleman aware that this officer was not only murdered, but was refused the privilege of burial by the English clergyman at Petrogad, and that his body was mutilated? Is not this a matter which should be investigated?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-14", "file": "debates1924-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9b327a5db0f9709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1012.7", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "MR. WALLHEAD, M.P., AND LIEUT.-COLONEL J. WARD, M.P.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. WARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. WARD", "preceding_text": "propaganda that is carried on in my constituency, and in the constituencies generally, by the party to which the hon. Member belongs it is necessary that an opportunity should be given to me to deny this accusation that I had taken any of the money paid—or alleged to have been paid—by the British Government to Admiral Koltchak. Admiral Koltchak was a high-souled Russian patriot\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1012.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-14", "file": "debates1924-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9b327a5db0f9709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1013.0", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "MR. WALLHEAD, M.P., AND LIEUT.-COLONEL J. WARD, M.P.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Prove it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "ssion was the giving of moneys, or the paying of moneys, or the extraction of moneys from people in this country by the present Soviet Government, and I interjected that it had been done before, and that Admiral Koltchak had done it, and I further interjected that the hon. and gallant Member had had some of it, and I did that on the assumption that he was an officer in the pay of Admiral Koltchak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1013.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-14", "file": "debates1924-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9b327a5db0f9709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1013.0", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "MR. WALLHEAD, M.P., AND LIEUT.-COLONEL J. WARD, M.P.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": " extraction of moneys from people in this country by the present Soviet Government, and I interjected that it had been done before, and that Admiral Koltchak had done it, and I further interjected that the hon. and gallant Member had had some of it, and I did that on the assumption that he was an officer in the pay of Admiral Koltchak. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Prove it!\"] I am saying that is my assumption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1013.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-14", "file": "debates1924-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9b327a5db0f9709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1015.5", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Translate!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "uine gaze transformed the situation, and where all was chaos and disorder, peace and prosperity are beginning to feign. Then comes my right bon. Friend the Member for Paisley (Mr. Asquith), an older, a more experienced, and a soberer politician, and he tells us that, as far as he can see, no change except of persons is yet apparent, and that, indeed. \"Plus ca change plus c'est la méme chose.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1015.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-14", "file": "debates1924-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9b327a5db0f9709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1015.5", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ste of MacMahon? I want to know from the Government exactly what the Prime Minister means. What kind of Motion is he going to treat as one which requires his resignation, and what kind of decision is he going to accept and carry out, even though it be in con- tradiction to the advice which he may have given? Take, for instance, this Motion of my right hon. Friend the Member for Paisley, on Poplar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1015.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-14", "file": "debates1924-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9b327a5db0f9709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1015.5", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The same as Protection!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " have been given which are not to be fulfilled, would it be too much to ask that the Prime Minister should ask his private secretary to collate his various election pledges, and should then look through them and be prepared to tell the House at an early date which he does mean to keep and which he does not? Then, for instance, there is the question of the Capital Levy. What is its position to-day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1015.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-14", "file": "debates1924-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9b327a5db0f9709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "edit which is engaged in trade. If it is neither capital invested in the national securities nor such as he described as industrial capital to which he can apply his tax, when he has got to that point, does he not think it would be better, once and for all, since confidence is his object, to say that the Capital Levy, which a year ago was to be levied on all capital from £1,000 upwards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-14", "file": "debates1924-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9b327a5db0f9709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1094.3", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "It depends what form the Resolution takes. I can imagine a defeat on Poplar which would be a vote of censure, and I can also imagine a defeat on Poplar which would not be a vote of censure at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1094.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-14", "file": "debates1924-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9b327a5db0f9709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "work. As far as mining is concerned, what Government can neglect that problem? This Government has a greater representation of miners upon it, and has a very much larger representation of miners among its supporters than any Government that has ever existed in this country. It is complained that our unemployment proposals are a hash up of previous proposals. We are pursuing a policy of continuity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-14", "file": "debates1924-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9b327a5db0f9709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1105.4", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": " of the tied cottage as an iniquity which ought to be wiped out by this Government are putting the Minister of Health into a great difficulty. If he has to deal with that as well as all the others which him, then I say, God help him! Do hon. Members who raise this question realise that the tied cottage is part of the essential equipment of the agricultural industry about which they are so anxious?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1105.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-14", "file": "debates1924-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9b327a5db0f9709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1105.4", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why tie it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": " right of perpetual residence to a labourer whether that labourer is disabled or not, or whether he is working on that particular farm or not? It would be impossible to work a farm on those lines. The labourer must be on the farm, and the tied cottage must either be vacated by an outgoing labourer, when a new labourer is taking his place, or else another cottage must be built for the new labourer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1105.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-14", "file": "debates1924-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9b327a5db0f9709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1122.1", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain TERRELL", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Well done!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain TERRELL", "preceding_text": "say it is up to us, whatever party be in power, to do whatever we can to raise the lot of the agricultural labourer, and I will give this assurance that even if it be a Socialist Government which introduces legislation to place the industry of agriculture on an economic basis, and then introduces any Measure you like to improve the lot of the agricultural labourer, I shall support that Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-14", "file": "debates1924-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9b327a5db0f9709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1122.1", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain TERRELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain TERRELL", "preceding_text": "iced that the Prime Minister, when he started on the part of his speech which dealt with housing, appeared to be struggling under great difficulty, because he had to explain to the House the position of his party as far as dilution in the building trade is concerned. He stated that the laying of bricks was a highly-skilled trade. I do not notice that any hon. Members opposite cheer that statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-14", "file": "debates1924-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9b327a5db0f9709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1123.1", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain TERRELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Marvellous!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain TERRELL", "preceding_text": "ers available, but the factory had to be put up, and without delay. That factory was built in exactly three weeks, working night and day, and with only two orieklayers. It was practically built by labour drawn from oyster dredgermen unemployed owing to the War, and yacht hands. Under the supervision of these two bricklayers that factory, of the dimensions T have stated, was erected in three weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-14", "file": "debates1924-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "b9b327a5db0f9709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1123.1", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain TERRELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Who made the bricks?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain TERRELL", "preceding_text": "uilt in exactly three weeks, working night and day, and with only two orieklayers. It was practically built by labour drawn from oyster dredgermen unemployed owing to the War, and yacht hands. Under the supervision of these two bricklayers that factory, of the dimensions T have stated, was erected in three weeks. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Marvellous!\"] It was marvellous. Is that a highly-skilled industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-14a.1123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-15", "file": "debates1924-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2fa334a3dc843db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1184.2", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. MORRIS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. MORRIS", "preceding_text": " and no certificate can be granted to a club for the sale of intoxicating liquor. There is no provision at all, in the case of licences being withdrawn, for the payment of compensation in money. As an alternative to that, we have followed the precedent of the Scottish Act, and we say \"we shall not pay compensation in money, but we give you notice of five years before the Act comes into operation.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1184.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-15", "file": "debates1924-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2fa334a3dc843db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1184.2", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. MORRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "ectly well, that the result of the reduction of licences has been a growth in the number of clubs. In Glamorganshire and Monmouth and in Wales as a whole there has been a considerable reduction in licences since 1905, although not nearly enough according to the scales that have been laid down What has been the result in regard to clubs during that period? The number of clubs has more than doubled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1184.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-15", "file": "debates1924-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2fa334a3dc843db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1184.2", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. MORRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. MORRIS", "preceding_text": "ON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] Hon. Members ask me \"Why not?\" I have seen the objection stated that if we bring the clubs under this Bill in the way we do the result will be that a bench of magistrates can suppress a political club which does not share its views. That is ridiculous, and for this reason, that a club is either, first of all, a political club, or its main object is to obtain a certificate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1184.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-15", "file": "debates1924-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2fa334a3dc843db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1202.0", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "means the accumulation of a certain fund if necessary. Not only that, but during that period no licence can be abolished on acount of redundancy but only on account of misconduct, which means for a period of five years absolute security of tenure for the licence holder. On the question of compensation, I am authorised by my hon. Friend to say that he is prepared to consider amendments in Committee", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-15", "file": "debates1924-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2fa334a3dc843db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1211.0", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Capital Levy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "preceding_text": "bers should be consulted as to its provisions, with a view to co-operation, if possible, and with a view to minimum opposition failing absolute co-operation. That step has not been taken, and I say, with the Mover of the rejection, that the provisions of the Bill secured no mandate from the electors at the last General Election. That election was fought solely upon Protection and Free Trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-15", "file": "debates1924-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2fa334a3dc843db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1215.0", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Rhys Davies)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite right!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Rhys Davies)", "preceding_text": "overnment in regard to it. Before doing so, may I say that I was very interested to see the combination just now against the Bill. The Mover of the rejection of the Bill comes from Cardiff and is a Conservative, while the Seconder, a Labour representative from Pontypridd. The combination is not very often found in that way, and I do not anticipate that such a combination will last very long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-15", "file": "debates1924-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2fa334a3dc843db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1218.0", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "you had better try to convert an honest party than one that is not honest on the question of drink. I paid due respect to my Liberal Friends on this question because they have always been perfectly consistent about local option. Now we are asked to vote on the principle of local option, the members of the Labour party opposite have joined with the trade forces because they are afraid of the clubs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-15", "file": "debates1924-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2fa334a3dc843db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1243.0", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tory.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "preceding_text": "ink so. As a matter of fact, judging by the scores of opinions I have had in Manchester from Wales, there are many people in Wales who disagree with the Bill. First of all, I should like to know if the hon. Member for Cardigan mentioned local option in his election address, and whether it was a first class issue in his contest. I have a cutting here from the \"Western Mail\"—a Welsh newspaper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-15", "file": "debates1924-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2fa334a3dc843db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1243.0", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dundee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "preceding_text": "cal option you want. It is in the hope and belief that you will get prohibition. Why are you not honest about it? You might at least confess that this is a pussyfoot method of introducing prohibition into Wales, in the ultimate hope of introducing prohibition into England. There is no member in this House who could win a seat in this country in Wales, or in Scotland, on the subject of prohibition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-15", "file": "debates1924-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2fa334a3dc843db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1245.1", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "preceding_text": "esorts. I have been in Wales once or twice on a Sunday, and have been very glad to get out of it. But I have friends who have been known to get a drink in Wales, even on a Sunday. They were law breakers. I would not do that, of course. For a district like Llandudno, residential as it is, to vote itself dry would have a damaging effect upon trade, because visitors would decrease in the summer time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-15", "file": "debates1924-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2fa334a3dc843db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1245.1", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "preceding_text": "untry amongst millions. We ought to recognise it as such, and permit it, even if it is an evil to a certain extent, and not try to prevent those who desire these things from getting it. This is not the first time that a Bill of this description has been introduced. I believe this is the eighteenth occasion, and each Bill has met with a similar fate to what I expect this Bill will meet with to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-15", "file": "debates1924-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2fa334a3dc843db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1245.1", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "preceding_text": "t. It reminds me of a certain gentleman who was asked his opinion of Guinness' stout. He said it was both food and drink; and a night's lodging if you got enough of it. I am absolutely convinced that true temperance reform must start with the individual. It is no use trying to introduce repressive legislation to compel people to be teetotal. Nobody asks a man to drink if that man does not want to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-15", "file": "debates1924-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2fa334a3dc843db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1245.1", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "preceding_text": "d see! If you cannot get a change of heart and a change of mind into the people of this country it is no use legislating for them. The man who takes too much drink is dealt with by nature. That, I think, we must admit. As I said in the early part of my statement the average person is not a drunkard. There are, I know, isolated cases where the children are neglected as the consequence of the drink.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-15", "file": "debates1924-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2fa334a3dc843db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1248.0", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is your point of view.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "preceding_text": "iend into the Hotel Cecil. Whenever an effort is made, however, to improve the conditions under which people consume alcoholic liquor objection is always raised before the licensing magistrates. Surely there ought to be a certain freedom given to every section of the community? In this matter, I suppose, that England to-day must save Wales, and in saving Wales, England will also be saving herself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-15", "file": "debates1924-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2fa334a3dc843db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1260.0", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Morgan Jones)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Morgan Jones)", "preceding_text": " but because I was obliged to discuss this question of local option at the last Election. It is true there were other questions before the constituency. There was the question of Protection and the question of the Capital Levy. But it is rather curious that at most of the meetings the question time, which I invariably allowed, was taken up almost exclusively with questions upon this subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-15", "file": "debates1924-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2fa334a3dc843db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1261.0", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "n. I do not want State ownership and control without local option, for it seems to me very largely futile. No Member of this House who has participated in this Debate has in the slightest degree been able to deny that for nearly half a century Wales has been, and still is, in favour of the demand for local option. For good or for ill the Welsh people are in advance of the English on this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-15", "file": "debates1924-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2fa334a3dc843db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1264.0", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HERBERT NIELD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A joke!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HERBERT NIELD", "preceding_text": " which fell from the Under-Secretary for Home Affairs. Speaking of Monmouthshire in relation to statistics which he was giving, the hon. Member said that Monmouthshire was not Wales, for that purpose — it was in all criminal matters a part of England. That, if it means anything, means that social habits in relation to the consumption of alcohol in Monmouthshire, constitute a criminal matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-15", "file": "debates1924-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2fa334a3dc843db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1264.0", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HERBERT NIELD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Private profit.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HERBERT NIELD", "preceding_text": "licensing bench for a licence. I am a magistrate of 30 years' standing, and I know something about the inner workings of the bench. Why is it that well-known teetotal fanatics are allowed to sit on these matters and judge questions of licensing, and yet the man who, however remotely, is interested in the drink traffic is rigorously excluded by law? Even a debenture holder may not sit on the bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-15", "file": "debates1924-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2fa334a3dc843db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1267.0", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Scrymgeour!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-15", "file": "debates1924-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2fa334a3dc843db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1268.0", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "No; you made a distinct arrangement two days ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1268.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-15", "file": "debates1924-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2fa334a3dc843db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1269.4", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " been said that it is an undue interference with individual liberty. I cannot remember any proposal which was ever made in this House which was not open to the same argument. A hundred years ago a proposal was made that children between the ages of five and six years should not be allowed to work in factories for 12 hours a day, and it was opposed by the ancestors of hon. Gentlemen opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1269.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-15", "file": "debates1924-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2fa334a3dc843db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1269.4", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEMPERANCE (WALES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ed with the liquor traffic. My time is nearly done, but may I say one word to my hon. Friends behind me, and I am quite sure that they will take it in the kindly and fraternal spirit in which it is intended. I said that I supported this Bill as a private Member. But I can claim to support it too, because it is and has been for 20 years part of the programme of the party with which I am associated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-15a.1269.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-18", "file": "debates1924-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "97be55aeb63539ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1285.3", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "Would it not be advantageous to civilisation if the right hon. Gentleman were to ask the United States Government to take over Mexico?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1285.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-18", "file": "debates1924-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "97be55aeb63539ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1294.0", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman not also aware that the people of India want to be released—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-18", "file": "debates1924-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "97be55aeb63539ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1383.0", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir LAMING WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir LAMING WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": ", is miscalled the dole. There is no ignominy or stain of any sort for a man to go upon the Unemployment Fund when his circumstances so require. We are, and we always have been, in favour of contributory insurance. The only effect of the gap is to take a man from the contributory insurance scheme and put him on to the rates—a non-contributory insurance scheme so far as that man is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1383.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-18", "file": "debates1924-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "97be55aeb63539ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1388.2", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "How. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "year. The Act of 1921 gave 26 weeks' benefit in the year, and the right hon. Gentleman the late Minister of Labour made it 44 weeks' benefit last year. Therefore the gap was frankly an expedient to spread the money out as far as we could. Further—and I will be quite frank with the House in this—it was an endeavour to remind the recipient of the money that he must really bestir himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1388.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-02-18", "file": "debates1924-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "97be55aeb63539ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1405.0", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "ing with the greatest possible interest the proposals for obtaining work. I say that with all the more confidence because of statements of the Prime Minister and members of the Government during and after the Election. The Prime Minister, for instance, said: Labour would take office, because in defiling with unemployment they believed they had a programme and a power that no other party posseesed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-18", "file": "debates1924-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "97be55aeb63539ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1406.0", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "not at all the kind of men they are used to dealing with—men who have been in skilled employment for many years, and who own houses—and this small reform is long overdue. May I address myself especially to the hon. Lady who represents the Office of Labour on the Treasury Bench? In my constituency, from which I have just returned, and where I have been consulting with the dockers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-18", "file": "debates1924-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "97be55aeb63539ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1415.0", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALSTEAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come up here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALSTEAD", "preceding_text": "e right thing in passing this Bill. I was interested to hear the Minister of Labour saying that the poverty of many of the people who receive unemployment benefit is so great that they cannot afford so much as a penny to purchase anything other than food. I wonder if right hon. Gentlemen quite realise that the lack of purchasing power in itself is one of the causes of unemployment in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1415.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-18", "file": "debates1924-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "97be55aeb63539ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1415.0", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALSTEAD", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALSTEAD", "preceding_text": "l stimulate the home market to such an extent as to reduce the unemployed class very considerately. I appeal to hon. Members in all parts of the House to concentrate on this problem because if there is one thing that the people of this country expect this Parliament to do it is that it should solve the problem of equitable wealth production and wealth distribution and solve it in such a way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1415.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-18", "file": "debates1924-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "97be55aeb63539ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1417.0", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "t is true that the people who are engaged in the work are also paying the very considerable share of £16,000,000 a year, and that the State is contributing £213,000,000. The original principle was that there should be means whereby, after intervals of time, a test should be applied as to whether a man honestly sought work or not. In this legislation you are departing from that principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1417.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-18", "file": "debates1924-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "97be55aeb63539ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1433.0", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISEASES OF ANIMALS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You would! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "preceding_text": " will be called upon to explain the most difficult sentence I have ever seen written in any Government document which has ever been issued. I thought I was accustomed to the phraseology of these things. I must not quote the sentence now. I read it three times the right way round, and I read it twice the wrong way round, and T believe 1 understood it more readily reading it backwards than forwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-18", "file": "debates1924-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "97be55aeb63539ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1452.0", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISEASES OF ANIMALS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir HARRY BARNSTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much more do you want?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir HARRY BARNSTON", "preceding_text": "s outbreak more than any other, I hope the Committee will forgive me if I make a few remarks and ask for a little information. I do not believe anyone realises who has not lived in Cheshire, as I have done, the awful agricultural condition of that county. The House dislikes personal statements, but I think it likes information at first hand. I happen to own a small property just under 3,000 acres.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-18", "file": "debates1924-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "97be55aeb63539ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1481.2", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISEASES OF ANIMALS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member opposite must know that there was little or nothing from the other side which needs reply. Speeches have been made demanding information which hon. Members have already in their possession, and they have been made with the idea, possibly, of getting the Minister to give more to the farmers and the landowners than they are likely to get.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1481.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-18", "file": "debates1924-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "97be55aeb63539ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1485.3", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISEASES OF ANIMALS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "y wasted because there are no animals to consume it), loss of trade, and all that kind of thing—it does not form a basis upon which any Government is allowed to compensate under the terms of the Act. The same thing applies in regard to labour, and let me say here that I am indeed gratified to find so many of my hon. Friends opposite expressing a real concern about the labourers on the farms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1485.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-02-18", "file": "debates1924-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "97be55aeb63539ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1494.3", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Have not some of these schemes been held up while the change of Government has taken place?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPE", "preceding_text": "In the first Session of a now Parliament the House really requires some explanation as to the nature and scope of these Orders. May I ask the Minister of Transport to give some explanation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1494.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-02-18", "file": "debates1924-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "97be55aeb63539ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1496.3", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has suggested that we should confirm 10 or 12 Orders to-night. I take it that hon. Members would be prepared to confirm to Orders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-18a.1496.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1513.1", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HODGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HODGE", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. Gentleman made himself acquainted with the evidence tendered over a series of years before the Public Accounts Committee, whereby it has been revealed that many millions have been lost to the public through the administration of the financial side of the War Office and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1513.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1525.2", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman not realise the difficult position in which all these business men find themselves, and how important it is to make business arrangements for the coming season, so that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1535.0", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL DEBT COMMITTEE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "Might I also raise the same question? Scottish Members having been insulted by having their representation on the Front Bench cut down by two—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1537.1", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL DEBT COMMITTEE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ten o'clock!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "In consequence of the statement made by the Leader of the House that the Government might consider the advisability of giving more time to the answering of questions, will my right hon. Friend bring before the Cabinet the question as to whether the Government are prepared to recommend to the House to meet earlier so as to give more time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1539.6", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DOCK STRIKE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "I should explain, Mr. Speaker, that my question is not on the paper, but I handed it in at the Table.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1539.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1540.9", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DOCK STRIKE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "What authority has the hon. Gentleman for stating that no action of this kind has been taken hitherto? Is he not aware that the practice in most cases has been to give notice to the defence that it is going to happen, and why is it that a Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1540.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1598.3", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "as the Committee knows, nothing of the kind is involved. It only provides guarantees—nothing more—and that after the strict, inquiry to which I have referred. Again, there is criticism on the point that the proposal which we are now making is too limited in its character. I have heard it suggested that them is no reason why we should not extend the guarantee to, say, £100,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1598.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1603.0", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are doing very well.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "discounted capital value of the interest granted. We had some evidence that that would be a very considerable incentive to public utility companies, particularly to gas companies, in incurring the necessary capital expenditure in putting down and extending their mains and so on. If that is work which could be done it is valuable work. I hope the hon. Gentleman is not going back upon that proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1603.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1610.0", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "sday the Lord Privy Seal said that what we did was simply to buy off the anger or discontent of the unemployed people by giving them grants or bribes. Let it go at that. Here we have, and I am glad to see it, the Labour party's first constructive essay at finding work as a better alternative to money relief. Do not let me be unfair. This is their first, but it will not be their last by a long way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1610.0", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "is the maximum.\" Finally, the Government of the Sudan is to be guaranteed in respect of a loan up to £7,000,000 as against the £3,500,000 previously enacted. So far, so good, but with every desire to praise, and with every desire to make allowance, does any hon. Member honestly say that these proposals represent anything approaching the requirement of the Labour Government's undertaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1610.0", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You will not have to wait long!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": " a loan up to £7,000,000 as against the £3,500,000 previously enacted. So far, so good, but with every desire to praise, and with every desire to make allowance, does any hon. Member honestly say that these proposals represent anything approaching the requirement of the Labour Government's undertaking. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I am glad to hear that. I suppose it will he requited hereafter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1610.0", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Would you vote for that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "as the maximum to which the trade facilities schemes should be raised. Of course, I follow all that was said about the inexpediency of going too far, but I would point out that the Government have a year before them, and if they were able to implement one-tenth of the honest professions that they put before the people they will want, not £50,000,000 or £65,000,000, but £100,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1621.3", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "cue_text": "laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to transgress the rules, but we are dealing with trade facilities, and anything connected with trade facilities surely is germane to the present discussion The Consular Service has a great deal to do with the advantages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1621.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1669.1", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for AIR (Mr. W. Leach)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for AIR (Mr. W. Leach)", "preceding_text": "ent is preparing for peace. We can already see a break in the clouds. The right hon. and gallant Gentleman wants me to define the attitude of the Government towards national defence. He asks in plain, explicit terms are we going on with the expansion scheme? I am going to tell him in plain and explicit terms that there is no change in the policy of the Government for the time being on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1672.3", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEACH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"TWO hundred!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEACH", "preceding_text": "tance of our shores. I suppose that on that as a pious declaration little criticism can be made; but I have wondered whether it is a practical proposition. I have wondered what the right hon. and gallant Gentleman envisaged, supposing you have the unhappy event of war. Say our signallers warn us of the approach, say, of 100 fighting aeroplanes upon London. Are we to have 100 to go up to meet them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1672.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1672.3", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEACH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Five hundred!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEACH", "preceding_text": "ious declaration little criticism can be made; but I have wondered whether it is a practical proposition. I have wondered what the right hon. and gallant Gentleman envisaged, supposing you have the unhappy event of war. Say our signallers warn us of the approach, say, of 100 fighting aeroplanes upon London. Are we to have 100 to go up to meet them? [HON. MEMBERS: \"TWO hundred!\"] Two hundred ready!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1672.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1674.0", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Major - General SEELY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major - General SEELY", "preceding_text": "ment of our Army and of our Navy, and of our Air Force, too. Surely, with all respect, Sir, we must challenge the Government on this point of view. I will only detain the House for a little while, but I will endeavour to show that this matter is of vital importance to us. The Under-Secretary asks: \"What is the defence against aeroplanes?\" He answers that by saying, a Change in the national spirit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1674.0", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Major - General SEELY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The international.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major - General SEELY", "preceding_text": "oo. Surely, with all respect, Sir, we must challenge the Government on this point of view. I will only detain the House for a little while, but I will endeavour to show that this matter is of vital importance to us. The Under-Secretary asks: \"What is the defence against aeroplanes?\" He answers that by saying, a Change in the national spirit. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"] He said \"the national spirit.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1674.0", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Major - General SEELY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major - General SEELY", "preceding_text": " to us. The Under-Secretary asks: \"What is the defence against aeroplanes?\" He answers that by saying, a Change in the national spirit. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"] He said \"the national spirit.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"The international.\"] Well, the international spirit. He did say \"national,\" but let, it stand—a change in the international spirit. Who are the aggressors? Who have been the aggressors?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1678.0", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "preceding_text": "acks from the air. The Under-Secretary asked what was meant by adequate protection, and he said he believed preparedness was not a good weapon. That may be, but unpreparedness is a very much worse weapon, and it is a double-edged one, likely to hurt us very seriously. The Under-Secretary quoted an old military maxim, and I will quote one which is that \"Attack is the best possible form of defence.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1678.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1688.0", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Rear - Admiral SUETER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There would have been no war!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rear - Admiral SUETER", "preceding_text": " Members in this House when they talk so much about disarmament, in view of the extraordinary condition of Europe at the present time. Can any hon. Member tell me what is likely to happen within the next 20 years in Europe? Notwithstanding, they come to this House and talk about disarmament. If we had carried out before the War the policy of the Under-Secretary for Air we should have lost the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1688.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1688.1", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\" \"Sit down\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1688.5", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Sit down! Shut up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1688.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1689.1", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral SUETER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral SUETER", "preceding_text": " in the Mediterranean. The French took over one of the Zeppelin airships, and lost the \"Dixmude\" with about 35 men on board. She was getting to be an old airship. I happened to pass the airship shed near Toulon when she went out over the Mediterranean. She had a long cruise and the morning after she was lost I picked up off the shore near Cannes great pieces of ice, salt water frozen on the shore.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1690.0", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " a city by aeroplane which I doubt—the enemy will probably find out where your defences are. It is not difficult, after all, to find out where our aerodromes are, or our mechanical workshops, and to attack places where aeroplanes are not concentrated. That is not an unfair argument. The conclusion that I reach is that the only sound strategy that can be adopted is to attack the other people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1690.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1690.0", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "r for the Isle of Wight, were broadcast and were explained to and understood by the masses of the people in this country and in France, Spain, Belgium, Germany and Russia, you would, eventually, after a few lectures of that sort, educate public opinion to such an extent that a remedy would be demanded and there is only one remedy and that is all round disarmament and an international police force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1690.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1692.1", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We always did!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " am convinced they will rise in sheer desperation and overthrow the existing system of society. Then we shall get internationalism after a catastrophe which will probably mean the end of civilisat ion as we know it. The alternative is to be sensible and to educate public opinion. I hope the Government will do what they can to influence public opinion by sane propaganda and education on this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1694.0", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOO RE-BRABAZON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did not your people have them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOO RE-BRABAZON", "preceding_text": "done with the very best intentions, and, although I am not referring to Members on the Front Bench, it seems to us that many hon. Members opposite appear to live in a world where there are not hats, but only halos. Some of the halos do not fit very well, and have slipped down, and they seem to be looking at the world through a fog. Hon. Members on the Front Bench now have the emoluments of office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1694.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1694.0", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOO RE-BRABAZON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There are too many Scottish Members!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOO RE-BRABAZON", "preceding_text": "em to be looking at the world through a fog. Hon. Members on the Front Bench now have the emoluments of office. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Did not your people have them!\"] I am not complaining. I am congratulating them on having them, but, now that they have got them, I warn them that should they ever receive a letter from Spain regarding a certain prisoner, not to part with any of their hard-earned money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1694.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1697.4", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "as -between the fighting men and. the non-fighting population. In the last War they were burning Jingoes in this House; they were burning Jingoes in Fleet Street, but those who were in the fighting line and in the heart of things were up against the reality of war, and there was not that Jingo spirit to be found in them. The Jingo spirit was exorcised by the experiences through which the men went.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1697.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-19", "file": "debates1924-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "b31b605c0690f724", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1700.3", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order. order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "preceding_text": "Before that Question is put, may I point out to you, Mr. Speaker, that you promised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-19a.1700.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-20", "file": "debates1924-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "4bbd90cb66380bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1716.1", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"What about Turkey?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "Does not the Government think, considering their entering into arrangements with Russia, that it is advisable that the people here should know the conditions under which labour is carried on? May I press the right hon. Gentleman for an answer? On a point of Order, Mr. Speaker. Am I not entitled to ask a question of that nature and get a reply?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1716.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-02-20", "file": "debates1924-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "4bbd90cb66380bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1731.1", "colnum": "1731", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "That is not a new phenomenon.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that it is absolutely impossible to hear some of the replies to questions? When some of the Ministers stoop down towards their papers we cannot hear a word of their answers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-20", "file": "debates1924-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "4bbd90cb66380bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1748.5", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Where all good things come from. On a point of Order. I understand the Noble Lord to say I organised them. I will give the Noble Lord the opportunity of withdrawing that statement; otherwise I shall characterise him in the language he deserves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1748.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-20", "file": "debates1924-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "4bbd90cb66380bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1753.8", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DOCK STRIKE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"With whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "The position is perfectly clear. If hon. Members opposite are determined that no agreement is to be reached, then they may press such questions as these. I say that the matter is in hand, and that negotiations are being conducted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1753.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-20", "file": "debates1924-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "4bbd90cb66380bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1827.2", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "CLASS VII.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LINFIELD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Stables!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LINFIELD", "preceding_text": "d to receive back the money which it had previously advanced, except on the payment of £100 per house more than the original advance. I should like also to call attention to the question of a subsidy for small property. This may seem a small matter, but it affects building all over the country. There are large, well-built properties all over the country that. could be converted into cottages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1827.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-20", "file": "debates1924-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "4bbd90cb66380bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1832.0", "colnum": "1832", "heading": "CLASS VII.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": " say he has not asked a sufficient sum of money. I should like to put a few further questions to the Minister. He may remember that a few days ago the Prime Minister made what I think was a most extraordinary statement. He said that those houses under the 1923 Act were only occupied—I believe that was the effect of his words—by about 10 per cent. of the class who ought to live in them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1832.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-20", "file": "debates1924-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "4bbd90cb66380bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1834.1", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "CLASS VII.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "heme, confirm that statement of the Prime Minister? Is any distinction going to be made in the utilisation of this money such as has been indicated by the Prime Minister the other day? I remember when this matter was discussed in the House before, Mr. Speaker Lower said that he was just as much entitled to be regarded as one of the working classes as any other person, and he thought a bit more so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-20", "file": "debates1924-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "4bbd90cb66380bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1834.1", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "CLASS VII.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did not you do it? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "th whether he is satisfied, now that we are going to have a new ideal administration in the government of this country, that the sum of £2,500 is going to meet the needs of this very large body of deserving men? I doubt very much if it will. Is the right hon. Gentleman, having investigated the facts, prepared to say on his own responsibility that he is making adequate provision for these men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-20", "file": "debates1924-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "4bbd90cb66380bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1849.0", "colnum": "1849", "heading": "CLASS VII.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "I labour under a difficulty here in the fact that I am defending the policy of my predecessor,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1849.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-20", "file": "debates1924-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "4bbd90cb66380bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1849.0", "colnum": "1849", "heading": "CLASS VII.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON, MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "I labour under a difficulty here in the fact that I am defending the policy of my predecessor, [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I can assure the Committee that had there been a tenth part of the sympathy for ex-service men and others among the party opposite 12 months ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1849.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-20", "file": "debates1924-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "4bbd90cb66380bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1850.0", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "CLASS VII.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "e the housing problem than will be done by interference on the part of the Government. Prior to the departure from power of the party opposite, a speech was made from this bench which seemed to indicate to the public that things were going gloriously in the. matter of housing. Indeed, figures were given which seemed to prove that all the house shortage in this country would be removed immediately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-20", "file": "debates1924-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "4bbd90cb66380bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1851.1", "colnum": "1851", "heading": "CLASS VII.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In what period?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": " certificates issued to private builders differs very, very substantially from the number of approvals received by the local authorities. Let me remind the Committee again that the number taken out was 63,870, but the number actually issued to this date is only 33,044. So that, roughly speaking, out of the number of approvals received by the local authorities, only about one-half have been issued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1851.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-20", "file": "debates1924-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "4bbd90cb66380bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1857.4", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "CLASS VII.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "I think the reading of the letter has minimised the importance of the error—if it was an error.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1857.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-20", "file": "debates1924-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "4bbd90cb66380bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1858.1", "colnum": "1858", "heading": "CLASS VII.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I for one have sat through practically the whole course of the Debate and I did not know that we were discussing these unclassified services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-20", "file": "debates1924-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "4bbd90cb66380bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1862.1", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "CLASS VII.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about slum clearances!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "some of the new houses I have gone into. As a rule the second-hand house has stood the test of time, and is very often an infinitely better house than many of the new ones. Every one of these new houses eases the pressure in regard to other houses, and so we gradually get along towards some equilibrium in the law of supply and demand, and in this way we do something to meet the shortage of houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-20", "file": "debates1924-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "4bbd90cb66380bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1871.3", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "CLASS VII.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": " has brought in the public utility company, and the hon. Member, who is a vigilant guardian of the temple of the faith, leaves it to an individualist—to one altogether outside the temple, outside the pale—to show this disastrous derogation from Socialist principles on the part of those whom he supports. I think it is most regrettable. Not all the red flag of Poplar will wipe this away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1871.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-20", "file": "debates1924-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "4bbd90cb66380bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1871.3", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "CLASS VII.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "supports. I think it is most regrettable. Not all the red flag of Poplar will wipe this away. [ Interruption. ] It is the right hon. Gentleman and the Under-Secretary for Scotland on the Front Bench with whom I am concerned. I have no doubt of the fidelity of the uncorrupted Gentlemen on the back benches. I am willing to allow that they are incorruptible, but the Front Bench has fallen from grace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1871.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-20", "file": "debates1924-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "4bbd90cb66380bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1884.1", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "UNCLASSIFIED SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUKES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Not all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUKES", "preceding_text": "pleasure of moving this Motion tonight, to read of the opposition which it then received. May I for a moment or two call the attention of hon. Members to the underlying principle of this Motion? In the case of the widow and the dependants of the man who happens to fall fighting for his country, or who died as a result of injuries received, the State has recognised its obligation to his dependants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-20", "file": "debates1924-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "4bbd90cb66380bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1884.1", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "UNCLASSIFIED SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUKES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or buy houses!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUKES", "preceding_text": " personally vouch for, because I have been connected with some of the negotiations. We have the ironworks labourer at 34s. 10d. a week, if he is lucky enough to work a full week. But thousands of these men to-day are working only three days a week, and are taking home less than £1. Will anyone pretend that such a man can make provision for insurance out of that limited earning capacity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-20", "file": "debates1924-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "4bbd90cb66380bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1888.0", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "UNCLASSIFIED SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BAKER", "preceding_text": "t is a further step towards the recognition of the collective responsibility of the nation for the wellbeing of every citizen. I suggest that the opposition which has been directed in the past against this and similar proposals, is not due to any unwillingness to expend money but is due to a reluctance to take any step upon the inevitable path towards Socialism. This is an instalment of Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-20", "file": "debates1924-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "4bbd90cb66380bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1888.0", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "UNCLASSIFIED SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BAKER", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BAKER", "preceding_text": "gainst this and similar proposals, is not due to any unwillingness to expend money but is due to a reluctance to take any step upon the inevitable path towards Socialism. This is an instalment of Socialism. [HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"] I am flattered that I should be interrupted on this, the first occasion I have addressed the House. I say again deliberately that this is the first instalment of Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-20", "file": "debates1924-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "4bbd90cb66380bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1894.0", "colnum": "1894", "heading": "UNCLASSIFIED SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDWARD WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDWARD WOOD", "preceding_text": "ke, in passing, to point out to him—I do not want to develop the point—that I am afraid I am one of the people who are able to see a difference between the recognition of the State's obligation to the dependants of those killed on military or naval service, and its obligation to the dependants of those who die in the course of industrial national service. I will not develop that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1894.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-20", "file": "debates1924-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "4bbd90cb66380bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1899.0", "colnum": "1899", "heading": "UNCLASSIFIED SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "oing to minimise the difficulty of making the Budget meet, and of meeting the demands for social reform and for the reduction of current taxation, so long as our enormous War Debt remains. Probably many Members of the House are aware of the attitude that I have long taken towards that question. I recognise the very great difficulty of doing what it is necessary to do unless we have a Capital Levy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1899.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-02-20", "file": "debates1924-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "4bbd90cb66380bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1903.0", "colnum": "1903", "heading": "UNCLASSIFIED SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Widowers' pensions.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "ifficult to meet the facts without a Capital Levy. I appeal to all those who take that view, whether they said \"No, no!\" just now, or whether they belong to the other party which rejects this proposal for a Capital Levy, not to leave it to us to say that we could not have these widows' pensions because they reject that proposal. If that proposal be rejected, what about the other forms of taxation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1899.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-20", "file": "debates1924-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "4bbd90cb66380bfb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1935.5", "colnum": "1935", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1923–24.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then the last Government was right \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "preceding_text": "inal amount of £3,500,000, making a total of £13,000,000. I would like to emphasise the fact that we are not committed to any further guarantee. This is the last instalment, and the Government are doing this to fulfil an undertaking which was made in order to set this great enterprise on a sound basis, and to promote What, we think, will be an advantage both to this country and to Sudan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-20a.1935.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.1961.3", "colnum": "1961", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: Shame!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "Before an answer is given, will the right hon. Gentleman take into account that several conscientious objectors have been sent to this House by the electorate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.1961.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.1964.5", "colnum": "1964", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COMPTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COMPTON", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman take into consideration the number of maid servants that have been brought over here by Gentlemen on the opposite benches?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.1964.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.1973.2", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Divide!", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The Motion stood over, under Standing Order No. 10, until a Quarter past Eight this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.1973.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.1973.4", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Divide!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has the necessary number of supporters, and accordingly the discussion will take place at a quarter past eight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.1973.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.1975.0", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DOCK STRIKE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "With the indulgence of the House, may I be permitted to pay a tribute to the Labour Minister for the patience and ability with which he has dealt with this dispute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.1975.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.1981.7", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DOCK STRIKE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "I have been asked several supplementary questions. I think, in effect, they answer each other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.1981.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.1982.5", "colnum": "1982", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DOCK STRIKE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "The allegation was quite definite. The police officer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.1982.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.1982.7", "colnum": "1982", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DOCK STRIKE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "What I have done was to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.1982.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2084.0", "colnum": "2084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "thout some comment. It is simply canting humbug to say that to employ a skilled engineer on road work appreciably deteriorates his skill. It is nonsense. It is the sort of cant to which we have got accustomed in this country. There is not the least doubt that in a fortnight an engineer, fitter or turner, who is really skilled will recover totally from the effect on his skill of years of road work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2084.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2098.1", "colnum": "2098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "May I put a further question? Is there going to be some employment in connection with the inebriates of Scotland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2099.0", "colnum": "2099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY UNDERSECRETARY for HEALTH (Mr. J. Stewart)", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY UNDERSECRETARY for HEALTH (Mr. J. Stewart)", "preceding_text": "schemes. What we have to deal with to-night is merely the making of provision of 50 per cent. of the interest charged on loans already approved. We have nothing whatever to do with the conditions of employment at this particular moment. We cannot under this Vote reply to the charges which have been made dealing with the Glasgow Corporation. We cannot tell you the exact amount that has been raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2099.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2121.4", "colnum": "2121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "hipbuilding. The next question is, What is going to be the effect of building the five light cruisers? It may have a, slight immediate effect on employment at the favoured ports, whose representatives were so much in evidence at question time to-day, but what will be its general effect upon shipbuilding? The owners who to-day are giving orders for ships are doing it with little prospect of profit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2121.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2122.0", "colnum": "2122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I would ask the Government to reconsider this whole question. I have been examining the figures of our naval strength in light cruisers and other craft, and I think the case against building light cruisers to-day is overwhelming. I am going to trouble the House with a very few figures. These quotations are from a recognised work of reference, \"Brassey's Annual\" for 1920–21.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2125.1", "colnum": "2125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "aly because we have concentrated on the Mediterranean Fleet, and the Italians are approaching France, according to the Press, with invitations to join them in meeting this threat from England. This building programme, I am afraid, must be interpreted as a threat by people with whom we are at present on very good terms, and, since my right hon. Friend took office, on better terms, I am glad to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2126.1", "colnum": "2126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I will not offend again. I must however trouble the House with one more figure. On the 20th July last, I asked the right hon. and gallant Member for Evesham (Commander Eyres-Monsell), who was then speaking for the Admiralty, how many light cruisers were in commission by the various Powers, and the figures he gave were astonishing. Japan had 11, France four, and the British Empire 34.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2126.1", "colnum": "2126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ve to be manned, equipped and maintained. They will lead to great expenditure. The whole of that money must come out of the money needed for social reform, housing, etc. It is said to be necessary to employ men to build ships that are not required. Why not build something more useful? Could not we build locomotives and railway wagons, with long credit, for those European countries which need them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2127.4", "colnum": "2127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Mr. Speaker did not hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ind me is above falling into mistakes. The hon. Member who moved the Motion himself admitted that he had done so by mistake. He informed the House that he did so under the impression that the Government was to begin building these cruisers without asking the sanction of Parliament. The hon. Gentleman, in excusing himself for that mistake, said he did not hear what the Parliamentary Secretary said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2127.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2127.4", "colnum": "2127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was the supplementaries!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "nformed the House that he did so under the impression that the Government was to begin building these cruisers without asking the sanction of Parliament. The hon. Gentleman, in excusing himself for that mistake, said he did not hear what the Parliamentary Secretary said. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Mr. Speaker did not hear!\"] I have a document in my hand from which the Parliamentary Secretary read his answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2127.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2127.4", "colnum": "2127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " proceed with the work as soon as the necessary Parliamentary sanction has been given. Then there was a supplementary question. My hon. Friend said it might not be necessary to put down a token Vote. My hon. Friend assumed—and I am not sure he assumed wrongly—that, in the ordinary course of affairs, the matter had been discussed in the Estimates, or would be discussed in the Estimates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2127.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2128.0", "colnum": "2128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "We are not quite certain as to exactly how far the reply of the right hon. Gentleman carries us. He used the expression, \"No keel will be laid down.\" I suppose the critical question is whether any tender will be accepted? No doubt that is the primary point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2133.0", "colnum": "2133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "preceding_text": "I have some hesitation in intervening after the Prime Minister's address, but, hon. Members have clearly shown their intention of continuing this not very necessary Debate, despite the Prime Minister's appeal. We, on this side, little thought when he hauled down our flag a month ago, that we should be called upon so soon to support the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2133.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2137.3", "colnum": "2137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "s will not come down from Heaven, like manna. It will have to be taken from the taxpayers. I hate taxes, and I do not propose to allow this Government of any Government to put more taxes upon me or upon my constituents when I feel that they are not justified. To lay down cruisers from a defensive point of view before they are wanted is waste. I learned the lesson when I was at the Admiralty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2137.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2137.3", "colnum": "2137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Like the Liberal party!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "iralty—[ Laughter. ] It is very easy to laugh, but those hon. Members who laugh cannot correct me in what I am saying. When I was at the Admiralty I learned the lesson that you should never lay down a ship, especially a battleship, until it is absolutely necessary, because if you do it will be obsolete. These cruisers, I have not the smallest doubt, will be obsolete before they are finished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2137.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2137.3", "colnum": "2137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why are you doing it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "ey are finished. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Like the Liberal party!\"] My hon. Friends need not bother about the Liberal party. The Liberal party is not obsolete. May I put this point to the Prime Minister, that in considering the naval programme, we do not want these small instalments. We want to consider the naval programme as a whole, when the Naval Estimates are presented. We cannot criticise this to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2137.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2137.3", "colnum": "2137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why do you not wait?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": " small instalments. We want to consider the naval programme as a whole, when the Naval Estimates are presented. We cannot criticise this to-day. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why are you doing it?\"] We cannot criticise this to-day as to whether it is sufficient or insufficient, because we do not know what the Government are going to propose on the whole. Therefore, I say, wait until the Naval Estimates are out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2137.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2137.3", "colnum": "2137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "t I am sorry they have embarked upon this policy. I should be false to my own pledges and to my opinions were I to support them to-night. I shall go into the Lobby against them, for I do not believe, and it is well for the Conservative party to understand it, that spending the taxpayers' money will permanently relieve unemployment. Let that get into their minds. I know there is a good deal.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2137.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2140.1", "colnum": "2140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "preceding_text": "In placing these cruisers it is understood that one cruiser is to be placed in each of the Royal Dockyards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2146.0", "colnum": "2146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A first instalment!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "re, ultimately, to accomplish. I realise that the Opposition Benches make complaint to us—I am rather glad they have—that the programme now contemplated is only about half of that which they on that side contemplated, that instead of being the eternal cry, \"We want eight, and we won't wait,\" they are now content to do some waiting while the programme of five cruisers is proceeded with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2149.0", "colnum": "2149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I.", "cue_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "preceding_text": " expend public money without the consent of the House. I have not the least idea on what ground you, Mr. Speaker, gave your permission, but I hazard the conjecture it must have been done upon that ground that the decision was given. It also appeared likely, too, that this new expenditure was of a new kind. Therefore, there was a double reason why the Chair should allow this Motion for Adjournment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2149.0", "colnum": "2149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I.", "cue_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "preceding_text": "sons have been demolished by the speech of the Prime Minister. First of all, he has definitely said that no expenditure whatever will be incurred on these cruisers without the House has had an, opportunity of giving its consent. Secondly, he has made it plain—at least he made it plain to me—that if we build these cruisers we shall not be exceeding by one single ton the Washington Pact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-21", "file": "debates1924-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "cc69acd57eff4e9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2151.1", "colnum": "2151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear! hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "n mind. We have only six light cruisers, and, with the five proposed to-day added, 11. The French have 14, the United States 16, and the Japanese are to have 22, or, with the Japanese Fleet cruisers added, 25. Those are the facts, and I would ask hon. Members opposite to bear them in mind. They may think that the Coalition Government and the Conservative Government were militarist in their policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-21a.2151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-22", "file": "debates1924-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac1573e17103879c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2166.4", "colnum": "2166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT RESTRICTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENJAMIN GARDNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENJAMIN GARDNER", "preceding_text": "this Bill. When the Ballot favoured me as it did, I knew that one subject of very great interest and importance to the workers of this country was the present state of the law with regard to house control and for that reason I chose to introduce this Measure. This Bill is frankly a tenants' Bill, just as openly a tenants' Bill as the last Bill—which became an Act—was a landlords' Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2166.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-22", "file": "debates1924-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac1573e17103879c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2166.4", "colnum": "2166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT RESTRICTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENJAMIN GARDNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENJAMIN GARDNER", "preceding_text": "owing. He may obtain possession if he can—not necessarily prove—but allege that a tenant is a nuisance. He can obtain possession if there be any misconduct; he can obtain possession if his son wants the house; or if he says his son wants the house; he can gain possession if his daughter wants the house; he can obtain possession if his sisters or his cousins or his aunts want the house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2166.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-22", "file": "debates1924-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac1573e17103879c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2166.4", "colnum": "2166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT RESTRICTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENJAMIN GARDNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENJAMIN GARDNER", "preceding_text": "ng ham Mail\" of the 31st January, in which it was stated that the Estates Committee of the City Council of Birmingham were making a report to the Council at the next meeting, in which it was disclosed that there were in Birmingham 646 empty houses up to and including £26 rateable value, and above £26 rateable value there were 314 houses, making a total of 960 houses held-up in that city.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2166.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-22", "file": "debates1924-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac1573e17103879c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2179.1", "colnum": "2179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT RESTRICTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": " to get yesterday in the Return I asked for in connection with one and two apartment houses. The latest census returns show that in 1921 there were 124,367 houses of one apartment in Scotland. When I say one apartment, I mean one apartment. There is no scullery, but only one apartment. I am going to suggest that our people are the finest race and the finest people on the face of God's earth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-22", "file": "debates1924-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac1573e17103879c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2181.0", "colnum": "2181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT RESTRICTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "se declines to proceed with the consideration of a Measure involving important alterations in an Act passed only last Session until a full inquiry has been held into the working of the Act and the nature and extent of any alterations which may be advisable. The Mover and Seconder of this Bill stated that it was a tenants' Bill, and that the Rent Restrictions Act of last year was a landlords' Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2181.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-22", "file": "debates1924-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac1573e17103879c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2181.0", "colnum": "2181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT RESTRICTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "cannot make landlords do anything except keep the roof and the drains watertight. I regret that the hon. Member has so little knowledge of the Act. As a medical officer, I have been able to get a great deal done by landlords negligent or ignorant of the condition of their cottages. Under the 1919 Act, sanitary authorities can compel landlords to do anything, practically speaking, that is required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2181.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-22", "file": "debates1924-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac1573e17103879c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2187.0", "colnum": "2187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT RESTRICTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL ROBERTS:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL ROBERTS:", "preceding_text": ";must be hound to vote against this Bill. I want now to deal in detail with one or two of the most important provisions of the Bill, and to refer, first of all, to the very important matter of the adjustment of the conflicting claims of owners desiring occupation of their houses and tenants who are occupying those houses. There you have an equal amount of hardship on the one side and on the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-22", "file": "debates1924-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac1573e17103879c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2187.0", "colnum": "2187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT RESTRICTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL ROBERTS:", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are a respectable body of people.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL ROBERTS:", "preceding_text": "ry quits and find ourselves entirely square with the Minister of Health with regard to his Scottish Bill of last year. Also I have been told since I came into the House that the Property Owners' Association in London and Manchester has sent out circulars to all their members telling them not to take advantage of this technical mistake in the law and to play the game by their tenants in the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-22", "file": "debates1924-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac1573e17103879c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2210.1", "colnum": "2210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT RESTRICTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are doing it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "more, because the hon. Member gave very close attention to it at the time it was going through the House of Commons, and I thought he was familiar with all its provisions; but when he said that, under that Act, the landlord, without providing alternative accommodation, could claim the house for himself and a whole tribe of relatives and dependants, I think he must have forgotten what the Act says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-22", "file": "debates1924-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac1573e17103879c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2210.1", "colnum": "2210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT RESTRICTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If the right hon. Gentleman will read the Section, he will find he is wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ember for East. Willesden will look at Section 4, Subsection (1), paragraph IV, he will see that the landlord has only not got to provide alternative accommodation in the case where he requires the house as a residence for himself or for any son or daughter of his over 18 years of age. It does not include the case of the employé, in which case alternative accommodation has got to be provided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-22", "file": "debates1924-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac1573e17103879c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2213.4", "colnum": "2213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT RESTRICTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "Six weeks for a previous inquiry, but before that many, many thousands of cases of injustice had been committed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2213.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-22", "file": "debates1924-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac1573e17103879c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2213.4", "colnum": "2213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT RESTRICTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, it is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "legislation. We have passed through all its stages this week a Bill to abolish the gap, a Bill which met with the approval of hon. Members opposite, without any suggestion that this was a question that should be inquired into. Is it going to be the policy of hon. Members opposite that, whatever Bill is introduced by hon. Members on this side of the House, a Motion is to be put down for an inquiry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2213.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-22", "file": "debates1924-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac1573e17103879c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2215.2", "colnum": "2215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT RESTRICTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS\" What does that matter?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman does not seem to realise that the Labour Party is going diametrically opposite to the two Labour Members who signed the Minority Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2215.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-22", "file": "debates1924-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac1573e17103879c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2217.1", "colnum": "2217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT RESTRICTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. WILSON", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. WILSON", "preceding_text": "of the tenants, and especially of those people who have no houses to go to. Respectable peple come to me and say, \"We want to get married, but we cannot get a place to live in for love or money,\" and I know it is true. An hon. Member said something about the next generation not being able to bear certain demands; but there will not be any next generation unless we do something to meet this demand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-22", "file": "debates1924-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac1573e17103879c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2222.0", "colnum": "2222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT RESTRICTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "ember for Shrewsbury, in his maiden speech, stated that it was necessary in order to get profit, and that they must have a return for their money. But why should you have any profit out of the flesh and blood of the working man? Why should profit be made out of the homes of our people? Why should not our people have homes—never mind houses? I can remember a King's speech by the present King.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-22", "file": "debates1924-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac1573e17103879c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2222.0", "colnum": "2222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT RESTRICTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Bill wants to alter that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "ned, private enterprise has miserably failed. Can you blame the Labour party for the slums of our great industrial centres? Who is responsible for the slums? You, Sir, from West Woolwich. It is those who have been in authority, those who have been the Government of this country, both nationally and locally, who are responsible for the slums of our great cities. Therefore we want to alter all that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-22", "file": "debates1924-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac1573e17103879c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2222.0", "colnum": "2222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT RESTRICTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Especially cruisers!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "ngdom of Heaven on earth, but we Scotsmen are doing all we can in our day and generation to build a road—that is what our Prime Minister said, that this Government was not going to be able to usher in the Socialist Commonwealth, but we were going to try to a road that would reach that great high ideal, and everything that we do in this House is done with that as our guide in all our actions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-22", "file": "debates1924-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac1573e17103879c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2234.1", "colnum": "2234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT RESTRICTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "law of supply and demand and all these other things to get full play. Do hon. Members ever pause to consider the consistency of what they advocate. They have just gone to the country against Free Trade; they have told the country that if it wants to run its affairs successfully it must abandon Free Trade and that only to the extent to which it abandons Free Trade can the country hope for succcess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-22", "file": "debates1924-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac1573e17103879c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2234.1", "colnum": "2234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT RESTRICTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "n this House, as an impartial committee of the nation, being prepared to see that all sections of the nation are treated equitably by those who dominate its affairs? You always think in terms of a small class. You have not yet shed your minds of the idea that the only way in which a country can be great is that you should have a small ruling class, with a great multitude perpetually in subjection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-22", "file": "debates1924-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac1573e17103879c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2239.0", "colnum": "2239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT RESTRICTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir THOMAS INSKIP", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir THOMAS INSKIP", "preceding_text": " imagine. The right hon. Gentleman has this afternoon appeared in the guise with which we are more familiar than that in which he has lately appeared. This Bill is occupied with a subject which, if any subject could be, should be above a party point of view, party controversy, and personal recrimination. He addressed to us recriminations which were not only offensive, but intended to be offensive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-22", "file": "debates1924-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac1573e17103879c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2240.1", "colnum": "2240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT RESTRICTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman may have intended to say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-22", "file": "debates1924-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac1573e17103879c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2240.1", "colnum": "2240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT RESTRICTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "ughter from 25 to 30 years in good situations. That man has retained possession of that house and used every artifice to defeat the landlord's occupation of his own premises with the result that for five years this ex-service man and his wife and family, including a daughter aged 13 years, and a son aged seven years have had to sleep [...] n one room. If any hon. Members doubt my assentions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-22", "file": "debates1924-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac1573e17103879c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2243.1", "colnum": "2243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT RESTRICTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "nalise the landlord, but you will not encourage him to repair his house. Mention has been made of the number of evictions that are taking place as the result of the 1923 Act; but there are far more evictions taking place in some of our old cities, such as I know so well, because houses are out of repair and are subject to condemnation orders, than there are evictions as the result of the 1923 Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-22", "file": "debates1924-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac1573e17103879c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2245.1", "colnum": "2245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT RESTRICTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "impossible by the policy of the Labour party. The right hon. Gentleman may have a magician's wand, he may be the fairy godmother that is going to make houses spring up like mushrooms for the working classes, but his hopes will be disappointed, if he is going to start on this hypothesis that no private person is to be allowed, as the hon. Member for Dumbarton says, to build or to own a house—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-22a.2245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-25", "file": "debates1924-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8ce8f7e513aaaecc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.42.6", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DOCK STRIKE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "em that they are prepared to co-operate, and they have been co-operating in this business. As a matter of fact, the inward and outward mails during the strike have exceeded 50,000 bags. We had some delay in connection with 5,000 bags at Plymouth and we have had some trouble with these thousand bags at Tilbury. Unfortunately, I was unable on Friday to get in contact with the officials of the union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.42.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-25", "file": "debates1924-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8ce8f7e513aaaecc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.42.6", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DOCK STRIKE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fortunately!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "we have had some trouble with these thousand bags at Tilbury. Unfortunately, I was unable on Friday to get in contact with the officials of the union. [ Laughter. ] There is nothing to laugh at. The ship was leaving at one o'clock, and when I attempted to get into touch with the officials to ask them to give the instructions which they had undertaken to give, unfortunately they were in conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.42.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-25", "file": "debates1924-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8ce8f7e513aaaecc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.44.0", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DOCK STRIKE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "I do not exactly know where the mails are at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.44.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-25", "file": "debates1924-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8ce8f7e513aaaecc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.45.0", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DOCK STRIKE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "On that same point of Order. The Postmaster-General has intimated to the House that the necessary steps are being taken to ensure that these mails will reach their destination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.45.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-25", "file": "debates1924-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8ce8f7e513aaaecc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.50.2", "colnum": "50", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I really was hoping that it might be possible to dispose of the Poplar point by 8.15 to-morrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.50.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-25", "file": "debates1924-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8ce8f7e513aaaecc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.50.2", "colnum": "50", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I really was hoping that it might be possible to dispose of the Poplar point by 8.15 to-morrow. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"] I understood that it had been filed down to a somewhat small issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.50.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-25", "file": "debates1924-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8ce8f7e513aaaecc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.50.6", "colnum": "50", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I am quite in the hands of the House. I am expressing my own views, and I put them forward in the form of an appeal. The appeal I make is that we try and get on with the business. I understood that the Poplar point had been filed down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.50.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-25", "file": "debates1924-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8ce8f7e513aaaecc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.134.0", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNETT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The elephant house\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNETT", "preceding_text": "clusion. As the senior Member for the Regent's Park district, I have for the past five years, in season and out of season, been advocating the removal of those unsightly buildings which deprived the public of so much space that should be devoted to their enjoyment and recreation, and by slow degrees I succeeded in obtaining from the right hon. Gentleman's Department the removal of those buildings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-25", "file": "debates1924-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8ce8f7e513aaaecc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.137.0", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN BAIRD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN BAIRD", "preceding_text": "were to have regard, a great deal of this work would not have been put in hand, it is true to say that the community as a whole will benefit. Not only those who live in London, but those who come from distant places in the country, will benefit from the money spent in keeping the parks up to a standard higher than that of any parks in any other part of the world, as I think we are entitled to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-25", "file": "debates1924-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8ce8f7e513aaaecc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.171.2", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir BERTRAM FALLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not confined to the East!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir BERTRAM FALLE", "preceding_text": "orce to let him know that the individual who is travelling must be respected. I was very much interested to hear an hon. Member speak on the question of the Armenians. We are all interested in Armenia and in the sufferings of the Armenians. The right hon. Gentleman called them Christians. I would rather call them people professing the Christian religion. There is a vast difference between the two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-25", "file": "debates1924-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8ce8f7e513aaaecc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.190.4", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "preceding_text": "This is an entirely new Motion, and the right hon. Gentleman should give us a statement of the general policy of the Government with regard to this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.190.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-25", "file": "debates1924-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8ce8f7e513aaaecc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.195.0", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ne can do it, to see that this money is wisely and judiciously spent in the future. With regard to the particular railways which were mentioned in those unpronounceable names by my hon. Friend (Sir R. Hamilton) in describing them to the Committee, I can only bring a practical mind to bear. I can tell where a junction is necessary by looking at a map. I can easily tell where there is a bottle-neck.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-25", "file": "debates1924-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8ce8f7e513aaaecc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.211.0", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPE SIMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPE SIMPSON", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-25", "file": "debates1924-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "8ce8f7e513aaaecc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPORT [20TH FEBRUARY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "n with not only London but Amsterdam and other Continental places-shall be controlled by the Minister of State whose Department they think they could influence. The mistake previous Governments have made is in thinking that modern London, with its big Labour movement, with its new spirit of public administration is going to allow them to wipe their feet on it as old Tory London allowed to be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-25a.214.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.226.2", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MERCANTILE MARINE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman give us the name of the Minister responsible for pledging the Government to take no share in the commercial control of the company?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "I am not satisfied, on the information in my possession, that there is any ground for complaint with regard to the Anglo-Persian Company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.261.2", "colnum": "261", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Agreed!\" and \"One!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": " Spoor) which has delayed those arrangements. I certainly hope it will be possible to make them. As for the other question, if the curiosity of Members be maintained at its present level, it is clear that all the Ministers cannot be under the review of questions. In order to share Question Time more fairly, the House might, therefore, be willing to allot to each Member not more than two questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.261.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.261.2", "colnum": "261", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed\" and \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "the facilities of this House. Some hon. Members, apparently, are unable to ask questions without following them up with Supplementary questions, and those are usually the hon. Members who have already three questions on the paper. I think that it might be for the convenience of the House if, at the beginning of next week, we were to limit the number of questions allowed to each hon. Member to two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.261.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.261.2", "colnum": "261", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More time!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "House if, at the beginning of next week, we were to limit the number of questions allowed to each hon. Member to two. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed\" and \"No!\"] I would point out that that number would enable hon. Members to ask eight questions a week. The number of Members who avail themselves of the opportunity is such that it is only in this way that the time at present allotted can be made sufficient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.261.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "Would it be possible to ration the Ministers with a certain number of questions each day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "PERSONAL EXPLANATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BAKER", "preceding_text": "as called to the question, you requested the hon. and gallant Member to withdraw it. The difficulty has arisen, so far as I am concerned, because the Press have published that question and its withdrawal has prevented the official denial being given to the allegation contained in the inquiry. I wish to take the opportunity of saying that the insinuations in the questions are without justification.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPLAR ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIANT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Like Poplar!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIANT", "preceding_text": "n general. After all, Poplar is only an example of what will always happen under a system which is obsolete. I suggest that the Poor Law, whatever its virtues may be, is not so full of vices as many hon. Members think. Even under the present Poor Law, an extraordinary number of reforms can be carried out if a board of guardians desires to make it a humane instrument of relief instead of a machine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPLAR ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIANT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIANT", "preceding_text": "he Minister has remitted any surcharges thereunder, that action does not mean that any illegal expenditure has been or will be sanctioned? Will the Government intimate to boards of guardians generally and the Poplar Board of Guardians particularly, that they must carry out the law and that the Ministry will hold them responsible for any breaches of the law? Will the power of surcharge be retained?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPLAR ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIANT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIANT", "preceding_text": "d it seems to be the only chance which will present itself this year. I believe Members of all parties are sincerely anxious for an immediate reform of the whole system, and perhaps my right hon. Friend will consider this suggestion and give an answer later on. I should not have moved this Resolution to-day if it were merely a Vote of Censure and not a matter relating to a pressing social problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPLAR ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIANT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIANT", "preceding_text": "e themselves were only too eager to support an armed revolt against the law when Home Rule was proposed. I hope, therefore, they will keep quiet on this occasion and will leave the criticism to men like myself who cannot be accused of open revolt against the law. I hope the House will treat the subject not merely with a desire to score off anybody but with the desire to provide some useful result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.323.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.332.0", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPLAR ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KEENS", "preceding_text": " the Mayor of Poplar (Mr. C. W. Key) said as follows: There was a fear that the success which had attended the Labour administration in Poplar might incite other people, up and down the country, to try to do the same sort of thing for themselves. If the working classes in other districts were alive to their interests, they would not only try to copy Poplar, they would try to do better than Poplar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.334.3", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPLAR ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KEENS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bumbledom!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KEENS", "preceding_text": "ans at first. There was an unemployed demonstration and then they put it up. There was another demonstration and they put up the Christmas relief, and after a further demonstration they put up the scale of relief higher than anything they had ever done. They yielded to clamour, but the other boards in necessitous areas were subject to the same clamour and to the same pressure, and they stood firm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.334.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPLAR ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "not worse than, those existing prior to the present Poor Law system. The lavish allowances of Out-door Relief encourage persons to apply who would not otherwise do so, and it is made altogether too easy for persons to obtain assistance from the guardians. The guardians' policy has a tendency to demoralise the recipients and is calculated to destroy incentive to thrift, self-reliance, and industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPLAR ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "he lavish allowances of Out-door Relief encourage persons to apply who would not otherwise do so, and it is made altogether too easy for persons to obtain assistance from the guardians. The guardians' policy has a tendency to demoralise the recipients and is calculated to destroy incentive to thrift, self-reliance, and industry. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] That is the report of an independent inspector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPLAR ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": " Guardians do not deny it. I do not know whether the House has seen a very delightful pamphlet published by the board of guardians of Poplar as their official answer to Mr. Cooper. I have a copy of the pamphlet which is headed, \"Guilty, and proud of it.\" On the first page of this somewhat cheerful statement they say \"they are poor because they are robbed and they are robbed because they are poor.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPLAR ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is Tory!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "plar realises quite well that it is secure of victory with the right hon. Gentleman who is now Minister of Health. Why did the Poplar Board of Guardians go immediately to the Minister of Health and ask for the remission of this surcharge? Because they thought that they had got a Minister at last who was sympathetic to their views. I have here an article in the \"Workers' Weekly\" of the 5th instant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.362.3", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPLAR ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "There is no distinction between the deserving and undeserving poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.375.0", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPLAR ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": ". A man and wife got their £1 and their rent and eighteen pence for coal, and no more. If there was a child they got extra, and I challenge the hon. Member for Lambeth to say whether, if a case of that kind came before him, he would not be obliged to give more to the man and woman with children than to the man and woman with no children. That is all the Poplar guardians did, and nothing more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.375.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.386.0", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPLAR ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ng the law. Among us, no one is charged with not acting bona fide in all these matters. The auditor has published two half-year's accounts. He is a curious person, this auditor. He is doing a third period now. I cannot think but that somebody must have whispered to him to keep the books open a little longer. Perhaps someone will tell us why he has not closed them. I want to say this finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPLAR ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "nsbury. In an article in the \"New Leader,\" he says: Many members of the Poplar Board working at the docks receive less wages than the scale of relief given to their unemployed fellow-workmen. Again, according to the same gentleman, In doing what they have done, the guardians pay more in relief than some of the men would have got in wages. So much the better for relief; so much the worse for wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPLAR ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which law?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "persuade your fellow-citizens to alter the law, and substitute for the right to relief of destitution the right of maintenance at normal, or more than normal, wages. That is quite an intelligible issue to raise. I can remember in days gone by, we had it raised in Bills in this House. None succeeded in emerging on the Statute Book, and, while the law stands as it is, that is a violation of the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.398.0", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPLAR ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel SPENDER-CLAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel SPENDER-CLAY", "preceding_text": "Member has said, there must be some encouragement to people in Poplar to avoid seeking employment. If you give larger sums in relief than are given for work at trade union rates you must be discouraging those individuals from searching for employment. It must be obvious that if you pay a man higher for not working than you pay him when he is working, he probably will prefer to amuse himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPLAR ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "preceding_text": "use by-and-by will be fighting to try to get a minimum wage of 30s. a week for agricultural labourers, and I shall be with them; but I say that if the contention which has been put forward here to-night is right, you ought not to be fighting for 30s. a week for agricultural labourers, but you ought to be demanding, and the Government ought to be granting, £4 a week for agricultural labourers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPLAR ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Poplar.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "I will not pursue the subject; but I will press the Government that the right way of dealing with this subject is not to bolster up the Poor Law, but to break it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPLAR ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "h this subject is not to bolster up the Poor Law, but to break it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Poplar.\"] Not to bolster it up, but to break it! The feeling of the country is ready for it. The work of the last ten years has prepared the way. If the Government will have courage and imagination to bring forward a bold scheme I know that we on this side of the House will not give opposition but active assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.420.0", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPLAR ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DOUGLAS HOGG", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DOUGLAS HOGG", "preceding_text": "rd of Health wisely administers the Poor Law in Scotland. We are not discussing whether funds which come from the City of London should go to assist other areas or be devoted to the cause of secondary education, which both the hon. Member, who spoke last, and myself have so much at heart. It must make one pause before we seek to rob that particular hen roost. What is the real point of this Debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.420.0", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPLAR ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DOUGLAS HOGG", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DOUGLAS HOGG", "preceding_text": "s that almost as soon as he became Minister a deputation from the Poplar Board of Guardians asked what he was going to do on, I think, four specific topics, two of them are of comparatively minor importance as to which he said that he would take time to inquire as to what were his legal powers. It is a pity that he did not take time to inquire what were his legal powers about one of the other two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.421.1", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPLAR ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "preceding_text": " of Guardians for all surcharges made under the Mond Order, the difficulty can be overcome by instructing the auditor not to make the surcharges. In other words, because the Minister has exceeded his powers in promising a pardon, an officer is to be instructed to break the law which he is bound to observe. This is another good illustration of Socialist administration and respect for law and order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPLAR ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.425.1", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPLAR ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBKR: \"Come over and help us!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "preceding_text": " in that sort of policy to practice what they preach than the administrative action which has been adopted by the Minister of Health. We are asked by the Prime Minister to treat this as merely a technical mistake. I am sorry that we on this side cannot regard it in that light, and I hope that hon. Members below the Gangway on the opposite side will not be quite so ready to take that point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-26", "file": "debates1924-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "89e5b5937ce83f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.427.0", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPLAR ORDER.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Patrick Hastings)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Patrick Hastings)", "preceding_text": "I trust there is no Member of this House who will expect that in rising to-night I am proposing to say one word about this matter from the legal point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-26a.427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.440.3", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. SHEFFIELD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. SHEFFIELD", "preceding_text": "Has the name of the hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for South-East Leeds ever been put before the Soviet Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.440.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.445.3", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "Are we to understand that two destroyers are being built in addition to five cruisers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.445.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.467.3", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PENNY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PENNY", "preceding_text": "I am well aware of the peaceful nature of the industrial dispute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.467.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.474.2", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wait and see!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "Do I understand that the Prime Minister will be here to answer these questions personally? Shall I receive an answer to my question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.474.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.475.6", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "On this point and as to the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.475.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.475.6", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "On this point and as to the—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"]—I have no desire to waste time, but I am under the orders of Mr. Speaker, and he will call mo to order if need be. I venture to suggest that the Prime Minister has indicated that he will be here to answer his questions as Foreign Secretary also on Wednesdays.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.475.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.569.2", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cruisers!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": ". It was suggested in a speech of my right hon. Friend the Member for Miles Platting (Mr. Clynes) that they would not be deterred, even by the minority in which they existed, from putting forward the boldest and most audacious scheme which they had in their portfolio for curing this most distressing position. Up to now we have heard of nothing except some extra employment on housing schemes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.569.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.569.2", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So would Protection!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "ccour the people who are in destitution, but I think when you go further than that, it can be realised immediately that these schemes become at once a deterrent to employment. They tend to increase the evil which you are trying to diminish. Every addition which you make to the rates of a community puts an added cost on the production of everything that you manufacture. That is obvious to everyone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.569.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.577.3", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FRANKLIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FRANKLIN", "preceding_text": " good by the Government guarantee, but the taxpayers of this country who will have to meet this guarantee were entitled to know absolutely the nature of the risk which they had to run. There is another point to be considered here. Why is it that special facilities should go to the big men and the small man cannot get a look in? Here you have given a sum of practically the total value of the ships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.577.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.588.0", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Arthur Ponsonby)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Arthur Ponsonby)", "preceding_text": "legacy—shall anyhow not be subject to adverse criticism which we should feel was justified. I need not enter further into it, because the Financial Secretary has really covered the ground most fully. I would only make a plea at this stage of the Bill, and ask the House that it will be good enough to allow us to have the Second Reading of the Bill this evening by a quarter past eight o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.588.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY (MINISTERS' STATEMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RONALD McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RONALD McNEILL", "preceding_text": "eaty of Versailles? The second question is, the whole constitutional question of the responsibility of Ministers and Cabinet solidarity. At Question Time it was suggested by, I think, more than one hon. Member that the Home Secretary, in the speech which he made on Saturday at Burnley, was speaking as a private individual, that he was only giving his own personal opinion to his immediate audience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY (MINISTERS' STATEMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RONALD McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RONALD McNEILL", "preceding_text": "emind the House what was said by the right hon. Gentleman: He was convinced that until we had a Government which was prepared, not only to promulgate such a policy\"— that is a policy of the revision of the Treaty of Versailles— but to press it, and take risks, and stand by it, we could not hope to have an enduring, stable, political, and economic settlement among the nations of Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY (MINISTERS' STATEMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RONALD McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is it yours!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RONALD McNEILL", "preceding_text": "owers of the right hon. Gentleman—and I am very anxious to find out—I have no doubt we shall in the course of the evening—whether it is also held by the Prime Minister, because it is a matter of very vital importance. Then the right hon. Gentleman went on to speak of our task. Not \"my opinion.\" According to the right hon. Gentleman \"our task\" is the establishment of a real peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY (MINISTERS' STATEMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RONALD McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Did you always agree?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RONALD McNEILL", "preceding_text": "very anxious to find out—I have no doubt we shall in the course of the evening—whether it is also held by the Prime Minister, because it is a matter of very vital importance. Then the right hon. Gentleman went on to speak of our task. Not \"my opinion.\" According to the right hon. Gentleman \"our task\" is the establishment of a real peace. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Is it yours!\"] I entirely agree!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY (MINISTERS' STATEMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RONALD McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In his opinion!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RONALD McNEILL", "preceding_text": "ailles with all expedition possible. And, lest it should be suggested that the right hon. Gentleman only had in mind some of the minor questions connected with the method of obtaining reparations, or something of that sort, he went on to say: As regards both the territorial and economic aspects of the Treaty of Versailles revision, in his opinion, was not only essential, but was very much overdue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY (MINISTERS' STATEMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RONALD McNEILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RONALD McNEILL", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Gentleman has said a great deal about the necessity of perfectly frank and straightforward diplomacy. I do not want to say anything which in any way may appear to be lacking in respect to him, but I do not think the House will quarrel with me if I say the right hon. Gentleman has time after time taken up the attitude in this House of saying \"Thank God I am not as other men are\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY (MINISTERS' STATEMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "on anything like a settled basis. If you once admit that the settlement, whether good or bad—and, like all things human, it is of course, imperfect—if you once admit that it is to be revised this year or next year, why should it not be again revised the year after? Where are you going to get any finality in a matter of this sort if you once start? Revision means an entirely new Treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY (MINISTERS' STATEMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is his job!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": " are to make impossible declarations of policy which the whole world rends to-day and the Prime Minister repudiates to-morrow. I want to know from the right hon. Gentleman two things. I want to know, does the Prime Minister or does he not definitely repudiate the policy propounded by the Home Secretary as essential; and, secondly, if he does so repudiate it, what is the Home Secretary going to do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.605.0", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY (MINISTERS' STATEMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "jority and whilst here, for the purpose of pin pricking the Labour Government and making it more and more difficult for us to change the situation which we inherited from him—whilst that happens here, what is happening at Burnley? What are his agents doing in Burnley? I have received a telegram this afternoon: Adjournment Motion regarded here as Tory manœuvre to influence Liberal votes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.605.0", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY (MINISTERS' STATEMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who sent that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " already received, and I am informed that a study made of the French Press up to date showed that the majority of papers seemed disposed to drop the subject. What a glorious service he has done to his country to get them to start it again to-morrow. To drop the subject which may be regarded as significant of the general change for the better in the tone of the French Press as regards this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.605.0", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY (MINISTERS' STATEMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "f the French Press up to date showed that the majority of papers seemed disposed to drop the subject. What a glorious service he has done to his country to get them to start it again to-morrow. To drop the subject which may be regarded as significant of the general change for the better in the tone of the French Press as regards this country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who sent that?\"] My informant in Paris.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.605.0", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY (MINISTERS' STATEMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are still!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "The second object, which he openly confesses at the end of his speech, was to try to get my right hon. Friend to resign his position in the Cabinet. To do that what matters it—that bluff partisan fighter who sacrifices every national and international interest to putting his opponents into an unfortunate position. It is hardly worth the game. What has happened? I was in a difficult position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.605.0", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY (MINISTERS' STATEMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "right hon. Friend to resign his position in the Cabinet. To do that what matters it—that bluff partisan fighter who sacrifices every national and international interest to putting his opponents into an unfortunate position. It is hardly worth the game. What has happened? I was in a difficult position. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You are still!\"] I am still, thanks very much to this Adjournment Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.605.0", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY (MINISTERS' STATEMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "g not to confess. If by adding to the difficulties between Great Britain and France at the present time, hon. Members can do a little pin-pricking, a little smart practice, and secure a partisan game, very well, I make them a present of it. What happened? Mr. Henderson, in fighting at Burnley, was apparently under the impression that, as a Minister of the Crown, he could speak as a private person.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.608.1", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY (MINISTERS' STATEMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members laugh. I do not know whether there is any misunderstanding about what I say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.608.3", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY (MINISTERS' STATEMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member's brain is much faster than mine. I was coming to that point, only a little more slowly. That is Mr. Henderson's statement. Of course, he is wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.608.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.610.0", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY (MINISTERS' STATEMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it again!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "In the course of my research I read that passage, and paused for a moment to consider whether it could possibly be upon that passage that the right hon. Gentleman founded his statement when he spoke about revision. Now that he has read it, I cannot see the remotest connection between that and revision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.610.3", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY (MINISTERS' STATEMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "in this somewhat vacuous way, on using the name \"Henderson\" as an interjection on every occasion, let me say this, that to-morrow morning the French newspapers, \"Pertinax\" and the others, will not be using the name \"Henderson,\" they will be using a name somewhat more like my own, beginning with an indication that its owner comes of a Highland family. The Henderson affair has been straightened out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.610.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.612.1", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY (MINISTERS' STATEMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Gentleman, who himself has held the responsible position of Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. I hope that neither any hon. Member opposite, nor anybody in any other part of this House, is going to increase difficulties that are bad enough already. From this side, below the Gangway, an attack may come. They are not responsible. There is a great deal of obtuse understanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY (MINISTERS' STATEMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " carefully prepared declaration, every word of which had been considered. What does he do? He declares for a revision of the Treaty of Versailles on three points. One point relates to the whole of the economic clauses and another to the boundaries. Can anyone imagine a Minister, in the present condition of Europe, proposing a revision of the whole of the boundaries that have been written in blood?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-27", "file": "debates1924-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "8f65ddda2d0837bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.624.1", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY (MINISTERS' STATEMENTS).", "cue_speaker": "Captain Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has said so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "hing in it. I heard the right hon. Gentleman opposite say to-night, and I heard him say the other day, \"I have stated the policy of His Majesty's Government, and what I have stated is the policy.\" What I have been waiting to hear from him is that what the right hon. Gentleman the candidate for Burnley stated was not the policy of His Majesty's Government. I want him to say so in categorical terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-27a.624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-28", "file": "debates1924-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "aaa4492596794abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-28a.660.7", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TAXI-CABS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HOWARD-BURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HOWARD-BURY", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that taxicab fares in London are more expensive than in any other capital in Europe?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-28a.660.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-28", "file": "debates1924-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "aaa4492596794abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-28a.817.0", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": " want to raise two serious objections to this Bill. In the first place, I wish to draw attention to what I regard as a serious flaw, and I desire the ruling of Mr. Speaker upon it. This is a Bill promoted by a railway company for definite purposes concerned with the running and the development of railways, and it contains a provision for the establishment by this private company of a savings bank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-28a.817.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-28", "file": "debates1924-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "aaa4492596794abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-28a.818.4", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "he gravest infringements which I have known in any Bill. I protest in the most serious and emphatic fashion that any two men shall have the power, because they happen to be justices, and possibly directors of the company, to appoint any man to be a constable, and that man shall have the power to search, arrest and convey to prison any person whom he may suspect. This Bill is an outrage on liberty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-28a.818.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-28", "file": "debates1924-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "aaa4492596794abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-28a.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "CONSOLIDATION BILLS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain W. BENN", "preceding_text": "sire of Members of Parliament to continue the Debate at all times, when required, and for which duty they were elected. But it is not the Government business I complain about at all. I understand there was some arrangement made. I have not a word to say about that. What has happened is that the rights of private Members have been affected. Private Members have very few opportunities in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-28a.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-28", "file": "debates1924-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "aaa4492596794abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-28a.843.2", "colnum": "843", "heading": "CONSOLIDATION BILLS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STRANGER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whose fault is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STRANGER", "preceding_text": "ir farms from corn into grass. The result of doing that will be a large dismissal of agricultural workers throughout the kingdom if the Agricultural Wages Boards work without any guarantee that the worker will be kept in employment. What will be the effect of that? There will be unemployment amongst farm labourers far more serious than at present. The farm labourers have no unemployment insurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-28a.843.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-28", "file": "debates1924-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "aaa4492596794abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-28a.846.0", "colnum": "846", "heading": "CONSOLIDATION BILLS.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. CHAPPLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Liberals do not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. CHAPPLE", "preceding_text": "o land reclamation, Geneva and so forth, and it is terrible that Ministers are either unwilling or unable to reply. Some, fearing lest they should be called on to reply and being incapable of doing so, I have retired behind the Chair. I would like to take advantage of the fleeting moments to call attention to a very important fact. I do so because in many things the Labour party require education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-28a.846.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-28", "file": "debates1924-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "aaa4492596794abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-28a.846.0", "colnum": "846", "heading": "CONSOLIDATION BILLS.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. CHAPPLE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. CHAPPLE", "preceding_text": " of the fleeting moments to call attention to a very important fact. I do so because in many things the Labour party require education. [HON. MEMBERS: \"The Liberals do not!\"] Liberals also, but for the moment the Labour party is in the responsible position of administering the affairs of this country. The subject to which I should like to call attention is the relation of vaccination to small-pox.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-28a.846.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-28", "file": "debates1924-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "aaa4492596794abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-28a.846.0", "colnum": "846", "heading": "CONSOLIDATION BILLS.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. CHAPPLE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. CHAPPLE", "preceding_text": " Labour party is cognisant of the fact that there are certain diseases of childhood which give immunity through the whole of life. Vaccination is a preventative against small-pox, and the administration of the Vaccination Acts to-day is a scandal of civilisation. There are certain diseases which once contracted give immunity for the rest of life. Measles is one. That is the great fundamental fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-28a.846.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-28", "file": "debates1924-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "aaa4492596794abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-28a.848.0", "colnum": "848", "heading": "CONSOLIDATION BILLS.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. CHAPPLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. CHAPPLE", "preceding_text": "With respect, I am not attacking the Act but the administration of the Act. The Act requires that children should be vaccinated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-28a.848.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-28", "file": "debates1924-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "aaa4492596794abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-28a.848.2", "colnum": "848", "heading": "CONSOLIDATION BILLS.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. CHAPPLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are legal!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. CHAPPLE", "preceding_text": "I was about to make that qualification when I was interrupted from the Labour Benches. The exceptions are very largely abused.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-28a.848.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-29", "file": "debates1924-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "33361b092a9032dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-29a.866.0", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT (1918) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "preceding_text": ". The mere fact of a man being in existence in a constituency for six months, and spending the last day with a roof over his head is to be sufficient to enable him to claim a parliamentary franchise. I wonder if hon. Members opposite realise the far-reaching implication of that proposal? Do they realise that it means giving the Parliamentary franchise to people who travel about in caravans?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-29a.866.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-29", "file": "debates1924-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "33361b092a9032dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-29a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT (1918) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "preceding_text": "derance, whatever the exact figure may be, will have been largely due to, or at least greatly increased by the fact that we lost 740,000 precious lives of men in the great War, and that that War is still taking its toll of the ex-service men. Therefore, I cannot help saying that I feel that to propose a great extension of this kind looks like taking advantage of the heroic sacrifices of those men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-29a.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-29", "file": "debates1924-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "33361b092a9032dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-29a.873.0", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT (1918) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir SYDNEY RUSSELL-WELLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir SYDNEY RUSSELL-WELLS", "preceding_text": "me of those proposals. The first proposal which must attract the attention of anyone reading the Bill is that we are totally altering the whole of our electoral law. It may be wise to alter that law, and it may be wise to make extensive additions to the franchise, but it is not fair to do so in a Bill which is ostentatiously for the promotion of women suffrage. The property qualification has gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-29a.873.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-29", "file": "debates1924-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "33361b092a9032dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-29a.875.2", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT (1918) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. RUSSELL-WELLS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In mental hospitals!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. RUSSELL-WELLS", "preceding_text": "nd that, according to a certain school, the inmates of a workhouse may be the best people to administer the workhouse. They may have, no doubt, more intimate knowledge of what affects their comfort and convenience than others outside, and according to a certain school of thought those who live in the house ought to administer and control the house. That is a position which is quite understandable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-29a.875.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-29", "file": "debates1924-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "33361b092a9032dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-29a.875.2", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT (1918) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. RUSSELL-WELLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. RUSSELL-WELLS", "preceding_text": "ee, that any system is fundamentally vicious under which the trustee and the beneficiary are united in the same person. That is a principle which this House has maintained for centuries. The proposal now is to enable the beneficiary to be the trustee for the community. If the Clause in question be passed, it will be quite possible for the inmates of workhouses to be elected to boards of guardians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-29a.875.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-29", "file": "debates1924-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "33361b092a9032dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-29a.878.0", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT (1918) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. WINTRINGHAM", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not a straight Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. WINTRINGHAM", "preceding_text": " regret that many Members who were supporters of the proposal are absent from the House to-day. The hon. Member referred to several who were not supporters, and inferred, perhaps, that they were returned because of that. But we had many good supporters in recent Debates, and a good many on the Unionist side of the House, and I do regret that so many are not here to-day to help us fight the battle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-29a.878.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-29", "file": "debates1924-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "33361b092a9032dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-29a.882.1", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT (1918) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "it now stands, it will bring in a sufficient number of women to outnumber the men. The number of men registered for business premises qualification for England and Wales is 208,694, and the Local Government electors in the current register for England and Wales numbers 7,871,855 males and 7,818,919 females. There are a few points in this Measure which may lend themselves to amendment in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-29a.882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-29", "file": "debates1924-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "33361b092a9032dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-29a.907.5", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT (1918) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or in the workshop.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": "roval. It is quite true that if we go back far enough we shall find that in ancient Athens and Sparta the age of citizenship was 21, but—and it is a big \"but\"—the boys had then done three years of service for their country. They had been tested, and if it seemed good to this House to insist upon three years of service—social service or service in the defence of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-29a.907.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-29", "file": "debates1924-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "33361b092a9032dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-29a.908.0", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT (1918) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D0DDS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D0DDS", "preceding_text": "re. Having once conceded, as we did in 1918, the suffrage to women, I submit that the only thing for us to do is to go forward, not in a sort of stingy way extending the franchise, but to do it with magnamity and loyalty to our convictions. I should like, in conclusion, to quote a paragraph from one of the speeches that Mr. Gladstone made in this House on the subject of reform so far back as 1866.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-29a.908.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-29", "file": "debates1924-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "33361b092a9032dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-29a.915.0", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT (1918) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL ROBERTS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "er, and whereas there were 101,000 extra votes given to all the other parties opposed to us, and therefore a majority of 88,000 votes out of 14,000,000 recorded by the electors, our majority was turned into a large minority of this House. I think we must realise that those 100,000 votes, or 88,000 out of 14,000,000, were probably not the most thinking or most intelligent members of the electorate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-29a.915.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-29", "file": "debates1924-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "33361b092a9032dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-29a.917.0", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT (1918) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "e last 30 years the Conservatives have been the consistent opponents of the principle of this Bill, while we belong to a party which for 30 years has nailed not only equality of franchise to the mast but adult suffrage as well. Only the other day a friend of mine was asked what he thought of the new Government, and he replied, \"It is one of the best Conservative Governments we have had for years.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-29a.917.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-29", "file": "debates1924-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "33361b092a9032dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-29a.925.0", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT (1918) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD PRIVY SEAL (Mr. Clynes)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD PRIVY SEAL (Mr. Clynes)", "preceding_text": "nd on the basis of that affirmation build some Government Measure. What are we to do with these Fridays? This is a private Member's day, and this is a private Member's Bill. This is, of course, a period when it is very unusual for a new Parliament to consider Measures for the extension of the franchise. It is usually towards the later period of a Parliament when work of that kind is taken in hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-29a.925.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-02-29", "file": "debates1924-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "33361b092a9032dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-29a.934.4", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE ACT (1918) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Look behind you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "Bill is that most unpalatable dish of political diet known as the stewed crusade hashed up for our eating to-day. It is the old movement for equal citizenship and all that sort of claptrap which haunt like ghosts the scenes of their past crimes. I am a great admirer of a bonfire when it is at its height, but is there anything more miserable and ineffective than a bonfire when it is just dying out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-02-29a.934.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-03", "file": "debates1924-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7ec9004a4bda5d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.957.0", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "Before the next question is asked, Mr. Speaker, may I ask whether you said, when you made your statement the other day, that we were to be rationed to two questions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.957.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-03", "file": "debates1924-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7ec9004a4bda5d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1025.1", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "preceding_text": "t know that I need explain that observation. It is fairly clear. But what the man meant was that if there was in the truck, say, a number of tons, that the first man would take a couple of tons, and the other would take his couple, and perhaps a third his couple, and whereas there ought to be left four tons for the next two men they would find subsequently that only a ton and a half had been left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-03", "file": "debates1924-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7ec9004a4bda5d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain FITZROY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And ships.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain FITZROY", "preceding_text": "if the cattle have not come with the disease from Ireland, they have contracted it in their journeying about this country. Of course, Irish cattle do a great deal more travelling than cattle which are reared in this country before they come to their final destination. I would ask the Ministry are they quite satisfied at present with the methods of disinfection of cattle trucks and railway sidings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1055.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-03", "file": "debates1924-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7ec9004a4bda5d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1087.4", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain TERRELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain TERRELL", "preceding_text": "this Vote without any further discussion, and referred to the awkward position in which the Government were placed. He stated that, as a Government, they were unable to move the Closure, as they had not a working majority. To me that is a great surprise, because I always understood that the Socialist Government which is in power has a definite working arrangement with the Liberal Socialists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1087.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-03", "file": "debates1924-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7ec9004a4bda5d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain TERRELL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain TERRELL", "preceding_text": "Anyhow, it was one of the hon. Member's friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-03", "file": "debates1924-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7ec9004a4bda5d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1105.2", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "the other. If I had it, I would have no hesitation in giving the information to my hon. Friend, but when he puts forward the request on business grounds, I am not so sure that his proposition is sound. Business people do not usually show their competitors all their secrets, and we have competitors in this matter, and as long as the Treasury can be trusted at least to scrutinise the accounts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1105.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-03", "file": "debates1924-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7ec9004a4bda5d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1111.0", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BLACK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BLACK", "preceding_text": " years he has to work six days of 9½ hours, or 57 hours. Before he leaves China the arrangement is 52 hours, and when he gets to Nauru he is faced with an agreement by which he has to work 57 hours. Is that straightforward British integrity? By this agreement a man has only six days' holiday in the year. He has his Sundays and six days' holiday. Is that agreeable to hon. Members on this side?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-03", "file": "debates1924-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7ec9004a4bda5d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1111.0", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BLACK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Has he any dole?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BLACK", "preceding_text": "rd British integrity? By this agreement a man has only six days' holiday in the year. He has his Sundays and six days' holiday. Is that agreeable to hon. Members on this side? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] If there is any emergency, any breakdown in machinery, this man is to be asked to break into his six days' holiday without any compensating day being given to him for the time he works in the emergency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1111.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-03-03", "file": "debates1924-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7ec9004a4bda5d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1114.2", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Lloyd George!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BLACK", "preceding_text": "I think it is 1922. It is An Agreement made at Nauru, Central Pacific, this day, 1922, between the British Phosphate Commission (herein called the Commission)….", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-03", "file": "debates1924-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7ec9004a4bda5d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1119.1", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROYCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROYCE", "preceding_text": " has placed before the Committee, but I would like to say a few words with regard to the remarks made by the hon. Member for Harborough (Mr. Black) with regard to the conditions of Chinese labour in Nauru. It has always been a subject of wonderment to me that hon. Members can have so much interest about Chinese labourers abroad and be so very insensible with regard to conditions of labour at home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-03", "file": "debates1924-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7ec9004a4bda5d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1120.1", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROYCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROYCE", "preceding_text": " much concerned that these people have only six days' holiday a year. I wonder how many days' holiday an agricultural labourer has in a year; and, as I have remarked quite recently in this Chamber, during the recent winter many of our agricultural labourers in the villages have been earning no more than 15s. a week. I wonder whether hon. Members could spare some of their sympathy for these people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-03", "file": "debates1924-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7ec9004a4bda5d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1121.0", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROYCE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And that is all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROYCE", "preceding_text": "I agree that they have as much sympathy as I have, but it is not vocal, and it is vocal in the present case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-03", "file": "debates1924-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7ec9004a4bda5d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1121.0", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROYCE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROYCE", "preceding_text": "I agree that they have as much sympathy as I have, but it is not vocal, and it is vocal in the present case. [An HON. MEMBER: \"And that is all!\"] And that is all. Well, my Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-03", "file": "debates1924-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7ec9004a4bda5d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1121.0", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROYCE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROYCE", "preceding_text": "ell, I have a distinct recollection of entering into a three years' agreement, and no one asked me to take a wife with me. This, Mr. Young, is sickly sentimentality. If hon. Members would only come down from Heaven and view the things that they see here in their own country, or if they would only look for them, they would find much more to enlist their sympathy at home than they can find in Nauru.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-03", "file": "debates1924-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7ec9004a4bda5d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1124.0", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\" and \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "preceding_text": "y of which he is a member. He speaks on questions of the recruitment of native labour, I understand, with some authority, because he has had some experience in the business. I have had some experience from observation of the kind of ills and misusages to which indentured labour is subject. To hear a member of the Labour party put forward the astonishing doctrine that a Chinaman is not a man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-03", "file": "debates1924-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7ec9004a4bda5d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1128.0", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. WARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. WARD", "preceding_text": " such statements as to convince the whole Council that the administration of Nauru by the Government of Australia had been traduced by people who did not understand the situation. Now, after two years, when improvements have admittedly been secured by the agitation that has been carried on, we hear the same old stale suggestions and accusations made against Australia—because it is Australia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-03", "file": "debates1924-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7ec9004a4bda5d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1129.3", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. WARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And on the other side of the House!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. WARD", "preceding_text": "ment are perfectly correct in considering every attack made on the administration of Nauru as an attack upon themselves. It is useless to burk the subject. When the Report of this Debate is published to-morrow, and the High Commissioner for Australia gets a copy of it, I warrant that the Colonial Office will be making all sorts of explanations of the speeches made by hon. Members opposite to-night", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1129.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-03", "file": "debates1924-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7ec9004a4bda5d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1138.2", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman wants his Vote now, and I have a good deal to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1138.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-03", "file": "debates1924-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7ec9004a4bda5d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1141.4", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "preceding_text": "Do I understand that the Minister in charge means to prevent further discussion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1141.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-03", "file": "debates1924-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7ec9004a4bda5d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1142.2", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LUNACY LAWS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURNER-SAMUELS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURNER-SAMUELS", "preceding_text": "e very serious position which exists in connection with the administration of the lunacy laws. One letter says: DEAR SIR,—Should you desire it, I can furnish you with useful information with regard to the existing conditions behind the scenes in mental hospitals. With my left hand now resting on my Bible, I assure you that 19 out of 20 attendants in asylums are cruel, cowardly brutes\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1142.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-03", "file": "debates1924-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7ec9004a4bda5d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1143.0", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LUNACY LAWS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURNER-SAMUELS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURNER-SAMUELS", "preceding_text": "I am not prepared to disclose the name.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-03", "file": "debates1924-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "a7ec9004a4bda5d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1143.5", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LUNACY LAWS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "Certainly, but I gather from what has been said that there was some question of a personal character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-03a.1143.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1156.5", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKER", "preceding_text": "I do not want to raise this question at length—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1156.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1156.5", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKER", "preceding_text": "I do not want to raise this question at length—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"] He was a serving officer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1156.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1157.2", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HOWARD-BURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HOWARD-BURY", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that Australia gives us a preference of 45 per cent. in many cases and that it would be a great advantage to this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1157.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1161.5", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GRETNA.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. CHAPPLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. CHAPPLE", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Gentleman consider whether he might not set up a committee to deal with the minor matter, not as to the sale of the factory, but with regard to the empty houses and the repair of those houses and the satisfying of the demand for those houses?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1161.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1184.0", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS.", "cue_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major COLFOX", "preceding_text": "Can I take it that any questions to the Postmaster-General which are down for to-day, and which are postponed till to-morrow will be answered to-morrow?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1184.1", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKER", "preceding_text": "Could we have a little longer time for questions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1253.0", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PERCY HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the band played.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PERCY HARRIS", "preceding_text": "ethnal Green and a number of the poorer districts had to face an impossible burden. The hon. Member for Bow and Bromley and his friends took the drastic action of refusing to pay a London County Council rate, levied by precept—the various boroughs having to collect the central rate. They went to prison, and there was a deadlock. It looked as though they would have to stay there indefinitely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1253.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1262.5", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member was defending, in this House, a particular scale of relief, and he asked if anybody had the face to get up and challenge it. I challenged it, on the ground that it was grossly unfair to the thousands of working men in London who were having, through their rents and rates, to pay, in order to keep the people in Poplar in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1262.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1263.6", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. It is not true. I deny those statements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1263.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1267.3", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By means of loans.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " now by Sir Basil Blackett to separate the railway administration from the general administration of India. A wise decision in my humble judgment. Here you have some 350,000,000 people, and yet the railway mileage of India is no bigger than it is in the Argentine with 10 million people. Here you have a great opportunity of advancing the prosperity of India by the extension of railway undertakings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1267.3", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " we in this country consider an honest basis, I should advise no man to venture lending any of his money to the Queensland Government, and the British Government should risk no money for enterprises in Queensland. The Premier of Queensland is over here to-day seeking to renew loans for £24,000,000, which the people of this country lent to Queensland. He will not get a bob as things now stand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1275.1", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "preceding_text": "Is it in Order, Mr. Speaker, to refer to the Premier of one of the Dominions as a dishonest person?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1285.1", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": ", and it was after the Sudan Government had become aware that this money had been wasted that they cancelled the contract, and paid him a heavy sum in compensation for cancelling it, and came back to this country and got a reputable firm—Lord Cowdray's firm—to undertake the contract from which they had expelled this man Alexandrine. What docs the House know about this £13,000,000?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1286.1", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why should not America do the same thing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": " British Empire? I should have thought hon. Members opposite would agree with that. British Empire cotton growing—you are sinking public credit. Would you believe it? The gentlemen who have drafted this agreement, who have poured out the public credit, have no guarantee that a single bale of that cotton, when it is grown, will be offered for sale in the British Empire. A business Government!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1286.1", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "nham (Mr. A. M. Samuel) did say most distinctly that this would be a continual call for now credit. If they cannot pay the interest on this 13 millions, I submit that sooner or later the British taxpayer will be called upon to make it good. Before we give this money we ought to have the most rigid inquiry, and the results of that inquiry given to this House. I do not want to blame our Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1306.1", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In office!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "preceding_text": " side but from the general demands of industry will force upon us the consideration of this subject. We must never forget that, we are the greatest industrial country in the world, and the pressure of the problem will become such that no party in the State will be able to withstand it. I hail this Resolution with satisfaction because, it has come from hon. Members opposite while they are in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1307.0", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "se who did not pay, all over the trade, the wages which were approved; and in 1918 that departure from the general principle of collective bargaining took a much wider sweep, in the amended Trade Board Act of that year. I know my hon. Friends consider that later, in 1921 and 1922, the Government, of which I was a member, did not proceed with the trade board policy as fast as we ought to have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1307.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1310.0", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Major TRYON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "to deal with them, and that a Trade Board deals much more effectively with its own particular industry than would a Central Commission—for the question is so enormous and so complicated. I quite agree with the hon. Gentleman who moved this Motion when he himself aptly used the word \"Protection\" with reference to the Motion. There is no getting over the fact that a minimum wage is Protection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1316.2", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": " a heavy tariff. If the minimum wage for paper makers for example, is very considerably above the minimum wage of the paper makers of Germany, Norway or any other country, it is perfectly certain imported paper is going to drive the English paper off the market. Hence, one of the first steps to be taken after having established a minimum wage is to put a heavy Protective duty on the foreign paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1316.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1319.1", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "s of Mother Nature—\"We are living a sheltered comfortable life, our income is good, but what about you? It does not matter\"? Ever since we can remember there has been no legislation that has not been fought for by the party whom we represent. There has been no advance in wages, no betterment in the conditions of our people, which has not been wrung almost by force from the employing classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1327.0", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ers in the country whose first idea is to get all the profits they can, but there is a great majority in the country who want to give a living wage, and whom the trade boards have helped enormously. It really is not quite cricket for the hon. Member to talk about those homes where the women are waiting for the men to come home with their wages. They are not the only people who are up against this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1327.0", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"It has been tried.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "e. There is much of a muchness about them. I feel that it is not fair for hon. Members to talk as if both the Oppositions, the one on this side and the one that acts with you sometimes, are against this. It is not right to assume that, because we are against this, we therefore want to sweat the people of the country. The real problem in this country is that capital and labour should work together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1327.0", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"They do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ERS: \"It has been tried.\"] Has it really been tried? The capitalist system is suffering because of some of its stupidities in the past, but do not lot us always look at the past. Capitalism has in some ways been insanely stupid, but I believe there is a new spirit in the country. I do feel, however, that you have, to tell the people of the country that they have to work if they want a living wage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1327.0", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " stupidities in the past, but do not lot us always look at the past. Capitalism has in some ways been insanely stupid, but I believe there is a new spirit in the country. I do feel, however, that you have, to tell the people of the country that they have to work if they want a living wage. [HON MEMBERS: \"They do.\"] You know, as well as I do. Look at the work the bricklayers used to do at one time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1328.1", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "good deal upon foreign trade. I am not going into the question of Protection, because it does not arise on this matter; but may I beg hon. Members opposite, if they believe in this Bill, to get up and pursuade us, and let us all go and vote for it, and there will be no need for Insurance Acts and all the rest of it. The hon. Member for Lichfield, the Civil Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Hodges)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1328.1", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You need it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Members opposite, if they believe in this Bill, to get up and pursuade us, and let us all go and vote for it, and there will be no need for Insurance Acts and all the rest of it. The hon. Member for Lichfield, the Civil Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Hodges)—[ Interruption. ]—Oh, yes, he is very civil; he is over-civil—made an appeal to us for help: I say, please help us to help you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1328.1", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": ". Member for Lichfield, the Civil Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Hodges)—[ Interruption. ]—Oh, yes, he is very civil; he is over-civil—made an appeal to us for help: I say, please help us to help you. [HON. MEMBERS: \"You need it!\"] We need it, but we really want to see how we can help towards the millennium which you have promised to the people. We have never promised the millennium.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1328.1", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "alk about so glibly, and about which you ring the hearts of the people, when you come down to practical politics it is not as easy to do as it is to talk. I do beg hon. Members, if they are really earnest about this matter, not to get up and say that we on this side are trying to keep down the great masses of the people, that we are robbing them and depriving them of a living wage. It is not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1328.1", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS? \"So it is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "greed that the first charge on industry is the human factor, and you have to remember that. If all who are engaged in industry would remember that, there would be no question of this sort to be dealt with to-day. I am sorry to have intervened, but it is a little hard always to hear Socialists talk about their great and expansive hearts, and as though capitalism was the greatest menace to progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1328.1", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "aged in industry would remember that, there would be no question of this sort to be dealt with to-day. I am sorry to have intervened, but it is a little hard always to hear Socialists talk about their great and expansive hearts, and as though capitalism was the greatest menace to progress. [HON. MEMBERS? \"So it is!\"] You know as well as I do that they have tried to do without capitalism in Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1330.4", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FINNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FINNEY", "preceding_text": " an addition of character that otherwise would not have been received, have been given the benefits both of education and of training. I agree with the speech of the hon. Member who proposed this Motion. What I am distressed about is that this is the second occasion upon which this Labour Government has thrown on to private Members the task of bringing forward a big measure of reform of this kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1330.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1332.0", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ha, ha!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "This is the first time I have addressed this House, and I ask hon. Members for their indulgence. The first thing I would do is to remind the Noble Lady who represents the Sutton Division that we do not hate capitalists. We just hate capitalism. We do not hate capitalists any more than we hate fleas, and the only thing that we hate about fleas is the way they make their living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1332.0", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Every time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": " not failed. Hon. Members opposite mention that word Socialism in the tone that they use in addressing youngsters, when they tell them, \"The goblins will get you, boo!\" I believe that this House is a Socialist experiment. The Post Office is a Socialist experiment, and even the maligned telephones, the parks and commons, and roads. Would you go back to private enterprise in any one of these things?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1332.0", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "y time.\"] If hon. Members went to their constituents and told them that, they would not come back to this House. It has been suggested that we cannot afford to pay a minimum wage. If this country is poor, it cannot afford to have 1,200,000 people out of work, and it cannot afford to have capital standing idle, or to have managerial ability unemployed, and land breeding pheasants and rabbits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1332.0", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": " back to this House. It has been suggested that we cannot afford to pay a minimum wage. If this country is poor, it cannot afford to have 1,200,000 people out of work, and it cannot afford to have capital standing idle, or to have managerial ability unemployed, and land breeding pheasants and rabbits—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—and aristocrats and Tories, just about as useful as the rabbits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1332.0", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Make it £1.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "rade. If we had raised wages, 25 per cent. in 1920, when we were getting back to normal, and producing more and more goods, instead of driving the wages standard down to an impossible level, then in place of having a slump which has meant ruin to thousands, and untold misery to millions, even capitalism might have delivered the goods. If we increased wages 10s. a week all round, what would happen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1337.2", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. CHAPPLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Had they the minimum wage?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. CHAPPLE", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that, but I want to give two experiences which were very illuminating to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1337.2", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. CHAPPLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. CHAPPLE", "preceding_text": " of sardines, and bread and butter, which she distributed amongst the children and the youths, and gave me the acknowledgment of a smile. I noted those provisions, which were to last for the week, growing small by degrees and beautifully less. I felt inclined to shout, \"Police, police\"; then I remembered that they were Socialists in Fiji and that these things belonged to her just as much as to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-04", "file": "debates1924-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "536835048eec1a34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1337.4", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. CHAPPLE", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That is Socialism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. CHAPPLE", "preceding_text": "r to ask this Fijian why he did not make jam. There were sugar factories close by and plenty of fruit growing wild, and firewood everywhere. He replied, \"What's the use? I would not get it. There is no private ownership in Fiji, and consequently this man would not make jam for others. The lesson to be derived from that is, that if a man does not get the full reward of his labour, he will not work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-04a.1337.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-05", "file": "debates1924-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a64b771dd23d46a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1370.5", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "Are you to be the only judge of whether the information is valuable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1370.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-05", "file": "debates1924-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a64b771dd23d46a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1370.5", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What a democratic Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "Are you to be the only judge of whether the information is valuable? [ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1370.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-03-05", "file": "debates1924-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a64b771dd23d46a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1384.5", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that this matter has been brought to the attention of the Conservative London County Council, and that they have refused to interfere at all?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. G. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that these buildings are being converted into higher-class flats, instead of giving accommodation for the working people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1384.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-03-05", "file": "debates1924-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a64b771dd23d46a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1389.5", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHWARK BOROUGH COUNCIL (SURCHARGE REMISSION).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman answer my question? Does he think it fair and equitable to deprive a firm of a contract merely because one or two of its men do not belong to a trade union?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1389.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-05", "file": "debates1924-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a64b771dd23d46a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1395.2", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "Could it not be arranged to have the third question put down by an hon. Member at the end of the Paper, and allow the first two to appear earlier on the Order Paper?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1395.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-05", "file": "debates1924-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a64b771dd23d46a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1450.0", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "never ceased to admire the effrontery of hon. and right hon. Gentlemen who are so strongly in favour of these trade facilities. The only caveats that have been entered against the issuing of credits are in the case of Queensland and Russia. Where there happen to be the working class in power, hon. Members on the other side and below the Gangway on this side say: \"Do not trust the working classes.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-05", "file": "debates1924-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a64b771dd23d46a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1450.0", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on! Complete it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " of the right hon. Member for Hillhead (Sir R. Horne) and an hon. Member who spoke on this side. They say, in effect: \"To the four corners of the globe with British cash and British credit, anywhere, so long as it is far enough away and the working classes have no say in the control of it.\" Ship mo somewhere East of Suez, Where the best is like the worst, And there ain't no ton Commandments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-05", "file": "debates1924-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a64b771dd23d46a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1451.1", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It would come from their pockets.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "n a hundred different ways. In Poplar, or in other parts of Great Britain, you must not issue credits to British people to enable them to live! If you issued a credit of £2 for each working-class family in Britain to-day, the trade of Great Britain would be £40,000,000 the better on Saturday. That would go into the hands of the small shopkeepers and into the hands of the rent collectors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-05", "file": "debates1924-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a64b771dd23d46a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1468.1", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DARBISHIRE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DARBISHIRE", "preceding_text": "re; in other words, that, if we stopped our foreign trade, there would be no unemployment. Those are the kind of extremes we hear from the other side of the House—one which wants to increase our exports, and the other, as expressed by the right hon. Member for Hillhead, who apparently believes in stopping our foreign trade altogether in order that we may have no unemployment in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-05", "file": "debates1924-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a64b771dd23d46a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1496.1", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "n of a railway in Poland is going to guarantee employment in this country, unless the material has to be manufactured in this country, and in that case it is only the material for the railway which will be manufactured in this country. The whole laying down of the railway will be in Poland, and that will take up a very large part of the expenditure of the sum which the House is asked to guarantee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-05", "file": "debates1924-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a64b771dd23d46a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1497.3", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "There is a question about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1497.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-05", "file": "debates1924-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a64b771dd23d46a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are they not high- landers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "money on the erection of this barrage. They allowed him to get off with £600,000, and we are told that they are men of directive ability. These are the men who are to be guaranteed against loss by the British taxpayers and the British Government. The thing is preposterous. Men with names like Eckstein, Wernher, Wagner, and Beit are, surely, not men who are very patriotic towards this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-05", "file": "debates1924-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a64b771dd23d46a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1528.0", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM THORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM THORNE", "preceding_text": "se actions were in question—was appointed to hear the appeal. On the 26th July, 1923, the corporation by counsel attended before the inspector. Subsequently the Minister gave a decision consenting to the use of the crossing after the 31st August, 1923, subject to any conditions which he might by Order prescribe. Although this intimation was given in August, 1923, no Order has yet been made.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1528.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-05", "file": "debates1924-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a64b771dd23d46a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1528.0", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM THORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM THORNE", "preceding_text": "portant highways to the docks, and that the conduct of and attitude adopted by the Ministry (the actions of whose predecessors are in question) is not what is usually associated with a Government Department in appointing the individual who made the arrangement, and who publicly stated that his mind was a blank, and he had no recollection in the matter, to act as judge practically in his own case.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1528.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-05", "file": "debates1924-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a64b771dd23d46a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1541.0", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MURROUGH WILSON", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MURROUGH WILSON", "preceding_text": "n attack to stop the Bill—a Bill which has been shown by other speakers and more especially by the hon. Member for Bassettlaw (Sir W. E. Hume-Williams) to be a Bill which is required to enable the company to carry out very useful works in this country. It is entirely wrong for North London Members to suggest that because they cannot get everything exactly at the moment they require it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1541.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-05", "file": "debates1924-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a64b771dd23d46a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1541.0", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MURROUGH WILSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are 'we'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MURROUGH WILSON", "preceding_text": "useful, and indeed essential in different parts of the country, are not to be carried out. There was considerable laughter when I suggested that the hon. Members for North London could not get what they wanted immediately. The hon. and learned Member of the Bassetlaw Division pointed out very truly that the company has not been idle since this question was raised 12 months ago. We were then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1541.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-05", "file": "debates1924-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a64b771dd23d46a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1541.0", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MURROUGH WILSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MURROUGH WILSON", "preceding_text": "mber has already pointed out, it had not been able to come to a definite conclusion prior to the time when this Bill had to come before the House of Commons. This is a question of the expenditure of something like £5,000,000, and I cannot agree that hon. Members for North London have any cause for complaint because we refused to hurry the matter unduly, and because we insisted on having time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1541.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-05", "file": "debates1924-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a64b771dd23d46a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1543.1", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILSON", "preceding_text": "The Noble Lord took me up rather too quickly. I used the word \"firstly,\" and I was dealing, firstly, with the question of electrification. As the hon. and learned Member for Bassetlaw Division pointed out we hope to electrify the line", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-05", "file": "debates1924-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "5a64b771dd23d46a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1549.0", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "preceding_text": " to say that its third-class carriages are a disgrace to civilisation. I will not say that they are a disgrace to the Great Eastern Railway Company, because it is not possible for anything to be a disgrace to that company, but the condition of the third-class railway rolling stock on that line is a true indication of what the hon. Member who has the impudence to get up in this House and say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-05a.1549.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-06", "file": "debates1924-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab174a1673cf0811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1563.13", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "NEW WRIT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDMUND HARVEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDMUND HARVEY", "preceding_text": "ary time, of making provision that the Oath or Affirmation shall be taken before the Returning Officer. That method would make such an incident entirely impossible, and at the beginning of each Parliament would save time which is badly needed for other purposes. Whether it was a Government Measure or a private Member's Bill supported by all parties, such a Measure would command universal approval.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1563.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-03-06", "file": "debates1924-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab174a1673cf0811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1565.2", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "NEW WRIT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether the gentleman in default is permitted to stand again in any way as a candidate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-06", "file": "debates1924-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab174a1673cf0811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1583.1", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LEAD POISONING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Circulate it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "as the hon. Member will find from the particulars of the 1922 cases, which will be circulated in the OFFICIAL REPORT, the deceased had, in practically every instance, been employed for a long period of years in the industry. In fact, with few exceptions, the period of employment was not less than 20 years, and in two cases the worker had ceased to be employed in the industry some years previously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-06", "file": "debates1924-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab174a1673cf0811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1587.16", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYES", "preceding_text": "May I ask, in view of the fact that this chief constable is now about 29 years of age, and a sergeant must have at least five years' police experience to qualify for the rank of sergeant, whether he thinks 12 months' probationary period is sufficient to qualify for a chief constable, and will the Regulations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1587.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-06", "file": "debates1924-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab174a1673cf0811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1590.0", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY (INDUSTRIAL DISEASES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "f silicosis among coal miners were established, a scheme could be made for the coal mining industry. Up to the present, however, the evidence with regard to coal miners is that generally they are not liable to the disease. I am informed that the Health Advisory Committee of the Mines Department is at present engaged in a renewed investigation into the effects of dust on the health of miners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1590.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-06", "file": "debates1924-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab174a1673cf0811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1593.2", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LINFIELD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LINFIELD", "preceding_text": "May I tell the right hon. Gentleman for his information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1593.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-06", "file": "debates1924-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab174a1673cf0811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1600.1", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman take into consideration the fact that the Safeguarding of Industries Act will not be continued much longer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-06", "file": "debates1924-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab174a1673cf0811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1681.1", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMAN REPARATION (RECOVERY) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": "g as he was responsible for its administration it would not be used as an instrument of Protection. It may interest hon. Members both above and below the Gangway on the opposite side to know that since this duty has been reduced retail offices and large shopkeepers have been crowded with travellers and inundated with telegrams and letters from German manufacturers offering goods at reduced prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-06", "file": "debates1924-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab174a1673cf0811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1691.0", "colnum": "1691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMAN REPARATION (RECOVERY) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We paid the duty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "he Exchequer alluded. We complain of the Government throwing away £7,750,000, and the right hon. Gentleman says that that money has not been coming in—not one penny of it—during the last three months. He said so just now, but I cannot believe that he means it. Does the right hon. Gentleman mean to say that no goods have come into this country from Germany in the last three months?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-06", "file": "debates1924-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab174a1673cf0811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1694.1", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMAN REPARATION (RECOVERY) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why did not you do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "at the 26 per cent. was added to the price. Why did not the right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer use his powers? He has powers under the Act to exempt any goods he chooses from this 26 per cent. duty—or rather the President of the Board of Trade has—and if the right hon. Gentleman thought the 26 per cent. was paid by the British importers on noncompetitive goods —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-06", "file": "debates1924-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab174a1673cf0811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1694.1", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMAN REPARATION (RECOVERY) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have not got it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "esh issue of paper money and further inflation, and you will never balance the German Budget, and unless you do that you are not likely to get any reparation from Germany. That is the argument the right hon. Gentleman advances for abandoning the 26 per cent. I do not say it is a bad argument, but why does it apply to Great Britain only? Is it not true also with regard to France, Belgium and Italy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-06", "file": "debates1924-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab174a1673cf0811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1696.0", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMAN REPARATION (RECOVERY) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the working people!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "he Exchequer will hear of this matter, and he might just as well have brought in a Bill—he would have had the support of my hon. Friends here below the Gangway—to repeal the whole business. The Measure was brought in by a Coalition Government, after all, and they were Protectionists, and it is only a nuisance to the merchants and traders of this country, and ought to be done away with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1696.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-06", "file": "debates1924-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab174a1673cf0811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1696.0", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMAN REPARATION (RECOVERY) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are coming!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "tion Government, after all, and they were Protectionists, and it is only a nuisance to the merchants and traders of this country, and ought to be done away with. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the working people!\"] I suppose the hon. Member on the back benches opposite, who interrupts is going to talk about the flood of German imports that will came into this country if only this levy is taken away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1696.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-03-06", "file": "debates1924-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab174a1673cf0811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1700.0", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMAN REPARATION (RECOVERY) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "so much in favour of restoring trade, or so they said at Genoa and elsewhere, so why could not they exempt these merchants who were dealing in goods from Germany, such as dyes and chemicals? Why were not they exempted from this levy, when it was obvious in the last few months that they themselves were paying these sums into the British Treasury? The fact is, Mr. Entwistle, as you and I know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1696.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-06", "file": "debates1924-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab174a1673cf0811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1715.0", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMAN REPARATION (RECOVERY) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is nothing like cheek.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": ", and the devastation to our business, as everyone knows, has been greater than has been suffered by any other country. I protest against the new spirit, which seems to proceed on the assumption that England is to pay, but, when it comes to receiving, it must be some other country. It is always some other country. Britain pays America, but she is to receive nothing from France, nothing from Italy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1715.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-06", "file": "debates1924-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab174a1673cf0811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1715.0", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMAN REPARATION (RECOVERY) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " suffered by any other country. I protest against the new spirit, which seems to proceed on the assumption that England is to pay, but, when it comes to receiving, it must be some other country. It is always some other country. Britain pays America, but she is to receive nothing from France, nothing from Italy. [An HON. MEMBER: \"There is nothing like cheek.\"] I claim civil treatment in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1715.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-06", "file": "debates1924-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab174a1673cf0811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1718.4", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMAN REPARATION (RECOVERY) ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Would you go to Berlin?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "e same arrangements for the reparation levy that the French, the Belgians and Italians and the Ruhr industrialists have been able to get? Why did not he insist on saying, \"As long as that agreement stands for the delivery of reparations in kind to our Allies, we must have as good terms\"; and those terms apparently are satisfactory to the German industrialists who are delivering reparation in kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1718.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-06", "file": "debates1924-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab174a1673cf0811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1745.0", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I only heard the right hon. Member refer to West Suffolk.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "That is absolutely untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-06", "file": "debates1924-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab174a1673cf0811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1746.1", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SULLIVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"£110.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SULLIVAN", "preceding_text": "We are glad to get these explanations. You can, I think, buy a Ford car for £150.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-06", "file": "debates1924-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab174a1673cf0811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1746.1", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SULLIVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"£700.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SULLIVAN", "preceding_text": "We are glad to get these explanations. You can, I think, buy a Ford car for £150. [An HON. MEMBER: \"£110.\"] Hon. Members opposite can tell me what price they pay for a Rolls-Royce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-06", "file": "debates1924-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab174a1673cf0811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1746.1", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SULLIVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SULLIVAN", "preceding_text": "MEMBER: \"£110.\"] Hon. Members opposite can tell me what price they pay for a Rolls-Royce. [An HON. MEMBER: \"£700.\"] Then, I am afraid, a Rolls-Royce is not paying its proper quota; but when he suggests it is as light on the road, I think the hon. and gallant Member will scarcely admit that is a serious argument. Somehow or other, a country gets the sort of transport that suits its roads.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-06", "file": "debates1924-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab174a1673cf0811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1748.0", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DOUGLAS NEWTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whose fault was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DOUGLAS NEWTON", "preceding_text": "Transport has not got quite that energy and measure of efficiency that some of us would like to see. I should like to support that statement by urging that in future efforts should be made to issue the Annual Report with more expedition. Many of us are interested in this Annual Report. I understand the year closes on 31st March. The Report was not available until many months after the closing day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1748.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-06", "file": "debates1924-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab174a1673cf0811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1753.0", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDMUND TURTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDMUND TURTON", "preceding_text": "ill, and then we shall have every opportunity of discussing the relative merits of those two taxes. The hon. and gallant Member apparently thinks that the motorists are subscribing to a larger degree than is fair or equitable towards the upkeep of the roads, and he asked us in a somewhat pathetic manner whether it was expected that the motorists should pay for the whole of the upkeep of our roads.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1753.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-06", "file": "debates1924-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab174a1673cf0811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1765.0", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Gosling)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Gosling)", "preceding_text": "ndamental principle underlying the 50 per cent. and 26 per cent. grant to Class I and Class II roads, which are the main arteries of through communication by road. The only other point that was put to me was one that I cannot answer to-night. I cannot say what the resources of the Road Fund will be before we stop. The money is allocated for five years. I do not expect to be in office all the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-06", "file": "debates1924-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab174a1673cf0811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1767.2", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "h Coast of England, and that community should receive the special attention of the Minister. There are other rural roads which have been alluded to in the course of this Debate where I cannot believe that the motor traffic causes much increased wear. Last year, when I was speaking on this same topic, I fairly startled hon. Members of the House by saying that I frequently followed traction engines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1767.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-06", "file": "debates1924-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab174a1673cf0811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1769.0", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir CHARLES BARRIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not 99 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir CHARLES BARRIE", "preceding_text": "o the town and the county council, than they ought to cost, and it is due to the fact that this traffic passes through, and we get nothing for it. The position in regard to Ross-shire, Inverness-shire, Banffshire and various northern counties is this: A larger percentage of grant ought to be given for first-class roads. Fifty per cent. is not enough. Seventy-five or 80 per cent. ought to be given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1769.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-06", "file": "debates1924-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ab174a1673cf0811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1776.0", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GERALD HOHLER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GERALD HOHLER", "preceding_text": "ads come under the designation of classes 1, 2 and 3. I do not know whether class 1 covers the main roads, and if that is so, exactly what is covered by the other two classes. But the real point that I wanted to raise is in regard to the new main roads and the deplorable condition of some of them, including the road from London to Rochester. It runs right through Foot's Cray right down to Swanley.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-06a.1776.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-07", "file": "debates1924-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "12554e7c6e35f836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1802.1", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. GAUNT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBKRS: \"Mark British eggs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. GAUNT", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that presently. All I want to secure is that the British egg shall be sold as a British egg; that there shall be no doubt in the mind of the British housewife as to what she is buying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-07", "file": "debates1924-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "12554e7c6e35f836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1805.3", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. GAUNT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will this Bill protect the buyer against that cheese?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. GAUNT", "preceding_text": "I would be in order in saying that the hon. Member for Dumbarton (Mr. Kirkwood) would make a particularly excellent telephone operator, the way he rolls the three r's. Coming back to cheese, I would like to point out that this poor lady, who went in pursuit of cheese for her loving husband, was having 14 per cent. cheese passed on to her instead of 40 per cent., as the original cheese should have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1805.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-07", "file": "debates1924-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "12554e7c6e35f836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1810.2", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "preceding_text": ", undoubtedly, it is impossible to distinguish it from English meat, and it is practically as good as English meat and therefore there is no substitution. Another consideration was that it is good policy in law not to make laws that cannot be enforced. It is perfectly true that it is extremely difficult to distinguish the foreign from the English potato, or a foreign tomato from an English tomato.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1810.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-07", "file": "debates1924-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "12554e7c6e35f836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1810.2", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "preceding_text": "iable to conviction for an offence against this Act in respect of any imported article if he shows to the satisfaction of the Court that he did not know, and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained, that the article was imported. Therefore it is clear that under this Bill, for practical purposes, no retailer can be convicted unless he is deliberately selling imported stuff as English.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1810.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-07", "file": "debates1924-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "12554e7c6e35f836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1818.0", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD PRIVY SEAL (Mr. Clynes)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD PRIVY SEAL (Mr. Clynes)", "preceding_text": " I shall inquire. I do understand that it is not his intention to take part in the Debate. All I can say on that point is that if the Government, on every Friday—a time reserved for private Members' Bills, and for the free play of discussion without the weight of Government being thrown on one side or the other—if, now, the Government is to be expected at once to take sides with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-07", "file": "debates1924-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "12554e7c6e35f836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1822.1", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"HOW?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": " certain results which will flow from its provisions if the Bill ever becomes law. It provides protection without any system of tariffs. That is the kind of ingenious suggestion that would come from the hon. Member for East Grinstead (Sir H. Cautley). It places in the way of trade in this country any number of irritating and vexatious hindrances, and it undoubtedly means a restriction of supplies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-07", "file": "debates1924-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "12554e7c6e35f836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1822.1", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": " of ingenious suggestion that would come from the hon. Member for East Grinstead (Sir H. Cautley). It places in the way of trade in this country any number of irritating and vexatious hindrances, and it undoubtedly means a restriction of supplies. [HON. MEMBERS: \"HOW?\"] For the very simple reason that you make it difficult for things to come into this country. That is the history of the egg trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-07", "file": "debates1924-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "12554e7c6e35f836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1825.1", "colnum": "1825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite right!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": " mystery about the sausage. I am surprised that the hon. and gallant Admiral did not include a provision for a boundary commission in this Bill, to determine the relation of the sausage to the \"other meat.\" It is really carrying the thing to a ridiculous extent when it is suggested that the man who buys a chilled joint is not able to receive it unless it be accompanied by an invoice from the shop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1825.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-07", "file": "debates1924-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "12554e7c6e35f836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1828.3", "colnum": "1828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MBMBEBS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "I do not say that it is difficult to mark foreign eggs, but I believe that British eggs do not require any label; they speak always for themselves. The great fact about British eggs has been their quality, the quality of British workmanship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1828.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-07", "file": "debates1924-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "12554e7c6e35f836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1829.3", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "eggs could not be kept for that period, they would be sold elsewhere, and the demand for British goods, made by British workmen, bringing revenue to this country, apart from the invisible profits of shipping, would be taken away from this county if we had this kind of interference. Then there is the case of honey. There is not enough honey produced in this country to go round the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1829.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-07", "file": "debates1924-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "12554e7c6e35f836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1830.0", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BLUNDELL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BLUNDELL", "preceding_text": "What about bees?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1830.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-07", "file": "debates1924-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "12554e7c6e35f836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1830.5", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Margarine.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOGGE", "preceding_text": "r is out of the Bill. Separated milk is in it, and skimmed milk and condensed milk—all the food that the supporters of this Bill require—and dried milk and bacon and cheese are in the Bill, but butter is not. We eat more butter, every one of us, in a single year than we eat of any of those other products. It is the more usual accompaniment of any table in any household in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1830.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-07", "file": "debates1924-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "12554e7c6e35f836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1834.1", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not the agricultural co-operators!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "rable and useful part in the work of the Committee upstairs in opposition to this Bill last year spoke directly for the co-operators. I refer to the hon. Member for Hillsborough (Mr. A. V. Alexander), who is now Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade. He spoke for the whole of the co-operators, in violent opposition to the main principles of that Bill, which have been retained in this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-07", "file": "debates1924-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "12554e7c6e35f836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1842.0", "colnum": "1842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE EDWARDS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE EDWARDS", "preceding_text": "rgely by his words and his works. I must say that the speeches delivered from the opposite benches by the Proposer and Seconder and supporters of the Bill have been Protectionist speeches in very essence. In spite of that I am somewhat inclined, though there is a great deal in the Bill that I could not, possibly, support, in spite of that, I say, I might be inclined to vote for the Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1842.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-07", "file": "debates1924-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "12554e7c6e35f836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1843.1", "colnum": "1843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDWARDS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He must be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDWARDS", "preceding_text": "There is good reason why it should, then, if the statement of the hon. Member for East Edinburgh be true. I had supposed that the British trader is not so dishonest as he is made out,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1843.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-07", "file": "debates1924-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "12554e7c6e35f836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1850.0", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PERRY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PERRY", "preceding_text": "h interested in the argument of the hon. Member opposite when he spoke about convinced Free Traders knowing a great deal about this Bill. It is because the great co-operative movement has always stood firmly by the policy of Free Trade, and because they understand something of Free Trade, that they see in this Bill another ingenious design to bring about a Measure of Tariff Reform in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-07", "file": "debates1924-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "12554e7c6e35f836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1850.2", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PERRY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PERRY", "preceding_text": " are bringing it forward much better if they had come out with an open advocacy of Tariff Reform. Hon. Members shake their heads, but you can call it what you like. Some of us who have had experience both of Free Trade and of Tariff Reform, know that this is another ingenious method of trying to get by the back door what the electors of this country refused to give by the front door last December.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1850.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-07", "file": "debates1924-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "12554e7c6e35f836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1851.0", "colnum": "1851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "it comes to market. It has been said that such a Measure as this—and I agree that the difficulties of putting it into operation are immense—will raise prices. Will it? I think not. In the first place, if it can be brought into operation it will give the housewife a bargaining power which she has not got now. She does not know to-day whether she is buying a foreign egg or a British egg.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-07", "file": "debates1924-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "12554e7c6e35f836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1851.0", "colnum": "1851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"The British egg is too dear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": " I suggest that members of the Labour party, who seem to be taking an attitude against the Bill, should ask the housewife whether, when she goes to a shop, she wants to know she is being treated fairly or not. Can you give the housewife too much protection in this matter? If she- wants a foreign egg, let her have it. If she wants a British egg, why should she not have that? Surely it is only fair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-07", "file": "debates1924-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "12554e7c6e35f836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1852.3", "colnum": "1852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are sold as eggs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "Large numbers of them are sold as British eggs. I do not want to get into any controversy with my hon. Friend, but I say this is evidence, and according to ibis, 2,000,000,000 foreign eggs are brought into this country and they are not sold as foreign eggs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1852.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-07", "file": "debates1924-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "12554e7c6e35f836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1852.3", "colnum": "1852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": " it will send up the price of English eggs, but if it does, the consumer will be buying what she wants. To-day she does not know whether she is buying what she wants or not. This circular says the importer will no longer be able to buy eggs by auction in transit. That means that all sorts of eggs are bought in transit and placed on the market here. They are not sold as foreign eggs but as British.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1852.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-07", "file": "debates1924-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "12554e7c6e35f836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1855.0", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where,\" and \"The best in the world.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROAD", "preceding_text": " prepared to pay an equal price if not a better price for a Danish marked egg. Our Friends last year spoke of Dutch pork and veal. They have left out pork this year, because if these things were marked the public would soon find out the quality of Danish eggs and Dutch pork. They have a standard quality on which people can rely. We see mongrel herds of pigs and cattle in this country to-day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1855.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-07", "file": "debates1924-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "12554e7c6e35f836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1869.0", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "ate. It is a distinct advantage to the House, in relation to this particular discussion, that a new Member with such first-hand knowledge should have been able to contribute his experience. The Second Reading of this Bill has produced a very interesting, though I think hardly such, a hilarious discussion as it did a year ago. There seems to have fallen a deep gloom over the promoters of this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1869.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-07", "file": "debates1924-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "12554e7c6e35f836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1869.0", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "cepts the Free Trade position agreeing to that argument. I can understand hon. Members opposite, who believe in the virtues of Protection, and who have constantly advocated Protection, but with whom, as a matter of fact, for the moment Protection is suspended as a part of their policy, endeavouring, while their ideal is in cold storage, to get through this House this particular form of Protection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1869.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-07", "file": "debates1924-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "12554e7c6e35f836", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1873.9", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "Are we to protect ourselves against what is a hypothetical danger?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-07a.1873.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-10", "file": "debates1924-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebcbb60053094b8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.1974.1", "colnum": "1974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "rther undertakings in regard to this question of making and finding work. I now come to the present Government. Neither its Members nor its followers will deny that they are under a special obligation with regard to this problem of finding or making work for the unemployed. They will forgive me if I point out that they speak with something approaching contempt of the efforts of their predecessors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.1974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-10", "file": "debates1924-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebcbb60053094b8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.1977.3", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Part of it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "I now corns to the work-finding side. First of all, there are the cruisers. That is the proposal of the late Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.1977.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-10", "file": "debates1924-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebcbb60053094b8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.1977.3", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "922–23. Further, this Vote of Account for 1924–25 shows that the total amount for unemployment grants is £845,000 as against £850,000 for the financial year 1923–24. It shows that the total Estimate for 1924–25 for the relief of unemployment is £2,385,000 as against £2,480,100 for the present financial year, 1923–24. I hope I may be forgiven—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.1977.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-10", "file": "debates1924-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebcbb60053094b8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.1977.3", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"1926.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": " as if the schemes now being operated have yet been touched with that larger and that more adequate grasp of the needs of the situation which we were led to expect. Further, the development of electrical power supply, the overhaul of our inland water transport facilities, and the problem of land reclamation do not appear to have been touched at all, if I may judge by the figures for 1924–25.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.1977.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-10", "file": "debates1924-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebcbb60053094b8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.1992.0", "colnum": "1992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Mr. T. Shaw)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Mr. T. Shaw)", "preceding_text": "vative Minister of Labour, in answer to the question as to how much benefit was paid to aliens in 1923, replied that the information was not available. The subject is allowed to drop, but when a Labour Member appears on the scene, not responsible in the slightest degree for aliens even being in the Act, he must, forsooth, be asked to provide the fullest information at the earliest possible moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.1992.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-10", "file": "debates1924-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebcbb60053094b8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.1995.2", "colnum": "1995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We did not say so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "u cut, and cut, and cut, till you cut the very food of the people, then you are laying up stores of suffering and trouble for the generation that follows. We will have neither part nor lot with the theory, that is apparently held, that in the payment of these benefits you must treat every man who draws them as a potential fraud, and that whoever is not surrounded by safeguards will rob the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.1995.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-10", "file": "debates1924-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebcbb60053094b8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2002.3", "colnum": "2002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is it new work or not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "Yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2002.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-10", "file": "debates1924-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebcbb60053094b8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2003.0", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about a new policy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "I am afraid I cannot tell the right hon. Gentleman exactly how much of the £20,000,000 has been spent. May I call the attention of the House to one fact, that we have been in office for six weeks—a rather striking fact—and it appears to be assumed that because we have not scrapped what our predecessors set—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2003.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-10", "file": "debates1924-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebcbb60053094b8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2003.5", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2003.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-10", "file": "debates1924-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebcbb60053094b8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2003.6", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "The Minister of Transport will be able to give a definite answer to that question. There are many difficulties existing, but I think that the scheme is now on the way to being carried out. I come to agriculture and land drainage. There, again, there are certain schemes and certain provision agreed to by the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2003.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-10", "file": "debates1924-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebcbb60053094b8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2003.6", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Whitehall rabbits!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": " many difficulties existing, but I think that the scheme is now on the way to being carried out. I come to agriculture and land drainage. There, again, there are certain schemes and certain provision agreed to by the previous Government. [HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Yes; they have been agreed to by the previous Government. Does anybody think that we can produce schemes like rabbits out of our hat?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2003.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-10", "file": "debates1924-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebcbb60053094b8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2004.5", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": " is no reason whatever for poverty and unemployment. We did not create in six weeks the conditions in Europe. Neither did we create the fact that people who are able to produce three times more than they consume are walking the streets. We are not responsible for that state of things, nor for the state of things in which honest men go hungry to bed. We are not responsible for that state of things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2004.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-10", "file": "debates1924-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebcbb60053094b8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2005.2", "colnum": "2005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "I have told hon. Members. To begin with, we have made peace with 120,000,000 people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2005.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-10", "file": "debates1924-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebcbb60053094b8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2014.1", "colnum": "2014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALDEN", "preceding_text": " are very big schemes which have been adumbrated—indeed some schemes have been very fully and completely worked out—but they are not put into effect. You may say the same about the whole question of coast erosion and the improvement of our estuaries and harbours. I will not say if I were in my right hon. Friend's position I could find work for half a million men, but I believe I could.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-10", "file": "debates1924-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebcbb60053094b8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2023.0", "colnum": "2023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Will be!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "What I said was perfectly correct. I said that it was a payment by the State in respect of which up to the present no premium had been received. It may be in future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2023.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-10", "file": "debates1924-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebcbb60053094b8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2046.0", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON", "preceding_text": "done by administration. Ministers have said, quite truly, that they have only been in power six or seven weeks, and it is impossible for them to create a Millenium in that time. On the other hand, many of these things we are urging are matters which can be carried out by administrative Orders. They have had time to rescind the Poplar Order. They have had time to give orders for five more cruisers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-10", "file": "debates1924-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebcbb60053094b8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2046.0", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is another matter!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON", "preceding_text": " them to create a Millenium in that time. On the other hand, many of these things we are urging are matters which can be carried out by administrative Orders. They have had time to rescind the Poplar Order. They have had time to give orders for five more cruisers. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"] They have invited tenders. Does anyone suggest that he really thinks that those orders are going to be cancelled?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-10", "file": "debates1924-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebcbb60053094b8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2046.0", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON", "preceding_text": " it was not more relief from the guardians; it was work that was wanted. Where is that work? What is this Government doing? I was one who criticised the last Government, and the previous one, on this point, and, therefore, I am free to criticise this Government. Work could be done by the local authorities to a much greater extent than it is being done to-day provided the Government find the means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-10", "file": "debates1924-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebcbb60053094b8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2055.1", "colnum": "2055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "ddition to that we are told that we are going to have a comprehensive scheme to deal with unemployment, and this is going to increase this deficit still more. When the right hon. Gentleman the Member for North-West Camberwell introduced unemployment insurance it was based upon an actuarial scheme of contribution from the workmen, the employer, and the State, but that has all gone by the board now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2055.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-03-10", "file": "debates1924-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "ebcbb60053094b8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2069.0", "colnum": "2069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "More than your party.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "l the temptations which beset children at that age who are not employed, but the right hon. Gentleman did not offer any solution of the problem, and I would like to hear what the Parliamentary Secretary has to say when she responds. She has at least wide experience of the gravity of this problem, and she has done an immense amount of public service in providing opportunities for helping the child.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-10a.2067.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-11", "file": "debates1924-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ff423fadfd39d25e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-11a.2097.5", "colnum": "2097", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "preceding_text": "ieve that our contractors have successfully placed contracts and fulfilled orders for overseas up to some £500,000,000. As to the tenders which they have not succeeded in placing, I seem to remember, some 30 or 40 years ago almost identical complaints being made, and I would suggest that it would be far more advantageous to advertise the fact that we have succeeded in fulfilling orders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-11a.2097.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-11", "file": "debates1924-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ff423fadfd39d25e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-11a.2191.2", "colnum": "2191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut-Colonel Sir SAMUEL HOARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too late!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut-Colonel Sir SAMUEL HOARE", "preceding_text": "acked several times by hon. Members who now sit behind the Under-Secretary of State for Air, who thought that I was pushing through some gigantic financial ramp out of which a number of private people were going to make large sums of money, and as a result of which the State would suffer. It was interesting to me to hear that the Under-Secretary had no criticism to make of this arrangement to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-11a.2191.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-11", "file": "debates1924-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ff423fadfd39d25e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-11a.2209.3", "colnum": "2209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PENNY", "cue_text": "HON. MKMBKBS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PENNY", "preceding_text": "I should be the very first to withdraw had I intended anything offensive. What I meant was that the hon. Gentleman does not realise the importance of this, and he is preferring to stick in office rather than do what he should do for the Air Force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-11a.2209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-11", "file": "debates1924-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ff423fadfd39d25e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-11a.2209.7", "colnum": "2209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PENNY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What an explanation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PENNY", "preceding_text": "I wish to make it quite clear, and if what I have said has been misinterpreted, I withdraw with pleasure. But I stick to what I said in so far that I want to convey to the House that I did not think the Minister realised the importance of the Air arm in the defence of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-11a.2209.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-11", "file": "debates1924-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ff423fadfd39d25e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-11a.2228.1", "colnum": "2228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And other armaments.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "I would strain every nerve and use every atom of diplomatic skill and influence that we have to get the nations together for the sole purpose of reducing our air armaments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-11a.2228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-11", "file": "debates1924-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ff423fadfd39d25e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-11a.2230.1", "colnum": "2230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KEN WORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There are no spurs!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KEN WORTHY", "preceding_text": "ssible to add very much to the efficiency of the Air Force at a low cost, if we could enrol a body of civilians, skilled mechanics, who need not wear uniform, and who need very little training, but would be available for a rapidly expanding Air Farce in case of war. I believe that there are many men who object to annual camps and training, and uniforms and spurs and swords, and all the rest of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-11a.2230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-11", "file": "debates1924-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ff423fadfd39d25e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-11a.2230.1", "colnum": "2230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KEN WORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KEN WORTHY", "preceding_text": "e wear spurs. I view with some apprehension the attempt in the Air Force to emulate and imitate the Brigade of Guards, as regards the rank and file. The most efficient services in the War in the Navy were the so-called piratical services of the submarines and destroyers, where the less pipeclay, spit, polish, and parade ground discipline there was, the greater was the efficiency when the War came.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-11a.2230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-11", "file": "debates1924-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ff423fadfd39d25e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-11a.2238.0", "colnum": "2238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEACH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not at all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEACH", "preceding_text": "derstand the meaning of it. So far as I can make out, it is purely a pious resolution which may have something behind it to which we on this side cannot subscribe at all, or which, on the other hand, may be perfectly harmless. It looks to me as if it were an anti-French declaration in some respects. Apparently, it must have in it the element of prompting the idea that we are arming against France.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-11a.2238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-11", "file": "debates1924-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ff423fadfd39d25e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-11a.2238.0", "colnum": "2238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEACH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nobody does!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEACH", "preceding_text": "mething behind it to which we on this side cannot subscribe at all, or which, on the other hand, may be perfectly harmless. It looks to me as if it were an anti-French declaration in some respects. Apparently, it must have in it the element of prompting the idea that we are arming against France. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Not at all!\"] I do not desire that any such untruthful impression should get abroad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-11a.2238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-11", "file": "debates1924-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ff423fadfd39d25e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-11a.2257.1", "colnum": "2257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSITION OF FISHING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain SIDNEY HERBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain SIDNEY HERBERT", "preceding_text": "s in order that the food supplies might be maintained. I only quote these facts in order that the House may remember what a very considerable claim the fishing industry has upon the attention and gratitude of the people of this country. There is a second claim of a very different sort. After the War, in 1919, the Coalition Government, which made several mistakes during the course of its existence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-11a.2257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-11", "file": "debates1924-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ff423fadfd39d25e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-11a.2257.1", "colnum": "2257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSITION OF FISHING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain SIDNEY HERBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Will be!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain SIDNEY HERBERT", "preceding_text": "stry, and the banks concerned, should each meet in the respective constituencies their Members of Parliament, and should discuss what can be done for the fishing industries, and that we should endeavour to get throughout England and Scotland some sort of unity, and that the Minister should receive a deputation elected by bodies constituted as suggested. This Debate has been extremely useful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-11a.2257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-11", "file": "debates1924-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ff423fadfd39d25e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-11a.2277.1", "colnum": "2277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POSITION OF FISHING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUXTON", "preceding_text": "to other parties in the House, and then I really think that a great contribution might be made to the solution of the trouble in the fishing industry. In conclusion, I would only say that I hope it will not be very many years before there are other Debates in this House for the benefit of that class of men who are distinguished by extraordinary independence of character and a sturdy individualism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-11a.2277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-11", "file": "debates1924-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ff423fadfd39d25e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-11a.2289.12", "colnum": "2289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ve grievances is to remove the grievances. There ought to be some effort made to get this dispute settled on decent terms. The last point is that these people of whom I am talking are really and literally starving. I would call the attention of everybody in this House to the fact that the \"Times of India,\" which is not a Nationalist or Socialistic journal, but a sober organ of sober opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-11a.2289.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-12", "file": "debates1924-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f872cf6b39dc473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2316.0", "colnum": "2316", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "preceding_text": "I want to give the right hon. Gentleman fair notice, so that there can be no question of a snap Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-12", "file": "debates1924-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f872cf6b39dc473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2317.4", "colnum": "2317", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sixty hours a day.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman give any information to the House, of any kind, of any means by which the Government are attempting to revive industry in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2317.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-12", "file": "debates1924-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f872cf6b39dc473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2329.2", "colnum": "2329", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENEMY ACTION CLAIMS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "As far as I know, all claims received by the Department have been duly acknowledged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2329.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-12", "file": "debates1924-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f872cf6b39dc473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2336.12", "colnum": "2336", "heading": "PROTECTION OF ANIMALS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": " penalty shall not apply to the hunting or coursing of any animal which has been kept in confinement, if it be proved that such animal has been released from such confinement at least eight days before the day on which such hunting or coursing takes place. I ask the attention of hon. Members to the fact that this Bill applies not only to the coursing of rabbits, but to the hunting of carted stags.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2336.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-12", "file": "debates1924-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f872cf6b39dc473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2391.0", "colnum": "2391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir COURTENAY MANSEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir COURTENAY MANSEL", "preceding_text": "ntry what the Danish Government did in years past for Danish agriculture, when it was even more un-prosperous than English agriculture is to-day. I know that we have great difficulties to overcome. We have, on the part of both the Opposition and the Government Benches, preconceptions, eidola fori, to overcome. On the part of the Government Benches there is the pre judice against country landlords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2391.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-12", "file": "debates1924-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f872cf6b39dc473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2391.0", "colnum": "2391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir COURTENAY MANSEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Losing it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir COURTENAY MANSEL", "preceding_text": "nd that takes a man to the City to earn a large fortune, often lat the expense of his poorer fellow-countrymen, is a very different habit of mind from the one that keeps him in the country, engaged in a happy and healthful occupation, but not making money. There is a prevailing opinion, quite erroneous, as everyone knows in the country who knows well enough, that the farmer is always making money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2391.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-12", "file": "debates1924-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f872cf6b39dc473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2394.0", "colnum": "2394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. William Graham)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. William Graham)", "preceding_text": "d scheme of the Bill, that is, as between the 9th November last, when the Act expired, and the end of March, 1925. The Amendment would have the effect of allocating, for the specific purpose of agriculture, £10,000,000 of the total sum available for guarantees, and the Mover and Seconder themselves do not disguise the fact that that is a very large claim to make upon a sum of that kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-12", "file": "debates1924-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f872cf6b39dc473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2401.1", "colnum": "2401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "During a long time, ever since the repeal of the Corn Production Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-12", "file": "debates1924-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f872cf6b39dc473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2404.5", "colnum": "2404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "They are entitled to get all they can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2404.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-12", "file": "debates1924-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f872cf6b39dc473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2413.0", "colnum": "2413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. EDWARDS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER B: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. EDWARDS", "preceding_text": "I want first to express my satisfaction at the Amendment which has been moved from below the Gangway, although I must also express my surprise at the new-born zeal for agriculture that is shown by hon. Members on those benches", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-12", "file": "debates1924-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f872cf6b39dc473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2421.2", "colnum": "2421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Everybody!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "ts should be helped; nobody desires it more than I do, because I am the son of an agricultural worker in Ireland. I want to see agriculture helped, but I want to know who is going to get the benefit of the help given to agriculture. You are going to make light railways. Who is going to benefit? Who is going to benefit by the increase in the value of the land after you have made the light railways?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2421.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-12", "file": "debates1924-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f872cf6b39dc473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2421.2", "colnum": "2421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "ailways. Who is going to benefit? Who is going to benefit by the increase in the value of the land after you have made the light railways? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Everybody!\"] No. My Lord Tom Noddy or Sir Dumfunk Mcgregor. I have been surprised to listen to old land- taxers and some land-nationalisers talking about the Government subsidising private ownership of land, because that is what it really means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2421.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-12", "file": "debates1924-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f872cf6b39dc473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2423.1", "colnum": "2423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "I will get back to my original subject—milk. That is what I first began on. The principle of the Amendment is that one particular industry must be singled out for special treatment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-12", "file": "debates1924-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f872cf6b39dc473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2423.1", "colnum": "2423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about wages?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "lk. That is what I first began on. The principle of the Amendment is that one particular industry must be singled out for special treatment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Yes. I can mention numbers of industries in a worse condition than agriculture. Take the percentage of unemployment read out yesterday by the Minister of Labour, and you will find that agriculture is not so bad as other great industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-12", "file": "debates1924-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f872cf6b39dc473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2423.1", "colnum": "2423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "erday by the Minister of Labour, and you will find that agriculture is not so bad as other great industries. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about wages?\"] What are wages? Wages are only worth what they will purchase. I can tell the Committee that in the East End of London there are men working in most important industries who are relatively worse off than the agricultural labourer who happens to be working.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-12", "file": "debates1924-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f872cf6b39dc473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2423.1", "colnum": "2423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did not you put an Amendment down?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "urer or a dock labourer, but I object to one particular party in this House trying to make agriculture their special plea and forgetting all the other workers who do not come within that category. I am prepared to support the Amendment in principle, but I want equal treatment all round. I object to hon. Members pleading for special trades. I can plead for a special trade and can prove a good case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-12", "file": "debates1924-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f872cf6b39dc473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2425.0", "colnum": "2425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. ALLEN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. ALLEN", "preceding_text": "#8212;and there are many representatives of the farming interests in this House—this subject has not been taken up before now. I refer to the possibility which arises from the increased use of phosphates, which are available for the farmer if he can but secure Government assistance. I refer to the most extraordinary deposits of phosphates which the world has ever known, in the Nauru Islands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2425.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-12", "file": "debates1924-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f872cf6b39dc473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2428.5", "colnum": "2428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "the whole House will see that substantial difficulties will arise unless we can get this Measure without much delay. I am encouraged to make an appeal on that ground because, apart from certain minor differences of opinion about specific parts of the proposal, there is no substantial difference of opinion regarding this scheme as a whole. The Trade Facilities Act is very largely an agreed Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2428.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-12", "file": "debates1924-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f872cf6b39dc473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2432.3", "colnum": "2432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO. no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "In other words, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury has given a pledge that he is going to use his influence with the Committee dealing with these problems in order to obtain grants for the benefit of agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2432.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-12", "file": "debates1924-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f872cf6b39dc473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2451.0", "colnum": "2451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FRANKLIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed\" and \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FRANKLIN", "preceding_text": "I desire, in view of what has been said, to ask leave to withdraw my Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2451.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-12", "file": "debates1924-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f872cf6b39dc473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2451.1", "colnum": "2451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir FREDERICK HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir FREDERICK HALL", "preceding_text": "oney was secured. Suggestions have been thrown out that the advantages of this Act have been given to the larger, and not to the smaller man. We challenge that statement. I do not think anything of the sort has been done, and I would be no party to assist a policy of that description. Hon. Members have no right to give away money belonging to the State unless they are satisfied as to the security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-12", "file": "debates1924-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f872cf6b39dc473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2452.1", "colnum": "2452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "en lent to some of these concerns needful and necessary work would never have been carried out. I have not been interested in any concerns that have borrowed money from the State under the Trade Facilities Act; but there are big concerns—and I do not want to question them—who have had large amounts of money, which it is well known have been advanced by the State. What does it all mean?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-12", "file": "debates1924-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f872cf6b39dc473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2466.0", "colnum": "2466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"The present Minister!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNELL", "preceding_text": " it or not. The outstanding facts are these, that the sum of £45,000 in 1920 was increased to £112,500 in 1921, an increase of £67,500, or 150 per cent. above the pre-War charges. This Bill does suggest that after 10 years the matter might be considered if the Minister of Transport at that time should agree. But who would be the Minister of Transport 10 years hence? How can we tell?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-12", "file": "debates1924-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f872cf6b39dc473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2486.2", "colnum": "2486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "basis. That is a thing with which, I think, all hon. Members agree. The whole question is quite a simple one. The problem we have to face is whether the Conservancy and Metropolitan water authorities should bear as big a financial burden as they are now doing, whilst other authorities escape, notwithstanding the fact that they do derive direct benefit from the operations of the Thames Conservancy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2486.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-12", "file": "debates1924-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f872cf6b39dc473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2486.4", "colnum": "2486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ers suggest that they should pay a little towards it—however little it may be—to maintain their self-respect. It is not asking too much that we should expect these various authorities to pay in the same way to maintain their self-respect. That is an obvious truth that will be accepted by all. I say I am only concerned about the principle that those local authorities that benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2486.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-12", "file": "debates1924-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f872cf6b39dc473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2493.4", "colnum": "2493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Gosling)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Gosling)", "preceding_text": "which they point out that the result of the rejection of the Bill would be very serious to the water supply of the Metropolis, to inland transport waterway and to public recreation grounds. The opposition to this Bill seems to come from those who do not want to pay. They are not even united in their reasons. They are willing that others should pay if they could only get some relief for themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2493.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-12", "file": "debates1924-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "f872cf6b39dc473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2499.0", "colnum": "2499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HERBERT NIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HERBERT NIELD", "preceding_text": "I think the last speaker has entirely missed the mark in so far as the Amendment is to prevent this Bill going further. A Bill of this character in accordance with Parliamentary usage would go to a Committee upstairs to have its details examined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-12a.2499.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-13", "file": "debates1924-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c3bcc1f3c5b6fe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2524.2", "colnum": "2524", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (CORRESPONDENCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "preceding_text": "Before this question be put, may I, in justice to the Department, say that since I put the question on the Paper I have received one very satisfactory answer from one of the Departments concerned. May I also, in justice to myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2524.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-13", "file": "debates1924-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c3bcc1f3c5b6fe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2535.7", "colnum": "2535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE FORCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "—payments in accordance with the recommendations contained in the final reports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2535.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-13", "file": "debates1924-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c3bcc1f3c5b6fe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2553.5", "colnum": "2553", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE FORCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member's remarks should be addressed to hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2553.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-03-13", "file": "debates1924-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c3bcc1f3c5b6fe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2554.1", "colnum": "2554", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE FORCES.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "In that case, I think it is most undesirable to make references here to proceedings which are taking place upstairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2554.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-03-13", "file": "debates1924-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c3bcc1f3c5b6fe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2560.2", "colnum": "2560", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "He has said so.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman say whether the suspension of the Eleven o'Clock Rule to-night is merely for the purpose of getting Mr. Speaker out of the Chair?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-13", "file": "debates1924-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c3bcc1f3c5b6fe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2652.0", "colnum": "2652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEBS: \"Or an employers' association\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN HARRIS", "preceding_text": "ection, men sold their businesses and they rallied in response to the appeal. These men saw one thing only. They saw only a great national need. They did not stop to stipulate for terms. There are those who will say that in this they were foolish. There are those who will say: Why did not these fellows consider, first, their own interests? Why did not they form themselves into a trade union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2652.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-13", "file": "debates1924-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c3bcc1f3c5b6fe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2652.0", "colnum": "2652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN HARRIS", "preceding_text": "e Minister of Labour, and the Attorney-General. Therefore we feel that in making this appeal to the Government, we have on the Front Bench a solid body of those who believe in the justice of the claim which these men are making. Some hon. Members opposite have also signed documents signifying their support of this claim. It is one thing for a private Member like myself to go back on such promises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2652.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-13", "file": "debates1924-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c3bcc1f3c5b6fe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2657.3", "colnum": "2657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "that professional ranker officers of the Army, performing similar duties under identical conditions, should receive equal treatment as regards retired pay? The answer to that is \"Yes\"—\"performing similar duties under identical conditions.\" The second question is even more important than the first. It is— Army pensioned ranker officers, numbering 2,500\"— to gain electoral support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2657.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-13", "file": "debates1924-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c3bcc1f3c5b6fe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2659.1", "colnum": "2659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " honourable man.\" Beyond that, I do not go, and I say that those two absolutely essential pieces of information were not there, were withheld, and that the suggestions made in the two questionnaires were misleading. That is my case. Now let us see exactly how we find ourselves. I have for some time come to the conclusion that this growing method of throwing long questionnaires at candidates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-13", "file": "debates1924-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c3bcc1f3c5b6fe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2660.2", "colnum": "2660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\" and \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "This method of throwing long questionnaires at candidates is beginning to be grossly abused. I should like—and I do not like coalitions—to throw out a hint to the other two parties, that we might, after such experiences as these, form a coalition to refuse to answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2660.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-13", "file": "debates1924-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c3bcc1f3c5b6fe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2660.3", "colnum": "2660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain TERRELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain TERRELL", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister introduce legislation with that object?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2660.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-13", "file": "debates1924-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c3bcc1f3c5b6fe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2660.6", "colnum": "2660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major-General Sir J. DAVIDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General Sir J. DAVIDSON", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether the Prime Minister proposes to treat all the pledges he gave at the General Election as he is treating this pledge?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2660.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-13", "file": "debates1924-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c3bcc1f3c5b6fe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2661.2", "colnum": "2661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "Well, then, let us understand. This is the situation now. We are asked to pass this Amendment, not on its merits, or not only on its merits; but, having passed this Amendment, the War Office is going to be pressed again and again to refuse every contractual relationship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2661.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-13", "file": "debates1924-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c3bcc1f3c5b6fe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2661.2", "colnum": "2661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "to whom I was talking said about this Amendment, \"Well, I hope you will carry it\"—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Yes; he is a brigadier-general and has a pension of a major. What I want to face is this. If there be a problem and the War Office is doing injustice in respect to this category of men, let us know. The speech made by the hon. Member who moved the Amendment is full of in accuracies", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2661.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-13", "file": "debates1924-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c3bcc1f3c5b6fe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2662.1", "colnum": "2662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "But one of the great points made by the hon. and gallant Member was that the treatment was to be equal to that given to naval officers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-13", "file": "debates1924-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c3bcc1f3c5b6fe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2662.3", "colnum": "2662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ired from my declaration—that men suffering from a wrong should receive justice generally. If ranker officers suffer, I would support the adjustment, but if they do not suffer I would not support it. Taking that attitude, I do not abate one jot or tittle from the pledge I gave. I therefore suggest that we should come to some agreement over this matter. The House wishes to do the right thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-13", "file": "debates1924-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c3bcc1f3c5b6fe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2662.3", "colnum": "2662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "] We all want to do the right thing, both to the ex-service men and to the taxpayer. We want to see fair play and that equity is done all round. It is not enough for men to make a claim in order that they should get it. They must establish the ground upon which they make the claim. If this Amendment be carried the only effect would be that Mr. Speaker does not leave the Chair. Then we waste a day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-13", "file": "debates1924-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c3bcc1f3c5b6fe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2662.3", "colnum": "2662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ertainly not make this question a vote of confidence. I considered how best to approach the matter and I suggested that a Select Committee should be set up drawn from all parties in this House, with an appeal to hon. Members who compose it to sit as severe judges listening to the evidence and coming to an independent decision. That suggestion, however, for one reason or another, has been rejected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-13", "file": "debates1924-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c3bcc1f3c5b6fe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2662.3", "colnum": "2662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "be done in a somewhat better way. The late Government, I think it was, was in difficulties in a similar way about the Civil Service Entrants. In order that the whole thing should be taken away from party pressure and the suspicion of party pressure, a Committee was set up of outsiders presided over by Lord Lytton. That Committee became known as the Lytton Committee, and the people concerned by it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-13", "file": "debates1924-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c3bcc1f3c5b6fe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2665.4", "colnum": "2665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "ittee, then it will be open to anyone to put down a Motion to censure the Government, and in any case we shall get a Division upon it. I hope what I have said will commend itself to the House, and will induce a majority to fall in, under these very singular circumstances, with the suggestion which has been made. I think I am speaking for the majority of those who sit behind me in what I have said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2665.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-13", "file": "debates1924-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c3bcc1f3c5b6fe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2669.0", "colnum": "2669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. DAVIDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. DAVIDSON", "preceding_text": "I think this question is getting extremely confused. This is an important matter, and I would suggest to the Government that they should extend the terms of the reference to this Committee to cover all the pledges made by the Prime Minister at the last Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2669.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-13", "file": "debates1924-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c3bcc1f3c5b6fe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2699.0", "colnum": "2699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "very important. I quite understand that many hon. Members on both sides of the House will at that time have some planks to get on, but the average person will be placed in a very dangerous position. I say that provision will be made to meet the condition of things, but that certain hon. Members, as usual, will see to it that they will be protected, while other people will have to do the suffering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2699.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-13", "file": "debates1924-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "c3bcc1f3c5b6fe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2710.5", "colnum": "2710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "ther countries, it would be absolutely impossible for our Army at its present strength to contemplate action against either. If you take the larger Powers, you will see that where our active Army and Reserve have been reduced by 266,000 men since pre-War times, the military strength in bayonets of the countries that I have mentioned in Europe is 1,000,000 greater to-day than it was before the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-13a.2710.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2743.2", "colnum": "2743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain AINSWORTH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By selling honours!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain AINSWORTH", "preceding_text": "rst Schedule to this Act, or in a form to the like effect, that he is willing to be levied and to contribute to a political fund of the union. Words cannot be clearer than these. The only thing the Bill does in addition to that is to prevent a levy being made upon members of trade unions who do not wish to contribute for Socialist purposes. Every other party in this House receives its funds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2743.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2743.2", "colnum": "2743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain AINSWORTH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain AINSWORTH", "preceding_text": "a levy being made upon members of trade unions who do not wish to contribute for Socialist purposes. Every other party in this House receives its funds—[HON. MEMBERS: \"By selling honours!\"]—from voluntary contributions. The party opposite, the Socialist party, are the only party who seek to say, \"Whatever your political opinions may be, you shall subscribe to our political principles.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2743.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2743.2", "colnum": "2743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain AINSWORTH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name the unions!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain AINSWORTH", "preceding_text": " It does not hamper the trade unions in any way whatever but makes it perfectly clear that any member of any union shall be free to exercise his judgment and to subscribe to the fund what he desires. The truth of the matter is that hon. Members opposite know quite well that there is considerable intimidation brought to bear in the unions upon those members who seek to contract out of the 1913 Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2743.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2743.2", "colnum": "2743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain AINSWORTH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Facts about intimidation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain AINSWORTH", "preceding_text": "l be free to exercise his judgment and to subscribe to the fund what he desires. The truth of the matter is that hon. Members opposite know quite well that there is considerable intimidation brought to bear in the unions upon those members who seek to contract out of the 1913 Act. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Name the unions!\"] I can give facts and figures directly; I have already given them in the other case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2743.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2746.5", "colnum": "2746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain AINSWORTH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain AINSWORTH", "preceding_text": "Certainly. It is the business of any honest citizen,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2746.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2751.2", "colnum": "2751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "A few moments ago, when I was referring to the question of compulsion, an hon. Member opposite suggested that there was no compulsion that a man should joint a trade union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2751.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2751.2", "colnum": "2751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "ch he lives, and that the channels' which are ordinarily open to any other man to get relief from the guardian or from the Unemployment Insurance Fund, to which he has contributed, are denied him by the action of the very men who have thrown him out of his employment. It is not merely a case of compulsion of that kind, but even the children of the man are derided in the streets as they walk along.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2751.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2752.3", "colnum": "2752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They always are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "I refer to a particular trade union, one of whose members is in the House—the Shops Assistants Trade Union. After the Trade Union Congress there was a meeting of the executive of that Union. That meeting was held in camera.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2752.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2753.5", "colnum": "2753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "Let us pass from that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2753.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2753.7", "colnum": "2753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "Excuse me, the levy for the \"Daily Herald\" is on individual members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2753.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2756.0", "colnum": "2756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear;", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "he union? He then quotes what a preceding speaker had said, namely: \"You must give trade unions absolute power to use their funds as they like,\" and he goes on: That is a proposition which I think ought to be opposed to the utmost. If you do not do that, all these so-called paper safeguards are wholly insufficient and wholly illusory; they are simply for the consumption of weak-minded individuate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2756.1", "colnum": "2756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": " themselves by referring to the paper safeguards which are contained within the four corners of the proposed Bill.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 6th August, 1912; cols. 3027–8, Vol. 41.] When the present Bill gets to another place, we shall certainly look for considerable support from the speaker whose remarks I have just quoted to this House, and we shall get his support, I am perfectly certain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2756.1", "colnum": "2756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "at Britain had made its return in regard to political matters, and the answer which I received from the Financial Secretary to the Treasury was that the Miners' Federation need not make any return. The importance of that is, that with the exception of a few trade unions in the mining industry, the Miners' Federation is really the only body of miners' trade unions which has adopted political rules.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2757.2", "colnum": "2757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "My answer to that is, that what happened was that the Durham Miners' Association, from the passing of the 1913 Act until last year, made a levy for the support of members of local councils without having any political rules or authority to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2757.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2763.1", "colnum": "2763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "ated Union, Post Office Workers' Union, Shop Assistants' Union, and the Railway Clerks' Union. I find that in almost every case they have subscribed to the Labour Party Conference on exactly the same basis as they have subscribed to the Trade Union Congress, but that in one case a union has actually subscribed in respect of move members to the Labour Party Conference than the Trade Union Congress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2780.2", "colnum": "2780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: 'Can you contract out?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLISON", "preceding_text": "putting forward these views, because I have no Labour opposition. I fought the Nuneaton Division, which is a mining, agricultural and industrial Division, against both Labour and Tory candidates, and I am pleased to say that I beat them both. I feel as strongly about trade unionism as any Labour Member. I claim to be a member of one of the strongest trade unions in the world—the Law Society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2780.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2788.2", "colnum": "2788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP SASSOON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER. \"Neither can you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP SASSOON", "preceding_text": "on political matters. I should be the last to suggest that the consciences of trade union leaders are not clear in this respect, but what other explanation is there? If it be correct that the overwhelming majority of people who contribute to the political levy in this country are content to do so, what is the harm in letting them undertake to do so? Hon. Members opposite cannot have, it both ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2788.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2792.0", "colnum": "2792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "I merely rise because I was one of those who participated in a somewhat vigorous manner in the opposition to a similar Bill. It appears to me that this is becoming somewhat of a hardy annual. Year after year we have Measures like this introduced with the avowed object of preventing trade unions carrying out their legitimate functions under the existing law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2792.0", "colnum": "2792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So is the Socialist party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "ss of the plea that the principle embodied in the 1913 Act was not accepted in the trade unions, I would like to ask, where are the decoy ducks to-day? The Members who put those views forward received their answer at the polls; they are no longer here. I understand that the hon. Member who introduced this Bill was himself returned to this House by a minority vote of the constituency he represents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2792.0", "colnum": "2792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is what we want.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "ntravention of all Parliamentary procedure in introducing legislation in this House. If the hon. and learned Member were here, I would ask him to look up the records of legislation in this House, and where would be find in an Act of Parliament the principle of contracting-in, instead of contracting-out? Take the Vaccination Act. Would hon. Members apply the principle of contracting-in to that Act?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2792.0", "colnum": "2792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "ted funds for doing so. Talk about the compulsion of political funds. I wonder what would be the position of the hon. and learned Gentleman himself if he neglected to subscribe to his own trade union? It is no use hon. Members shaking their heads. The fact remains that the very essence of representation here on party grounds is a subscription to the political fund of the party to which you belong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2792.0", "colnum": "2792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We object to the Bill!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": " that we are committing injustices. Upon whom? Give us one case. In the last Parliament we had the great privilege of the Ten Minute Rule grossly abused by hon. Members opposite. When this agitation was first heard of we had 40 Members on the Floor of this House. The character of this opposition is shown in the fact that it is directed against anything that strengthens the party to which I belong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2802.0", "colnum": "2802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FRANK GRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FRANK GRAY", "preceding_text": "lp the downtrodden trade unionists, or whether they share with me the great fear of the growing strength of the Labour party based upon the collection of, it may be 1d., or it may be 6d., a week for political funds. There is a saying in the Equity Court that, if you come into Court asking for relief outside the ordinary legal provision—and that is what hon. Members are asking for here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2802.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2802.0", "colnum": "2802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FRANK GRAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FRANK GRAY", "preceding_text": "time, which I am sure they would never do—you should come with clean hands, and, therefore, it becomes material to consider the basis on which other parties in this House collect their funds. It is alleged—I will put it no stronger, although there is an admission—that the party on the other side have augmented their funds by the sale of honours. I say there is an admission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2802.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2802.0", "colnum": "2802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FRANK GRAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\" and \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FRANK GRAY", "preceding_text": "arge against the Labour party is that this collection is compulsory. I would point out that to-day a charge is made against the Conservative party. It is not made by me, because I am an old friend of so many of them, but we have one of their own leaders saying that there is not one of those who occupy seats upon those benches that has not had to obtain, under compulsion, the beer coupon or ticket.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2802.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2807.0", "colnum": "2807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Is not the Miners' Federation a conglomeration of various organisations inside the federation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2807.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2808.2", "colnum": "2808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear! and That is the law!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "anfield Moor Lodge in Durham wrote to the head office to say that they wanted forms of political exemption, in order that they might be able to issue them to their members who objected, and this is the reply which they got, which is dated 29th September, 1921: In answer to your letter we cannot supply exemption forms to any branch of this society. Every man must make a personal application\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2808.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2808.4", "colnum": "2808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Quite right!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "I think that hon. Members had better wait before they cheer— —through his lodge giving his full name and address and the reasons for desiring to obtain exemption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2808.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2809.4", "colnum": "2809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We cannot sell titles!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": " Act. The hon. Member for Don Valley said something else which struck me as being far more relevant to the objection against this Bill. He spoke of the difficulty of collecting this kind of contribution. \"Why,\" he said \"we should have to have a flag day in order to collect the money from our members\" That is the heart and root of the objection to this Bill and not the difficulty of administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2809.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2809.4", "colnum": "2809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "ere shall be a separate contribution card so that the member who pays a political levy will know he is paying that political levy and the member who is paying for ordinary trade union benefits will know he is paying for ordinary trade union benefits. That is absolutely clear and undoubtedly it is much simpler for the book-keeping and accountancy of a society which wants to keep its books properly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2809.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2809.4", "colnum": "2809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Watered stock!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "omething forward from the general contribution, with cross credits and all the rest of it. When listening to the case unfolded by the hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Norwood (Mr. Greaves-Lord) of contributions which have gone from one holding company to another, I felt I was listening to a dissertation upon that kind of finance which has been so often attacked by hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2809.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2812.0", "colnum": "2812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "de Union Act, 1913, became law. But I notice that hon. Members opposite are not contending that trade unions should not have and pursue political objects, though I am quite satisfied that at the back of the minds of many people who are supporting this Bill there really lies the hope and the intention that, if it were passed, trade unions would be prevented effectively from taking political action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2812.0", "colnum": "2812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\" and \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": " preserve, that a man who feels very strongly on this subject has got the right to object in accordance with the law, you have, in fact, secured the proper exception for that individual, and it may be perfectly right—and I am inclined to think it is right under modern conditions—that a trade union should have the advantage on its own side of what we may call the inertia of its members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2815.0", "colnum": "2815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD PRIVY SEAL (Mr. Clynes)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD PRIVY SEAL (Mr. Clynes)", "preceding_text": "on. and hon Members on the opposite side for the case they have presented in support of this Bill, they will not attempt to claim that there has been no partisan or political motive behind its submission to the House. Since 1913 the Labour party has grown, and it is that growth which is the explanation of the attack now being made on its means of facing its opponents in the various constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-03-14", "file": "debates1924-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "8f9747e9290c7a96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2815.0", "colnum": "2815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE UNION ACT (1913) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD PRIVY SEAL (Mr. Clynes)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD PRIVY SEAL (Mr. Clynes)", "preceding_text": "n the ex-President of the Board of Trade (Sir P. Lloyd-Greame) as being the official attitude and authoritative pronouncement of his party. The need for this Bill, says the right hon. Gentleman, has been established. We shall know, then, in future what is the official purpose and attitude of his party in relation to the right of trade unionists to gather and accumulate funds for political objects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-03-14a.2815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-05", "file": "debates1924-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "c3ab78ef3474910f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-05a.72.0", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF EVICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "regard to the land lord's position. If the desire of this House be to prevent evictions, then we say the Bill ought to go through in its original form. If the Amendment that was supported by the Attorney-General upstairs is carried in the House to-day, it will mean that the Bill will be rendered very largely ineffective. I warn Members and supporters of the Government that just as there was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-05a.72.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-05", "file": "debates1924-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "c3ab78ef3474910f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-05a.84.2", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF EVICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "preceding_text": "odation, he would, if he purchases the house in order to turn out the tenant, realise that he is going against the Act of Parliament and purchases at his own risk, and he has to convince the County Court Judge that he is entitled to turn out the tenant, who has done no harm to anyone, but who, ex hypothesi, is paying his rent. The tenant is now subject to a predatory or peripatetic landlord—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-05a.84.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-05", "file": "debates1924-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "c3ab78ef3474910f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-05a.84.2", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF EVICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "preceding_text": "h the passing of the Act, become different both for the landlord and for the tenant, and, therefore, we claim that, without creating any hardship at all to any existing landlord, we are protecting certainly many hundreds, and probably thousands, from the possibility of being turned out, and, as has been said, we are giving security to millions of tenants who would not otherwise have that security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-05a.84.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-05", "file": "debates1924-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "c3ab78ef3474910f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-05a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF EVICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord EUSTACE PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord EUSTACE PERCY", "preceding_text": "on. Gentlemen have never considered the actual effect of this Amendment. May I point out that none of the three hon. Members who have spoken from below the Gangway have produced a single argument in favour of the Amendment at all? They have talked about protecting tenants, but if you want to protect the tenants, nothing is needed beyond a one-Clause Bill saying that no tenants shall be turned out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-05a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-05", "file": "debates1924-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "c3ab78ef3474910f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-05a.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF EVICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "at in July, 1922. The date was justified by the fact that the Act was lapsing in 1923, and it was intended to deal with landlords who had bought in the confident expectation of that Act lapsing. But we also provided that any landlord who purchased after that date should get the house if he could prove greater hardship, and this was the effect of the 1923 Act which made an advance on previous Acts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-05a.90.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-05", "file": "debates1924-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "c3ab78ef3474910f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-05a.118.2", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF EVICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or our Allies\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "im from me. I would point out to the hon. Member who interrupted, and who is obviously very well pleased with his interruption, that in a British Act of Parliament, when we speak on this side of the House of service in the Great War, we mean service to our own kith and kin. When the hon. Member opposite speaks of service in the Great War, he thinks it may equally mean service to our enemies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-05a.118.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-05-05", "file": "debates1924-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "c3ab78ef3474910f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-05a.121.7", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF EVICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Ex-King Manuel!", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. PHILIPSON", "preceding_text": "I would not have spoken in this Debate, because I feel that no one can put the case better for the British subject than the hon. Member for Central Bristol (Sir T. Inskip), but I feel very strongly on this subject, and can quote a case where I do consider there was hardship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-05a.121.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-05", "file": "debates1924-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "c3ab78ef3474910f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-05a.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR CHARGES (VALIDITY) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": " there was a singular unanimity in the wrongdoing. We are all participators in this crime, except those comparatively few hon. Members who did not then happen to be in the House. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Paisley (Mr. Asquith) was a criminal. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) was a criminal. The leaders of the party opposite were criminals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-05a.161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-05", "file": "debates1924-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "c3ab78ef3474910f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-05a.182.1", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR CHARGES (VALIDITY) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. MANSEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Come over to this side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. MANSEL", "preceding_text": "rom the policy that has ruled in this country for hundreds of years; from the policy that is English to the policy that is foreign and continental. You are asking the House to establish the foreign system of droits a'admimstrer, the system under which you place the official above the law. You are right to ask for it, for it is the necessary foundation on which you wish to build up your Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-05a.182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-05", "file": "debates1924-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "c3ab78ef3474910f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-05a.186.3", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR CHARGES (VALIDITY) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "Under protest, if you like, but has paid it voluntarily under protest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-05a.186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-05", "file": "debates1924-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "c3ab78ef3474910f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-05a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR CHARGES (VALIDITY) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STORRY-DEANS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STORRY-DEANS", "preceding_text": "I have been a little amused when I have heard of the voluntary payments made by the milk people, the shipowners and the brewers, and those other people who contributed more or less to our discomfort during the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-05a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-05", "file": "debates1924-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "c3ab78ef3474910f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-05a.188.0", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR CHARGES (VALIDITY) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "g to the decision subsequently given by the Courts, they were careful to point out, \"We cannot validate backwards. In future it shall be lawful to pay bets by cheque, but those who in the past have done so are to remain liable for repayment of the money.\" That meant that the bookmakers were liable to the extent of millions of pounds for the repayment of that money. Take another illustration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-05a.188.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-06", "file": "debates1924-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f4a6972dac5f356", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "that the consumer would share the benefit with the producer. As a whole, the Empire would benefit enormously. Instead of getting our coffee from foreign countries, we would get it from our Dominions. We would be increasing our trade with the best customers we have in the world; we would be increasing our export trade in other things, because the colonies buy more per head than any foreign country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-06", "file": "debates1924-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f4a6972dac5f356", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.306.0", "colnum": "306", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " should be made as pleasant as possible for them, and that they should be supplied with cheaper chocolates. As I say, by taxing cocoa you are taxing chocolates and protecting an industry which, in itself, does not require protection and does not ask for protection. There ought not to be an Excise Tax upon cocoa at all, and if the Chancellor is there next year, as I very much hope he will be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-06", "file": "debates1924-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f4a6972dac5f356", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.326.2", "colnum": "326", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ntence of the hon. Member who seconded was a repudiation of that appeal. He said, \"Let it be distinctly understood that first and last this is an Amendment in the interests of the West Indies.\" Almost the only point I am going to argue in reply to this Amendment is that this is an Amendment proposed in the interests of the West Indian planters at the expense of the sugar consumers of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.326.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-06", "file": "debates1924-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f4a6972dac5f356", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.326.2", "colnum": "326", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All of it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "s.\" Almost the only point I am going to argue in reply to this Amendment is that this is an Amendment proposed in the interests of the West Indian planters at the expense of the sugar consumers of this country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Wait and see. The hon. and learned Gentleman more than once expressed a doubt as to whether the sugar reduction which I propose in the Budget would reach the consumer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.326.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-06", "file": "debates1924-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f4a6972dac5f356", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.328.6", "colnum": "328", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON", "preceding_text": "At the same moment that I gave the figures to which the right hon. Gentleman refers, I gave the figures for the Empire production. I gave the percentages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.328.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-06", "file": "debates1924-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f4a6972dac5f356", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "hem, is a sufficient reason why we should not do it. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer says that that was the verdict of the country in the recent General Election, I entirely differ from him. I believe that if the Socialist party become identified with Little Englandism, they will get into exactly the same sore of mess as the Liberal party did. At any rate, we have stuck to our principles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-06", "file": "debates1924-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f4a6972dac5f356", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.334.2", "colnum": "334", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where did you get them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "preceding_text": "I am sure the Chancellor of the Exchequer will understand I am making no attack on his figures; they were doubtless supplied from the Board of Trade. But the figures I am quoting now, I believe, are the same as those of my hon. Friend and I am quite sure they are correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.334.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-06", "file": "debates1924-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f4a6972dac5f356", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.344.2", "colnum": "344", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PERRY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The McKenna, Duties!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PERRY", "preceding_text": "r strong objection to preference is that the consumer, the British taxpayer, has had to make that amount up the whole of the time. This Debate has served one useful purpose, because it will have emphasised again to the House that when once you adopt a policy of preference or protection, you immediately create vested interests which make it extremely difficult to remove those duties in other years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.344.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-06", "file": "debates1924-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f4a6972dac5f356", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.350.0", "colnum": "350", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Major G. F. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEBS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major G. F. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "so to make possible the up-to-date condition of the cane sugar industry in Cuba, Porto Rico and many other parts of the world. I only mention this to show that if one goes into the matter fundamentally, and if one wishes to help and foster a particular industry if that industry is soundly established and not artificially produced in a country to which, in normal conditions it is not adapted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-06", "file": "debates1924-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f4a6972dac5f356", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.356.0", "colnum": "356", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "y unimportant. The programme does not affect cereals, meat, dairy produce, and raw materials—. Then he went on: No one can really grudge the concessions on dried fruits and tobacco, and the stabilising of the Sugar Duty preference. That was written, in a considered leading article, the day after this matter was discussed at the Imperial Conference, a leading article in the \"Daily Chronicle.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-06", "file": "debates1924-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f4a6972dac5f356", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.356.0", "colnum": "356", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three years!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "ake. The second point I would make is this: that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in introducing the Budget, claimed that he was giving great remissions to the taxpayer who paid indirect taxation. He was cheered, and very naturally cheered, by his followers; but that claim, can only be maintained, and will only be effective in the General Election which is, I understand, coming in two years' time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-06", "file": "debates1924-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f4a6972dac5f356", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.356.0", "colnum": "356", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did you do towards it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "ostly operation. I want to put another case to the Lancashire Members of this House. I want to ask how does this policy of refusing to stimulate sugar growing within the Empire compare with the policy which is being pursued in regard to cotton growing? Why is it right in one case and wrong in the other case? You have had the whole of Lancashire trying to stimulate cotton growing within the Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-06", "file": "debates1924-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f4a6972dac5f356", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.356.0", "colnum": "356", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "is a shortage of cotton in the world. Everyone in Lancashire admits it. Where do they find the remedy? They find it in taking every means in their power to get cotton grown within the Empire. They come to the Government, quite rightly, and say: \"Give us a million pounds in order to start this cotton growing,\" and the Government gave them a million pounds. That is going to stimulate cotton growing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-06", "file": "debates1924-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f4a6972dac5f356", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "aders. We are dealing with an industry which is, beyond any possibility of doubt, an infant industry, and such industries have at various times been recognised, even by extreme Free Traders, as being proper subjects for a reasonable amount of protection. The Government have reduced the duty on sugar to a degree which admittedly will make it almost impossible for the home industry to be carried on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-06", "file": "debates1924-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f4a6972dac5f356", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "m they will perhaps accept—John Stuart Mill: No one is benefited by mere consumption except the person who consumes. I am not denying that these duties will benefit the consumer. I am only denying, what is perfectly obvious, that there is anything in these remissions of duty which will create one atom of employment, and in denying that I am adopting an absolutely orthodox Free Trade outlook.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-06", "file": "debates1924-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f4a6972dac5f356", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.370.5", "colnum": "370", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"DO you accept it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "follows: The whole time occupied … would thus be less than three years. We hope with favourable circumstances thus to bring in the supply necessary to meet increased demand, but we could not venture to recommend to the House the adoption of any shorter period for effecting the change. Will hon. Members opposite listen to their great financial apostle when he was faced with a similar problem?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.370.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-06", "file": "debates1924-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f4a6972dac5f356", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.382.0", "colnum": "382", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sediment!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "preceding_text": "f supply or for any other reason, and if it be possible to define the attitude of his party rather more on that matter, I am sure we shall be glad, but everything that he said led logically to the view that they would have been much happier if the reduction proposed had been much smaller. The point on which I would like to remind him, because he will be interested as an authority on history—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.382.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-06", "file": "debates1924-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f4a6972dac5f356", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Protection!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "preceding_text": "That even is more elementary. In regard to the question of home-grown sugar, if I may say so, I think the Government is right in reserving their final answer on this subject for another occasion. I happen to be a rather recent convert to the doctrine that it is desirable to do something to help this industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.383.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-06", "file": "debates1924-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f4a6972dac5f356", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.390.3", "colnum": "390", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "paid, he will arrive at something like the sum I have mentioned. I am extremely obliged to the House for its indulgence. I wish to say in all seriousness that I do hope, in endeavouring to appeal to the country on a popular Budget, such as we are told this is, we will not adversely affect employment in this country, which, thanks to the Measures of the last two years, is just beginning to recover.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.390.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-06", "file": "debates1924-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f4a6972dac5f356", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.391.0", "colnum": "391", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I would not have risen except for one or two things which were said by the hon. and gallant Member for Bournemouth (Sir H. P. Croft). He has tried to make out that we on these benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.391.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-06", "file": "debates1924-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f4a6972dac5f356", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.391.0", "colnum": "391", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Socialist Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I would not have risen except for one or two things which were said by the hon. and gallant Member for Bournemouth (Sir H. P. Croft). He has tried to make out that we on these benches— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"] You will hear me before I have finished. The hon. and gallant Member is evidently concerned with the attitude of the Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.391.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-06", "file": "debates1924-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f4a6972dac5f356", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.391.0", "colnum": "391", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " were said by the hon. and gallant Member for Bournemouth (Sir H. P. Croft). He has tried to make out that we on these benches— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"] You will hear me before I have finished. The hon. and gallant Member is evidently concerned with the attitude of the Labour Government—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Socialist Government!\"]—which he is pleased to call a Socialist Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.391.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-06", "file": "debates1924-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f4a6972dac5f356", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.392.2", "colnum": "392", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I am merely trying to sweeten the Opposition. The point I rise to take exception to in the remarks of the hon. and gallant Member is that Members on this side ought to continue the tax on sugar in order to develop an industry which one or two hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.392.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-06", "file": "debates1924-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f4a6972dac5f356", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.392.2", "colnum": "392", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What has that to do with sugar?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " average wage of £6 per week, and that is the wage which the hon. Member suggests is going to be earned by the workers in the sugar beet industry. If hon. Members opposite are in favour of £6 a week for workers, why wait for £6 a week for workers in the sugar beet industry? Why wait for that, when in the shipbuilding industry men are working for £2 10s. and £2 156. a week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.392.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-06", "file": "debates1924-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f4a6972dac5f356", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.392.2", "colnum": "392", "heading": "CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are not talking about ships!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "pposite are in favour of £6 a week for workers, why wait for £6 a week for workers in the sugar beet industry? Why wait for that, when in the shipbuilding industry men are working for £2 10s. and £2 156. a week? [HON. MEMBERS: \"What has that to do with sugar?\"] Are you only going to protect the sugar workers? Have you anything to say to the shipbuilding or to any other workers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-06a.392.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-07", "file": "debates1924-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fef02702b3787654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-07a.432.4", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEBREW CEMETERY, FINCHLEY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether the letter that was sent by the right hon. Gentleman—and of which he has been good enough to send me a copy—did not put the matter largely on questions of health; yet why was it that he has allowed part of the land to be used which obviously could be equally healthfully used, and another part not used which obviously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-07a.432.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-07", "file": "debates1924-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fef02702b3787654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-07a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) SUPERANNUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY for SCOTLAND (Mr. Adamson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY for SCOTLAND (Mr. Adamson)", "preceding_text": "s my earnest hope, and from the memorandum prefixed to the Bill the House will see that it is the earnest hope of the Government also, that the bridge may be a very short one, and that we may reach solid ground in the very near future. If Scotland stood alone, we might go further at once. But, for a reason which I will mention in a moment, we must await the permanent Measure for England and Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-07a.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-07", "file": "debates1924-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fef02702b3787654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-07a.491.1", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) SUPERANNUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "eachers had to pay the 5 per cent. in connection with superannuation, but the authorities have had to pay 2 pet-cent. The total amount which has been paid in connection with the scheme for Scotland will be approximately £300,000 to £350,000 a year, and despite that enormous payment, it will not be costing any more in connection with superannuation than approximately £100,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-07a.491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-07", "file": "debates1924-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fef02702b3787654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-07a.505.2", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) SUPERANNUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COWAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the teachers are paying for it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COWAN", "preceding_text": "It is carrying on the present system for two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-07a.505.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-07", "file": "debates1924-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fef02702b3787654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-07a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST INDIAN ISLANDS (TELEGRAPH) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " this, that the advantage of this Bill is that it enables us in future to send our cables and our messages without crossing foreign territory in any part whatever. In other words, the difference is, that hitherto we crossed foreign territory two and three, and in some cases five times, and that is obviated by the present scheme. Therefore, these advantages, it will be seen, outweigh the drawbacks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-07a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-07", "file": "debates1924-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "fef02702b3787654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-07a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL EXPENDITURE (PUBLIC ASSISTANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was clever!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": " be drawing two War pensions, one in Kensington and another in Paddington; who was also obtaining relief from the Mayor's Fund; who was drawing something from an infant welfare centre; and who was drawing something from that careful body the Charity Organisation Society; who was in receipt of a police pension from Eastbourne; and who confessed to having defrauded the Paddington Guardians, as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-07a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-08", "file": "debates1924-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "062ffa25fc85a8da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-08a.620.4", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: They are an experiment!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. Gentleman replies, may I ask if this is a suitable method of constructing houses, why the Government only propose to allow a small number of houses to be built, why not a larger number?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-08a.620.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-05-08", "file": "debates1924-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "062ffa25fc85a8da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-08a.623.3", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DISTRESSED TENANTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman answer the question on the Paper, namely. \"What steps the Government propose to take?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-08a.623.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-05-08", "file": "debates1924-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "062ffa25fc85a8da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-08a.628.3", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "What is the name of the place?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMSON", "preceding_text": "I am informed that the Unemployment Grants Committee have approved this scheme for the purpose of a grant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-08a.628.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-08", "file": "debates1924-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "062ffa25fc85a8da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-08a.665.3", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "preceding_text": " great many of the men who work in the dockyards live in the centre and on the south of the town, and on those grounds all the three Members are members of the dockyard committee. In the same way, the Noble Lady the Member for Sutton (Viscountess Astor) is a member of the dockyard committee, not because she represents the dockyard itself, but because a good many of her voters work in the dockyard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-08a.665.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-08", "file": "debates1924-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "062ffa25fc85a8da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-08a.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "preceding_text": "There, too, there is a special case for very good work. I am not suggesting that the Government establishment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-08a.706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-08", "file": "debates1924-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "062ffa25fc85a8da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-08a.712.0", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "at as far as the British Navy is concerned, ever since the American War of Independence, it has never been used for what can be described as aggressive purposes. I would ask hon Members whether it has not been repeatedly proved that the British Navy has always been one of the greatest factors for peace and stability which has ever existed all over the world. It may be that hon. Members doubt that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-08a.712.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-08", "file": "debates1924-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "062ffa25fc85a8da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-08a.716.2", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What have you been doing all these years?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "of their employment. There are two grades of employment in the dockyard which must receive his urgent attention. I refer, of course, to the case of the generating staff, where men are working 56 hours a week, and being paid at a rate which a trade union outside would not recognise. Now that we have a Socialist Government in office, there should not be one moment's delay in seeing that these—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-08a.716.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-08", "file": "debates1924-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "062ffa25fc85a8da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-08a.716.2", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "d the matter long ago, but you have an opportunity, and you may have the whole credit, as far as I am concerned, of doing it, providing you do it, and do not talk about it. Here was I opposed by Labour candidates at two General Elections, who told these men that the moment the Labour Government came into office these ships should no longer be sent to private firms, but would come to the dockyards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-08a.716.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-08", "file": "debates1924-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "062ffa25fc85a8da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-08a.716.2", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": " just wages and just conditions of work. No inquiry has been made into the disparity between the wages in the dockyards in some categories and those outside, and no endeavour has been made to demonstrate to the country that work in a nationalised industry is better, both as regards conditions and payment, than work in a commercial firm. Our Socialist Government have an excellent opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-08a.716.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-08", "file": "debates1924-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "062ffa25fc85a8da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-08a.764.4", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about range?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "There is 50 lbs. between the two, and there is very little difference for practical purposes. It is much more important to hit the other ship with a 200 lb. shell than miss her with a 250 lb. shell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-08a.764.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-08", "file": "debates1924-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "062ffa25fc85a8da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-08a.764.4", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Italy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "light cruiser competition in armament by embarking on the 8-inch gun. According to the latest return, as far as I can read it, no vessels have actually been commenced except in the case of two vessels of the United States, to carry 8-inch guns. Of the two Japanese vessels building, no details are given, but I should be surprised if they are actually commenced, and if they are to carry 8-inch guns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-08a.764.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-08", "file": "debates1924-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "062ffa25fc85a8da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-08a.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Might!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " be the main instrument of naval power. I think that is extremely probable if we look ten or fifteen years ahead, and I am very must distressed to find my hon. Friend, in the Debate on the cruisers, saying that as soon as the Washington Conference came to an end, we would have to embark on a complete programme of great Dreadnoughts, and that therefore we ought to build the cruisers we require now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-08a.765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-08", "file": "debates1924-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "062ffa25fc85a8da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-08a.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You might!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "preceding_text": "peacefully tonight. The bacteriologists who have been transferred to Vote 6 conduct research into the effect of various sorts of bacteria on the fibrous substances used in connection with the manufacture of cordite. There is nothing alarming about it. We are not contemplating raining down disease germs on other nations or inventing shells which can be exploded, carrying disease among other people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-08a.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-09", "file": "debates1924-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "44cd79408f4bae2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.801.0", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN BAIRD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN BAIRD", "preceding_text": "emen made a very eloquent appeal for Scottish Home Rule, their sole reference to the Bill now under consideration was rather of an apologetic character. Neither of them ventured to embark on an explanation of any of the provisions of the Bill. Both of them stated, with the natural caution that one would expect of them, that there was a great deal in the Bill that they would be glad to see altered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.801.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-09", "file": "debates1924-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "44cd79408f4bae2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.805.0", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. BAIRD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will you try it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. BAIRD", "preceding_text": "ne is provided, and so far as I am concerned that is a fundamental blot on the measure and justifies to the hilt our suggestion for its rejection. To suggest that we in Scotland are going to be content to allow Scottish affairs to be decided by an absolute majority in a single Chamber is, to my mind, something which, if it were submitted to the Scottish people as a whole, would never be agreed to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.805.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-09", "file": "debates1924-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "44cd79408f4bae2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.810.1", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"74!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": " deal of doubt might arise in the minds of hon. Members with regard to the representation under this Bill. I have got very strong views on that point. I believe that Scotland should fight for its fullest possible representation in this House whether we have got a general federal system within the Empire or whether we are going to have a smaller system. There are at present 72 members for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-09", "file": "debates1924-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "44cd79408f4bae2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.823.1", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "preceding_text": "The amount comes from the Imperial Exchequer, and does the hon. Member ask me to believe that the citizens of England and Wales do not contribute taxation to the Imperial Exchequer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.823.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-05-09", "file": "debates1924-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "44cd79408f4bae2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CHAPMAN", "preceding_text": "I will tell my hon. Friend exactly what did happen. I am reading Earl Buxton's own words in describing the Union that has taken place. He says: Each province was to have a provincial council, a glorified county council, with considerable local powers of administration and expenditure, and such powers were to be delegated to it by Parliament and to be subject to Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-09", "file": "debates1924-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "44cd79408f4bae2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.829.4", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CHAPMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CHAPMAN", "preceding_text": "It only shows that when you try to go into a case in detail you can argue and continue to argue almost indefinitely. The point is this: if you set up two practically independent legislatures in these Islands, sooner or later there will be friction. They found that would be the case in South Africa, and they did not set up independent legislature but subordinate legislatures in South Africa—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.829.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-09", "file": "debates1924-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "44cd79408f4bae2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CHAPMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CHAPMAN", "preceding_text": "want this instead of six different bodies, not only for the sake of Labour legislation, but for many other things. If I wished to detain the House, I could quote Labour speech after Labour speech advocating one United Parliament for Australia for the purpose of pushing legislation through. They say that because there are six Legislatures they cannot get it through. Hon. Members are agreed on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-09", "file": "debates1924-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "44cd79408f4bae2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "preceding_text": "ked it up. Sir Walter Scott puts these words into the mouth of that famous Glaswegian: There's naething sae gude on this side o' Time but that it might has been better and that may be said o' the Union. Nane were keener against it than the Glasgow folk with their rabblings and their risings. Then he goes on to point out the great advantages which Scotland derived from free trade with the Colonies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-09", "file": "debates1924-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "44cd79408f4bae2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.857.3", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "ith Scottish ideals and Scottish aspirations. We hope the Government will be prepared to give us some encouragement, and will do something to enable the will of the Scottish people to be carried into effect. The Bill has certain qualities which, we are assured, will not meet with the support of hon. and right hon. Members on the opposite side, or with that of all Members on this side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.857.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-09", "file": "debates1924-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "44cd79408f4bae2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.859.4", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Colonies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "ment, but it is not so. Our Colonies are not represented here. We think we ought to have an Imperial Parliament which will be representative of every section of the British Empire. In the matter of patriotism we do not give place to any section of hon. Members, nor in our feeling as to the civilising influence that has followed the British advance. No one is more proud of these things than we are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.859.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-09", "file": "debates1924-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "44cd79408f4bae2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.860.4", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": " born to the professional classes less than 50 die before they reach a year. There is no doctor in the West of Scotland more important to the well-being of the British community than are the miners. The poorest amongst them is of infinitely greater importance to the well-being of the community and has done as much, and is doing more, for its well-being than the members of the professional classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.860.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-09", "file": "debates1924-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "44cd79408f4bae2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.863.2", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "f the composition of this House. It would, surely, be preposterous for us to try and rush ourselves into this place; there is no room for us, apart from any other consideration. And if you take the wider question of the Union which has prevailed for so many years, the very name of Scotland has become so submerged that practically through the world at large we are all recognised as part of England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.863.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-09", "file": "debates1924-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "44cd79408f4bae2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.869.0", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CRAIK", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CRAIK", "preceding_text": "Once introduced it worked successfully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.869.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-09", "file": "debates1924-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "44cd79408f4bae2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.870.6", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STURROCK", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STURROCK", "preceding_text": "I must say that I am greatly disappointed by what we have heard this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-09a.870.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-12", "file": "debates1924-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37951379aef747c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-12a.996.0", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "preceding_text": "tted an Estimate for £100,000 for seed potatoes, and other means of relieving distress in that part of the country. But when the League of Nations, after careful consideration, and after receiving full reports, have gone into this matter, and the small sum of £5,000 is asked for, it does not seem befitting for the Committee of the House of Commons to bring forward these petty objections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-12a.996.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-12", "file": "debates1924-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37951379aef747c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-12a.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. de FRECE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. de FRECE", "preceding_text": "lt with as soon as the Government had sufficient money at its disposal. I go further and say we might well postpone some remission of pre-War taxation, and wipe this taxation out altogether at the present time. I am in favour of increasing employment by abolishing this tax. You will give employment to thousands more in an industry which is already very sorely tried by summer-time, by broadcasting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-12a.1026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-12", "file": "debates1924-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37951379aef747c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-12a.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. de FRECE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is the other way about!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. de FRECE", "preceding_text": "from the Government. The present suggestion is a miserable concession on the part of the Government. It will not assist anybody. I am in favour of returning this concession to the public. If there is a concession made, let it go direct to the public. I would impress upon hon. Members that you can only do that by declining to penalise the higher priced seats which alone make cheaper seats possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-12a.1026.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-12", "file": "debates1924-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37951379aef747c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-12a.1051.0", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLIMIE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The McKenna Duties!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLIMIE", "preceding_text": "he comparatively poor section of the population. 10.0 P.M. I make no great complaint at all about the Chancellor of the Exchequer being able to relieve those taxpayers only to the extent of £4,000,000. The Amendment, I believe, would mean that the right hon. Gentleman would require to find another £5,500,000, but no estimate has been brought forward as to where he should find that money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-12a.1051.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1187.3", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "and mass production has just as much bearing on the subject as the word \"Mesopotamia,\" which also begins with \"M.\" I do not want to use any phrase which may jar on anyone's feelings, but I say as a plain matter of fact that, whether mass production be a good thing or not, mass production under Free Trade in a competitive world is an impossibility, and I think we may leave that out of the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1187.3", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "preceding_text": " their mind to having an impartial inquiry, an inquiry that has been asked for by many people. I say nothing here this afternoon about the various communications that have reached me and many other Members of the House of Commons, because I am perfectly certain that, in the present mind of the Front Bench, they believe that whatever communications may have come have been engineered by the masters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1198.1", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEKS: \"Withdraw!\" and Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "nter into the history of these duties, and that he would confine his observations to one point only, namely, what effect the duties have upon the problem of unemployment. Before I sit down, I shall not forget that that was the right hon. Gentleman's one point, and I may say here that I welcome this interest in the problem of unemployment which Eon. Members opposite have so very recently developed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1198.1", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "rest in the problem of unemployment which Eon. Members opposite have so very recently developed. [HON. MEMBEKS: \"Withdraw!\" and Interruption .] One thing which the right hon. Gentleman so conveniently forgot was the fact that he forced an Election upon this issue. He made the one issue at the last Election a tariff upon imported manufactured goods, not as a means of alleviating unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1198.1", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why should he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "s the fact that he forced an Election upon this issue. He made the one issue at the last Election a tariff upon imported manufactured goods, not as a means of alleviating unemployment—[HON. MEMBEES: \"Oh!\"]—but as a solution of the unemployment problem. The right hon. Gentleman this afternoon said very little about the general question of preference and the question of a general tariff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1200.1", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When did he say that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "f getting the help of Mr. McKenna in his Government? Mr. McKenna said the purpose of these duties was to raise revenue with no intention of continuing the tax, with no desire to protect trade, without beginning any new Tariff Reform movement, but simply and solely for the declared purpose of this particular tax now, and in this War.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 19th October, 1915; col. 1725, Vol. 74.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " that description one was a telegram from a trade union which gave the name of the union but no address and the other was a letter from the Deputy Mayor of Coventry, enclosing a copy of a resolution which had been passed at a public meeting. Now the statement I made in the House a week ago has evidently been noted by the employers who are conducting this agitation against the repeal of the Duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " forwarded by the workers' representative as we are advised they will carry far more weight if submitted in this way. Since then that advice has been followed, but not fully. The petitions have been sent on to me, not as formerly, with a covering letter from the employer, but, unfortunately for the success of this plan, in almost every case with the name of the firm on the outside of the envelope.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1205.1", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "I never imagined these disclosures would be so unpalatable. I have had innumerable letters from workers in regard to the way in which these petitions have been arranged and about the way in which men have been intimidated into voting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1205.3", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "e as I was one of the workers present\"— that is, at a meeting in a certain works— that the meeting was held in the works time which meant that every workman had to fit tend or stop at work, but as the machinery closed down it was obvious what we were meant to do. A notice had been previously sent round that every man leaving the works before the usual time would be instantly dismissed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1205.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1205.3", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give the name of the firm.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " leaving the works before the usual time would be instantly dismissed. [ Interruption .] Do hon. Members opposite want to add one more to the number of those cases in which men have been dismissed, not because their services are not required, but as an act of terrorism? I may add that this man states in this letter that he was the one man in that works who held up his hands against the resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1205.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1205.5", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman decline to give the name of the firm?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1205.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1206.1", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ill employ 40,000 men. As a matter of fact, Mr. Morris claimed in the newspaper the other day to employ directly and indirectly 40,000 men. He claimed, too, to have the power of dismissal of these men in his hands, because, he said, that \"of that number I shall probably have to dispense with the services of 25 per cent.\" How is the figure made up? He employs, be says, directly or indirectly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1208.1", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On the 9th March.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "The House, I am sure, will accept the explanation of the hon. and gallant Gentleman for what it is worth, but I am afraid it does not explain away the letter of Mr. Morris as to the orders waiting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1208.1", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "loyed in the motor industry in this country. These 4,000,000 workers produced a capital value of £25,000,000. Hon. Members opposite who are employers will possibly agree, if I say that half of that £25,000,000 was wages. As a matter of fact I am informed by a leading man in the trade that it would not be 25 per cent. However, I give hon. Members opposite the benefit, and say 50 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1208.1", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Cheers .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ll this agitation, which one of the leading motor-car manufacturers referred to as the colossal humbug of this Press campaign. Let me refer to a remark in the \"Auto-car,\" copies of which have been sent to every Member of this House, and in which this view is expressed that some leading motor-car manufacturers are praying to be saved from their friends. Let us now come to more reasonable arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1208.1", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There has been a war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "leman aware that in 1913 we exported more motor cars from this country than we did in 1923? What have the McKenna Duties done there? If the operation of the McKenna Unties has been the determining factor in the British Motor industry then they have succeeded, notwithstanding the mechanical improvements of the last 14 years, in reducing the exports of motor cars from 8,829 in 1913 to 3,041 in 1922.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1208.1", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about unemployment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ould have been, because they have destroyed the incentive to lower production costs. That is the explanation of the fact that 50 per cent. of these companies are, admittedly, in an insolvent financial position to-day. I apologise for the length of the time I have spoken, but I should not have occupied quite so much time if my observations had not been so very entertaining to hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1208.1", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ready taken place in the motor industry. I have already pointed out that this has happened, but there have been reasons for it, and one reason is that it is part of the campaign against the abolition of the McKenna Duties. A second reason is, and I am sure that there is no hon. Member opposite who will disagree with me, that this time of the year is always a slack time, and men are always put off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1208.1", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "with a light car, but they completely failed, and what competition there is in the motor-car trade in this country is, as I have said before, that of competing British manufacturers. I wonder if hon. Members opposite, in order to prevent an increase of unemployment, would suggest that a protective tariff should be given to every British motor-car manufacturer against the competition of Mr. Morris?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1208.1", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ve had even more than that, because, as no one knows better than the right hon. Gentleman, if you impose an import duty of 33 per cent., when it gets to the consumer it is much more than 33 per cent. Therefore, if you make £20,000,000 of revenue by the imposition of these duties, you have probably taken out of the pockets of the British taxpayers a spending power of at least £30,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1219.4", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HOWARD-BURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HOWARD-BURY", "preceding_text": " quantities of motor cars from America what effect that will have upon our exchange. We have to pay a very great debt to America, and the more we buy from her the lower will be the value of the £. No one is keener than the right hon. Gentleman in upholding our fiscal credit, but his action, I am afraid, will tend to lower it. We shall have to buy far more in foreign markets than we do to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1219.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1225.4", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "We shall see. In any case, the machinery exists, and if the evil exists the cure exists, and there is no need for this Resolution to-day. Let me turn to the wider question. I make the very bold claim that the interests of motoring, of motor manufacturing and motor selling are harmed by these duties If the abolition of the duties means cheaper cars, it must mean more cars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1225.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1226.0", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Under Protection!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": " it must mean more cars. This country is grossly under-motored. People talk to-day that the motor car trade is a luxury trade. Motor cars are not a luxury. They should become a necessity of transport in this country. Every person of small means should be able to afford a motor car. We have in this country one motor car for every 110 persons, while in America they have one car for every 11 persons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1226.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1229.4", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": " in this House. One exception is the ex-Prime Minister, and it is natural that he should strengthen his position in his constituency after his services in that distinguished office. The other exception is the hon. Member for the Sparkbrook Division of Birmingham, the ex-First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Amery). Of the others, everybody who put this issue before the country got his majority reduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1229.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1232.0", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": " country as to the possible extent of unemployment. I say frankly, and I think every hon. Member will agree with me, that we cannot take responsibility for statements which obviously are an exaggeration in a particular case. It does not matter whether 100,000 men or 1,000,000 men are to be thrown out of employment. The principle is there. You cannot, as a Labour party, and I throw it at you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1232.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1239.0", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PURCELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Can you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PURCELL", "preceding_text": "nsequently, they signed. I do not think there is anything wrong about that attitude, and I am not making any complaint against anybody regarding it. I do not suppose the Tory party supply an isolated case in this respect. I have heard of petitions on behalf of the Free Trade case which would scarcely bear much more investigation than these petitions. We can afford to be neutral upon this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1244.0", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROBERT MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROBERT MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " in price is regulated entirely by the increase in wages, and I would like to tell the House that this particular trade, whereas in 1914 it was a sweated, underpaid industry, to-day is the best paid craft trade in the United Kingdom. Working men in this particular trade receive 1s. 9½d. per hour, and I think I am right in saying that that is the highest paid craft trade in the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1244.0", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROBERT MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROBERT MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "ays, in the City of London, that firm employed about 100 or 150 men at the busiest season. To-day they are employing between 800 and 900 men, and it is an established fact that as this particular firm have a business on the Continent, the natural corollary of the removal of the duties would be that they would automatically close up their factory here and transfer their activities to the Continent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1244.0", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROBERT MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Under Protection!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROBERT MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " that as this particular firm have a business on the Continent, the natural corollary of the removal of the duties would be that they would automatically close up their factory here and transfer their activities to the Continent. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because the rate of wages here is at 1s. 9½d. per hour, and they could not possibly compete with continental labour at one-third of that rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1249.0", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak for yourself!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "preceding_text": "iberal Friends, who, when challenged on this question of the McKenna Duties, with hardly one exception said what I pledged myself to every time, namely, that while it was quite true these War-time taxes were to be abolished in due course, and that all parties were pledged to it, the duties having been high and maintained for so long, great dislocation that would be caused by their abolition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1249.0", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "preceding_text": "n to enable those engaged in the industry to find other occupations. A great many hon. Members said that, and I think it would be a reasonable thing to say. My hon. Friend the Member for Harborough (Mr. Black) says he did not, but I shall look up his case. I think I remember that, when challenged about throwing men out of work, he said you ought to give due notice. Most of my hon. Friends said so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1249.0", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "preceding_text": " Free Trade cause right through my time, and when it came to the Safeguarding of Industries Act, I urged the same point I am urging now, that you ought not to take off duties in times of distress without giving adequate notice. The notice given is not enough. I put down an Amendment on the Paper suggesting that at least two years' notice should be given. I think it would be wiser to make it three.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1254.0", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP SASSOON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP SASSOON", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman who has just sat down, has made a speech which will carry conviction in all parts of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1267.0", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FERGUSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wait and see!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FERGUSON", "preceding_text": ", it has gone over either to the Socialist or the Protectionist side, with the result that at the last three Elections the Liberals have been entirely squeezed out, and what was one of the greatest Liberal and Free Trade strongholds in Britain is now entirely wiped out, and I believe in the forth-coming Election the battle will be waged between Mr. Newbold and myself, with no Liberal in the field.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1274.0", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Major the Marquess of TITCHFIELD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major the Marquess of TITCHFIELD", "preceding_text": "sts intend to kill the motor-car industry, as they undoubtedly do, ipso facto the industry of ball an roller bearings will go too. Before the War this industry was in the hands of Germany and America. So much so, that when the War broke out the Government had to buy up a foreign factory to supply the aeroplanes and motor cars to be used in the War. The factory I have in mind is in my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1276.5", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do you want to insult these men?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The reason that the resolution and signature were sent in an envelope bearing the firm's heading was purely a question of facility for despatch.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1276.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1279.2", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY COWAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Motor cars!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY COWAN", "preceding_text": "e in this House and in this connection such an exhibition of Labour's inhumanity to labour. Yesterday afternoon an hon. Member on the other side of the House, in the course of a Supplementary Question, made the statement that pianos were dearer than they were before the War. Of course pianos are dearer than they were before the War. Is there anything which is not dearer than it was before the War?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1279.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1283.1", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "ase of cars in the British market, but will enable us to do a far larger export trade than the motor industry has ever done before. While I am dealing with this question of foreign firms coming here, I would like to mention another case. We were told at the Election a great deal about motor-car tyres. It is the only accessory of the motor car which is not protected in the motor-car industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1283.1", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"]—and we were told then that because that protection did not exist, the British motor-tyre industry was languishing, and would go out of existence shortly. I believe a number of people received notice, unless the late Government were returned to power. There has been the same kind of thing in any number of other industries. Attempts were made to blackmail the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1283.1", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "country. What remains? There is France. It is true that the franc has depreciated as compared with the pre-War standard, but if you take the conditions now as compared with two months ago, there has been a large appreciation of the franc, and, in view of that appreciation, many exchange experts say that there is no advantage in the exchange for the purpose of importing French cars to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1287.0", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEBS: \"Oh, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "erms a Vote of Censure. He said: \"With what object has he done it? In the hope of getting votes from those who are not his usual supporters.\" Quite true. If we had been acting solely as party politicians, we would have put down a direct Vote of Censure that would have made it difficult for any man not of our party or of the Liberal party to vote for it, but we were not thinking of party advantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1287.0", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What says the Press?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "Government, should be able to do so. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is outraged by our conduct. It is only a little time ago that the Prime Minister was appealing to us to treat matters in this way, and promising us that, if we would not give our Motions a party turn or import into our speeches party bitterness, they should be considered on their merits. What says the Chancellor of the Exchequer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-13", "file": "debates1924-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5a0162975c452cb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE ACT, 1915 (NEW IMPORT DUTIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Reduce your prices!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "given to the motor trade, the piano industry and the other industries affected. They have helped our manufacturers by giving them a larger market, and the larger the market the lower the cost, the lower the cost, again, the lower their selling price, and the lower their selling price, again, the larger market. What is the alternative? If you want to help your manufacturers to a large market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-13a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-14", "file": "debates1924-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "2599044c8f477487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-14a.1327.2", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — APPRENTICESHIP SYSTEM.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The bosses!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman say who fixes the number of years during which these boys have to be apprenticed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-14a.1327.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-14", "file": "debates1924-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "2599044c8f477487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-14a.1348.2", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMERCIAL AIRSHIP SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "preceding_text": " I had been a party to these Cabinet conferences. As I say, yesterday I only repeated what had already been published in the papers a week or more ago, and I did not think in these circumstances that I was in any way abrogating a confidence. I would like to say further that I informed the Air Ministry this morning directly this was published, as I did not expect it to be published until to-morrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-14a.1348.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-14", "file": "debates1924-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "2599044c8f477487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-14a.1353.4", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has been promised!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Leader of the House whether there will be an opportunity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-14a.1353.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-14", "file": "debates1924-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "2599044c8f477487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-14a.1442.4", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION [GUARANTEE].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "fiteers come along and falsify all his promises to his friends at Stirling, and he says: \"Now, why not bring into the Thames—commandeer them if you like, but get them—a number of ships, label them 'Bonnie Scotland.' and my friends will be satisfied.\" I want to say quite seriously, the Government are disturbed about the profiteers, and everyone in this House ought to be disturbed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-14a.1442.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-14", "file": "debates1924-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "2599044c8f477487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-14a.1470.1", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (LABOUR CONDITIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A system!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "preceding_text": "f ingratitude if I had not come, because I have made a sum of £20,000 within the last few months out of the Burmah Oil Company alone. ( Laughter and applause .) And, Mr. Chairman, with the four shares that you give me now for every five shares held by me, I have about 900 shares that have cost me nothing. ( Laughter .) I study a thing and work in scientific fashion so that loss is impossible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-14a.1470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-14", "file": "debates1924-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "2599044c8f477487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-14a.1492.0", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (LABOUR CONDITIONS).", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Richards)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Richards)", "preceding_text": " of all, there is the great lack of capital in India. There is no doubt at all, if you examine these figures, that there is a close co-relation between the amount of wealth in any country and the average earnings of the individuals living there. It seems to me that the standard of living in India cannot be very greatly improved until the amount of capital available there is very greatly increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-14a.1492.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-14", "file": "debates1924-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "2599044c8f477487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-14a.1492.0", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (LABOUR CONDITIONS).", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Richards)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Richards)", "preceding_text": "ard of living in India cannot be very greatly improved until the amount of capital available there is very greatly increased. [ Interruption .] I am not suggesting, of course, that the capitalist system, as we know it, should be introduced into India; but there is a fundamental distinction, it seems to me, between the necessity for capital, and the introduction of the abominable capitalist system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-14a.1492.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-14", "file": "debates1924-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "2599044c8f477487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-14a.1504.1", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (LABOUR CONDITIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "ies in this country which prevent a man who starts as one of the unemployed in the street, from attaining to the highest offices in the State. My words would have had even greater point to-day when we see—and it is a credit to the Government, to this House, and to individuals in this House that it should be so—the rapidity of the journey from the footplate of an engine to a Court suit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-14a.1504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-14", "file": "debates1924-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "2599044c8f477487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-14a.1504.1", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (LABOUR CONDITIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "dividuals in this House that it should be so—the rapidity of the journey from the footplate of an engine to a Court suit. [ Interruption .] The hon. Member for Dumbarton Burghs (Mr. Kirkwood) makes a remark, but it is almost as difficult for me to understand his vernacular as it is to understand Indian dialect. I assure the hon. Member that what I said was intended to be quite complimentary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-14a.1504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-14", "file": "debates1924-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "2599044c8f477487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-14a.1508.0", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (LABOUR CONDITIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "If there be anything that offends hon. Members opposite in my reference to Court dress, I shall be glad to withdraw it and merely to refer to the Treasury Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-14a.1508.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-14", "file": "debates1924-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "2599044c8f477487", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-14a.1508.0", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (LABOUR CONDITIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!'", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "no mean contribution to India's effort in that War, and I say most emphatically that I do not believe that any Government in this country would have the power, even if it wanted to do so, to carry through a Bill conferring, in the future, anything like Dominion self-government in India unless in that Bill the lowest caste man enjoyed, in an electoral sense, equal rights with the highest caste man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-14a.1508.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1547.5", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WAR BONUS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS", "preceding_text": "Is it not possible that Question 79 does not refer specifically to the cases referred to by hon. Friend, and might it not be in reference to the grievances of the manipulative grades of Post Office workers, many of whom have passed examinations and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1547.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1609.0", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COMYNS-CARR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COMYNS-CARR", "preceding_text": "o carry it out, but do understand it, and he would also get to know those who are engaged, as some firms unfortunately are, in an attempt to deceive every one of the inspectors who come round to visit them. In my experience I have come across some most astonishing cases of firms who have dressed up their factories for the express purpose of deceiving inspectors from various Government Departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1609.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1613.0", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Arthur Henderson)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Arthur Henderson)", "preceding_text": "think it has been already recognised, that the blame does not attach to the Department that this Vote has come on so much earlier this year than in previous years. The arrangement as to which Vote is to be taken on a particular Thursday is made through the usual channels as we say, and our friends below the Gangway selected this particular Vote to-day and we acquiesced in it being brought forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1623.2", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "and would know more about the work than the most eminent theory. As I have said before, a practical man dealing with dock regulations requires to be a combination of the intelligence of a Home Secretary and the agility of a ring-tailed monkey before he can determine what is required. I do not often agree with my right hon. Friend opposite politically, but I do want to give the devil his due—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1623.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1630.3", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "\"HON. MEMBERS: \"The police!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "It is a matter of common knowledge, though I cannot recall the actual Section from memory, that the police have power to licence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1630.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1657.3", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "guarantee that, when a moment of acute friction may arise in the future, there will not be a repetition of the strike, leaving them absolutely defenceless, as they were in 1918, and nearly were in 1919, against all the forces of robbery, anarchy and the like. I believe that if the Home Secretary gave way to the hon. Members who have spoken, there would be the greatest public disquietude and alarm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1657.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1670.1", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": " a phrase which we often use, we have inherited this position. We tried to show our sympathy by saying that we were in favour of the men being reinstated, and the Committee has been very fully reminded of the fact by the hon. Member for Edge Hill. When I say that, I have also to point out that it was one thing to be in favour, as I was in favour, and it was another thing to be able to give effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1671.1", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "back into the position which he occupied at the time he left duty; it means that with regard to pay, pension and position, he is to be no worse off than he would have been had he never left duty. That is how I understand complete reinstatement. We feel it would be impossible to do that without legislation. Reinstatement, as I have just put it, would involve a money payment of some £2,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1673.4", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They were legally entitled to them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "All I wanted to show was that these men—the 21 whom I have mentioned—did obtain their pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1673.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1673.4", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "ared to comply with the full demand. He had reservations as to the reinstatement of some of these strikers, but I was very much impressed with his appeal. That appeal was supported by two or three Members below the Gangway and above the Gangway, that is, for a fresh reconsideration of this question. As I have already said, this feeling seems to be represented amongst all sections of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1673.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1675.0", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "I would very willingly have remained a silent witness of the difference of opinion which exists among hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1678.1", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": ". It is rather difficult to express an opinion on it without knowing the terms of reference to the committee, or its composition. I do not want to press the right hon. Gentleman unduly to-night. I think very likely he would not wish to tell us what sort of committee he had in mind. I do not think those who agree with me on this side would like to commit themselves unreservedly to an inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1678.5", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the higher tribunal?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "A higher tribunal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1678.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1679.0", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "it was a suggestion that came from the hon. Baronet the Member for Holborn (Sir J. Remnant). I think the right hon. Gentleman has made a very fair suggestion that he and his friends are to have time to consider the matter. I would be quite prepared to confer with himself, to get the Prime Minister to confer with the leaders of both sections of the Opposition as to the form the inquiry should take.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1679.0", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": " the right hon. Gentleman has made a very fair suggestion that he and his friends are to have time to consider the matter. I would be quite prepared to confer with himself, to get the Prime Minister to confer with the leaders of both sections of the Opposition as to the form the inquiry should take. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I gathered the right hon. Gentleman was speaking on behalf of his colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1680.1", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "mplete reinstatement and eligibility for re-employment. I know the Home Secretary's difficulties both from the Trade Union Congress point of view, and the annual meetings of the Labour party, because they have declared for reinstatement. I know the serious obstacles that exist, but nevertheless I feel that something should be done for these men. They were in many ways the very flower of the force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1682.2", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Lord EUSTACE PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord EUSTACE PERCY", "preceding_text": "on. Friend the Member for Oswestry, who says that he does not want to say anything now which would incommode the Home Secretary in his very difficult and pathetic position, and then apparently hon. Members opposite, and especially the hon. and gallant Member for Central Hull, not being able to distinguish ordinary fair-minded action in debate in this House from his own normal party attitude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1682.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1684.3", "colnum": "1684", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": " will not stand up to our own followers when they become troublesome. We will try and get help from the other party.\" The Home Secretary knows perfectly well that he can rely on the support of this side of the House in doing his duty if he takes a strong line. But if he utterly refuses to take a strong line, and asks us to help him to get out of a hole, and help him make up his mind for him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1684.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1685.4", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "I have not a monopoly of sob stuff; it usually comes from rich men on that side. The right hon. Gentleman came down to the House, and admitted that he was wrong. Members opposite represent the privileged class; we represent the working class.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1685.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1685.4", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "ith this suggestion of an inquiry. The Committee is not satisfied with it. I recognise the position the Government occupy, but I would much rather he had come down here boldly and courageously to say that he would do the right thing, and return these men to their situations. Failing such a promise, if there is a Division on this question I shall have no hesitation in voting against the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1685.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1687.1", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "preceding_text": "instatement in their industries, and when we were threatened with the transport strike, and had to call up again men who were reservists, in case of need? I thought it was a recognised rule, in this country, at any rate, that our Police Force was not allowed to have a union. Could you admit of a union in the Army, or in the Navy? Can the Army or the Navy say, \"Down tools\"? If they do it is mutiny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1687.1", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "preceding_text": "d order. He has defied the law, has defied the Courts, and has done every thing of that kind. Does he remember that he once went to the Prime Minister or the day, the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Paisley (Mr. Asquith), and shook his first in his face? I like the hon. Member very well, despite his politics, but I want to remind him of his misdoings. Perhaps he will not interrupt me any more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1689.3", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "preceding_text": "I offer the hon. Member the apology his qualified answer deserves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1689.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1689.5", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "preceding_text": "It may be. That is part of your Socialist doctrine. I have always thought it. No law and disorder. I hope you, Sir, at any rate, appreciate how these interruptions are helping me. It is showing what they really are. No law and disorder. That is what they want. In those days you had Communists among your party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1689.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1690.0", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "preceding_text": "nder their contracts, and under Statute, and they had the right if their contracts were broken to petition the Crown, and no Home Secretary ever broke that contract or would have dared to do so. They had the right after all, in a case where their pay was too small, to appeal to the Crown through the Government and the House of Commons. Have we ever been found ungenerous in dealing with the police?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1690.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1690.0", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You expect it to convince us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "preceding_text": "tracts were broken to petition the Crown, and no Home Secretary ever broke that contract or would have dared to do so. They had the right after all, in a case where their pay was too small, to appeal to the Crown through the Government and the House of Commons. Have we ever been found ungenerous in dealing with the police? [ Interruption .] So you say, but noise does not convince me and never has.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1690.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1690.2", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. HOHLER", "preceding_text": "he warders. You cannot consider the one without the other. You cannot consider the police of the Metropolis without the police of the country, or the river police or the fire brigade. I wonder what would have happened to the learned Recorder of Liverpool if while he had been holding his Quarter Sessions the warders had disappeared because the police had struck. All the gaols would have been empty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1690.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1695.2", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": "roposal, is trying to get himself out of a difficulty in which he and the Prime Minister have placed the whole of their party. The Committee will probably come to nothing, but at least it will prove how the party opposite, who in a spirit of irresponsibility, which caused them to give pledges on every single subject, have come back to this House making deals with the party below the Gangway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1695.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1696.0", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BLACK", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BLACK", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Is it in order for an hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1696.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1697.4", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURNER-SAMUELS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURNER-SAMUELS", "preceding_text": "Some of the speeches which have been made have been truly extraordinary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1697.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1697.4", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURNER-SAMUELS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURNER-SAMUELS", "preceding_text": "from the whole police without any regard to rank. What you can have is three boards representing the inspectors, the superintendents, and the ordinary constables.\" The men said: \"We will not have that, that is not our agreement, that is not our contract.\" What did the Commissioner do? Hon. Gentlemen opposite are going for the men for striking. You say that the men did something against discipline?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1697.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1697.4", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURNER-SAMUELS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURNER-SAMUELS", "preceding_text": "ou can have is three boards representing the inspectors, the superintendents, and the ordinary constables.\" The men said: \"We will not have that, that is not our agreement, that is not our contract.\" What did the Commissioner do? Hon. Gentlemen opposite are going for the men for striking. You say that the men did something against discipline? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"] What did the Commissioner do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1697.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1697.4", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURNER-SAMUELS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURNER-SAMUELS", "preceding_text": " The men said: \"We will not have that, that is not our agreement, that is not our contract.\" What did the Commissioner do? Hon. Gentlemen opposite are going for the men for striking. You say that the men did something against discipline? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"] What did the Commissioner do? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"] Instead of acting like a man, and carrying out the agreement with the men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1697.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1697.4", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURNER-SAMUELS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURNER-SAMUELS", "preceding_text": "o? Hon. Gentlemen opposite are going for the men for striking. You say that the men did something against discipline? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"] What did the Commissioner do? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"] Instead of acting like a man, and carrying out the agreement with the men—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"]—he came to the House of Commons, and tried to get powers to enforce his will on the men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1697.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1698.1", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURNER-SAMUELS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURNER-SAMUELS", "preceding_text": "w the Gangway.\" Well, we would rather have deals below the Gangway than deals below stairs such as the hon. Baronet is trying to justify. Also the hon. Baronet, in his best vituperative flight, called the Liberals lackeys and beasts of burden—\"patient oxen\" he said. Well, the Liberals could have rejoined on him (the hon. Baronet) that it was better to be beasts of burden than beasts of prey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-15", "file": "debates1924-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "b6c14b4e2a19d8ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1698.1", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURNER-SAMUELS", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURNER-SAMUELS", "preceding_text": "ying to justify. Also the hon. Baronet, in his best vituperative flight, called the Liberals lackeys and beasts of burden—\"patient oxen\" he said. Well, the Liberals could have rejoined on him (the hon. Baronet) that it was better to be beasts of burden than beasts of prey. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"] The Commissioner comes to this House of Commons, to this solemn and sacred custodian of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-15a.1698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-16", "file": "debates1924-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7940354652193eb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1717.0", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quotations.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Is the hon. Member in order in reading his speech?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1717.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-16", "file": "debates1924-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7940354652193eb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1731.0", "colnum": "1731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL ROBERTS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then why mention it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "the much discussed question of wages with which the hon. Members have dealt, I would remind the House that they only tell one side of the story. I am not going into figures to counter that. They know perfectly well they could be produced, but there are such things as pits paying good wages, and the men attending the Cup Tie, or the Lincolnshire Handicap. I am glad that is so, and do not grudge it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-16", "file": "debates1924-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7940354652193eb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1744.2", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir BEDDOE REES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BEDDOE REES", "preceding_text": "lliery owners of the country, that they have done everything possible to improve the conditions and to develop the coal resources of the country. We are not without some experience in dealing with this matter, and I always think that an ounce of experience is worth a ton of theory, from whatever bench it may come. Surely, hon. Gentlemen forget that we had nationalisation in fact from 1915 to 1921.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1744.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-16", "file": "debates1924-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7940354652193eb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. REES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. REES", "preceding_text": "el £1 a ton. because it takes four tons of coal to produce a ton of steel If you increase, steel by £1 a ton, you are going to throw large numbers of men cut of a job in the shipbuilding industry and every industry that uses steel. So you could go on with the vicious system to the last point. Increase the price of coal, and you increase the price of every other commodity, including food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-16", "file": "debates1924-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7940354652193eb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1751.0", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Mr. Shinwell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMRKRS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Mr. Shinwell)", "preceding_text": "further observation I wish to make in connection with the proposals adumbrated by the right hon. Gentleman and his associates, and that is with regard to the proposition to nationalise mining royalties. I observed this morning that when reference to the nationalisation of mining royalties was made, hon. Gentlemen and right hon. Gentlemen below the Gangway vigorously nodded their heads in approval.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1751.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-16", "file": "debates1924-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7940354652193eb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1755.0", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "e who are agreed that distribution should be in the hands of local authorities. That was one of the recommendations of the Sankey Commission. The colliery owners accepted that point of view. So we find that hon. Members, and the coal owners themselves, accept the principle that minerals should be nationally owned, that the distribution of the coal should in a sense be a form of national ownership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-16", "file": "debates1924-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7940354652193eb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1755.0", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "d be in the hands of local authorities. That was one of the recommendations of the Sankey Commission. The colliery owners accepted that point of view. So we find that hon. Members, and the coal owners themselves, accept the principle that minerals should be nationally owned, that the distribution of the coal should in a sense be a form of national ownership. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Public ownership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-16", "file": "debates1924-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7940354652193eb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1755.0", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "t was one of the recommendations of the Sankey Commission. The colliery owners accepted that point of view. So we find that hon. Members, and the coal owners themselves, accept the principle that minerals should be nationally owned, that the distribution of the coal should in a sense be a form of national ownership. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Public ownership. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Municipal ownership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-16", "file": "debates1924-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7940354652193eb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1755.0", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "rs accepted that point of view. So we find that hon. Members, and the coal owners themselves, accept the principle that minerals should be nationally owned, that the distribution of the coal should in a sense be a form of national ownership. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Public ownership. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Municipal ownership. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I observe that the negative is gradually diminishing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-16", "file": "debates1924-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7940354652193eb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1758.3", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the analogy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "he industry. I am submitting that we have, in the first instance, the example of an industry where as a result of pooling the industry has managed to survive. I am further pointing out to the hon. Gentleman that pooling arrangements do exist in certain areas and between certain pits, that amalgamation has been effected, and, wherever effected, it has resulted in economies and increased production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1758.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-16", "file": "debates1924-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7940354652193eb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1760.1", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "from so much competition are too heavy a burden to be borne by the trade. So prices rose. Hon. Members must know, as I do, that there are streets in the suburbs where there are as many as half a dozen coal dealers, all with their own establishments, their own staffs, their own books, and all the paraphernalia associated with the business. Competition of that kind is bound to result in high prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-16", "file": "debates1924-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7940354652193eb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1764.1", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ernment, the Solicitor General. So that there is more significance attaching, not to the principle, but to the actual working out of the principle than if it were purely a private Bill tabled by an ordinary Member. We, therefore, know how these principles are to be worked out. The first thing of which the House has got to rid its mind is that this has nothing whatever to do with the Sankey Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1764.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-05-16", "file": "debates1924-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7940354652193eb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1765.3", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Why does he try to get out of what he said?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "It is quite impossible to have a proper debate with these interruptions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1765.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-16", "file": "debates1924-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7940354652193eb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1765.7", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There are not 400,000.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " Council was purely an Advisory Committee. What is proposed by this Bill? There is a council of 20, 10 to be appointed by the Miners' Federation, 10 by the Government, and a president appointed by the Government. The Miners' Federation, I think, represent 800,000 members out of a total of 1,200,000, who are employed in every capacity in coal production. How are the other 400,000 to be represented?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1765.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-16", "file": "debates1924-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7940354652193eb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1765.7", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Government nominees.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "00,000 members out of a total of 1,200,000, who are employed in every capacity in coal production. How are the other 400,000 to be represented? [An HON. MEMBER: \"There are not 400,000.\"] Well, 200,000 or 300,000. I will take any figure which is given by my hon. Friend. Are these not to be represented at all? Are they to be compelled to join the Miners' Federation? If not, they must be represented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1765.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-16", "file": "debates1924-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7940354652193eb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1765.7", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "The Mines of the Nation.\" Here we have in this Bill a great trust. This is not nationalisation. It is a gigantic trust by which you can consolidate the whole mines of the Kingdom in the hands of one interest with complete control of wages, prices, distribution, including exports. I was therefore, interested to read this exposition of it. \"The Mines for the Nation,\" reprinted by the \"Daily Herald.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1765.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-16", "file": "debates1924-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "7940354652193eb8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1768.1", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "The writer goes on to point out the dangers. He says: They could eliminate the present rivalry in export sales and so get more out of the foreigner,\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-16a.1768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-19", "file": "debates1924-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "0f8c52d82dae005a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-19a.1912.5", "colnum": "1912", "heading": "PENSIONS INCREASE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who put the pensioners in the workhouse?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": ", and those with £100, £10. I say to the Committee they, the Government, are fooling these men. There is no pensions increase at all. The Government are giving with a miserly, niggardly hand, and they are deceiving the people who put them there. The hon. Gentleman, by his proposals, will not cam the gratitude of these men, but the contempt, which he richly deserves, of the whole country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-19a.1912.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-19", "file": "debates1924-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "0f8c52d82dae005a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-19a.1916.0", "colnum": "1916", "heading": "PENSIONS INCREASE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Captain BOWYER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Never!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BOWYER", "preceding_text": "embers have joined in the Debate, it is not easy to avoid repeating certain things that have been said before. I regret very much that the Financial Secretary, who always speaks so admirably, should have spoken so early in the Debate, because, personally, I and I know a number of other Members are so keen on this matter that I see the danger of the Committee agreeing to what he has held out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-19a.1916.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2002.0", "colnum": "2002", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BOWYER", "preceding_text": "Might I ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps he is taking, in collaboration with other Ministers, to help those men who have been deliberately thrown into unemployment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2001.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2010.6", "colnum": "2010", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STANDING COMMITTEES (CHAIRMEN).", "cue_speaker": "The LORD PRIVY SEAL (Mr. Clynes)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD PRIVY SEAL (Mr. Clynes)", "preceding_text": "es; but the state of Government business is such that it would be almost impossible to find time for the discussion of this Motion. In any case I am glad that I have the authority of my hon. Friend the Member for Pontypridd for saying that the Motion on this subject standing in his name is to be taken off the Paper. I think the House will agree that this closes the matter in a satisfactory manner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2010.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2011.5", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STANDING COMMITTEES (CHAIRMEN).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "preceding_text": "e Chair, either in the House or in Committee upstairs. The chief purpose of my Motion was to vindicate the rights of private Members in the promotion of Bills in the Committee stage. It is a fact within the knowledge of most Members of this House that the Chairman of Standing Committees, wisely or unwisely, do not regard a private Member's Bill as being of the same importance as a Government Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2011.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2042.1", "colnum": "2042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the parents?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "n, so I venture to give to the House an explanation of the grounds on which I base my case. At the present time, young persons leave school at fourteen and enter into employment. Between fourteen and sixteen, they are almost totally lost to any influence whatever. Broadly speaking, the State does not know where they are, nor does it know what they are doing, nor has it any responsibility for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2042.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2045.1", "colnum": "2045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which Clause?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "has been considerable misunderstanding, which has been shared by some Members of the House. It is that under this Bill, if it becomes law, the tendency will be for parents to send their children to work and that they will automatically and almost immediately come into benefit under the Insurance Act. I am prepared to accept in Committee any Amendment which will make this Clause actually operative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2050.0", "colnum": "2050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never!'", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "nce proposition is. Hon. Members have only to read Clause 1 to realise the difficulty. That is a Clause with which the Minister himself is not wholly familiar, because when I asked him if a certain thing was in the Bill he said it was in the appropriate Clause. I am very grateful to him for that answer. It is an answer which I shall not forget if I ever find myself on that side of the House again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2050.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2054.1", "colnum": "2054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "It will not be done by the right hon. Gentleman's own abilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2054.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2055.2", "colnum": "2055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Subject to certain conditions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "alculations he has given are justified, I should like to come to some of the specific provisions of the Bill. The right hon. Gentleman himself dealt very lightly with the first Clause, and particularly with Sub-section (3). This is one of the most serious Clauses in the Bill. In effect it makes uncovenanted benefit for an almost indefinite period part of the normal insurance system of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2055.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2058.3", "colnum": "2058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "er the better—I am sure we can and should get it down much lower than the figure the right hon. Gentleman suggested. But that is no reason for vitiating your unemployment system in this way. I will go further and say, that if you put this uncovenanted benefit as a right in normal times into this Bill, you will give far greater inducement to the man who does not want to find work to stay out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2058.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2058.3", "colnum": "2058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Different from hon. Members on the Opposition side!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": " if you put this uncovenanted benefit as a right in normal times into this Bill, you will give far greater inducement to the man who does not want to find work to stay out. [ Interruption .] I maintain that proposition, and every working man knows it. The great majority of working men are only too anxious to get into work and stay in it, and they are not different from anyone else in that respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2058.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2058.5", "colnum": "2058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "y do not keep people or continuously, but do make a gap before a man can come on to benefit again. I am bound to say that the right hon. Gentleman talked about tightening up, though he was not able to point to the Clause in the Bill which did it. I might point to his Regulations, which, so far from tightening up the administration of uncovenanted benefit, have notoriously slackened the conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2058.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2060.1", "colnum": "2060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "Certainly, I did, but I think the hon. Member had better let me develop my argument. I think the House wants this Bill carefully considered, but the whole argument, which the right hon. Gentleman himself advanced, was that 1s. was not enough, and at that rate 2s. is not going to be enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2060.1", "colnum": "2060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "ass of the contributors, rather than simply increasing the amount of unemployment benefit? I can well conceive that if that money is at the disposal of the State, it would be far better, in the interests of the total employed and contributing population, to try and use that money for the purpose of earlier contributory old age pensions, than simply to extend the rate at which this benefit is paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2060.1", "colnum": "2060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "e must have a test which can be quickly and certainly applied. He goes on to point out how utterly impossible it would be for any trade union or any official to apply a test which would involve one of the most difficult questions that the Law Courts have ever had to decide; and he proceeds as follows: May I point out to the House two reasons why the test in the Bill is likely to be the right test?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2063.5", "colnum": "2063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "e working classes in favour of keeping their children at school a little longer. There is any number of us here—and not all on the Labour Benches—who are here because of the sacrifices of our parents. I do not want this Bill to standardise the industrial age at 14. That is what it does. I wonder that labour does not realise the amount of adult unemployment which is caused by juveniles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2063.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2063.5", "colnum": "2063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It should be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": " should be taken to prevent the flow of new-labour into the labour market during the continuance of the present depression and that juvenile workers already in industries should as far as possible be withdrawn and provision made for educational training. These measures would do something to relieve the congestion and increase the opportunities of employment of adult workers. That is not this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2063.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2067.1", "colnum": "2067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "f your main objective. Work ought to be your main objective. Your schemes only provide work for one out of 12 people unemployed. How are you going to find work for the other 11? Money relief is a criminal waste, inasmuch as there is no service in return for it. Give Labour a chance and we will alter all that.\" I put it to hon. Gentlemen sitting in the Labour Benches is that an unfair presentation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2079.4", "colnum": "2079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "ve practically stated that they were the only party in the State which could find work, and which had a real remedy and a definite scheme against unemployment. We know why they have introduced this Bill. They have got into office. They know they cannot do what they were going to do, and, therefore, they have to offer bribes in order to keep themselves in the snug position into which they have got.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2079.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2083.0", "colnum": "2083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "ost instead of one-fourth. I could never understand the principle of partnership in this great undertaking of national insurance created by the Acts. The State administered and made all the rules and all the different things that govern the qualifying of the payments and all the benefits, and yet it get off with only meeting the bill to the extent of one-fourth. At the moment that is the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2091.1", "colnum": "2091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel SPENDER-CLAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel SPENDER-CLAY", "preceding_text": ". Several have been quoted to-day, but one has not been touched on, and that is the speech made by the right hon. Gentleman the Colonial Secretary (Mr. Thomas), at Derby, on the 2nd January. He said: We will make a real attempt to substitute work for doles which have already demoralised our people and done incalculable harm to the definite stability of the country. I have several other quotations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2091.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2091.1", "colnum": "2091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel SPENDER-CLAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Set them to music and sing them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel SPENDER-CLAY", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Gentleman the Colonial Secretary (Mr. Thomas), at Derby, on the 2nd January. He said: We will make a real attempt to substitute work for doles which have already demoralised our people and done incalculable harm to the definite stability of the country. I have several other quotations. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Read them!\"] I know hon. Gentlemen opposite do not like being reminded. Yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2091.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2119.0", "colnum": "2119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel PENRY WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel PENRY WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "o require it to come in and shoulder its fair proportion of the national burden. I have only one other remark to make, and I do not want to be in any way offensive, but this Bill is not a complete satisfaction of the promise which was given by the Labour party at the last Election. I was met with it in my constituency over and over again, that the Labour party had the real remedy for unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2122.9", "colnum": "2122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "e Hon. Members say, after what we have said, why do we not produce our policy? I am submitting that 192 Members of the House out of 615 cannot carry a Measure which is obnoxious. That was proved on Friday, when Members below the Gangway joined with Members on the opposite side of the House to vote down and defeat the Labour party in bringing forward a Measure that would help to solve unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2122.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2122.9", "colnum": "2122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Socialism?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "re which is obnoxious. That was proved on Friday, when Members below the Gangway joined with Members on the opposite side of the House to vote down and defeat the Labour party in bringing forward a Measure that would help to solve unemployment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! oh!\"] Undoubtedly; but a cure for unemployment is not to be found in Free Trade, nor Protection, nor in an Unemployment Insurance Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2122.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2122.9", "colnum": "2122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "9.0 P.M. May I now state what my objection is to the present Bill brought in by the Minister of Labour? I join in the criticism that has been given to that part of the Bill relating to the bringing into industry of children between the ages of 14 and 16. I object to the idea that is brought out in this Bill that children of that age should be enrolled amongst the industrial classes of our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2122.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2129.3", "colnum": "2129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shocking!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "proposes to pay to unemployed persons under the Bill. Under the preceding Acts, when the cost-of-living index figure stood very high indeed, we were paying a comparatively small unemployment insurance benefit. Now, when the cost-of-living index has fallen to 71, he proposes to pay an increased benefit which, in the case of a family of a man, his wife and three children, will amount to 29s. a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2129.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2129.3", "colnum": "2129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When did he tell you that, after you had had a few cocktails?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "Labour party, the party which has an instinctive genius for dealing with Labour questions, and is the only inspired body in modern Parliaments that can solve the problem of unemployment! I had an opportunity yesterday of discussing the unemployment problem in the United States with the American Commissioner of Labour, and he told me that there is substantially no unemployment in the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2129.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2147.2", "colnum": "2147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "preceding_text": "im a living minimum wage. The point about other countries, which the same hon. Gentleman raised, is a very slippery slope of argument, and it logically leads to sweated conditions of employment. We have turned our backs on that type of thing, and I venture to suggest that our captains of industry are far better satisfied with the form of labour produced by our method of protected conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2147.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2164.3", "colnum": "2164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EVICTION, WOOLWICH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is part of the consideration.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "preceding_text": "hat the Estimates of the War Office, as of other State Departments, are quite properly put down, and they have to meet the requirements of this House. How can the War Office provide alternative accommodation. It has no alternative accommodation. Every ordinary landlord is in receipt of rent. There is no rent paid in these cases, and the men are not tenants in the ordinary sense of the word at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-20", "file": "debates1924-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0958140b44639baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2165.1", "colnum": "2165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EVICTION, WOOLWICH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "preceding_text": "I cannot carry it any further. I can enter into no definite obligation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-20a.2165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-21", "file": "debates1924-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "396e37c51bb18960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-21a.2176.7", "colnum": "2176", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware it is not a matter of a specific case or a small number of specific cases, but of a large number of cases where self-respecting unemployed men who are entitled to uncovenanted benefit have been refused that benefit, and have been insulted by being told—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-21a.2176.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-21", "file": "debates1924-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "396e37c51bb18960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-21a.2177.6", "colnum": "2177", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that 300 men were dismissed last Friday at a large motor works in Lancashire?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-21a.2177.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-21", "file": "debates1924-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "396e37c51bb18960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-21a.2186.2", "colnum": "2186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman explain why private enterprise has only begun to operate vigorously since he became Minister of Health?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-21a.2186.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-21", "file": "debates1924-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "396e37c51bb18960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-21a.2187.6", "colnum": "2187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SULLIVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SULLIVAN", "preceding_text": "The Coalition Government told us what they wanted and put it on paper, but when they started to build there were no bricks, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-21a.2187.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-21", "file": "debates1924-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "396e37c51bb18960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-21a.2307.5", "colnum": "2307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SHIRLEY BENN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SHIRLEY BENN", "preceding_text": "e mile. Great Britain cannot produce either the food for her people or the raw material on which they can work. We have to buy enormous quantities abroad and to import them. In 1922 we paid £470,000,000 for food, tobacco and drink, and we paid nearly £300,000,000 for the raw materials for our factories. In addition, we purchased manufactured goods to the extent of over £560,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-21a.2307.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-21", "file": "debates1924-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "396e37c51bb18960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-21a.2307.5", "colnum": "2307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SHIRLEY BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SHIRLEY BENN", "preceding_text": "se the sort of Committee which I have in mind. I suggest there should be a Judge of the High Court as Chairman and six Members of the House of Commons, two nominated by the Government, two by the Conservative party, and two by the Liberal party. Three of the members, I suggest, should be Cabinet Ministers or ex-Cabinet Ministers, and the other three should possess business or trade qualifications.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-21a.2307.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-21", "file": "debates1924-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "396e37c51bb18960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-21a.2337.0", "colnum": "2337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "cue_text": "Interruptions .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "preceding_text": " in such a very severe crisis. To have come through the War, and have had the slump that followed the War, and to find that we are no worse now in the way of unemployment than we were in 1909, means that we need not quite lose all heart. We may expect that just as 1909 rose to the top of the boom in 1913, so 1923 may rise again to a boom in 1926. I hope hon. Members will not put any money on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-21a.2337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-21", "file": "debates1924-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "396e37c51bb18960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-21a.2354.5", "colnum": "2354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGULATION OF RAILWAYS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. NALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The limit!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. NALL", "preceding_text": "facilities or the circumstances of railway companies in this country. The Bill is described as a Regulation of Railways Bill, but it is, really nothing of the sort. It does not set out to regulate railways. I happen to have read the Bill, as I do most of the private Bills which are submitted with the idea of their sliding through after 11 o'Clock at night. This particular Bill is absolutely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-21a.2354.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-21", "file": "debates1924-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "396e37c51bb18960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-21a.2356.0", "colnum": "2356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR CHARGES (VALIDITY) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SIMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SIMPSON", "preceding_text": " point out that it in the Bill as it stands, when you read it the Preamble, it is perfectly clear that the words \"other than milk\" only apply to those charges which are included in \"B\" in the Preamble. If you look at line 7 on the next page you will find that that is so. It has nothing to say to the charges for licences for the sale of milk which come under the first heading, and, therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-21a.2356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-21", "file": "debates1924-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "396e37c51bb18960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-21a.2356.5", "colnum": "2356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR CHARGES (VALIDITY) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "preceding_text": "t is a denial of justice which this House should be slow to sanction that the word \"instituted\" should be put into this Amendment. The word means, technically, only those cases in which the authorities have been kind enough to permit a fiat to an action before September, 1922. I had to be away keeping an engagement, but I am told that the Attorney-General was pleased to be facetious at my expense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-21a.2356.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-21", "file": "debates1924-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "396e37c51bb18960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-21a.2364.0", "colnum": "2364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR CHARGES (VALIDITY) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir COURTENAY MANSEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What was the promise?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir COURTENAY MANSEL", "preceding_text": "n a measure of this kind the point should be considered. I think the Bill is a thoroughly dangerous Bill and subversive of the ancient order of things; and it is important that at the opening of the new era and in relation to so important a measure, that a Minister of the Crown should observe his promise with scrupulousness. I earnestly appeal to the President of the Board of Trade in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-21a.2364.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2397.2", "colnum": "2397", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY (COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY).", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Another Committee!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. This matter has been engaging the attention of the Government for some time. They feel that an inquiry sufficiently limited in its scope to be definite in its results, and yet sufficiently wide to be really enlightening, ought to be held. The terms of reference are being carefully considered, and I hope shortly to be able to announce them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2409.3", "colnum": "2409", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BLUNDELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BLUNDELL", "preceding_text": "Is it not the fact that this combine does not represent small builders at all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2409.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2439.10", "colnum": "2439", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rabbits!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "I will skip over very rapidly the principal items in the Estimates, and will then come to the horses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2439.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2439.10", "colnum": "2439", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": " country, and to assure the country that a Labour Government would mean a headlong rush to ruin. The most extraordinary statements were made, culminating in one brilliant effort to destroy absolutely all sense of security, when we were told that if a Labour Government took power the sovereign would fall to 1d., America would refuse recognition of the Government, and chaos and red ruin would ensue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2439.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2439.10", "colnum": "2439", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Names,\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": " by other countries. We found, as I say, a loss of prestige for which there was no precedent and an attempt to destroy confidence, and we took office under those conditions. We found our markets crippled in the Near and Far East by a blundering incompetence unknown in the history of this country. We had a state of affairs which could have been produced by no other means than by a malignant genius.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2439.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2439.10", "colnum": "2439", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lovat Fraser.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "hich there was no precedent and an attempt to destroy confidence, and we took office under those conditions. We found our markets crippled in the Near and Far East by a blundering incompetence unknown in the history of this country. We had a state of affairs which could have been produced by no other means than by a malignant genius. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Names,\"] I will give you names if you want them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2439.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2439.10", "colnum": "2439", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which Lord Curzon?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "e took office under those conditions. We found our markets crippled in the Near and Far East by a blundering incompetence unknown in the history of this country. We had a state of affairs which could have been produced by no other means than by a malignant genius. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Names,\"] I will give you names if you want them. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Lovat Fraser.\"] No, not Lovat Fraser, but Lord Curzon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2439.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2442.1", "colnum": "2442", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And McKenna Duties!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "e certain extemporised and palliative Measures in existence. They were the Trade Facilities Act, Export Credits, Unemployment Grants Committee work, maintenance of roads and bridges by the Ministry of Transport, land drainage schemes, afforestation, acceleration of Government contracts, and acceleration of work by the Office of Works, in particular on maintenance of buildings, parks, and the like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2445.1", "colnum": "2445", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Five cruisers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "£60,000 in the one case and £15,000 in the other. With regard to the Forestry Commission, we have increased the grant by £10,000, but we intend to have an expert committee to advise as to the extension of the scheme. Government work has been accelerated in every possible way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2445.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2445.4", "colnum": "2445", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "n these various schemes, and, in spite of the difficulties that existed, we have increased that number to 108,000. That is an addition of 17 per cent. to the numbers employed by the late Government. Now what has been the principal task of the Government? By a skilful, frank, firm and friendy foreign policy the Prime Minister has restored confidence and raised our prestige in the eyes of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2445.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2445.4", "colnum": "2445", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "of the difficulties that existed, we have increased that number to 108,000. That is an addition of 17 per cent. to the numbers employed by the late Government. Now what has been the principal task of the Government? By a skilful, frank, firm and friendy foreign policy the Prime Minister has restored confidence and raised our prestige in the eyes of the world. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"] Do you doubt it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2445.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2446.3", "colnum": "2446", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Foreigners?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "rniture needed in a house. I suggest that that is an eminently practical way of dealing with unemployment; you employ people at their own trades, you increase the health of the country, and in a perfctly natural way you achieve your object of reducing the volume of unemployment. The probability is that this work will employ an enormously larger number of people than the number ordinarily employed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2446.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2446.3", "colnum": "2446", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "r spring, to do any worse than the last Government did. These palliatives, whilst important, are not at all our main object. I have already said that international peace is the very basis of commerce and trade. By our home and foreign policy we have given confidence and security, so that our people may work in peace. Particularly in our foreign policy have we brilliantly demonstrated to the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2446.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2453.1", "colnum": "2453", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three years!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "e matter, the hon. Member for Pontypool (Mr. T. Griffiths), when we said there were 300,000 men employed, got up and said, \"What are you doing for the other million?\" I ask the right hon. Gentleman, \"What are you doing for the other million?\" The right hon. Gentleman admits there are one million men unemployed to-day, and that there are going to be one million men unemployed the whole of the year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2457.4", "colnum": "2457", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will you retaliate?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "ade in our connection with Lancashire. I agree that India takes 8/10ths of our cotton, but does he know that the export of steel goods to India is practically as great as the export of cotton goods to-day? Does he know that India is putting on tariffs against us in the steel market, that it has put on tariffs in order—I will not say to bolster up—but to protect one particular industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2457.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2457.4", "colnum": "2457", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not a dole.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "the 1st January, when the results of the elections were known, and just before they expected to come into office. He said: We will make a real attempt to substitute work for doles, which have already demoralised our people and done incalculable harm to the financial stability of the country. The only answer to that pledge is to increase the dole. Of course, it is easier to increase the dole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2457.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2459.5", "colnum": "2459", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not a dole.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "Undoubtedly, and that belongs to the insured people. I am dealing now with people who have not paid their requisite number of contributions. We have had it out over and over again, and, in so far as they have not paid their requisite number of contributions—and they may never pay them; they may die, or they may emigrate after having received uncovenanted benefit—in so far—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2459.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2464.1", "colnum": "2464", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "preceding_text": "f dealing with it. I must honestly say, and I say so in no offensive fashion, that unless something more than is suggested by the Labour Department is done, and done quickly, this Government will be under the liability of being reckoned in the future as a Government of broken promises. They have broken promises again and again to the ex-service men, and they have broken promises to the unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2464.1", "colnum": "2464", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "preceding_text": " say was, that he would take it into consideration. Why are we stopped from training these men? Because the Government have, apparently, accepted the Report of the Building Committee, employers and employed united, that for the building of subsidised houses for the working people no man over 20 shall be allowed to be employed, however many years he may have been trained, however skilled he may be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2467.1", "colnum": "2467", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "preceding_text": "consideration. The observer might ask again, \"Is this country so developed in all its resources that there is no need for the Government to take action, not in relief works in the technical sense, but in works which will make for the general welfare and efficiency of the country and which may absorb the unemployed until, by the natural evolution of trade, they can find work in private enterprise?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2467.1", "colnum": "2467", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thousands of them on 17s. 10d. a week!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "preceding_text": "he unemployed until, by the natural evolution of trade, they can find work in private enterprise?\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Never!\"] Oh, yes, they will. I am looking forward with confidence to the time—and I believe I shall be justified—when we shall get back again to the period, as in 1890 and 1907, when the registered number of unemployed fell to less than 1½ per cent. of the population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2468.1", "colnum": "2468", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "preceding_text": "have ever seen—I am glad he does not associate himself with them—there is one which I read this morning in a paper which is trying to make the best defence, and a very poor best it is, of the policy of my right hon. Friend. I believe it is the official Labour paper, and it said my right hon. Friend could not bring in these great schemes because other parties would be sure to kill them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2468.1", "colnum": "2468", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At our expense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "preceding_text": " had some occasion to examine the reports of special investigators in connection with those questions, who have gone to most of our trade competitors and to all the war-scarred countries in the world. They are not Socialist countries. The least Socialist country in the world, I suppose, is France. France is equipping herself, through public assistance and by private and municipal enterprise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2469.1", "colnum": "2469", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "preceding_text": "ly she was turning out before the War, out of the remnant of Germany that is left; and as for America, if you investigate what has been doing there in the equipping and self-development of the country, in which all these men might be used, you come to the conclusion that the only thing that prevents our trade being utterly swamped by America is the existence of the high American protective tariff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2469.1", "colnum": "2469", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Liberal Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "preceding_text": "ilway carriage window, and when they got nearly two-thirds of the way to Manchester, they asked those who were taking them round England where the cultivated land began. Some of us would like to hear a more advanced and courageous agricultural policy, even than that of Wages Boards and subsidies to co-operative societies, which seems to be the limit of those at present suggested by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2472.0", "colnum": "2472", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BAKER", "preceding_text": "a speech based on levity, because he felt that, no matter what the needs of the country might be, he had a temporary advantage over his opponents. I submit that the social problems of this country cannot be solved by a continuance of that party spirit. Last night I was conversing in the Lobby with one of the leading men on the other side of the House, and he admitted in private conversation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2474.0", "colnum": "2474", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PENNY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PENNY", "preceding_text": "y came into power has been more with an eye upon the electorate than on helping the troubles of the unemployed. Take, for instance, the Unemployment Insurance Bill. It is quite evident that, that Measure is in a way designed to encourage the slacker, and to place idleness at a premium, and to bring the younger generation up with the idea of feeling that they are going to get something for nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2475.3", "colnum": "2475", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PENNY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why did your party not do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PENNY", "preceding_text": " matter from a broader point of view. As the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Rusholme said, this matter is one which ought not to be in any way a party matter. The men who have fought for us, the men who have given their best for us, are absolutely a responsibility upon the State, and every effort should be made to secure work for them, so that their energies may be put in the right direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2482.0", "colnum": "2482", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did you do last year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": " not in the least anxious to make party advantage, but in listening to them the one impression that I got was the evident intention on the part of hon. Members on the other side, and hon. Members below the Gangway, to use the circumstances of the unemployed, and the position in which the Government is placed in dealing with those circumstances, in order to try to further their own party advantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2482.0", "colnum": "2482", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": " although the Government have not been able to produce schemes which have meant that all the people who are unemployed are able to get a job, and although they have not been able to set on foot great schemes bringing a great number of the unemployed into work in the five months they have been in office, they have, at any rate, done as much as the other two parties have been able to do in 30 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2485.3", "colnum": "2485", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does the hon. Member suggest that that is finding a remedy for unemployment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "long to arrange for free railway passes for hon. Members. That was a very little thing. It is a vastly different thing devising economic schemes than arranging to give hon. Members below the Gangway free railway passes. We did one thing right away, which the Liberals could not do and which the Tories, could not do, and that was to abolish the gap. That meant a great deal for the unemployed people,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2485.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2485.3", "colnum": "2485", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By Protection!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "s than the right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues, who like to go about the country describing themselves as members of the stupid party, could do in a long term of years. You are asking for the solution of the problem in a scheme or a series of schemes that the Government may bring into being. You will not get the solution of the unemployment problem in any such way. You would only get it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2485.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2486.0", "colnum": "2486", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. PHILIPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. PHILIPSON", "preceding_text": " in his speech which appealed to me. He spoke of the housing scheme of the Minister of Health and the building trade. I attended the meeting called by the Minister of Health to meet the building operatives and the manufacturers, and I asked the building operatives' representatives if it was not a fact that under the housing scheme ex-service men would be debarred, and I received an evasive answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2489.3", "colnum": "2489", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "preceding_text": " take, what difficulties they can overcome, but look at that poor crawling thing going along the road.\" They forget that the electors of this country have only given us, as yet, an 8–10 Ford instead of a 40 horse-power car. When the electors of this country give us that 40 horsepower car, we will leave no doubt in the minds of hon. Gentlemen opposite as to the speed at which we shall travel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2489.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2489.5", "colnum": "2489", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "preceding_text": "If we have our licence endorsed, we shall at least have the support of one Noble Lord opposite. The cure is only inherent in the abolition of the system in which hon. Members opposite and below the Gangway believe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2489.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2489.5", "colnum": "2489", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And of employment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "preceding_text": " capitalism you cannot wholly get rid of unemployment. That is an admission from the benches below the Gangway that so long as they agree to the maintenance of this system of capitalism, so long will they not be able wholly to get rid of unemployment. The alternative is our alternative. It is the destruction—a long process—of the present system of production, distribution and exchange.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2489.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2489.5", "colnum": "2489", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "preceding_text": "hority, and I commend it to the attention of the right hon. Gentleman who led the Debate from the Liberal benches. Professor J. M. Keynes, speaking at the summer school at Cambridge said: The absurdity of labour being from time to time totally unemployed, in spite of every one wanting more goods, can only be due to a muddle which should be remediable if we could only think and act clearly;\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2489.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2503.0", "colnum": "2503", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "the position? When we were doing all that we knew to find work for these poor men and to make work schemes, the Labour party poured scorn and derision on our efforts. I do not want to quote any pledge; I have done a lot of that recently and I shall not offend by repetition. I will, however, paraphrase the statements of members of the Labour party. They said that our schemes were wholly inadequate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2503.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2503.0", "colnum": "2503", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "RS: \"Hear, hear!\"] That statement is endorsed to-day. Hon. Members had better talk to their Minister. We were told that our schemes only touched the fringe of the tragic problem, that we were indifferent and unconcerned, merely seeking to buy off discontent and disaffection. That is how our attitude was described—buying off discontent and disaffection by doing as little as we possibly could.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2503.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2513.0", "colnum": "2513", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1924–25.", "cue_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "preceding_text": "Out of the 32 Resolutions 28 have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2529.1", "colnum": "2529", "heading": "CENTRAL LONDON AND METROPOLITAN DISTRICT RAILWAY COMPANIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "y harsh if this obstacle, over which the contractors and even the Central Railway authority itself had no control, could not be overcome within the five years, the powers then lapsed. I do not know whether there is any other general provision outside that Clause, but if there is not, it certainly appears to me to be too tight and too abrupt. I think hon. Members will follow what I have in my mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2533.5", "colnum": "2533", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss BONDFIELD", "preceding_text": "we have to remember that this is a question of the industry itself as a whole stating that it cannot be responsible for the quality of its work until those who are engaged in it are fully trained under a proper apprenticeship system. They further state that unless these people are taken at an age before their muscular development concludes it is almost impossible for them to become expert workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2533.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2538.1", "colnum": "2538", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "edge of a particular industrial process? I do not see why the hon. Member and her colleagues should have a monopoly of the knowledge of these particular processes. I want to put to the Minister of Labour, whose thunderous eloquence this afternoon will, no doubt, be read through the country to-morrow with mixed feelings by thousands of working people—I want to put one or two questions to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2548.5", "colnum": "2548", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no,\" and Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "preceding_text": "What I understand the hon. Member means is that the Government, while on the one hand removing the shackles from industry should, on the other hand, again put on those shackles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2548.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2548.5", "colnum": "2548", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They said they had it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "preceding_text": "d the Minister of Labour has been blamed for not carrying out, for not producing a remedy for unemployment which hon. Members opposite assert to have been promised, and to have been declared in the programme of the party to which he and I belong. Hon. Members opposite have over and over again repeated that, doubtless in all sincerity, that the party to which I belong had a remedy for unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2548.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2549.1", "colnum": "2549", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go and get it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "preceding_text": "e being held up to opprobrium for having deceived the electors and having taken our salary under false pretences. I do not know whether hon. Members can keep their countenances when they denounce us for not putting these remedies into operation in the course of 16 weeks. But we are told that we held out expectations. While, however, these remedies might be put into operation with a majority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2549.1", "colnum": "2549", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "preceding_text": "r the conditions. That was our duty, and my right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour has been doing that, and doing it successfully. He has not turned aside to pursue things which could not be done in 16 weeks, and which would require legislation, which cannot even be initiated now. We are accused because we proceeded in this way, but really all this kind of criticism recoils on those who make it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2550.2", "colnum": "2550", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " accurate description than that could be applied to the speech which he has just delivered. He has been scrambling from one point to another, following the example of those who have preceded him, and endeavouring to find, at the last moment, some explanation of that unfortunate sentence in the Labour party's Manifesto which claimed that they, and they alone, had a positive remedy for unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2550.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2550.3", "colnum": "2550", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You could not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "Now sing \"The Red Flag!\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2550.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2551.0", "colnum": "2551", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And exchange!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has made it an excuse for having done nothing whatsoever to remedy unemployment, that the positive remedy which his party had in mind was Socialisation—that is, as I understand, the nationalisation of the means of production and distribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2551.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2551.2", "colnum": "2551", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "nnot claim credit for a single man put in employment, can only claim a figure of reduction in the few months that he has been in office which was considerably less than the corresponding figure for last year. They cannot have it all ways. We have had three different lines of defence. First of all comes along the Minister of Labour and says, \"We have done the work. We have put men into employment.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2551.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2551.2", "colnum": "2551", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "have had three different lines of defence. First of all comes along the Minister of Labour and says, \"We have done the work. We have put men into employment.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Then how do you reconcile that with the leading article in the \"Daily Herald\" this morning, with its headline: Why the Labour party cannot provide work for the workless. Then comes along the Noble Lady opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2551.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2554.1", "colnum": "2554", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Textiles\" and \"India.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I do not remember. Perhaps hon. Members can remind me of what the right hon. Gentleman said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2554.3", "colnum": "2554", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Dry rot!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "he President of the Board of Trade told us last night that the exports of this country to the various parts of the Empire were actually greater than those to the whole of Europe. What are the Government doing to develop that trade? What credit can they take for the improved relations which they have brought about with the Governments of the Dominions? What is the moral gesture that they have made?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2554.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2554.5", "colnum": "2554", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "McKenna Duties and Land Tax were ruled out on this discussion.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FINNEY", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. What has this to do with the Vote under discussion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2554.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2554.6", "colnum": "2554", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "existence. The hon. Lady the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour told us that the Prime Minister had fulfilled the pledge which he gave on taking office. What we want is the fulfilment of the pledges which he gave before he took office. Hon. Members sitting behind on those benches, after having been thoroughly cowed at a private meeting beforehand may pretend that they are satisfied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2554.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-22", "file": "debates1924-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "4a9a5c5dcb602de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2556.0", "colnum": "2556", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Power!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "promises that were made at the last General Election by hon. Members who sit above the Gangway. I would remind them that this was the kind of thing that was said: While working all the time for a co-operative commonwealth the party pledges itself, if returned to power,\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-22a.2556.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-23", "file": "debates1924-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "2e93956c2187a265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-23a.2584.1", "colnum": "2584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLIND PERSONS ACT (1920) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": " the last few years has been greatly to reduce the number of occupations to which eyesight is essential, and that has been the whole history. What I am questioning is whether from the point of view, which after all this House must bear in mind above everything else, of doing justice between man and man there is a case for the blind person at thirty that there is not for any number of other people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-23a.2584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-23", "file": "debates1924-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "2e93956c2187a265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-23a.2586.4", "colnum": "2586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLIND PERSONS ACT (1920) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, 30s.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "I do not think that a little alteration will quite meet the point. What is the average unskilled rate for a county like Warwickshire? It is. I suppose, something like 40s. a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-23a.2586.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-23", "file": "debates1924-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "2e93956c2187a265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-23a.2586.4", "colnum": "2586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLIND PERSONS ACT (1920) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Say 40s.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "I do not think that a little alteration will quite meet the point. What is the average unskilled rate for a county like Warwickshire? It is. I suppose, something like 40s. a week. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, 30s.\"] I will take any figure which hon. Members like to suggest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-23a.2586.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-23", "file": "debates1924-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "2e93956c2187a265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-23a.2588.3", "colnum": "2588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLIND PERSONS ACT (1920) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "iple in legislation. The House should realise that paragraph (1) of Clause 2 is word for word almost the existing law with, roughly, this exception, that instead of providing that the Council may for the purpose of carrying out its responsibilities to the blind, provide and maintain workshops, etc., or contribute to their maintenance, it provides that they must provide and they may not contribute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-23a.2588.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-23", "file": "debates1924-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "2e93956c2187a265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-23a.2595.2", "colnum": "2595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLIND PERSONS ACT (1920) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "That is the point on which I differ from the hon. and learned Member. This Bill substitutes \"shall\" for \"may,\" but \"may\" in the old Bill simply meant that the local authority might do it themselves or might provide for it by contribution to existing voluntary societies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-23a.2595.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-05-23", "file": "debates1924-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "2e93956c2187a265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-23a.2595.3", "colnum": "2595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLIND PERSONS ACT (1920) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": " meant that the local authority might do it themselves or might provide for it by contribution to existing voluntary societies. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] But the Section of the old Act begins in this way: It shall be the duty of the council … to make arrangements to the satisfaction of the Minister of Health for promoting the welfare of blind persons ordinarily resident within their area\"…", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-23a.2595.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-23", "file": "debates1924-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "2e93956c2187a265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-23a.2595.4", "colnum": "2595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLIND PERSONS ACT (1920) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "The Section proceeds: and such council may for this purpose provide and maintain or contribute towards the maintenance,\" etc. There are two alternatives, but they mast take one or other of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-23a.2595.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-23", "file": "debates1924-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "2e93956c2187a265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-23a.2607.0", "colnum": "2607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLIND PERSONS ACT (1920) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STRANGER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STRANGER", "preceding_text": "efit by it, but it is a Bill of the greatest importance, though it has made a belated appearance. I was the Member who suggested that it should be \"starred,\" and I do now beg the House to urge that the Bill be \"starred\" so that it may go through this Session. An hon. Member on the other side said that the blind people were in better case than the agricultural worker because they earned more money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-23a.2607.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-23", "file": "debates1924-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "2e93956c2187a265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-23a.2607.0", "colnum": "2607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLIND PERSONS ACT (1920) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STRANGER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STRANGER", "preceding_text": "to defer the introduction of that Bill. I do not want, either, to detain this present most important Bill; but I would urge hon. Members here, and above the Gangway, to press upon, the Government the need to \"star\" the Bill, or we may be quite certain it will not pass this Session. Those who have spoken from the Conservative Benches have attempted to persuade the Government not to \"star\" the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-23a.2607.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-23", "file": "debates1924-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "2e93956c2187a265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-23a.2622.0", "colnum": "2622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT OF DISABLED EX-SERVICE MEN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Names, please?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "the case of the public local authorities in this kingdom. There, at any rate, you have bodies which are not subject to trade fluctuations. You have in their case an undertaking, an organisation, which might set an example to other people. Take London. London has done first-class. There are in London 58 public authorities of all kinds, and they are all on the Roll, except three boards of guardians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-23a.2622.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-23", "file": "debates1924-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "2e93956c2187a265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-23a.2641.0", "colnum": "2641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT OF DISABLED EX-SERVICE MEN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BOWYER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BOWYER", "preceding_text": "on the matter found ourselves compelled two years ago to come to this decision, how can the House to-day turn this whole proposition down merely because of its difficulty, when there are, without dispute, 38,000 disabled ex-service men out of employment? I do not think there is any danger of this Bill being voted against, but I know that there is a danger of some hon. Member talking this Bill out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-23a.2641.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-26", "file": "debates1924-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "636b250962db2a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-26a.74.3", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NO 2) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does the Noble Lord wish to infer that the workmen's contribution is a tax on industry?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "entleman mean that whereas on the existing basis the fund would be completely solvent in one year from now, it will not at any rate be solvent until July, 1926, and, therefore, for a whole year longer, the burden upon the employer and employed, and on industry, will be something like 60 per cent. greater than it would otherwise be. It is a direct tax on industry, a direct producer of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-26a.74.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-26", "file": "debates1924-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "636b250962db2a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-26a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NO 2) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER.: \"Will you agree to raise the school age?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "on the mind of the child. I want to suggest to the Minister of Labour this point—the way in which it will bring the juvenile between 14 and 16 years of age into that weekly crush at the Employment Exchanges when drawing benefits. Some of us have seen that crush at certain Employment Exchanges, and we say it is the worst kind of atmosphere into which you could possibly bring boys of that age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-26a.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-26", "file": "debates1924-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "636b250962db2a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-26a.79.0", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NO 2) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "truck me as desirable to be enshrined. I was glad to hear the statement made from those benches that workmen and employers are partners in industry. That is a very interesting thing to have on record from those benches. It is the first time I have heard it admitted, and I repeat it ought to be enshrined, that workmen and employers are partners in industry. Apparently now we are all agreed on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-26a.79.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-26", "file": "debates1924-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "636b250962db2a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-26a.97.1", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NO 2) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "But that would mean bringing in another Money Resolution. What I suggest is, to leave this Money Resolution, and what is decided in Committee I will accept on the part of the Government. Then we need not come to the House again with another Money Resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-26a.97.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-26", "file": "debates1924-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "636b250962db2a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-26a.98.4", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NO 2) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman mean to suggest that we should draw one so wide that we need not come to the House again? I say that everything you suggest doing to-day can be done under this Clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-26a.98.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-26", "file": "debates1924-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "636b250962db2a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-26a.105.5", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NO 2) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOOD", "preceding_text": "is that we should have the question sent to a Committee, where it can be argued on its merits, and then the hon. Member for Bow and Bromley (Mr. Lansbury) and his friends will be able to make any suggestion they like as to the expenditure of this or any other fund provided by the State or the local authority. All we ask is that the door should not be closed on the possibility of a full discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-26a.105.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-05-26", "file": "debates1924-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "636b250962db2a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-26a.111.3", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NO 2) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Another Front Bench man!", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. WARD", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-26a.111.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-26", "file": "debates1924-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "636b250962db2a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-26a.123.0", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NO 2) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the opportunity?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "amazing things that this House has ever seen. Here we have got a Labour Government afraid of doing what they know in their hearts they ought to do. Sometimes I used to despair of other Governments. I knew perfectly well when the Labour Government came in they could not do a quarter of what they promised, but it never occurred to me that they would run away from such a glorious opportunity as this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-26a.123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-26", "file": "debates1924-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "636b250962db2a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-26a.123.0", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NO 2) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ation knows, but some of us have dared to face unpopularity for what we thought was best for the children of the country, and we are willing to face it now. This was the time of all others for the Minister of Education to come before the House and make one of those moving appeals which they make to the constituencies, one of those heartbreaking, rending appeals about the condition of our children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-26a.123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-26", "file": "debates1924-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "636b250962db2a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-26a.132.2", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NO 2) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "Not trade union leaders, because you could not lead anything; you could not lead a cat to a milk can, and you are not worthy of any pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-26a.132.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-26", "file": "debates1924-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "636b250962db2a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-26a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON, MIDLAND, AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY (SUPERANNUATION FUND) BILL. (By Order.)", "cue_speaker": "Major BARNETT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major BARNETT", "preceding_text": "rrespondence on this subject, and, before I sit down, want to say a few words with regard to that. I think it is about time that Members of the House of Commons, from their places in this House, protested against the machine-made agitation which is now directed against us on every possible occasion. I have myself received, in reference to this Bill, 14,214 communications up to midnight last night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-26a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.186.6", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENEMY DEBTS (MIXED ARBITRAL TRIBUNAL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "preceding_text": "ons in terms, applies only to this particular case. What has hap- pened is that the Hungarian Government have intimated that they are not at present prepared to accept that decision as governing other cases which might be held to be of a like nature. Obviously it is purely a matter for further consideration. We cannot claim that the judgment in this particular case should necessarily govern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.186.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.247.3", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I understood that it would be for the convenience of the Chancellor of the Exchequer if I opened the Debate, but I certainly did not understand that that would be taken as a reason why the Chancellor of the Exchequer should not be present. [HON. MEMBERS: \"He is in the Lobby.\"] I am glad to see that he has now arrived.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.247.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.247.3", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "would be for the convenience of the Chancellor of the Exchequer if I opened the Debate, but I certainly did not understand that that would be taken as a reason why the Chancellor of the Exchequer should not be present. [HON. MEMBERS: \"He is in the Lobby.\"] I am glad to see that he has now arrived. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"] I have very gladly fallen in with the suggestion which he has made to Me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.247.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.247.3", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Let us have a little courtesy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "chequer if I opened the Debate, but I certainly did not understand that that would be taken as a reason why the Chancellor of the Exchequer should not be present. [HON. MEMBERS: \"He is in the Lobby.\"] I am glad to see that he has now arrived. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"] I have very gladly fallen in with the suggestion which he has made to Me. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"] I have nothing to withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.247.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.247.3", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruptions .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ed both in time and in space. A few industries may go under, some tens of thousands of men may be thrown out of employment and become a permanent charge on the community, but, as time goes on, they will be forgotten, and a new generation will arise, some of whom will live by the sale of foreign goods and others of whom will migrate to Protectionist countries. But we shall survive the shock.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.247.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The fodder basis!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "gain to something like what it was before. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Profiteering!\"] This sugar is not produced in this country but in foreign countries, and whether there be profiteering or not, we have no control over it. Leaving that point alone altogether, there is the other point that, in the case of a large number of men in the country to-day, their rates of wages are controlled by the cost of living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.248.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": " am strongly of opinion that we ought not to relax but to strengthen and develop our provision for the repayment of Debt. I do not believe in the long run that we can do a greater service to the country and the prosperity of the country and the employment of those who are out of work. Next, of course, we ought to make a much more determined effort towards the reduction of unproductive expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.270.0", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COMPTON", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: 'Which one?'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COMPTON", "preceding_text": "nd the hon. Member all clay, and I regret that he is not now in his place. In a Supplementary Question to the Minister of Labour on Wednesday of last week, following a question by the hon. and gallant Member for Bilston (Lieut.-Colonel Howard-Bury), the hon. Member for Macclesfield said: Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that 300 men were dismissed last Friday at a large motor works in Lancashire?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BRASS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BRASS", "preceding_text": "He has been away about two hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.280.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.280.6", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer has left the House since the hon. Member rose to speak.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "Quite so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.280.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.280.7", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BRASS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BRASS", "preceding_text": "If I have said anything that is incorrect, I will withdraw it. One naturally expects the Chancellor of the Exchequer to be in his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.280.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.280.10", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FRANKLIN", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Shuffles!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FRANKLIN", "preceding_text": "te is right in taking a contribution to itself the first charge upon that estate. But I would go further and point out that this generation in the War has wasted the savings of two generations past, and the result is that men have got to live harder and do without many things in order to pay something towards the immense debt which has been incurred, and that when a man shifts off the mortal coil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.280.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.285.0", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY BUCKINGHAM", "cue_text": "How. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY BUCKINGHAM", "preceding_text": "-imposed another year—at any rate, it would require a very strong Chancellor to re-impose any of them—and on top of that the only possible alternative, the finding of fresh taxes. We all know how that is almost impossible. What is left? The only thing left is that which the followers of the Chancellor are relying on, namely, a large increase of direct taxation of the wealthier classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.285.0", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY BUCKINGHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Especially the Super-tax payer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY BUCKINGHAM", "preceding_text": "ears for the future are well founded, it behoves all of us who have the interests of the Income Tax payers at heart to watch their interests very closely indeed. I am glad to say that I and certain of my friends in this House will be placing upon the Table a considerable number of new Clauses and Amendments to this Bill, with the object of helping and protecting the Income Tax and Super-tax payers", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": "nt will be granted by those industries. But the right hon. Gentleman said: \"Lower direct taxation, and people may employ more gardeners. People may employ more dressmakers.\" So, for cotton and for steel, we are to substitute the manufacture of orchids and of satin. This is the new Conservative doctrine. Women are to be encouraged to employ 300 to 400 people to provide them with clothes every year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.318.0", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAFFAN", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAFFAN", "preceding_text": "f doles for unemployment or of providing work which may or may not be productive, but at any rate is found to make a charge upon the resources of the community. There can be no question, I think, that the army of 1,000,000 unemployed people who are at present drawing unemployment relief could be absorbed easily into industry and into agriculture if you were able to open up the land for the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "duced his Budget the other day I turned up a book which he wrote about 15 years ago, and I was interested to find that the Budget was practically a reproduction of the proposals made by the right hon. Gentleman in that book. In view of the fact that his Budget has been so well received, even on the other side of the House, it is interesting to note that that book was called \"The Socialist Budget.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Under Free Trade.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " one. When he says that direct taxation is not a charge on industry, I wonder if he knows anything about the Oldham trade and the Lancashire cotton trade. There has begin a system in vogue there for 50 years—whether or not it is recognised as being a sound financial system does not matter; it is the one that has built up that industry, which is the greatest industry of its kind in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.344.3", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "ry the increased consumption which will result from reducing the taxation and raising the demand. What I want to mention in connection with this Sugar Duty is the very unfortunate byproduct of the proposed change, namely, the blow to the sugar beet industry. I know of two proposals in East Anglia—two factories which were projected—which have now been completely brought to a standstill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.344.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite untrue!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "tens of thousands of people passing through the turnstile, to charge the odd figure of 11d., instead of the round sum of 1s. What confirms my conviction that a lot of this remission will not go to the public at all, but merely to the promoters of these entertainments, is the cinema-owners' agitation. They were not looking for fuller houses. As we were told this afternoon, they are already crowded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "ng about this theoretical question of Free Trade and Protection, shows himself singularly out of touch with public opinion in this matter. Since his Budget was introduced; in fact, since he made his very long and exhaustive speech Oft this subject, the matter has been considered by a body which is in no sense political. It was discussed at the annual meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Why did not you do it when you were in office?", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "ncellor of the Exchequer in his Budget statement said that it would be absolutely Unsound to subsidise the Post Office at the expense of the general taxpayer. As he subsidises the producer of cheap foreign goods, as he is subsidising cinema owners, I should have thought that through the Post Office he might, in in the form of a subsidy, have given remission of postage to the masses of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "cue_text": "An HoN. MEMBER: \"What a prophet!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "would have given strong support to remitting these heavy burdens of postage upon all classe of the community. I think, really, that the great difficulty in the whole of this Budget is the failure to redeem the pledges which have been made as to social expenditure. If those proposals are to be carried out we are faced next year with a deficit quite unprecedented in our peace time financial history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not relevant!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "times ahead, the Chancellor is throwing the last grain of ballast overboard. How is he going to meet the difficulties of finance next year? It has been suggested to-day, or recently, that he would be in his office for several Budgets. We are glad to hear the corollary to that, that he is looking ahead, and that he is only budgetting for this year. We want to know how he is going to meet next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"He will spend it on beer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "tance, that by reducing the price of the seats in cinemas we are doing nothing to increase the purchasing power of the people, but, he added, if we relieve a man of his Income Tax we are enabling him to keep another gardener, or his wife to buy another dress. Why the man with 2d. or 3d. more, because his seat in the cinema is cheaper than before, has no increase of purchasing power, I do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.361.0", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The McKenna Duties!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " the point which the hon. Member made as to what should be the relation between national income, national savings, and the amount that is available for the reduction of debt. That is most important, and I am quite sure the Colwyn Committee will give some attention to the matter. I think now I have dealt with most of the important points that have been raised in the course of the discussion to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.361.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. WISE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. WISE", "preceding_text": "I have not had the opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. WISE", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. WISE", "preceding_text": "ry and in the United States of America. What is the position of that Section to-day? I am pleased to see that the right hon. Gentleman has extended that Section, if this Bill be passed, to the British Dominions. In that way we shall get rid of a certain amount of difficulty in this double Income Tax which has lain on the shipping companies both here and in the Dominions. What is the meaning of it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-27", "file": "debates1924-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "9bf633716f73ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.368.5", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIOCESE OF WINCHESTER (DIVISION) MEASURE, 1923.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "s. I need hardly tell this House that it will not cost a penny of public money. Every penny required for the new bishoprics is to be raised voluntarily. We have already raised and collected in hard cash over £20,000, and as soon as this Measure goes through we hope to collect the remaining sums. My right hon. Friend says in his Amendment that the claims of the poorer clergy should come first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-27a.368.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-28", "file": "debates1924-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "a7034a03fe26ba86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-28a.472.2", "colnum": "472", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "ich we agreed last year, and which we should have embodied in a Bill, and brought before the House if we had still remained in office. Let me remind hon. Members what the scheme really was. It was, as say, a scheme based upon the fact that in our view the development of airships should be upon commercial lines, and with that basic fact in our minds we were prepared to make a loan without interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-28a.472.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-28", "file": "debates1924-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "a7034a03fe26ba86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-28a.472.2", "colnum": "472", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If any!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": " office long enough to see his own scheme developed, will find at the end of the three years of this experimental period, he will be faced with exactly the same problem with which we were faced. We were prepared to make a loan at the rate of £400,000 a year for seven years, to be repayable out of subsequent profits. It was not a free gift; it was a loan secured upon the assets of the company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-28a.472.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-28", "file": "debates1924-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "a7034a03fe26ba86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-28a.472.2", "colnum": "472", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "six airships had been regularly engaged upon it, we were prepared to make fee payments, as I say, upon actual results, to the extent of £250,000 a year for a subsequent. period of eight years. The scheme being, as I say, a commercial scheme, we were anxious that it should develop upon commercial lines, and that it should receive as little interference as possible from Government intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-28a.472.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-28", "file": "debates1924-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "a7034a03fe26ba86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-28a.512.0", "colnum": "512", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEACH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If you take the commercial airship it makes two!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEACH", "preceding_text": "under the Burney scheme there were to be six airships all of which were to have a military basis, and two of which were to be constructed for the purpose of being of particular service use, and in the case of each of them there was to be a heavy payment as a retaining fee for war service if they should ever be required. Against these six military airships surely our one looks comparatively modest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-28a.512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-28", "file": "debates1924-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "a7034a03fe26ba86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-28a.528.4", "colnum": "528", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "2,100,000. Even if you allow for immigration, the deficiency in emigration at the present time is well over 1,000,000 persons. But that is not all. The deficiency of 1,000,000 emigrants from this country means a deficiency, roughly speaking, of 1,000,000 settlers in the Dominions. Stated economically, the proposition comes to this. You have here in the Homeland a glut of non-pro- ducing consumers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-28a.528.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.600.0", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARBORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARBORD", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman prepared to grant an extension of the Trade Facilities Act to those who are most deserving? In the case of my Own town—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.600.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.607.6", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. Gentleman replies, may I ask him what right the hon. Gentleman opposite has to speak for ex-ranker officers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.607.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.610.2", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman state on what grounds it has been so held?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "ed for the benevolent gestures of the Prime Minister. I shall argue that matter upon the proper occasion, but should like to point out, in order to prick the complacency of the right hon. Gentleman, that the figures of reduction last year under the auspices of the malignant influence were rather larger than they have been in the present year. But I do not want merely to chop figures in the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "gures in the matter.[ Interruption. ] I could do so if hon. Members wanted me, but I will not delay the Committee with details of that kind I want to direct attention, just for a moment, to the kind of professions which Ministers made upon this subject before they occupied office. I know that it has already been done to a considerable length, and I do not want to weary the Committee by repetition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "an said: Acting on the impulse of those ideas we are now thoroughly going into the whole question of the electrification of this country. The Electricity Commissioners during the last three years have done magnificent work\"— without any help from the present Government— and the extent of the increase in electrical provision has been very marked. It was done by private enterprise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who created it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "u would have had a vast population engaged in providing these necessities for the people! Through your selfish policy you are doing two injuries to the country, robbing a vast number of people of employment, and putting many people into discomfort through inability to get houses. I say that the greatest reproach lies at the door of this Government to-day in their failure to deal with this problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.645.0", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ed problem and because we have not made that within four months we are accused of having broken our pledges to the electors. Another statement we have made is this: We have said that you can tinker with unemployment, you can make insurance more effective than it is, and you can deal with it temporarily. but in the end the only thing that is of real and healthy value is a normal condition of trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.645.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.656.3", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about unemployment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "nquiry. All the expense and paraphernalia of that has to be gone through, and so on and so on; and, because we are baffled in that way, and because we must have legislation to amend that Act, the Conservative party produce an Amendment to reduce my right hon. Friend's salary by £100 because, in four months, he has not produced that legislation, put it into operation, and produced its results.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.656.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.658.3", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " Committee what is being done. I have explained why in the large constructive work which figures largely in our programme, which, as a matter of fact, is the only thing I am interested in as permanent work, before we can produce the actual work we have to make a clearance for the foundation upon which we are to build. We have been in office only a short time. I am not saying this in the usual way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.658.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.680.0", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ndemns all attempts to bring about any rapprochement between labour and capitalism, or to arrive at any more amicable relation between labour and capitalism, short of the total abolition of the capitalistic system. The Labour candidate at Kelvingrove, who tried to come into the House, preached open class, warfare. In fact, all the Members of the Labour party on his platform preached class warfare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.681.9", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "eration will restore trade and reduce unemployment. When the Minister of Health wants to build houses he does not talk about \"class,\" but about cooperation. The Prime Minister makes the most beautiful speeches in the country, when it suits his convenience; but the other day he went down to the women and told them that the people over here did not want to build houses. That is a cruel thing to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.681.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.683.0", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruptions.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "Who said that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.683.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.685.0", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "en their professions and their actual achievements. Sir Montague Barlow, who was Minister of Labour at the time the right hon. Gentleman made this speech about well-devised schemes, also had a scheme, described by the Prime Minister himself, which was full of grandiose intention. It was a scheme under which altogether £100,000.000 was to be spent in the course of last winter on the unemployed", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.685.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.685.0", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"1919, not 1921!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "off, and if they will not be bought off—and very often they will not be by voluntary negotiation—to acquire compulsory powers. The history of this matter is very curious. As a matter of fact, as far hack as 1921 a Bill was passed through this House on the responsibility, I think, of the Government of the day, and was sent to the House of Lords, which would have given compulsory powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.685.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "four or five months. What however, it is important to know is that the schemes are on the stocks, that they are real living propositions, and that they are to be supplied with the necessary resources and statutory powers, without which they cannot in the long run enure, even to a partial settlement of the unemployment problem. I am prepared to give the Government a little more time in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "? The late Government talked about £100,000,000. What is their record? I should like to know what number of unemployed the £100,000,000 have set to work. They have less reason than anyone to complain of a certain tardiness on the part of people newly installed in office who, as the. Prime Minister stated, were without administrative experience in matters of this kind. I am for fair play.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For how long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "e ironical cheers? Is it intended to suggest that I or any other Liberal has become—that I am willing to leave to others with a richer and more copious rhetorical power than I possess to describe. Because we are willing for the moment to give the Government more time to turn round, are we to be called the subservient and obsequious minions of the Labour party? We want to give them fair play.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.701.3", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "aper, which will state the facts and will show exactly how much of that programme has been carried out. But what did the Prime Minister say in defence of his Government after having made that extraordinarily inaccurate statement about the Conservative party? He said absolutely nothing. He talked in generalisation about afforestation and electrification. We have heard all that sort of stuff before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.701.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.705.0", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"We did!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": " the cupboards at Eccleston Square. They have been unable to produce a scheme to solve the unemployment problem, and they take refuge in the statement that the unemployment problem cannot be solved without a complete socialisation or nationalisation of the means of production. distribution and exchange. If hon. Members opposite really believe that, why do not they go to the country on that. issue?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.705.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GUEST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GUEST", "preceding_text": "I feel it will not be regarded as an impertinence, however, if I address a word of warning to the Liberal party. It may be said I have no right to do so, but I think as a member of the party that I have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GUEST", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Constitutional parties?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GUEST", "preceding_text": "tained the power to introduce their full programme, he did not pretend that he had any cure for this evil of unemployment. Therefore, I say, why should we, the so-called constitutional parties in the House, allow them time during which they will increase their power and prestige and strength? I suggest that there is a way in which the constitutional parties can quite easily get out of this tangle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.714.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.719.3", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUMLEY", "preceding_text": "It leads me to take all I hear from the present Government Front Bench with a considerable grain of salt. I understand this Vote is now a- foregone conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.719.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.721.0", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They cannot (do it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "preceding_text": "uld like to see a Committee of all parties formed. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] If for the benefit of the unemployed, why not? Every section of this House professes sympathy with the unemployed, and I see no reason why men of good will, instead of indulging in this fractious criticism, should not combine to do the best they can and to cooperate for the purpose of finding a solution to this great problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.721.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.721.0", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "preceding_text": " this great problem. [An HON. MEMBER: \"They cannot (do it!\"] They cannot do it. But it appears to me if these things can be done by the local authorities, they can easily he clone in the House of Commons. I see no reason why it should not be so. We have been told to-night that if this Vote is carried we shall have to go to the country. Personally I think the sooner we go to the country the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.721.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.721.0", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "preceding_text": "ne in the House of Commons. I see no reason why it should not be so. We have been told to-night that if this Vote is carried we shall have to go to the country. Personally I think the sooner we go to the country the better. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite do not know the feeling of the country at the moment. I move about to a large extent in commercial circles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.721.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.721.0", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Take the last.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "preceding_text": "this side of the House! Hon. Members ought to know the good effect that the administration of only four months has had upon the commercial community of great Britain. We have won thousands of converts among the commercial men in this country. We have made a tremendous effect upon the country. We might as well say it because nobody opposite will do so. Take the result of the, last election but one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.721.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.724.4", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rabbits.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TOOLE", "preceding_text": " story of an unemployed worker travelling from Glasgow to the Cheetham Hill district in Manchester where the Jews reside. It took him three weeks to do the journey, and when he got there he sang at the corner of the street for coppers. He sang for two hours all kinds of Scottish songs, and then he passed his hat round, which naturally was returned empty. He then looked into his hat and said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.724.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.731.1", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You hope not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "rs feel that they can trust Labour members. We believe that it is that very trust that has been imposed upon by these promises. We believe that in giving our vote to-night we are giving it as a protest against the handling by the Government of this subject of unemployment after the protestations which hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite have made. We may or we may not win in the Lobby to-night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.736.3", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "be conceded to them? One of the enduring causes of conflict has been at all times the employers' unwillingness voluntarily to concede any advance, however little, to the masses of the wage earners, and strife has been fomented by that mistaken and foolish policy on the part of the employers. I claim then that we have sought to give assistance to the unemployed by preaching peace in industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.736.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.736.3", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": ". Gentlemen opposite who associated with different Governments over a period of four years did things which even a Labour Government could not remove in four months. I remember very well the first Bill on an unemployment subject passed by this House. It was passed by a Conservative Government, but not voluntarily, not in accordance with any Conservative doctrine. It was another concession to fear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.736.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-29", "file": "debates1924-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "07522632945e3c0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.738.0", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "a full system of Protection on the country, and if that were not done he would have to go pottering about and things would be getting absolutely worse. He said that without the system of Protection things would get into a very bad way and he would have no opportunity of remedying the trouble. Since that time the right hon. Gentleman Conservative Government has thrown over the policy of Protection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-29a.738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-30", "file": "debates1924-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "00104decbafa3a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-30a.759.2", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL COUNCILS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MURRELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Never!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MURRELL", "preceding_text": "n our factories, and he is prepared to accept the help which can be found in our industries and to give a chance to the man who works in the factory to express his views and offer his suggestions for a more economical Production of the work he is doing. On the other hand, labour must drop the class war and the social revolutionary ideas which have made it difficult for both sides to work together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-30a.759.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-30", "file": "debates1924-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "00104decbafa3a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-30a.771.2", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL COUNCILS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ISAACS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"May Day.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ISAACS", "preceding_text": "regulates the working hours at 48 per week, and in that agreement we have a. provision that all workpeople in our industry, boys and girls, men and women, in all departments, shall lie paid for every Bank Holiday, and, in addition to that, they are to be paid for all statutory holidays. That is why we would like to see an announcement in this country that an extra holiday will be given by Statute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-30a.771.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-30", "file": "debates1924-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "00104decbafa3a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-30a.771.2", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL COUNCILS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ISAACS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The printer's devil\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ISAACS", "preceding_text": " machine, which is always running, so it is called \"Charley's Aunt.\" To feed this machine he has to put his chin on his breast, because his head cannot otherwise clear the ceiling. We want to change such conditions, and I want to pay a tribute to the employers in my industry for the eagerness and willingness they have shown to change conditions. After all, we must give the devil his due sometimes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-30a.771.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-30", "file": "debates1924-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "00104decbafa3a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-30a.780.0", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL COUNCILS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George), speaking a few days ago at the National Liberal Club, said:— The need to-day was liberty, which was never more in danger. Liberty was becoming old-fashioned and Liberalism was its only friend. The business of the Liberal Party was to make it more fashionable. I am bound to say, looking at this Bill, I cannot discover any real liberty embodied in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-30a.780.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-30", "file": "debates1924-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "00104decbafa3a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-30a.781.1", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL COUNCILS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr THURTLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And what about yourselves?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr THURTLE", "preceding_text": "If this is really all the Liberal Party can bring forth after labouring so heavily, there is not very much hope in store for that Party. There is one very significant feature about all these schemes of industrial reconstruction which are brought forward from time to time by hon. Friends below the Gangway and by hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-30a.781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-30", "file": "debates1924-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "00104decbafa3a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-30a.781.1", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL COUNCILS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr THURTLE", "preceding_text": "t accrue after the usual charges? There is the charge for management, for debenture, preference, and ordinary interest and the charge for labour. What are you going to do with the surplus? This particular Bill avoids that issue. There is a pious sentence in paragraph (iii) of the schedule: having regard to the need for securing to the workpeople a share in the increased prosperity of the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-30a.781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-30", "file": "debates1924-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "00104decbafa3a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-30a.781.1", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL COUNCILS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr THURTLE", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr THURTLE", "preceding_text": "; and things of that sort. No real large and adequate share is proposed to be given by this Bill to the workers out of the profits of industry. I am reminded by this Bill of an old saying or aphorism which I have used before and doubtless so have hon. Friends here on many occasions; that is the saying that the capitalist is prepared to do anything to win over the worker except to get off his back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-30a.781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-30", "file": "debates1924-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "00104decbafa3a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-30a.787.0", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL COUNCILS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "r standard of life would not be reduced to that of the workers in the textile industry in England. He gave me that guarantee. He gave me all the guarantees that we could ask, all that are embodied in the Bill of the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare (Mr. Murrell). But when we went to inquire to put those clauses into operation, what happened? I was arrested; I was thrown into gaol; I was deported.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-30a.787.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-30", "file": "debates1924-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "00104decbafa3a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-30a.787.0", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL COUNCILS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "have all those recommendations and qualifications galore in this House, and we bad them before the Labour party came into power; but nevertheless I hope that the House will reject this Bill. I hope at any rate that every Member of the Labour party, for the sake of the great movement that we represent, will turn this Bill down. There is not one of the big trade unions but would turn this Bill down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-30a.787.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-30", "file": "debates1924-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "00104decbafa3a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-30a.787.0", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL COUNCILS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "l in their business to make money. There was another big employer of labour, who was awfully patriotic—the right hon. Gentleman the Member for North-West Camberwell (Dr. Macnamara) knew him well—who was very patriotic during the War, whom I had to fight on this very Whitley Council business. He is now Lord Weir, a great patriotic Scotsman who turned out Scotsmen and brought in Chinese.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-30a.787.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-30", "file": "debates1924-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "00104decbafa3a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-30a.791.2", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL COUNCILS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "y well every word they said, but that is neither here nor there, so far as they are concerned. We know exactly where they stand, and that is a great advantage. Of a great many people we do not know where they stand. I personally, and I should think the whole House, is obliged to them for making quite unequivocal exactly what their position is. I do not pretend to be speaking to the British Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-30a.791.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-05-30", "file": "debates1924-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "00104decbafa3a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-30a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL COUNCILS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" The same body.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "preceding_text": " that is becoming more manifest every day—as between a particular industry and the whole of the other industries as represented by what we call the consumer, or the public. The hon. Member, when he gets his Socialist State will have to face that problem. He will find that the fundamental conflict is between the consuming and the producing instincts, aced they are, in a measure, antagonistic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-30a.822.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-05-30", "file": "debates1924-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "00104decbafa3a8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-30a.844.0", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ILLEGAL TRAWLING (SCOTLAND) PENALTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Object!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUNCAN MILLAR", "preceding_text": "May I appeal to the House to give a Second Reading to this Bill, which embodies the recommendations of Lord McKenzie's Committee on Trawling, seeks to enforce the law against poaching trawlers, and is supported by public opinion in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-05-30a.843.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-02", "file": "debates1924-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e0a14b79321ef3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.918.1", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUXTON", "preceding_text": "en there was the Prothero system, the system of the Corn Production Act, from which we gained considerable experience. Looking at that. experience, and at the conciliation system, and the trade board system. I maintain that what we are proposing to the House, as seen in the Bill, represents an improvement resulting from experience. It is a more localised system than the Corn Production Act system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-02", "file": "debates1924-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e0a14b79321ef3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.918.1", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUXTON", "preceding_text": "t the conciliation system, and the trade board system. I maintain that what we are proposing to the House, as seen in the Bill, represents an improvement resulting from experience. It is a more localised system than the Corn Production Act system. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Yes, a good deal more, I am told that it is an optical delusion, but that is not so. The local committees have power to fix wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-02", "file": "debates1924-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e0a14b79321ef3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.924.1", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "preceding_text": "We should all like to see the wages of farm workers raised, and no one has been trying harder than I have to bring that about; but it is the complication, the clogging, and the destruction of the elasticity of the industry, that have made farmers object to all this. Why, may I ask, is this Bill brought forward at this particular time? Is it that the farmers do not pay the best wages that they can?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.924.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-02", "file": "debates1924-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e0a14b79321ef3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.924.1", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "preceding_text": "en trying harder than I have to bring that about; but it is the complication, the clogging, and the destruction of the elasticity of the industry, that have made farmers object to all this. Why, may I ask, is this Bill brought forward at this particular time? Is it that the farmers do not pay the best wages that they can? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Is it that the farmers are inefficient in their work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.924.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-02", "file": "debates1924-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e0a14b79321ef3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.928.1", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "preceding_text": "e benches opposite that during the War the rate of every man's wages in this country rose by leaps and bounds and in every skilled industry, and most of the unskilled industries, even down to domestic servants, the rise was higher than it was in the agricultural industry. The farmers during that time, owing to the high prices caused by the War, were able to pay those wages and paid them willingly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.928.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-02", "file": "debates1924-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e0a14b79321ef3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.933.0", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir THOMAS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir THOMAS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ter of his job. I want to point out the particular virtues of the lowest paid agricultural wage earner. It is true, as was stated by the Minister, that he very seldom grumbles. That is more particularly true of the older men, the men who were brought up to that state of things from their boyhood, but the young men, and especially the young men who have been to the War, have learned a thing or two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-02", "file": "debates1924-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e0a14b79321ef3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.933.0", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir THOMAS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He cannot afford it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir THOMAS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "married, on the birth of his children, on the death of his children, on the death of his wife, and when he dies certain sums are paid to those who survive him. In many cases we advance money to enable them to buy a small holding or to buy a market garden—I have had as many as three applications in a week—or to buy a house. As a rule, the agricultural labourer does not buy his own house", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-02", "file": "debates1924-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e0a14b79321ef3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the rent?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "Certainly. That is a very fair question to ask.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-02", "file": "debates1924-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e0a14b79321ef3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.954.0", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDWARD WOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Put it on the gramophone!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDWARD WOOD", "preceding_text": "tempt, which we are now considering. He is proposing to deal only with agricultural wages. It is not, I think, without a little astonishment that some of us observe that limitation of effort on the part of His Majesty's Government, and will, perhaps, detect in it one more contrast between the professions suitable at an Election, and the actual accomplishment in which promises are sought to be met.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.954.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-02", "file": "debates1924-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e0a14b79321ef3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.954.0", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDWARD WOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have all had it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDWARD WOOD", "preceding_text": " wages, with its deplorable social results, he left—perhaps unintentionally—upon the minds of hon. Members the suggestion that this was due either to the unwillingness of farmers to pay better wages, or to their inability, owing to incompetence, to do so. I do not know whether I might draw the attention of hon. Members who have not read it to the leaflet of the National Farmers' Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.954.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-02", "file": "debates1924-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e0a14b79321ef3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.954.0", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDWARD WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDWARD WOOD", "preceding_text": "s paid to a railway porter at a wayside station. The porter, according to my experience, is not so hard worked as the agricultural labourer. He does not work such long hours. He is, I think I might say, not so skilled a man, and yet he draws in wages nearly double, or perhaps more than double, what the agricultural labourer draws. Why? It is not only because he has got a powerful union behind him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.954.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-02", "file": "debates1924-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e0a14b79321ef3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.954.0", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDWARD WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDWARD WOOD", "preceding_text": "iverton (Mr. Acland) just now, as to the importance of proceeding in this matter on the basis of district organisation. That, indeed, was the motive of the conciliation committees, and I deplore, and I think the whole House really deplores, that owing to influences, I am not now careful to examine that system was not able to continue to function, as it did function to begin with, with full effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.954.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-02", "file": "debates1924-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e0a14b79321ef3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.987.0", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SMITH", "preceding_text": " my experience as a leader of men before I came to this House, that I am always suspicious, and there is always suspicion generally, where there is no adequate machinery for regulating wages in any industry. If it be the case that there is not much money in the agricultural industry, then wages boards are necessary in order to see that the farm worker gets his share of whatever is in the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.987.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-02", "file": "debates1924-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e0a14b79321ef3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.991.0", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURTON", "preceding_text": "ent with the Rules and Order of the House of Commons. I was returned by a majority of 4,500 votes, and therefore I am not at all afraid to speak to-night upon this question. The hon. Member said something derogatory about the Farmers' Union in East Yorkshire. I think that body is able to take care of itself, but I regret that the hon. Member read a letter which he admits was marked \"confidential.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.991.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-02", "file": "debates1924-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e0a14b79321ef3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.991.2", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURTON", "preceding_text": "rived at by the district committee is liable to be upset. Again, under the hands of some autocratic Minister, you might find that even the decision of the central wages board was itself upset. You are putting the district committees in an entirely impossible position. By all means, if you wish it, say that the conciliation committees should function in a different way from what they are doing now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.991.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-02", "file": "debates1924-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e0a14b79321ef3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.991.2", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURTON", "preceding_text": "n has no authority and that all the decisions are to become binding, there will not be the slightest objection. No one will raise any question then, but you are going to upset the industry at one of the most critical times in its history, and it is very difficult, indeed, to carry on farming at all. The relations of the men and the farmers to-day, taken all over the country, are good and friendly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.991.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-02", "file": "debates1924-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e0a14b79321ef3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EMLYN-JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Lloyd George!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EMLYN-JONES", "preceding_text": "nt have introduced, and on such an occasion we cannot dwell too long on the misfortune which has overtaken the farm labourer during the last few years. He has been, after all, a victim, not only of the economic circumstances in the industry itself, but of as great a breach of faith as was ever committed upon any body of men, when the wages boards were scrapped with the rest of the Agriculture Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-02", "file": "debates1924-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e0a14b79321ef3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.998.0", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"He has!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "preceding_text": "I desire to intervene in this Debate for the purpose of correcting an impression, which, I believe, the hon. Member for Cirencester (Sir T. Davies) gave when he quoted to the House the losses of the co-operative societies as a result of their farming operations. I notice that the hon. Gentleman, after making that statement, immediately left the House, and has not returned to his place yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.998.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-02", "file": "debates1924-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e0a14b79321ef3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.1020.2", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of AGRICULTURE (Mr. W. R. Smith)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Subsidy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of AGRICULTURE (Mr. W. R. Smith)", "preceding_text": "as passed in this House in 1917. In fact, the hon. and learned Member for East Grinstead (Sir H. Cautley), who moved the Amendment dissociating himself from this Bill, was a supporter of the very same principle in 1917. I think this House has a right to ask in what material way the wages board machinery failed during the years of its existence. The wages board was in existence for over four years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.1020.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-02", "file": "debates1924-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e0a14b79321ef3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.1020.2", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of AGRICULTURE (Mr. W. R. Smith)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of AGRICULTURE (Mr. W. R. Smith)", "preceding_text": "strange to say, although the farmers at that time said that they could not pay that wage, yet I have since read an article in the Press, the weekly notes of a farmer who speaks with some authority, who stated, when he was objecting to paying 30s. a week in the spring of last year, that it was different when the 46s. was fixed. He said: \"We paid it then willingly, because we could afford to do it.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.1020.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-02", "file": "debates1924-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "8e0a14b79321ef3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "port referred to guarantees and subsidies. I gather from my hon. Friend's observation that what he really meant was this: that with the establishment of the wages board there ought to be coupled some machinery dealing with a guarantee or subsidy. That I understood to be his position. I would like to ask my right hon. Friend why he voted to repeal the Agriculture Act which contained that principle?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-02a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-06-03", "file": "debates1924-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "09c3bb04ff55aaa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1043.10", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman not aware that in the report to which he refers there is a serious divergence of opinion between the Committee for Scotland and the Committee for England? The Committee for England, for instance, say that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1043.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-06-03", "file": "debates1924-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "09c3bb04ff55aaa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1044.1", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "This is very important. The Committee for England say, in reference to railway transport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1044.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-03", "file": "debates1924-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "09c3bb04ff55aaa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1053.1", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "The £47,500 has not been repaid. Perhaps it would Suit my hon. and gallant Friend if I read that part of the answer again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1053.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-03", "file": "debates1924-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "09c3bb04ff55aaa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1061.3", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Colonel HOWARD - BURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And chestnuts!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Colonel HOWARD - BURY", "preceding_text": "Would not the hon. Gentleman suggest the planting of fruit trees—apple trees and walnut trees?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1061.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-03", "file": "debates1924-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "09c3bb04ff55aaa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1062.1", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that when the county council ran steamboats up and down the Thames it resulted in an enormous loss to the ratepayers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-03", "file": "debates1924-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "09c3bb04ff55aaa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1099.4", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Wheatley)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: NO !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Wheatley)", "preceding_text": "d the reasons which led to the adoption of those proposals by the Government. Perhaps the first point to which I ought to address myself is whether the Act of 1923, as it now stands, is not sufficient for the solution of the housing problem. I take it that Members in all parts of the House will agree that it is not. I count, at any rate, on the acquiescence of the party opposite to that statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1099.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-03", "file": "debates1924-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "09c3bb04ff55aaa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1099.4", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Wheatley)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Wheatley)", "preceding_text": "imself, \"Let me frame a policy that will begin with the more expensive houses, that will take into account, first, the requirements of the richest. Having dealt with these, we will then come to the condition of the people below the richest who can afford to buy houses, and if there be any crumbs of material and labour remaining, those crumbs may be used for the production of working-class houses.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1099.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-03", "file": "debates1924-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "09c3bb04ff55aaa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1103.1", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You want worse houses!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "fore you can deal with the housing conditions of the working classes. There have been a large number of these houses provided, and hon. Members opposite will quote these houses and try to deceive the Committee into believing that in some way or another these are the houses that are contemplated in the Government's proposals now being submitted to the Committee. When they get down below that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-03", "file": "debates1924-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "09c3bb04ff55aaa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1104.1", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "ble of competing with the better trained men, and that, as a result, the Joiners' and Carpenters' Union had been mulcted in a considerable sum in the way of unemployment benefit to those men, as a reward for their generosity in accepting them in their union. Notwithstanding that, we have had the story floated all over this country that the wicked trade unions are the enemies of the ex-service men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-03", "file": "debates1924-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "09c3bb04ff55aaa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1127.5", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "ofit.\" A very large number of that kind were refused by us, and I dare-say by the right hon. Gentleman too, because there was no need to waste the subsidy where houses were being built by private enterprise. I will give him another case. When I was at the Ministry I tried to find out how many large houses were being built. Last year only 800 houses of more than 12 roams were built in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1127.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-03", "file": "debates1924-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "09c3bb04ff55aaa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Go to Wembley!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "Yes, certainly, I can tell the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-03", "file": "debates1924-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "09c3bb04ff55aaa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1128.4", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARLEY", "preceding_text": "The workers always get second-class houses, and always have got them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1128.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-03", "file": "debates1924-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "09c3bb04ff55aaa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1128.5", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You shirked it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "has shirked the question. He has handed it over to this statutory or non-statutory committee. He has told the committee that they must find some way to guarantee the number of houses. He has said that he would not be responsible. The House of Commons, which rules this country, is not to be responsible. He has told this committee: \"You must do it. I will trust to you to find the labour, and so on.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1128.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-03", "file": "debates1924-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "09c3bb04ff55aaa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1131.1", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not closed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "o with these men, and we will not take them in.\" My right hon. Friend opposite, in dealing with this question of trade unions, mentioned the word \"liberty.\" Where is the liberty I want liberty for the unemployed man to work at a decent trade. You have in your unions half the number of men you had twenty years ago as, far as bricklayers are concerned. Why should you keep the trade closed like that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-03", "file": "debates1924-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "09c3bb04ff55aaa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1133.1", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is killed already:\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "e fullest possible safeguards against such a result.\" I do not think the Minister will agree with all that is in that resolution, and I want to know whether the Liberal party is going to stand by that resolution, and, at least, I hope they are, because I am in favour of private enterprise and so are they. If there be one thing that the pro posal we are considering does it kills private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-03", "file": "debates1924-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "09c3bb04ff55aaa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1151.2", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Would you extend that to the agricultural labourer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": " all, this problem of labour supply has to be dealt with on the basis of giving he workmen security and confidence. Hon. Members opposite are for ever claiming that yon must give capital a sense of confidence. There is something in that, but if it is right that capital should be given confidence and security, surely it is equally reasonable that the workman should be given confidence and security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1151.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-03", "file": "debates1924-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "09c3bb04ff55aaa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1151.2", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: What was the capital before the War?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "ghs. He is a great champion of private enterprise, but I repeat that if it can justify itself against municipal enterprise let it have a go. When private enterprise and municipal enterprise, however, meet on a basis of equality, private enterprise usually fails. It is perfectly true that the pre-War housing estates et the London County Council show a doubled return as compared with before the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1151.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-03", "file": "debates1924-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "09c3bb04ff55aaa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "name is mentioned. It says: Councillors John Wheatley and J. S. Taylor replied to the critics of the Labor Party £8 Cottage Scheme, at the Metropole Theatre, on Sunday evening. Councillor John Kerr, who presided over an attendance below the average intimated that Baillie James Stewart was unable to speak owing to illness. We are glad to see the hon. Gentleman has so much recovered since then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-03", "file": "debates1924-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "09c3bb04ff55aaa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Ho N. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": " J. S. Taylor replied to the critics of the Labor Party £8 Cottage Scheme, at the Metropole Theatre, on Sunday evening. Councillor John Kerr, who presided over an attendance below the average intimated that Baillie James Stewart was unable to speak owing to illness. We are glad to see the hon. Gentleman has so much recovered since then. [An HON. MEMBER: \"When was that?\"] This was March. 1914.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-03", "file": "debates1924-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "09c3bb04ff55aaa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1171.0", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. LANE-MITCHELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Maiden speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. LANE-MITCHELL", "preceding_text": "Tell us about labour. Where are we going to get labour?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-03", "file": "debates1924-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "09c3bb04ff55aaa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1188.0", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is that wholly the fault of the operatives?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. SIMON", "preceding_text": ",000 more hours, or less than one-half. That was partly the result undoubtedly of unemployment. It is a very unfortunate thing that if you guarantee a trade altogether against unemployment and there is no other incentive to make people work above the standard rate, and if every man is paid at a fixed trade union rate whether he be a good man or otherwise, the tendency is for the output to go down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-03", "file": "debates1924-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "09c3bb04ff55aaa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1198.0", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "terest only refers to the happy state of society which he would wish to see. The proposals that he brings forward, he said, axe to buttress up the capitalist state of society. What would have been said in any part of this House if we had been told that the hon. Member for Shettleston (Mr. Wheatley) would be coming before us and pleading with us to pass a Resolution on the ground that he was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-03a.1198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-04", "file": "debates1924-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "040530daf83c8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1220.6", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY CRAIK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY CRAIK", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. Gentleman answers these questions, may I ask if it is not confirmed by long experience that this yacht has bean very useful to the Admiralty, and is there any reason for discontinuing its use?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1220.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-06-04", "file": "debates1924-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "040530daf83c8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1222.5", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1222.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-04", "file": "debates1924-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "040530daf83c8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1255.2", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. G. SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. G. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": "Is it not the fact that the catering, in view of the crowds there, is being handled extraordinarily well?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1255.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-04", "file": "debates1924-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "040530daf83c8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1291.4", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "houses, that will take into account, first, the requirements of the richest. Having dealt with these, we will then come to the condition of the people below the richest who can afford to buy houses, and if there be any crumbs of material and, labour remaining, those crumbs may be used for the production of working-class houses.'\"— [OFFICIAL REPORT, 3rd June. 1924; cols. 1102-1103, Vol. 174.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1291.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-04", "file": "debates1924-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "040530daf83c8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1291.4", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "g dealt with these, we will then come to the condition of the people below the richest who can afford to buy houses, and if there be any crumbs of material and, labour remaining, those crumbs may be used for the production of working-class houses.'\"— [OFFICIAL REPORT, 3rd June. 1924; cols. 1102-1103, Vol. 174.] [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Hon. Members behind the Minister cheer those words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1291.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-04", "file": "debates1924-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "040530daf83c8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1299.1", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " be as nearly as possible—by Regulations laid down by the Ministry of Health; I cannot give you the exact formula, but, roughly, it is this—the rents prevailing now in the area for working-class houses erected before the War.\"—[0FFICIAL REPORT, 3rd June, 1924; col. 1118, Vol. 174.] Is that understood? Do hon. Members understand it? Rents are to be pre-War rents, plus 40 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-04", "file": "debates1924-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "040530daf83c8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1312.0", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is it untrue?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "preceding_text": " one or two points, but I would like to make one reference to the paragraph in the right hon. Gentleman's speech dealing with the contribution to the total of rent by the different factors concerned. I certainly never expected to live to hear a Minister of the Crown put forward such rubbish. I say quite frankly, I can only assume he never intended it for the House of Commons, but for the platform.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-04", "file": "debates1924-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "040530daf83c8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1312.0", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He never said it was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "preceding_text": "ded it for the House of Commons, but for the platform. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Is it untrue?\"] As a sum in arithmetic it is correct; as a statement of economic truth, it is absolutely false. He took the cost of the land and the contributions of wages and material—and, by the way, in speaking of the building of a house, it is a mistake to speak of the labour in building as the only labour involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-04", "file": "debates1924-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "040530daf83c8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1312.0", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "preceding_text": " these two together make the total prime cost. Hon. Members will see that, in order to get the true proportion of wages, you must take the wages throughout the whole process. The right hon. Gentleman, in referring to these different Factors that contribute towards rent, first took the laud, and spread the payment over 60 years. If you were to take wages and spread them over 60 years as well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-04", "file": "debates1924-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "040530daf83c8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1312.0", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "preceding_text": "ferring to these different Factors that contribute towards rent, first took the laud, and spread the payment over 60 years. If you were to take wages and spread them over 60 years as well—[ Interruption. ] If that is not so, we must be told what is meant. I am only out for the truth. I have no other end to serve, except to help my right hon. Friend and prevent him from getting into a muddle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-04", "file": "debates1924-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "040530daf83c8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1312.0", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "preceding_text": ", the wages were to be spread over 60 years, and the material was to be spread over 60 years. Spread over 60 years in that way, it would amount to the infinitesimal sums the right hon. Gentleman gave. Why not spread it over 1,000 years? What it amounts to is this: The right hon. Gentleman, with all respect for propaganda, is denying the justification for paying a reward for capital. Is that right?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-04", "file": "debates1924-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "040530daf83c8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1312.0", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "preceding_text": " and property of that kind. In his speech the right hon. Gentleman said, in finishing up with this point: In other words, if all the people who, by hand or brain, give service to the production of the house, take 3s. 3d., that section of the community who lend, not their labour but their credit, their surplus wealth—usually, not their savings.— Is that a true statement of the position?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-04", "file": "debates1924-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "040530daf83c8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1312.0", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "preceding_text": "up with this point: In other words, if all the people who, by hand or brain, give service to the production of the house, take 3s. 3d., that section of the community who lend, not their labour but their credit, their surplus wealth—usually, not their savings.— Is that a true statement of the position? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes!\"] Do hon. Members mean to tell me that an engine-driver—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-04", "file": "debates1924-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "040530daf83c8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1316.2", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "preceding_text": "margin which the other has saved—I do not say in any discreditable way—but, at any rate, he has not denied himself the pleasure and satisfaction which the other one has denied himself, in order to get a future satisfaction in his old age, and to make his contribution to his own house? 6.0 P.M. I have quite a number of other points, but I shall not detain the Committee any longer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1316.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-04", "file": "debates1924-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "040530daf83c8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1316.2", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "preceding_text": "say this: that I am going—and I say it quite sincerely—to do nothing that will make for the discouragement of that type of citizen. Believe me, that is the type of citizen that is going to keep this country going. It is not the type that continually leans on somebody else or the State. A nation of leaners sooner or later fails to be self-supporting and will have to make way for others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1316.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-04", "file": "debates1924-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "040530daf83c8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1326.1", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I am not at all sure that that is quite accurate. Unless I am mistaken, certainly some commodities went up very substantially.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-04", "file": "debates1924-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "040530daf83c8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1326.1", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What were they\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I am not at all sure that that is quite accurate. Unless I am mistaken, certainly some commodities went up very substantially. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-04", "file": "debates1924-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "040530daf83c8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1326.3", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What have you done?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "the labour shortage, and yet the Government of the day did nothing. It is quite true that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Twickenham (Sir W JoynsonHicks) was about to do something when he left office—so he told us after he had left it. But he did not in fact do anything. We have done something. We have done more for the augmentation of labour supply than any Government since the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-04", "file": "debates1924-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "040530daf83c8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1328.1", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the date?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "Yes. That ballot gave to the trade unions power to negotiate and settle with the employers on the chief question referred to in that correspondence, and, following upon the result of that ballot, Mr. George Hicks, the general secretary of the Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers, sent this letter to the National House-building Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-04", "file": "debates1924-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "040530daf83c8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1338.1", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "ther those two figures are strictly comparable. Is that the kind of increase that would make the Minister stop building? What is the arrangement, if any, that has been made, and how far is this a definite programme? The right hon. Gentleman has told us that we ought to meet the building trade as we meet foreign envoys, with bunting and cheers, and that we ought to meet them at the railway station.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1338.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-06-04", "file": "debates1924-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "040530daf83c8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1345.0", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Withraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "learly understood to-night that if the building industry will deliver these houses to the number laid down, and on the conditions of supply laid down, this country is prepared to accept these houses for 15 years. I do not need to say anything else. The Amendment, if adopted, would destroy the whole basis of our policy and we would withdraw the proposal. I hope that the Amendment will be withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-04", "file": "debates1924-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "040530daf83c8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1383.1", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AFFORESTATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. YATE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The boys would steal the apples!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. YATE", "preceding_text": "ruit much cheaper than we can get it now. Municipal and other local authorities should be urged to do what is done in France, namely, to plant the roads with avenues of apple trees. In France you see the apple trees growing all along the roadside. Will the Minister take that into consideration? New arterial roads are now being made. Cannot they be planted with something that will give some return?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-04", "file": "debates1924-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "040530daf83c8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1400.9", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "preceding_text": "r now is not the speech that I should have delivered had this Vote come on at an earlier hour today. That speech will rest in the archives of my family. I could not, however, allow this Vote to pass without making a protest. The record of Government Departments in connection with this question of airships has been one long story of vacillation. We had airships in the war and they were turned down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1400.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-04", "file": "debates1924-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "040530daf83c8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1408.0", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral SUETER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sulphuretted hydrogen !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral SUETER", "preceding_text": "n airship station, and should only be used by themselves as temporary bases. Another point was made by the hon. and gallant Member for Maidstone. He said it would be easy to put an inert gas round the gas bags. The only experiment that has ever been made in this direction was to insert the exhaust gases from a petrol motor round a small gas bag. These gases are carbon monoxide and carbon di-oxide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-04", "file": "debates1924-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "040530daf83c8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1415.4", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WARD", "preceding_text": "It is a Vote for fishing gear, which is more or less the same thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-04a.1415.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-05", "file": "debates1924-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e0f5a716c91c8c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1429.2", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SWEEPSTAKES AND DRAWS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "I never made any such suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1429.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-05", "file": "debates1924-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e0f5a716c91c8c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1472.0", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (VISITORS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "n by the public. If Members desire to make representations to the Lord Great Chamberlain, he or his deputy, I am sure, is accessible. With regard to the Library, I think that there is something there that requires my consideration. If it be the case—and I have had other complaints besides that of the right hon. Gentleman—that the work of Members in the Library is made impossible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-05", "file": "debates1924-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e0f5a716c91c8c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1472.1", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (VISITORS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SUTTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SUTTON", "preceding_text": "Many Members have received a large number of letters from parties who are coming along during Whitsuntide, and who have never been in London before. They are anxious to visit the 1101.16-e, and I want to ask you, Sir, if it be possible for the House to remain open during Whitsuntide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-05", "file": "debates1924-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e0f5a716c91c8c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1472.3", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (VISITORS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "We are finding great difficulty in getting tickets for the Strangers' Gallery, because the accommodation is so small, and I would suggest that we might get the use of the side galleries for strangers. These galleries are not used by Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1472.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-05", "file": "debates1924-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e0f5a716c91c8c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1522.4", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS INCREASE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is doing the best he can\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": " of the fact, presumably, that it was written before the last general election. The date of the letter was 3rd November, 1923, and the hon. Gentleman said: With reference to your kind letter of 27th October, I shall certainly continue to do the best I can to secure an increase of these pre-War pensions, and also to promote the Bill to amend the Act of 1920. What did the hon. Gentleman mean by that", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1522.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-05", "file": "debates1924-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e0f5a716c91c8c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1524.1", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS INCREASE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "ther or the mother correspondingly lose a portion of their pension, which is most unfair, and this could be remedied without any difficulty whatever. The expression \"means\" is defined in the case of a married person as the means of husband and wife. They may not be living together, and it would not involve very much increase if that harsh and immoral provision were removed altogether from the Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-05", "file": "debates1924-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e0f5a716c91c8c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1535.5", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS INCREASE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. REMNANT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. REMNANT", "preceding_text": "When he has been appealed to has he ever failed yet to find the money he has been asked to find He was asked for free railway fares to the constituencies. First of all third-class fares were suggested. It was then complained by some hon. Members that they could not work or have quietness and comfort on the way to and from their constituencies, and eventually they were given first-class fares free.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1535.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-05", "file": "debates1924-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e0f5a716c91c8c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1538.2", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS INCREASE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LINFIELD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LINFIELD", "preceding_text": "es. In this case he has the advantage of having an almost unanimous House requesting that justice should be done. Unless the right hon. Gentleman yields to this almost unanimous wish of the House, there is trouble in store for him. In yielding he would he having a little regard to the men behind him. If I could only disclose the feelings of hon. Members above the Gangway at the present time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1538.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-05", "file": "debates1924-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e0f5a716c91c8c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1547.0", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS INCREASE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"And Liberals as well?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "There was one golden sentence in the speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer which I hope did not escape attention. The right hon. Gentleman said there had been a good deal of \"loose talk\" on this matter. I think he might have applied that, to the Labour candidates. It is a sentence which should be framed at the headquarters of the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1547.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-05", "file": "debates1924-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e0f5a716c91c8c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1547.0", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS INCREASE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "rse. Yes, that is what the Chancellor of the Exchequer said. I am sorry the right hon. Gentleman has left the House. It is a very important matter that we should have it cleared up whether this is or is not merely a first step. The Chancellor of the Exchequer declined to make himself answerable for any further legislation except in respect of old age pensions, which is an entirely different thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1547.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-05", "file": "debates1924-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e0f5a716c91c8c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1547.0", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS INCREASE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "ther legislation would be introduced? It was put by the hon.Member for Bodmin, and also by an hon. and gallant Gentleman opposite. The hon. and gallant Gentleman opposite quoted these words of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that no further legislation is in contemplation in this matter, and consequently there is no hope that the present Government will at any time remove any further restrictions", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1547.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-05", "file": "debates1924-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e0f5a716c91c8c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1547.0", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS INCREASE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are you going to Keep it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "s too easy in the expenditure of public money when he was in office. The Chancellor of Exchequer is probably the hardest and closest watchdog there has ever been at the Treasury, and it is certainly a new spirit which we did not expect from the Labour party. Reference has been made to a pledge which I gave. It is quite true I gave a pledge. It is one of the few things on which I did give a pledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1547.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-05", "file": "debates1924-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e0f5a716c91c8c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1551.3", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS INCREASE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Glasgow!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Dumbarton with his usual good sense says that this is the dictatorship of the proletariat. This is a foretaste of Moscow I suppose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1551.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-05", "file": "debates1924-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e0f5a716c91c8c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1551.7", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS INCREASE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "in this House the discredit for denying certain small concessions. It is raising the issue in an unfair form—a deliberately unfair form. It is put in such a form that, for example, my hon. Friend the Member for Devonport (Major Hore-Belisha) might be misrepresented in his action in giving that vote. It might give an opportunity to the Socialist opponent of my hon. Friend to misrepresent him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1551.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-05", "file": "debates1924-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e0f5a716c91c8c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1553.1", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS INCREASE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Half a million!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "ority Government can do. That does not apply in the present instance. So far as this matter is concerned, they could, if they chose, be a majority Government. Appeals have been made to them from every quarter of the Committee to make concessions in respect of the age limit which would not cost a great deal—not a full concession of the means limit but only within the limits already mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-05", "file": "debates1924-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e0f5a716c91c8c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1553.1", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS INCREASE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "y they are being prevented from doing it because the Liberals will not support them or because the Conservatives are obstructing them. They know that nearly every man and woman behind them would back that concession, but they refuse to give it because the Treasury has got itself in, and for no other reason. It proves what we have always said, that the more things change the more they are the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-05", "file": "debates1924-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e0f5a716c91c8c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1554.0", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS INCREASE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "preceding_text": "the Exchequer who strains at this gnat and swallows the camel of the housing scheme. I wish to comment on one point made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He said these pensioners were not different from ordinary workers. That is absolutely untrue; everybody knows that the State servant, or the employé of a corporation, who receives a pension, gets a smaller income than the ordinary worker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1554.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-05", "file": "debates1924-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e0f5a716c91c8c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1563.6", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "r programme at any time—unless the State is in that event to continue to bear the cost alone—and with the guaranteed programme is bound up the question of augmentation of labour. The Minister of Health stated that he would have power to carry through a building programme under Section (4) of the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1919. Let me read to him what the Section really points out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1563.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-05", "file": "debates1924-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4e0f5a716c91c8c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1563.6", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "th the guaranteed programme is bound up the question of augmentation of labour. The Minister of Health stated that he would have power to carry through a building programme under Section (4) of the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1919. Let me read to him what the Section really points out. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"] This is a point of great importance to the local authorities of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-05a.1563.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-06-06", "file": "debates1924-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "762be879bdff2183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1633.3", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "HON MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "I think it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1633.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-06", "file": "debates1924-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "762be879bdff2183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1640.2", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say alone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "preceding_text": " Turkey and endangers peace. What is the commitment? Not that the British Empire alone, but that the British Empire, Japan, France, and Italy shall guarantee the demilitarised zones by such means as shall be defined by the Council of the League of Nations. Is that a commitment of the British Empire as a whole and alone to go with all its forces, horse, foot- and artillery, under any circumstances?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1640.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-06", "file": "debates1924-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "762be879bdff2183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1642.3", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "preceding_text": "tting a remedy? If he objects to that so much, then the right hon. Gentleman's proper duty is to say, \"Abolish this. Tear up this Treaty and go to war with Turkey.\" That is the alternative. If he is going to fight for capitulation he will have to send the whole British Army and the Navy to get it. The right hon. Gentleman is abusing this Government and the late Government for faults in the Treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1642.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-06", "file": "debates1924-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "762be879bdff2183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1647.3", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "They are ratifying. The correspondence is being published.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1647.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-06", "file": "debates1924-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "762be879bdff2183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1679.2", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "or will he say plainly and directly to the House that men who are 'willing to obey the orders of their trade unions, and who loyally do their best to maintain the services of the country, will be given ample protection. I hope the right hon. Gentleman, not now, but later, will consider the legal position as it affects these men who have fomented this trouble, and struck this blow at the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1679.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-06", "file": "debates1924-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "762be879bdff2183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1680.0", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. B. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. B. SMITH", "preceding_text": " behind all this trouble lies the policy of widening the differences which exist between man and man in a given industry. That policy is reflected in actions such as the present action. No one justifies it; it is an unofficial strike and it must inevitably hit the community; but our Friends opposite are anxious that this Government should do what they always failed to do themselves when in office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-06", "file": "debates1924-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "762be879bdff2183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1680.0", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. B. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. B. SMITH", "preceding_text": "given industry. That policy is reflected in actions such as the present action. No one justifies it; it is an unofficial strike and it must inevitably hit the community; but our Friends opposite are anxious that this Government should do what they always failed to do themselves when in office. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I speak from experience, because I led one or two strikes during the War in London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-06", "file": "debates1924-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "762be879bdff2183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1680.0", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. B. SMITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You should have been at the front.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. B. SMITH", "preceding_text": "icial strike and it must inevitably hit the community; but our Friends opposite are anxious that this Government should do what they always failed to do themselves when in office. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I speak from experience, because I led one or two strikes during the War in London. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"] I am not ashamed of it. I fought with the same weapons as those with which you fought me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-06", "file": "debates1924-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "762be879bdff2183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1681.1", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "And some of them have not. The Coalition Government never tackled these problems in the way in which it is suggested this Government should tackle them. It is a case of being in opposition, and of trying to focus attention on their professed sympathy with the public—who do not need them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-06", "file": "debates1924-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "762be879bdff2183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1681.2", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "The speech to which we have just listened is illuminating. I thought hon. Members opposite posed as the representatives of the workers. I should like the hon. Member to come to my constituency—to Clapham Junction—and try to get into a train there. He would find that this was no laughing matter and no subject for jesting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1681.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-06", "file": "debates1924-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "762be879bdff2183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1685.0", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. LANE MITCHELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which section of it\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. LANE MITCHELL", "preceding_text": "I do not often intervene, but it appears to me that the House of Commons could do something to help the community in the present trouble.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1685.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-06", "file": "debates1924-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "762be879bdff2183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1685.2", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SULLIVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes,\" and \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SULLIVAN", "preceding_text": "o —that wishes well to the country and the people of the country, but we have extremists, not only in the ranks of the workers, but over there, who are simply doing everything possible to bring about trouble, and are ceaselessly making attacks on working people. Supposing it was a body of employers trying to keep the food off the London market, would there be any protest from the other side?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1685.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-06", "file": "debates1924-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "762be879bdff2183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1687.0", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": "8212;by those responsible who had a wife and children to bring up. The strikes were started, and supported, probably by girls and boys who stopped the whole place, and then went on to the next one whistling, and saying they had struck and were out for bigger wages, and so on. The new method is that we are getting in the Communist element. I am going to talk straight to the hon. Gentleman opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-06", "file": "debates1924-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "762be879bdff2183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1687.0", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SANDEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh. oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDEMAN", "preceding_text": "a lot of young fellows who say: \"We are going to have an unofficial strike.\" That, sort of thing is no good either for the trade unions, the country, or the employers. We are ail against that sort of thing, and if it is allowed to go on the whole country will be saying, as sure as night follows day, that the Labour party wish to have unemployment and unrest, because that is the stuff they live on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-06", "file": "debates1924-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "762be879bdff2183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1697.3", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Viscount EDNAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Protected!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount EDNAM", "preceding_text": "It does not matter how the right hon. Gentleman said it. He certainly said that he, or the Government he represented, would take every possible step to allow the workers who wanted to work to do so, and to prevent them from being interfered with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1697.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-06", "file": "debates1924-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "762be879bdff2183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1697.3", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Viscount EDNAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount EDNAM", "preceding_text": "It does not matter how the right hon. Gentleman said it. He certainly said that he, or the Government he represented, would take every possible step to allow the workers who wanted to work to do so, and to prevent them from being interfered with. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Protected!\"] Protected! That comes to exactly the same thing as preventing picketing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1697.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-06", "file": "debates1924-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "762be879bdff2183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1697.4", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Are we to understand that the arrangement which was entered into at the beginning of the Session is to obtain in this Debate? You previously ruled, Mr. Speaker, that when a Minister had replied, no other speeches were to be allowed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1697.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-06", "file": "debates1924-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "762be879bdff2183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1699.5", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "That is my point, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1699.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-06", "file": "debates1924-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "762be879bdff2183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1699.11", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "No. The Noble Lord the Member for Horsham (Earl Winterton) always breaks the rule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1699.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-06", "file": "debates1924-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "762be879bdff2183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1700.0", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "You appear, Sir, to quite misunderstand the point at issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-06", "file": "debates1924-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "762be879bdff2183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1700.2", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I cannot withdraw the statement that two different rulings have been given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1700.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-06", "file": "debates1924-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "762be879bdff2183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1700.4", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "The point is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1700.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-06", "file": "debates1924-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "762be879bdff2183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1700.4", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "The point is—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"] I shall not withdraw if I am ordered to withdraw. The point is this: I take away any sort of charge against you, Sir, or Mr. Deputy-Speaker, but I think it is extremely unfortunate that two different rulings should have been given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1700.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-06", "file": "debates1924-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "762be879bdff2183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1700.11", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Viscount EDNAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount EDNAM", "preceding_text": " The Government have cavilled at hon. Members on this side of the House, that when we were in office we were not able to do anything more in dealing with these strikes than the Government are doing at the present time. But we did not boast that we could hold office without strikes or of being able to settle strikes at once as hon. Members on that side of the House did when they were in opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-06a.1700.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1751.3", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF EVICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "o make one or two observations on the general position of these Amendments, because this is the first occasion during the current Session when Amendments have come back to us for consideration from another place. I desire to impress upon the House that it is peculiarly an occasion when it is the right and the duty of the House of Lords to take their proper share in the legislation of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1751.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1751.3", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF EVICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "nderstand a Government which was acting with the full authority of a majority of the people in this country and a majority in this House taking grave exception to alterations made in another place in legislation passed by this House, but the position here is entirely different. We have to-day a Government which quite frankly tells us it is existing on the sufferance of another party in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1751.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1751.3", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF EVICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "day a Government which quite frankly tells us it is existing on the sufferance of another party in this House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"] There is no doubt whatever as to that; we may read dozens of speeches made outside this House by hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite saying that they are unable to pass legislation without the consent of another party—the party sitting below the Gangway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1751.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1761.0", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF EVICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. D. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Applicants do not think so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. D. SIMON", "preceding_text": " conclusion it is the only house which will suit him. Under the Housing Act of last year the speculative builder is at work building a large number of new houses, and in Manchester, at any rate, I am told, on the highest possible authority, that these houses Can he purchased on such reasonable terms that they are, if anything, cheaper than other houses, and are certainly generally of better value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1766.0", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF EVICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP PILDITCH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP PILDITCH", "preceding_text": "case of hardship may be desperate and out of all kind of proportion to the hardship on the tenant. I think my hon. Friend shows a certain absence of confidence in the County Court Judges in this matter. We all know that throuthout the country the decisions of the County Court Judges have been most fair, and that if they have ever given consideration, it has been invariably in favour of the tenant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1766.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1768.0", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF EVICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": " whether a man bought on the 5th or 6th May this year would be a matter to which every County Court Judge in the country would fully address himself. My hon. Friend said that if there had been any bias at all, it had been in favour of the tenant. I prefer to say the decisions of the County Court Judges throughout the country have generally been accepted by plaintiff and defendant without question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1768.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1771.1", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF EVICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was a Tory speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "preceding_text": "ord after this particular date, and, as a result of that, give possession to all those who have secured their houses by purchase before this date. I think really that this particular matter is one of substance, and that the original views held by the Attorney-General, and insisted upon by the House of Lords, may not be quite so reactionary as some people imagine. There is a very real danger—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1787.1", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF EVICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "me of them are. There are hundreds of thousands of houses owned by the best class of working men, who have saved and bought them. I am going to ask my hon. Friend not to put the House to the trouble of dividing if the Labour and Liberal parties decide, in face of what I am saying, to resist the Amendment, but I want them to realise that the only point is to give the right to the County Court Judge", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1789.2", "colnum": "1789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF EVICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "es it serve? It is either a piece of pure electioneering or it is a confusion of mind, because hon. Members must have allowed their prejudice to get the better of their judgment. Objection was taken to the Amendment before on what seemed to me to be perfectly good grounds. In the first place, it was a bad principle to attempt to discriminate between one set of residents in the country and another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1789.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1796.8", "colnum": "1796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF EVICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SPERO", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SPERO", "preceding_text": "I have given you Mexico and Japan, and there are various other countries in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1796.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1801.0", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF EVICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "ect and the other is not. No litigant in a British Court, thank Heavens, has to begin by saying, \"I am a British subject and the other fellow is an alien.\" No Judge would allow such a declaration to be made. The Judge would tell the British subject who made such a declaration that if he were a real British subject he ought to know that he belonged to a country Which did not draw such distinctions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1801.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1809.4", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF EVICTION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": ". What else could it have been? Is there any hon. Member who could explain what it means? I should have thought it was clear to the whole House that this was the result of a consultation which took place on the benches opposite. They no doubt said: \"We will divide on this; it will be defeated, but it will look well, and we shall be able to say that we stood up for the Britisher against the alien.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1809.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1827.0", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir THOMAS INSKIP", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir THOMAS INSKIP", "preceding_text": "The Clause which the hon. Members for East Ham South (Mr. Barnes) has on the Paper is presumably the Clause on which the House will have to give its decision, with your permission, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1827.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1841.3", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Its agreements!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "The company would merely have to submit the details of its shareholders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1841.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1844.2", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or the renewal!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NAYLOR", "preceding_text": "s. I would ask the hon. Member who moved the first Clause what he means by the final paragraph relating to the penalty. He refers to the cancellation of the licence. Is he assuming that the application for a licence applies only to one omnibus? Then if the company were making an application for a licence of an extra omnibus, if it has not got the licence, of course it is not possible to cancel it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1844.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1851.1", "colnum": "1851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That further consideration of the Bill, as amended, be now adjourned!\" I think the unexpected decision—certainly unexpected by the Government—to which the House has just come puts the House in a certain difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1851.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1860.3", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "preceding_text": "I am not going to discuss that question with the hon. Member. I am only going to say that when the Report had to be written there were four who did agree upon this question, and two others disagreed with the two other members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1860.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1860.3", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You had a rough time!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "preceding_text": "only going to say that when the Report had to be written there were four who did agree upon this question, and two others disagreed with the two other members. [ Interruption. ] I have something very pungent to say about that matter, if necessary, and the methods whereby one of the Commissioners cross-examined with a particular view be held, because I was subjected to that cross-examination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1860.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1870.1", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "in the Bill, which is the Metropolitan and City police districts, we get another curious situation. Then there will be within the same Bill actually two areas of administration, in a Bill which presumably is intended to simplify things. So far as omnibus licensing is concerned, and so far as the scheduling of approved routes is concerned, the area will be the Metropolitan and City police districts", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1870.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1874.5", "colnum": "1874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "They all come to London.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "If a mere Scotsman may be allowed to intervene—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1874.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1874.6", "colnum": "1874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "rea, I would like to ask the Members responsible for the Amendment, and the Minister, whether they have the authority of the districts which are scheduled to be included within the new transport area? As far as I am aware, this is the first time that there has been acceptance of a private Member's Amendment which will impose such a revolutionary change upon the administration of certain districts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1874.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1876.1", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "sire that any hardship should be imposed upon counties or boroughs or upon the people residing in them with regard to traffic, but we should have an assurance that these people desire to be brought in, and. the hon. Member states that only some of these authorities desire it. [H. MEMBERS: \"All except two.\"] Even two have a right to be excluded, and they should not be brought in against their will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1877.1", "colnum": "1877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is here now\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": " district was fixed. I believe, some 80 years ago. Surely we have progressed even in the minds of the reactionary Members for South Hackney and Bethnal Green, and surely they have grown up a little bit since 90 years ago. The House would be wise to pass this Amendment, which seeks to keep pace with modern conditions. The hon. Member for Rotherhithe (Mr. B. Smith), who I am sorry is not here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1877.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1878.1", "colnum": "1878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KEENS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the parish pump?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KEENS", "preceding_text": "rt said the other day that he would have nothing to do with this Bill unless he had power to bring all authorities under it, but surely there is no reason why these outlying districts should be brought within the scope of the Bill. Certainly, as far as the local authorities of this country are concerned, they view with the utmost dismay these encroachments upon their powers by a central authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1878.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1884.0", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN COUNCILS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "is Bill as contentious. We did, however, require a few words of explanation. The eleven o'clock Rule was suspended to allow this Bill to be discussed. After all, the position of co-operative societies is one on which there has been considerable discussion and we find considerable complaint that the private trader is subject to disabilities to which his powerful competitors are not subjected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1884.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1884.0", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN COUNCILS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Everyone will be shortly!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "the disability the person with whom the society is competing, namely, the private shopkeeper or the private company, the House ought to consider whether it is laying an injustice upon one set of citizens as compared with another. In many cases the co-operative society is exempt from burdens from which the private trader is not exempt. At present it is exempt from the Corporation Profits Tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1884.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1884.0", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN COUNCILS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ties will remember that, although they have shown very little sign of doing so so far. There are other things, in the way of Income Tax and so on, which do not press upon the co-operative society to anything like the extent to which they press upon the private trader. Consequently, I am inclined to the appeal of the Secretary for Scotland not to enter at any length into the arguments of this case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1884.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1888.3", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY APPLICATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLIMIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLIMIE", "preceding_text": "Is it in order for right hon. and hon. Gentlemen to take up the time of the House by trying to show their knowledge?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1888.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1899.0", "colnum": "1899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY APPLICATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " large sum. As the hon. Gentleman opposite has said, we do not know—for we have not been told—how the fund that is to be created is to be spent—whether on the education of the Chinese in China, or the education of young Chinese gentlemen in England. There is still another wider and deeper issue. That is, that quite recently the Chinese Government borrowed money from this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1899.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1900.0", "colnum": "1900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY APPLICATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. HERBERT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. HERBERT", "preceding_text": " not only in earnest but have some chance of success, then we will do all we can to help this Measure through. If we are to use this money to teach the Chinese, let us remember that one of the most important lessons we have to teach them is to realise British standards of honesty. I agree that there are no more honest people in the world than the Chinese according to their own particular standard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1900.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1906.2", "colnum": "1906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHINA INDEMNITY APPLICATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "preceding_text": "I hope hon. Members will not press this Motion. I think they should be prepared to accept a division on the Bill itself. It is riot quite fair to say I gave no information. I dealt with the points raised by the hon. Members opposite. At any rate, I think it would be more satisfactory for the House to go to a division, and if they want to throw out the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1906.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1918.1", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANT SHIPPING (INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONVENTIONS) BILL [Lords],", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "I still repeat that when the Treaty of Versailles was signed the hon. and gallant Gentleman's party belonged to the Coalition Government and were responsible more than any other party for the Treaty and for the Labour Charter therein contained. Now that Labour Charter to which our signature is affixed, to which we are more solemnly bound than any other nation in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1919.3", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANT SHIPPING (INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONVENTIONS) BILL [Lords],", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "helped to raise the temperature at this hour of the morning. When we were asked to deal with a Bill of this kind, which refers to the Conventions in the Preamble and which is set out in the Schedule we are entitled to know whether this is what it purports to be, an international affair or not, or whether the whole of this International Labour Office is turning out to be largely a fraud and a sham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1919.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-16", "file": "debates1924-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "a55ac7a75cbdc1d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1923.0", "colnum": "1923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANT SHIPPING (INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONVENTIONS) BILL [Lords],", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKER", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKER", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for West Stirling (Mr. T. Johnston) said he passed correspondence with one of the Ministers with regard to the conditions on board trawlers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-16a.1923.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1967.2", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No sob stuff! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "I am going to be most careful in this speech that I say nothing of a party or controversial character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1967.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1971.1", "colnum": "1971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "No, not necessarily.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1973.1", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "The hon. And gallant Gentleman ought not to attempt to mislead the House as to what was said by the Prime Minister of Australia. He said that the more articles that were subject to preference the greater the advantage to Australia. That is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1974.1", "colnum": "1974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about consumption?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "ember, too, that the march of science has inevitably made our task much more difficult, because it now takes fewer men to get the same amount of production than it did before the War, and therefore in order to keep our greater population at work in industry we must not only have as large an export trade as before the War but we must have more. Otherwise we cannot solve the problem of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1974.1", "colnum": "1974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"An effective demand!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "t solve the problem of unemployment. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about consumption?\"] Surely the best way to secure a greater consumption is by developing these great new lands. You have only to look at the history of other countries, and especially at the history of the United States, to realise that consumption is not a fictitious thing but comes from a growing population creating a demand for goods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1974.1", "colnum": "1974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about rubber?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "pulation growing in the Dominions, and the real consumptive demand which my hon. Friend wants to see. It matters not in the least that from time to time the character of the demand which comes from the Dominions changes, as the aggregate demand is increasing all the time. You are developing new supplier of food and raw material, and surely if one thing is certain it is that volume means cheapness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1982.0", "colnum": "1982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " We did not submit them. We did not ask for an issue on them. It is rather stretching things too far when the Opposition, having taken the step they did and having ascertained the voice of the people; having deliberately told these people: \"We will go down to the House of Commons and say what we will do,\" now come and ask the House to reverse the very mandate that the people themselves have given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1982.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1984.2", "colnum": "1984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " Canadians. New Zealanders, Australians, and South Africans are compelled to do as we are compelled to do, view all these questions from the standpoint of the interests of our own people. If there is one thing I would definitely state in connection with general questions of Empire development, it would be the tendency of late years to make a party matter that which need not be made a party matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1984.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1984.2", "colnum": "1984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "n the City of London had materialised, and supposing the late Member for the City of London had gone to another place and Mr. McKenna had become Chancellor of the Exchequer; is it to be argued that these Preference Resolutions would have then been the grave subject-matter of the Conference that they were? Is it not true to say that they would have been looked upon as a change in our fiscal system?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1984.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1984.2", "colnum": "1984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How about your housing scheme?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "rd to sugar. I can understand and sympathise with the planters who assumed that that guarantee was given in good faith, and I can quite understand the annoyance and inconvenience caused to them. I will, however, put it to the House that nothing would be more anti-democratic or inconsistent with the Constitution of this country than for one Government to bind another in connection with this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1984.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1984.2", "colnum": "1984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "different view to that assumed here. I discussed this very question the other day with a very responsible Minister, and he said quite frankly to me: Whilst I administer a country with conditions such as they are, certainly I am for protecting it, but when I come \"to consider the question from your standpoint, and if. I were here with YOU. I should be a Free Trader. The explanation is a simple one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1984.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1994.3", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "o give an effective Preference.\" I answer the right hon. Gentleman the Member for West Birmingham (Mr. A. Chamberlain) by saying at once that, if you are going to give an effective Preference to Australian currants', which unfortunately ripen in the early part of the calendar year and therefore in any case are not quite so satisfactory for plum puddings as currants which ripen in the autumn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1994.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1999.2", "colnum": "1999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "rse service to the unity of the British Empire than that we should have an annual discussion here as to whether or not this particular concession which we have made is fairly balanced against concessions which we receive elsewhere in the Empire. I would assure the House that many of us who feel deeply on this subject are not consumed with mere pedantic, pettifogging objections of a technical kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1999.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1999.2", "colnum": "1999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "n our fate and the fate of our fellow-subjects beyond the seas. You would start a most wretched system of comparison and of rivalry as between one Dominion and another. For these reasons I hope the Government—while I understand they propose in this matter practically to adopt an attitude of strict impartiality —will not leave us without guidance as to what in their view we ought to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.1999.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2003.1", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He never said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "being the case, I would urge on hon. Gentlemen opposite who are to vote on this question to-morrow, that there will be no vital change in our system. They are not really violating their consciences, and, as the right hon. and learned Member for Spen Valley has said, the electors in the constituencies will not be able to accuse thorn of trying to increase the cost of food in any particular article.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2003.1", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "you add to them their dependants, you find that until the crack of doom 2,400,000 souls are to be dependent on the charity of their fellow workers, or of the employers or taxpayers and ratepayers of the country. That is a policy of bankruptcy and despair. When you realise what the Empire is, it seems to me that it is almost cowardly to sit down and say that you contemplate such a state of affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2010.1", "colnum": "2010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": " us in a voice which is most emphatic and important that his leaders are not going into the Lobby against these Resolutions tomorrow. I am delighted to hear it. The results of Preference in the Empire has been of great advantage to British labour in this country. The increase in British trade since Preference was introduced ha3 been far greater than any trade which you can hope to get from Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2012.1", "colnum": "2012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PERRY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Values or quantities?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PERRY", "preceding_text": "; and to foreign countries, 62.8 per cent. In 1922, despite all that has been said as to what Preference has actually accomplished for our Dominions, the figures remained practically the same. To our self-governing Dominions we exported 17-3 per cent., to the whole of the Empire 35'5 per cent.—a decrease of 2 per cent, on 1913—and our exportation to foreign countries was 64-5 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2012.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2012.1", "colnum": "2012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PERRY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEKS: \"Over whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PERRY", "preceding_text": "fact, the whole of the butter produced and exported from Australia would not fill our shops in this country for a month. I think it is well to get down to these facts and to see what our trade with the rest of the Empire really means. Is it to be contended that our Dominions at the moment have no preference? I 6ubmlt that in having a free market in this country they have a great preference indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2012.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2023.2", "colnum": "2023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "preceding_text": "tions which involve fresh taxation.\" But they also said, \"We shall retain all those that only involve a reduction,\" and they had every reason to suppose that was so, because the principle of Preference having been conceded, and being in operation and not challenged, all that is contained in the first four Resolutions, which we are now discussing, they might assume with certainty would be accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2023.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2023.2", "colnum": "2023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "preceding_text": "those that only involve a reduction,\" and they had every reason to suppose that was so, because the principle of Preference having been conceded, and being in operation and not challenged, all that is contained in the first four Resolutions, which we are now discussing, they might assume with certainty would be accepted. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because the principle of Preference has been conceded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2023.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2025.1", "colnum": "2025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Principle!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "preceding_text": " in having that preference there must be a very real disadvantage in losing it. From that dilemma there is no escape for my right hon. and learned Friend. If the preferences are withdrawn the manufacturers and workpeople both will suffer. Why should we jeopardise, as I think we should be doing, a thing of real value to the people of this country just for the sake of what? Yes, I want to know what?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2025.1", "colnum": "2025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General SEELY", "preceding_text": "alia and New Zealand, for they were led by experts of the Admiralty to believe that the Singapore scheme was vital to their safety. That was rebuff number one. Then came the question of the five cruisers to be specially built for Empire trade protection. That was on the whole a sound policy, but many people in this House took an opposite view and denounced the proposal. That was rebuff number two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2059.0", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. HADEN GUEST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not below the Gangway!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. HADEN GUEST", "preceding_text": " those methods of closer co-operation is really to be found the solution of the problem. May I suggest to hon. Gentlemen opposite that the Leader of the Opposition has lately been talking about the great importance of getting rid of that middleman who divides the producer and the consumer. That is a very admirable arrangement, and one which would be seconded by every one on this side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2059.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2065.0", "colnum": "2065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "lain), in a fine flight of oratory, described them as a spiritual bond wherewith to bind the Empire. My first contention is that they are not a spiritual bond—that a tariff cannot be a spiritual bond. A tariff is a material thing: A spiritual bond is something of the spirit it has nothing to do with cash. The only people who are pleased with a tariff are the people who benefit by the tariff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2065.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2065.0", "colnum": "2065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "2;and it cannot be challenged—which the Dominions take of this small essay in Preference. But what does the official spokesman for the time being of the British Government say at the Conference? He does not tell them these things are impossible, as we know they are impossible, but he encourages the hope that this small beginning will grow into greater things, and into the things they desire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2065.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2065.0", "colnum": "2065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, I am!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "by the official spokesman of the Government at the Conference. I come to the interruption made by an hon. Gentleman opposite. The Dominions know that the only way in which you can create this bond—call it spiritual, if you like—is by giving a Preference upon their great products, their great trade—wheat, wool and so on, raw material. Are hon. Gentlemen opposite in favour of that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2065.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2065.0", "colnum": "2065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wait and see!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "te. The Dominions know that the only way in which you can create this bond—call it spiritual, if you like—is by giving a Preference upon their great products, their great trade—wheat, wool and so on, raw material. Are hon. Gentlemen opposite in favour of that? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, I am!\"] Is the Front Bench in favour of that? That is the material point. May I ask for an answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2065.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2065.0", "colnum": "2065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or to-morrow?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": " Preference on their own big trade. Are you going to give it to them? I hope that we shall have a perfectly straightforward answer to that question to-night. The right hon. Baronet the Member for Bournemouth (Sir H. Croft) would, of course, say, \"Yes\"; so would others; but are the official leaders of the Conservative party prepared to say that? That is the question which must be answered to-night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2065.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2070.0", "colnum": "2070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Read on!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "much comment in which retaliatory duties are suggested. Or again, take Jamaica, where we have kept the letter of the law and reduced the duty on sugar. It would appear here that the elected Members of the Council, that is, the representative Members, argued. That the Home Government was out of touch with the Colonial ideals. Jamaica was unwilling to cut the painter but she must look after herself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2065.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2070.3", "colnum": "2070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "I have read it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2070.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2071.5", "colnum": "2071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Ireland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "our went on to say that this demand for a Constitution was the most reckless experiment ever tried, and that was his description of the Constitution of the Transvaal. Mr. Balfour went on to specify two men who in his judgment could not at that time be trusted, and who were they? They were General Smuts and General Botha and after that hon. Gentlemen opposite speak of themselves as Empire builders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2071.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2075.0", "colnum": "2075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Major TRYON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "ge like that against a great leader of the British people should not pass without comment from this House. I am a Conservative, and Sir Wilfrid Laurier was a Liberal, but I believe he was straight and honest, and I would remind the hon. Member that what Sir Wilfrid Laurier did was to reduce duties in order to give Preference, and that is what we are asking this House to do on the present occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2075.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2083.0", "colnum": "2083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": " in the country, you make their position more difficult, you make them less able to satisfy their wants and less able to employ people in satisfying those wants. But let us understand, let us quite clearly say, that we are deeply grateful to every Colony that gives us a Preference in their market, and we are grateful to them for that Preference, and we hope that they will increase that Preference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-17", "file": "debates1924-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "6166aed38845de56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2086.4", "colnum": "2086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. COWAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. COWAN", "preceding_text": "Has the hon. Gentleman any right to make this insinuation against the Members of the Dominion Parliament?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-17a.2086.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2108.1", "colnum": "2108", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "I did try to do something, but the House decided that it was not necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2108.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2109.4", "colnum": "2109", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT SERVICES (STRIKES).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No, no!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "In order that the Noble Lord may understand what the Government did, I will read the answer again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2109.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2113.4", "colnum": "2113", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINE FLOODING, REDDING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Boyne Water.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "Why did not the Secretary for Mines say so? The hon. Member knows nothing about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2113.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2120.3", "colnum": "2120", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREATIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "If I send the Prime Minister a Press report of the definite statement made by his colleague, will he then, instead of referring me to a previous answer, tell me whether these treaties were in existence or not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2120.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2128.0", "colnum": "2128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LABOUR PARLIAMENTARY PARTY (RESOLUTION).", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Shake hands with murder!", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "preceding_text": " at this meeting, that the Resolution expresses warm sympathy and support of the Socialist party in Italy, and made grave reflections on the Prime Minister's party in Italy as trampling upon liberty and democracy; and does he think it is favourable to good relations with Italy if Ministers do not openly repudiate such sentiments when they are present at such meetings, or are alleged to be present?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2127.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2128.1", "colnum": "2128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LABOUR PARLIAMENTARY PARTY (RESOLUTION).", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the hon. and gallant Member for putting his question, but really he reads far more into the wording of that Resolution than there is in it. I very carefully examined it to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2128.1", "colnum": "2128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LABOUR PARLIAMENTARY PARTY (RESOLUTION).", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Read it all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the hon. and gallant Member for putting his question, but really he reads far more into the wording of that Resolution than there is in it. I very carefully examined it to-day. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Read it.\"] Yes, I will; that is what I propose to do. The first part of the Resolution need not be read", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2128.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2128.3", "colnum": "2128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LABOUR PARLIAMENTARY PARTY (RESOLUTION).", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Why should he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. Gentleman taken steps to make it quite plain to the Italian Prime Minister what the Resolution means, as he has now explained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2128.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2162.0", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. MEMBER", "cue_text": "They never made any.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "nfortunately become so linked—and have been linked for a century past—with party politics that it is perfectly impossible to get a fair and reasoned judgment on any questions where economics intrude. Let me give two or three illustrations of what I mean. In the old clays it was suggested that it was only necessary for a Tory to make an economic proposition for a Whig to be on his back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2153.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2162.2", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "illed up more, and they had decided whether they wanted to become more than they are now a manufacturing country. I have just thrown out these suggestions because I cannot believe that the Government mean to do nothing on this question. They do not realize the gravity of the situation. If these Resolutions, as a whole, are defeated to-night, you will gravely imperil the future of the whole Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2162.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2170.1", "colnum": "2170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "dicted or refuted, the imposition of import duties on a very large proportion of your imported food and imported raw material. Roughly speaking—it is very curious how these proportions are maintained year after year, you might almost say now generation after generation—three-quarters of our imported food and one-half of our imported raw materials come from countries outside the Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2170.1", "colnum": "2170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": " after generation—three-quarters of our imported food and one-half of our imported raw materials come from countries outside the Empire. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"] The Empire cannot produce them. I am all in favour of extending its resources, but is there anyone on this side of the House who thinks we can get from within the Empire three-quarters of the food and one-half of the raw material?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2170.1", "colnum": "2170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In 15 years!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": "-quarters of our imported food and one-half of our imported raw materials come from countries outside the Empire. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"] The Empire cannot produce them. I am all in favour of extending its resources, but is there anyone on this side of the House who thinks we can get from within the Empire three-quarters of the food and one-half of the raw material? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"] When?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2173.1", "colnum": "2173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASQUITH", "preceding_text": " rate, for political purposes, in the famous speech which he made one June afternoon at the Crystal Palace 50 years ago. There was no Wembley in those days, or that would probably have been a more appropriate arena for his harangue. As a matter of fact, as we know from his recorded words and writings, he had been accustomed up to that moment to speak of the Colonies as millstones and dead weights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2183.2", "colnum": "2183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "struction of fiscal policy which, in his heart, he believes we must undertake, not because we belong to a Community of Dominions, not because we are the Mother Country of an Empire, but because we are a producing nation, facing new conditions after the War, conditions which we cannot face without tariffs—according to his argument. I like that, because there is a great deal to be said for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2185.1", "colnum": "2185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "y from this side, without feeling unhappy. I am very unhappy, and the reason is that in resisting these Resolutions I am conscious that to-morrow morning the Government will be misrepresented in the Dominions as having taken a step towards breaking our word, or as saying \"Good-day\" to the Dominions, who wish us to pay court to them, or are paying court to us, and turning to them the cold shoulder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2187.3", "colnum": "2187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "An Export Credit is not a special privilege. The Colonies and the Dominions have got that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2187.3", "colnum": "2187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "f their hats and apologise. Having been proved to be wrong, they must not simply shift along. Perhaps I am sensitive about this, so that the Dominions should not misunderstand me, but the whole charge is this, that we are giving special privileges to Russia in order to get Russian trade, and that we are refusing to give ordinary privileges to the Colonies and Dominions in order to get their trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2187.3", "colnum": "2187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ess without it. But that is not all. Do let the House remember that we are not simply throwing our people upon our Dominions like cast-off clothes. We are paying money for it. We have got an emigration scheme which is going to cost us millions upon millions of pounds, and if that scheme is going to he successful at all—and I believe it will; I am backing the scheme for all it is worth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2187.3", "colnum": "2187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ese things will develop, that markets will be created, that exchange will take place, and whoever gives a loan for those things is not merely giving a loan for to-day, or to-morrow, or next year, but is giving a loan that is assimilated into the whole vitality of the nation which spends the money upon its development. We are going to help in that. Therefore, it is not enough to come and say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2199.0", "colnum": "2199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Major CHURCH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Including America!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major CHURCH", "preceding_text": "ere only a few years ago they were sworn brothers in every respect. We have to make the best of the present system. We cannot get beyond it for the time being. Therefore, believing as we do, thinking as we do, behaving as we do, the best thing we can do is to bring ourselves closer and closer together. After all, we have some chance of imposing upon the English-speaking nations of the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2206.0", "colnum": "2206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MEYLER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MEYLER", "preceding_text": "sed at some of the arguments which have been used. One would think to hear them that the colonial farmer was a poor ground-down fellow scraping along for a mere existence, but everyone knows that is not so. Often settlers have a difficult task for a few years, but they soon get on their feet, and the ordinary colonial farmer lives a life very much like the life of a country squire in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2220.4", "colnum": "2220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We understand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "I am sorry if I have not made plain what I am anxious to be at.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2220.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2220.6", "colnum": "2220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was done during the War!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "the Australian wool clip, all the butter that New Zealand could send to us, and all the timber that Canada coud send to us, the State being responsible for the distribution and marketing in this country of the produce of the Dominions. That would be a real Empire policy and a policy which would tend to bring the various parts of the British Commonwealth into a real unity of interest and of effort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2220.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2226.0", "colnum": "2226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. H. SPENCER", "cue_text": "How. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. H. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "nd serious contribution to this Debate. Speaking for himself and I presume for some of his friends—because the hon. Member for Camlachie (Mr. Stephen) has confirmed his statement—he said that his position and the position of his friends was that all goods made under sweated conditions should be kept out altogether. They did not want a duty but wanted to keep these goods out altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2226.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2232.5", "colnum": "2232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What mess?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYCOCK", "preceding_text": "ore serious competitor, and the Colonies are competitors as well as everyone else. The point, therefore, is, what are we to do? You have a coolie who will take a handful of rice per day, and you have America, with her tremendous resources and her measures of Protection. I suggest we should put all temper and pre-conceived notions aside, and try to find out how we are going to get out of this mess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2232.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2240.0", "colnum": "2240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "preceding_text": "lation with a very small territory, dwindling natural resources, and huge responsibilities. The suggestion is that we should aim at giving them a relative monopoly, or Preference, in our home markets, and that they, in return, should do something of the same sort for us. I suggest that such a course is going to add to our difficulties, because it will decrease our efficiency and increase our cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2241.1", "colnum": "2241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "preceding_text": "elief that we desire to enter on the path of Preference at all. It is better to be quite frank with them. It is kinder—and I know enough about our Dominions to be able to say that they like straight speaking, they prefer to be told the truth even if it is unpleasant—it is better now to make it perfectly plain to the Dominions that we do not intend to start along the path of Preference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2243.1", "colnum": "2243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "preceding_text": "ould imagine from some of the speeches made by hon. Members opposite that it is only in London your collectors are at work for the unemployed. As a matter of fact in Melbourne, men stand with boxes collecting for the starving unemployed, and on every railway station there are collecting baskets for clothes for the wives and children of the unemployed. That is one of the fruits of Protection there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2248.1", "colnum": "2248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"A protected country!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " an increasingly formidable competitor before the War was that a quarter of a century before that time her industrial conditions had been improved, wages had been rising and the hours of labour had been reduced. The most formidable industrial competitor in the world to-day is that country where the wages are highest and where the hours of labour are lowest—the United States of America—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2248.1", "colnum": "2248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "al Election could make such a statement. The right hon. Gentleman himself, in his election address, said that for the purpose of his proposal, his general tariff scheme was To give substantial preference to the Empire on the whole range of our duties with a view to promoting the continued extension of the principle of mutual preference which has already done so much for the expansion of our trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2248.1", "colnum": "2248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not by you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ion of these duties should remember that they involve the retention of those duties. They involve the retention of all duties levied upon foodstuffs coming from outside the Empire. Some hon. Members very candidly, but rather injudiciously, interrupted the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Paisley this afternoon with the observation that the Empire could be made self-supporting in 15 years' time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2248.1", "colnum": "2248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "2;if these Resolutions are carried and incorporated in the Finance Bill of the year, then my hon. Friends behind me and hon. Members below the Gangway must bid farewell during their Parliamentary career to any hope of seeing those taxes removed. Just a word or two on the point as to a self-supporting Empire. Only one-quarter of the sugar produced in the world is produced within the British Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2248.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2255.1", "colnum": "2255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Rubbish!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "I am sure we shall not, and I may say that there are Members on this bench who have done a hundred times, a thousand times, more than the right hon. Gentleman or any other hon. or right hon. Gentleman opposite to develop the Colonial cotton industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2255.2", "colnum": "2255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "I understand that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2255.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2255.6", "colnum": "2255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ing the interests of both producers and consumers. I do not hear any cheers from the benches opposite. Is their hostility against the taint of Socialism stronger than their desire to cement the parts of the Empire together? I must stop. I regret my time has been so limited. The Government, as I said in my Budget speech, are going to leave these Resolutions to the free vote of the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2255.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2263.1", "colnum": "2263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the price goes up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "crease, of duties on products coming into this country. But surely it is a much bigger question than that. If we give a Preference to Australia, we create, or enlarge, a market for their produce. By so doing we increase their wealth, their capacity for development, their power to absorb a greater population, and as those results accrue in Australia we get the effect of them in an increased demand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-18", "file": "debates1924-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "5722581374297107", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2263.1", "colnum": "2263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: Not by \"Preference.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "onderful thing. It comprises many races. It spreads into five Continents. It is separated by thousands of miles of ocean. We are occupied in many different ways, often knowing little about what one another are doing, and yet, when the electric wires flashed the word \"war\" across the cables the Empire was of one mind. Those communities, big or little, came at once to our aid in that great struggle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-18a.2263.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-06-19", "file": "debates1924-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "6e17d00bbaff9d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2316.7", "colnum": "2316", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Animals!", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of AGRICULTURE (Mr. W. R. Smith)", "preceding_text": "The Ministry has no jurisdiction in either the Arctic or Antarctic regions, and I am unable to say precisely what steps are being taken to prevent the extermination of the animals referred to in the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2316.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-19", "file": "debates1924-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "6e17d00bbaff9d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2320.5", "colnum": "2320", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "May I press the hon. Gentleman further. If there is to be no standardisation of wages, is it not the case that goods will be imported into this country with the repeal of the McKenna Duties to the detriment of this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2320.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-19", "file": "debates1924-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "6e17d00bbaff9d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2369.1", "colnum": "2369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "ecretary made on the Board of Trade Vote last year. He made a very long speech regarding the iniquity of combines and trusts, and he then said the Board of Trade could deal with them administratively. It did not require legislation. Now that the Parliamentary Secretary is at the Board of Trade we shall be glad to know what administrative action he has taken during the months he has been in office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-19", "file": "debates1924-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "6e17d00bbaff9d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2369.1", "colnum": "2369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": " But the Parliamentary Secretary said it could be done to a large extent administratively a year ago, and we have not heard anything about administrative action. I am not sure about the President of the Board of Trade, but certainly, officially, the Board of Trade, as represented by the Under-Secretary, is against combines and trusts and has announced a Bill to deal with combines and trusts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-19", "file": "debates1924-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "6e17d00bbaff9d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2373.1", "colnum": "2373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"inflation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "s in this country. I think it is a doubtful policy, although many do not, share that view. In a discussion on this very matter there are some interesting opinions and facts in the financial article of the \"Times\" to-day, pointing out, from the experience of the last century, that expenditure on public works in this country may very easily lead to difficult financial and industrial conditions here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-19", "file": "debates1924-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "6e17d00bbaff9d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2391.0", "colnum": "2391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And in this country!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "Germany is over equipped, but the capital which has been advanced for that purpose is no longer a burden to them. It has been wiped out by inflation. I wonder whether the Committee have taken the trouble to look up what has been done in regard to power in Germany, in France, in the United States of America, and in other countries. I have not the figures for Italy, but I know it has happened there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2391.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-19", "file": "debates1924-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "6e17d00bbaff9d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2393.2", "colnum": "2393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "as a victory when it comes to their marks. I am just pointing out what the Germans have done. As I shall point out late on, they have gone through a period of very great suffering, very low wages, and semi-starvation, but at the end of it they have re-equipped their industries, and whether or not that is going to damage this country depends entirely on whether or not this country wakes up in time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2393.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-19", "file": "debates1924-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "6e17d00bbaff9d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2393.2", "colnum": "2393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " for any other purpose. The Germans have used their lignite, great deposits of it, for this purpose. That is the position with which we are confronted, and I would like to ask the Government this: If the credit comes there—I do not know what is the action of a carburettor—I am here getting beyond my depth again—but, at any rate, it is the thing which, I think, starts the machine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2393.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-19", "file": "debates1924-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "6e17d00bbaff9d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2399.0", "colnum": "2399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the Committee for getting up again, but it seems to me that certain matters have been mentioned by the right hon. Gentleman and one in particular which I think demands that I should say something at once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-19", "file": "debates1924-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "6e17d00bbaff9d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2418.3", "colnum": "2418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is the crux of the whole problem!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " a Committee of business men. Every case where credit is extended, whether to Poland or Rumania or any other country whose credit is concerned, is considered on its merits, and, if a particular scheme is brought forward to enable a British merchant to sell goods in Russia, that case must be considered by the same Committee, and, if his credit is too bad or the chance of repayment too remote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2418.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-19", "file": "debates1924-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "6e17d00bbaff9d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2462.0", "colnum": "2462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. H. SPENCER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It does harm!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. H. SPENCER", "preceding_text": " Member need not be very worried about this country getting indemnities from Germany, because even at the most favourable point of view anything that we get in indemnities from Germany will go straight to America. It may be some comfort to him that we are not the only country that is paying indemnities. Is he pleased that we have to pay £35,000,000 a year to America? Does it do us good or arm", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-19", "file": "debates1924-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "6e17d00bbaff9d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2463.0", "colnum": "2463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir PHILIP RICHARD-SON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir PHILIP RICHARD-SON", "preceding_text": "I should like to address a question to the President of the Board of Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2463.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-19", "file": "debates1924-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "6e17d00bbaff9d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2468.0", "colnum": "2468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have been increased!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "ct than the late Government. I actually find that in this Estimate there is a reduction and not an increase. You have the Minister of Mines increasing his staff. You find the Home Office increasing the factory inspectors. Yet the men who fulfil the same office in connection with the Mercantile Marine are being reduced by the present. Government. That is indefensible. The men ought to be increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-19", "file": "debates1924-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "6e17d00bbaff9d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2468.0", "colnum": "2468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"18s.!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": " a disgrace, and a shocking disgrace. Even the men's quarters are not desirable. They are not fit for human beings to live in. If Cabinet Ministers had to reside in them instead of in some of the homes in which they do reside, we should have inspectors doing their work, and more efficiently than now. It is a standing disgrace that you have this going on. In Glasgow we are paying 15s. a week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-19", "file": "debates1924-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "6e17d00bbaff9d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2468.0", "colnum": "2468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are Scottish owners!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "nd I should say that those boats ought to be condemned. In the cross-Channel traffic between this country and France you have in the main magnificent steamers, compared with those which ply between Glasgow and Belfast and the Western Isles. In these Scottish steamers you have people who are just as good as in the Dover and France traffic, having to travel to the Western Isles in shocking steamers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-19a.2468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-20", "file": "debates1924-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6391f29a1c624fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-20a.2502.1", "colnum": "2502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAD PAINT (PROTECTION AGAINST POISONING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "y study goes, I have come to the conclusion that putting all things together this country stands today foremost among all the nations of the world in. social and industrial legislation, and 11 am very proud of our good name. I want to go a step further to-day by passing this Bill. I am very unwilling that this House should at any time give heed to the plaint of commercialism when life is at stake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-20a.2502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-20", "file": "debates1924-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6391f29a1c624fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-20a.2503.2", "colnum": "2503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAD PAINT (PROTECTION AGAINST POISONING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "the Under-Secretary to day. The greater part of the hon. Gentleman's speech was directed to showing that the results of working in this industry were most deleterious, and he put it as though the opponents of the Bill were a cruel class who were really advocates for disease and murder. He went so far as to contrast the sympathy which we. show to dumb animals with the sympathy which we show to men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-20a.2503.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-20", "file": "debates1924-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6391f29a1c624fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-20a.2503.2", "colnum": "2503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAD PAINT (PROTECTION AGAINST POISONING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"On both sides.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "ountry use has unsparingly, and naturally, been made of the humanitarian argument, and accordingly, even when the Geneva Conference came to study this question, its mind was affected by a shower of leaflets and pamphlets and by the exhibition of cinema pictures that really made the effects of this white lead painting appear appalling. The House knows very well what can be done by propaganda—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-20a.2503.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-20", "file": "debates1924-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6391f29a1c624fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-20a.2507.1", "colnum": "2507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAD PAINT (PROTECTION AGAINST POISONING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "ess. I agree that those regulations cannot be aplied to house painting. The effect of these regulations was such that to-day the Under-Secretary, making the strongest case he could, did not-venture to say that there was the slightest need for prohibition in the case of the factories. By his silence on that point he has admitted that the regulations in factories have completely eliminated the risk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-20a.2507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-20", "file": "debates1924-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6391f29a1c624fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-20a.2509.1", "colnum": "2509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAD PAINT (PROTECTION AGAINST POISONING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We want to do away with the factories.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "Why was it not introduced at the Geneva Conference, and introduced for the purpose of applying to the factories?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-20a.2509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-20", "file": "debates1924-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6391f29a1c624fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-20a.2509.1", "colnum": "2509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAD PAINT (PROTECTION AGAINST POISONING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "Why was it not introduced at the Geneva Conference, and introduced for the purpose of applying to the factories? [An HON. MEMBER: \"We want to do away with the factories.\"] Therefore the hon. Gentleman says to-day, though the danger is greater in the factories, still the necessity for the factories are such that we ought to put up with the danger.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-20a.2509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-20", "file": "debates1924-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6391f29a1c624fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-20a.2511.1", "colnum": "2511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAD PAINT (PROTECTION AGAINST POISONING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "es of lead poisoning can in these days be almost said to disappear. Lead dust given off during the dry rubbing down of a painted surface is recognised as one of the main causes of painters becoming ill through inhalation of the dust, but since the introduction of the wet method of rubbing down, no dust is raised, and therefore this as a cause of plumbism ceases. I know nothing whatsoever about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-20a.2511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-20", "file": "debates1924-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6391f29a1c624fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-20a.2524.3", "colnum": "2524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAD PAINT (PROTECTION AGAINST POISONING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK", "preceding_text": "As far as internal painting is concerned they have rejected the use of waterproof sandpaper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-20a.2524.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-20", "file": "debates1924-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6391f29a1c624fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-20a.2524.3", "colnum": "2524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAD PAINT (PROTECTION AGAINST POISONING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK", "preceding_text": "As far as internal painting is concerned they have rejected the use of waterproof sandpaper. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Then why did they recommend that the Convention should be carried out by legislation? They rejected it because of the difficulty of carrying out the regulations. There is a good deal to be said for waterproof sandpaper, but it is a more lengthy and a more cumbersome process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-20a.2524.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-20", "file": "debates1924-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6391f29a1c624fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-20a.2525.1", "colnum": "2525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAD PAINT (PROTECTION AGAINST POISONING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER'S: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK", "preceding_text": " would be affected. I can-net help feeling that the statement about 40 per cent. being affected is a piece of pure propaganda of the kind with which this House is familiar. I prefer the testimony of the Home Office expert to any propaganda of that sort. I doubt very much whether there is any real fear of unemployment. It is comparatively easy for the white lead corroders to convert their premises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-20a.2525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-20", "file": "debates1924-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6391f29a1c624fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-20a.2530.2", "colnum": "2530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAD PAINT (PROTECTION AGAINST POISONING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-20a.2530.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-20", "file": "debates1924-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6391f29a1c624fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-20a.2530.2", "colnum": "2530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAD PAINT (PROTECTION AGAINST POISONING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman know—[Cries of \"Order!\"]—that Sir Thomas Oliver has recently said: \"Our experience of plumbism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-20a.2530.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-20", "file": "debates1924-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "6391f29a1c624fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-20a.2552.0", "colnum": "2552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAD PAINT (PROTECTION AGAINST POISONING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. L. JONES", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. L. JONES", "preceding_text": "out of our difficulty. If the Government will not consent to that I do not conceal from them that I shall vote for the Bill. The dangers are so great that I am not going to be responsible for not casting my vote in favour of the Bill, but there are others who do not take my view of that and the Bill is in great danger of being lost altogether if some such course as I have suggested is not adopted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-20a.2552.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-23", "file": "debates1924-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "faec10a9ff2caa99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.31.1", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman give the necessary place in the Orders for such a Resolution at least to be voted upon?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.31.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-23", "file": "debates1924-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "faec10a9ff2caa99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.35.6", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRISH FREE STATE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\" and laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "As a representative of Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.35.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-23", "file": "debates1924-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "faec10a9ff2caa99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Servile?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "ndustry is not able to redeem its pledge and when Parliament is released, there will be nothing left for the country but to turn in its despair to the servile system of house production advocated by the right hon. Gentleman. The next point in the Amendment is that the provisions of the Bill will not produce the materials. The Government is leaving the production of materials to private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.95.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-23", "file": "debates1924-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "faec10a9ff2caa99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.105.0", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "And we brought forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-23", "file": "debates1924-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "faec10a9ff2caa99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.111.3", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "I have taken the in crease in population. I grant that the figures I have given are an average for the country as a whole. I am not saying that they apply to every area. But the main problem is a replacement problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-23", "file": "debates1924-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "faec10a9ff2caa99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.111.3", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What rents?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "on. Suppose that in 1924 you are going to build no more houses than those actually under construction on 31st March and those completed in the first three months of the year, you will have a production in 1924 of 85,000 houses at least, of which 85 per cent. will have been built by the speculative builder and only 15 per cent. by local authorities and big contractors. There is the actual position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-23", "file": "debates1924-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "faec10a9ff2caa99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.111.3", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For sale.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "000 houses at least, of which 85 per cent. will have been built by the speculative builder and only 15 per cent. by local authorities and big contractors. There is the actual position. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What rents?\"] I cannot tell the rents, but I can tell hon. Members that all of these houses, except at the most some 10,000, are below £26 rateable value in the provinces and £35 in London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-23", "file": "debates1924-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "faec10a9ff2caa99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.111.3", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "e beyond that point—where the speculative builder will feel sufficient confidence in the future to engage new labour and to find that labour for himself. He did it in the past and he can do it now. Thirdly, avoid before everything else any cut-throat competition for labour between the big contractor and the speculative builder, because that is more certain than anything else to put up price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-23", "file": "debates1924-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "faec10a9ff2caa99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.111.3", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not in wages!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "r, because that is more certain than anything else to put up price. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] I have already explained why, and hon. Members should have listened. That is more likely, as I say, than anything else to put up prices, and is the thing which is actually putting up prices at the present moment. Prices have gone up by £50 when the rise in material only justifies an increase of £5.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-23", "file": "debates1924-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "faec10a9ff2caa99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "preceding_text": " of which have been told us and some not. He has secret agreements and arrangements with every kind and class of the community—except the House of Commons. We have not even the chance of putting our case before the House as a Member of a minority party: so closely drawn has been the Financial Resolution that we cannot even submit our case in Committee. Take just one example of this limiting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-23", "file": "debates1924-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "faec10a9ff2caa99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It makes them Conservatives!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "preceding_text": "if they desire to do so, lout only under the sanction of the Secretary of State. Surely that is not a great demand to ask the right hon. Gentleman, a Member of what he himself terms a minority Government? The second point is on the question of building houses to sell. I cannot understand this fierce, bitter hatred, as it seems to me, of the people who live in their own house which they have built.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-23", "file": "debates1924-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "faec10a9ff2caa99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY CRAIK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY CRAIK", "preceding_text": "e (Captain Elliot) as to his own interrogatories and the replies given to him, and his own relations with his successor in office, are, perhaps, not of that general interest which we would like to find in this Debate. The right hon. Gentleman, the Minister of Health, made one remark which I think was rather uncalled-for. He said that we regarded this question entirely from the party point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-23", "file": "debates1924-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "faec10a9ff2caa99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.186.0", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. D. SIMON", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. D. SIMON", "preceding_text": "capitalism to this Socialism of yours.\" The other possibility is, that the city council should pay the £500 and recoup itself by receiving 3s. 3d. per week rent for 60 years. The city council would be out of pocket to the extent of 9s 9d. per week per house. Which of these two schemes does the right hon. Gentleman mean? Does he mean that he is going to pay for these houses by a, capital levy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-23", "file": "debates1924-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "faec10a9ff2caa99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.189.0", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We cannot get in!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "I can assure hon. Members that nothing: would please me more than to hear more speeches from the back benchers. If they would give me assistance in the way I have suggested, we might get the desired result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-23", "file": "debates1924-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "faec10a9ff2caa99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.189.3", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.189.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-23", "file": "debates1924-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "faec10a9ff2caa99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "es from selling some of their houses if they wish to do so? If it is good enough for the right hon. Gentleman to own his own house, it should be good enough for working men all over the country to own their own houses. Why this fierce and bitter hatred of ownership? The suggestion has been made that the right hon. Gentleman knows at least that the man who owns his own house will not be a Socialist", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-23", "file": "debates1924-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "faec10a9ff2caa99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many for letting?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "ays ago the figures showed 10,519 houses finished; during a month another 3,500 have been finished. There are now 14,000 houses finished under the provisions of the Conservative Act of 1923. There are 36,000 houses under construction and 14,000 roofed in. That is, 50,000 houses are well under way towards completion under the provisions of the Measure of my right hon. Friend the Member for Ladywood", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-23", "file": "debates1924-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "faec10a9ff2caa99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.196.2", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "ot be able to get his houses built for anything like that. I want to say one word with regard to labour. The right hon. Gentleman asked, how could he increase labour? The engineers were no good. He did not think much of bricklayers' labourers. It is submitted on all hands that every man in the building trade is employed to-day. There is not a bricklayer, slaterer or plasterer out of work to-night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.196.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-23", "file": "debates1924-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "faec10a9ff2caa99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.196.2", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER,: \"Play the game!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": " of it in Glasgow. He told us in this House that he tried to get himself arrested. Before any Member in this House, particularly hon. Members below the Gangway, vote for this scheme, I want them to remember that the right hon. Gentleman is an out-and-out-opponent of the whole present system of society. I think he will be pleased if the building industry fail to implement their so-called agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.196.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-23", "file": "debates1924-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "faec10a9ff2caa99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.200.7", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD PRIVY SEAL (Mr. Clynes)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD PRIVY SEAL (Mr. Clynes)", "preceding_text": "ogramme. We have to submit, either newly or in their second stages, Bills dealing with the questions of pensions, unemployment, factory laws, agricultural finance, and a further Housing Bill, relating to the possible action of trusts in connection with house construction. If this Bill be kept on the Floor of the House, I want to inform hon. Members that we must sit far into the month of September.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.200.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-23", "file": "debates1924-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "faec10a9ff2caa99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.201.0", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not with labour, but the building trade.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "d the local authorities. The hon. and gallant Member for Kelvingrove informed us that the treaty with labour had \"gone west.\" Other references to it have been made. We were asked by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Twickenham (Sir W. Joynson-Hicks) why it was not embodied in the Bill. My reply is that it is embodied in the Bill. The treaty with labour was a treaty to deliver so many houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-23a.201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-24", "file": "debates1924-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a18999fa7606aa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-24a.229.0", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What was your party doing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "When the hon. Gentleman says that it must be done properly, has he in mind the fact that negotiations have been going on now for over two years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-24a.229.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-06-24", "file": "debates1924-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a18999fa7606aa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-24a.231.5", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "He would be afraid to trust himself with you.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BRASS", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman come for a drive with me in my motor car on one of the roads, and I will illustrate what I mean?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-24a.231.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-24", "file": "debates1924-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a18999fa7606aa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-24a.301.0", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAFFETY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAFFETY", "preceding_text": "ords of the Minister, the whole arrangement will be upset. I hardly think that that can be so. After all, with regard to the London borough councils, they represent practically the same people and cover the same area that the London County Council represent and govern, and there could be no sort of rival interests between the borough councils and the London County Council in a matter of this sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-24a.301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-24", "file": "debates1924-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a18999fa7606aa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-24a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "f the small omnibus owner? He has no hope of increased representation, and it would be unfair in his interest to alter the composition of the Committee. The Seconder of the Amendment said there was no great congestion in Kingsway. Of course, there is not, because the trams run underground there. The Minister made the rather astounding remark that he did not like the Bill, of which he is in charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-24a.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-24", "file": "debates1924-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a18999fa7606aa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-24a.309.0", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "rdance with their relative importance, and the thing that I am most concerned about is that the London County Council is reduced in status and in importance to the level of the Corporation of the City of London. I resent that very strongly, because the Corporation of the City, if I may say so with respect, is a very unimportant body compared with the general governing body of the County of London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-24a.309.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-24", "file": "debates1924-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a18999fa7606aa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-24a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GOSLING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GOSLING", "preceding_text": "act that the Committee rejected his Amendment. He seems to have a false impression still, in spite of what has been said, about what the Committee is. It is not an administrative but an advisory committee, and if there is to be publicity it should be in this House. Criticism should be directed to the Minister. The hon. Member spoke again of the immense powers the Committee is to have. It has none.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-24a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-24", "file": "debates1924-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a18999fa7606aa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-24a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "im that there were indications in connection with this Traffic Bill, that the traffic combine has considerable influence with the Press, just as we had in the case of the McKenna Duties indications of influence due to the same causes. While it is true that a large part of the Press, possibly the majority, are so influenced, there are still one or two organs whose incorruptibility is unimpeachable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-24a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-24", "file": "debates1924-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a18999fa7606aa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-24a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WARD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WARD", "preceding_text": "If Clause 7 prohibits that, then the statement of the Minister is incorrect, and, therefore, what is the use of his standing at that box and telling us that, as a matter of fact, when once you have licensed an omnibus, the proprietor can go on any route he likes? The hon. Gentleman has just said that. Under these circumstances, while I hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-24a.361.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-06-25", "file": "debates1924-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "60e3ebf19c24d47a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-25a.423.8", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Would it not be possible, where any local authority makes representations, for the Minister to extend it to them?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "If the associations of local authorities make representations to me to that effect, I shall certainly view them with the utmost sympathy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-25a.423.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-25", "file": "debates1924-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "60e3ebf19c24d47a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-25a.482.2", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON - EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And reduce the benefits!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON - EVANS", "preceding_text": " next few years, this question would have to be dealt with. I believe it has to be dealt with, and I only wish the Chancellor had been able to say something more about what is probably the real solution, namely, the introduction of some comprehensive form of insurance under which the test will be: Has a man contributed or has he not; if he has, let him have benefit without any inquiry of any sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-25a.482.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-25", "file": "debates1924-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "60e3ebf19c24d47a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-25a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "on which to keep a man, and, therefore, anything that he may earn or may have saved should be accounted unto him for credit and not for unrighteousness. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said that this proposal removed every reasonable grievance. I do not know if he meant by that—I sincerely hope he did not—that this is the final step that he is going to take as regards old age pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-25a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-25", "file": "debates1924-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "60e3ebf19c24d47a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-25a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": " to doing what he is doing now, really investigate the subject comprehensively, and come forward with a scheme which shall be self-supporting, and which shall, once and for all, settle this question of the support which a man or woman is entitled to receive in the ordinary contingencies of life? In a little book which he has published on the subject Sir William Beveridge shows quite clearly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-25a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-25", "file": "debates1924-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "60e3ebf19c24d47a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-25a.521.2", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Colonel WARD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Colonel WARD", "preceding_text": "y in this House Dealing with housing, the wonderful things we would do if we only had a majority! It is all absolute humbug. The Chancellor knows perfectly well that he has the management of the finances of the country, and that the promises which he and perhaps I have made, are not so easily to be performed as they seemed when we were tub-thumping at the street corners. That is all it amounts to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-25a.521.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-06-25", "file": "debates1924-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "60e3ebf19c24d47a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-25a.554.0", "colnum": "554", "heading": "WOOLWICH ARSENAL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Haw is it that the Government do not control this particular Department? It seems strange to me that the Government should have to apologise that they do not control the Forestry Commission.", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of AGRICULTURE (Mr. W. R. Smith)", "preceding_text": " present time. The Government are not entirely remiss with regard to this matter. I am entitled to recall the fact that the Prime Minister has committed himself to the desirability of something being done in this direction. The difficulty is that there is no particular Ministry or definite authority which can be approached and the machinery set in operation for the purpose of evolving some scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-25a.552.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.564.2", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. G. SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Chestnut!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. G. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman think of applying the same method to the patient oxen.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.564.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.592.5", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MERCANTILE MARINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman use all the influence that he has, and all the influence of the Labour Government, to bring pressure to bear on these companies, as there is no doubt that they have influence if they will exercise it. If this was a case of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.592.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTER-ALLIED CONFERENCE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I have looked at both communiqués and I really fail to understand the very serious discrepancy that is alleged to exist between them. According to the English translation the expression is as my right hon. Friend has said, \"general agreement.\" The other, the French form, is \" accord complet. \" Both expressions are intended to mean exactly the same thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.643.3", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOSLEY", "preceding_text": " to industrial disputes. From those simple comparisons, taken from official returns, it could at least appear that the members of the Labour Government were more successful than those of their predecessors. A Conservative always thinks that there is only one solution for an industrial dispute, and that is a display of force. Since Labour came in we have found another solution, a display of reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.643.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.649.0", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Which?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": " Minister takes up an attitude of that kind, he does not say that he is not going to give the information because it is trivial information, or because it is of no account. He says that obviously, having regard, I suppose, to the extent of his information, he does not propose to give it in the interests of the public. I can understand that, because only to-day there is reported in the Press—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.649.0", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which newspaper?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "ivial information, or because it is of no account. He says that obviously, having regard, I suppose, to the extent of his information, he does not propose to give it in the interests of the public. I can understand that, because only to-day there is reported in the Press—[An HON. MEMBER \"Which?\"] I will give it in a minute. There is reported in the Press a meeting of the Third International.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.649.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.653.0", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "as happening. I observe that the \"Daily Herald \"did say on the day the strike took place that they repeatedly warned their leaders who, I hope, include the Minister of Labour, that this outbreak was going to take place. The right hon. Gentleman said: If it had occurred in Glasgow, Birmingham, Leeds, or Manchester, very little would have been beard of it. It never would have come before this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.656.0", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\" and \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "a year—that is a real readjustment in the standard of living, a standard which is very often itself rather perilously near the subsistence level. With worries and anxieties on all hands, can industrial unrest be wondered at? I hope I may be allowed to say this too, that the unrest is certainy not assuaged—quite the contrary— by the teaching day after day of the extreme Socialist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.656.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.656.0", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": " for the abolition of private interest, the extreme Socialist manages to work in some pretty bitter things about the capitalist employer. He manages to work in day after day pretty scornful and pretty indignant things about the condition of the class which he terms the wage-slave class. His definite purpose—I hope I do not misrepresent him—is, so far as I can gather, to embitter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.656.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.656.0", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But hot air does not go down one's back!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "y soul, Mr. Young, when I think of some of the things that are pumped into the working men day after day, I wonder they do any work at all: I wonder, I say, they do any work at all for the class which is presented to them as their natural-born enemies. It is, I say, in favour of good British sense that no little of it is accounted hot air. It goes off their backs like water off the back of a duck.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.656.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.656.0", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"It is inevitable!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "ork at all for the class which is presented to them as their natural-born enemies. It is, I say, in favour of good British sense that no little of it is accounted hot air. It goes off their backs like water off the back of a duck. [An HON. MEMBER: \"But hot air does not go down one's back!\"] That observation does not cook my goose! There may never be a Socialist Government in power in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.656.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.674.0", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "I have as much right to suspect that there is as much evidence in support of my suspicion of the motives underlying this threatened lockout as hon. Gentlemen opposite have for their suspicion in the present case. I have a right to suspect that this threatened lock-out is a political scheme to destroy the very fine housing arrangement that has been come to by the Minister of Health. Is that unfair?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.675.5", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " abject poverty, and they hear hon. Members opposite always saying that nothing better can be expected for them, but that the workers have got to work harder and lay more bricks per day, and be longer at work, that they have got to speed up and have better organisation, and no new hope for the working class in the future is ever to be allowed by hon. Members below the Gangway or on the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.675.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.689.3", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On Irish matters?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "preceding_text": "le in Britain, where slowly—more slowly than many of us wish—but irresistibly the Communist mole in Britain is burrowing under MacDonald's stronghold. Can even the Minister of Labour, with all his affection for similes borrowed from natural history, find a more apt description of the underground movement? We on this side of the House like to ascertain the facts by an impartial inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.689.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.692.1", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"What about the building trade?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "preceding_text": "e will not give us one because it happens that the charges made have not been proved. Therefore this right which he concedes they have but which he will not allow them to exercise is not a very satisfactory or complete vindication of the position. The public right is not merely to be informed of the circumstances of a strike, but it is to be protected against that strike by the Minister of Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.692.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.694.4", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Capitalism, not Capital.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "preceding_text": "Does the Committee think that that resolution breathes a spirit of encouraging goodwill between Labour and Capital?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.694.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.694.4", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Shaw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "preceding_text": "ss to something more recent. In May of last year there was an International Congress at Hamburg, and I see that among the delegates from this country were the present Prime Minister, the present President of the Board of Trade, the present Home Secretary, the present Secretary of State for the Colonies, the present Minister of Transport, and I know not how many other Ministers, hon. and right hon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.694.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "preceding_text": "e Labour and Socialist International…is a union of such parties as accept the principle a the economic emancipation of the workers from capitalist domination and the establishment of the Socialist Commonwealth is their object, and the class struggle which finds its expression in the independent political and industrial action of the workers' organisations as a means of realising that object.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "preceding_text": "struggle which finds its expression in the independent political and industrial action of the workers' organisations as a means of realising that object. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] The right hon. Gentleman is not even ashamed of it now. How can one wonder that a party which acclaims ideals such as that is incompetent to create or foster a spirit of goodwill? I have a whole series of quotations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The working class.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "preceding_text": "nd Labour and in protecting the public interest in these grave industrial disputes. We believe that sonic of the various methods which have been adumbrated, some of them in another place, some of them in the daily Pres!;, some of them in articles and discussions in which many of us take an interest, might provide some practical means of protecting the public, whose interest we regard as paramount.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "preceding_text": "ing the question of the recognition of Russia, appointed a Committee to go into the question, and here is their report. It is an official White Book of the American Government. No doubt the Cabinet, before recognising Russia, read this book, because it is extremely interesting from that point, of view, and it gives the reason why America very wisely did not recognise her. I wish to read a section.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.700.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about yourself?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "preceding_text": " you are going to deal with this question with the langauge of class hatred, then you must apply your principle all round. There is no use in challenging men who happen to belong to the capitalist class and possess wealth, and at the same time vote wealth to men who are leaders of the Labour movement in this country. If you really believe the things you say in this House you should set an example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"What about the Liberals?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KEDWARD", "preceding_text": "in and again condemn cupidity in the rich, and appeal to precisely the same feelings in the poor. That kind of thing will not advance the Labour movement or any movement. It only means that you take one lot down from the top and put up another lot animated with the same desire. I want to refer to the elaborate promises that were made to broken and disappointed men during the last General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.718.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not increase wages, if that is so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKER", "preceding_text": ". That is what is going on, and unless there is some inquiry so that a finger can be put on the spot, these strikes, one after another, will go on until in the end they will disrupt the delicate organisation with which we built up our trade, that is, our transport. Transport is the life blood of this country. It should never be allowed to stop. It does not matter who goes in to stop the transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.730.0", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ens that I am a person who believes in communal ownership of the means of life, to be used by the people for the service of the people, and to that extent I am a Communist. I have never joined the Communist party for two simple reasons. I do not believe in the dictatorship of the proletariat, or the dictatorship of monopolies, or the dictatorship of anyone. I believe in democracy, pure and simple.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.730.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.736.7", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption and HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "he time. I want to see that those men who build good houses live in good houses; that those who grow food shall be able to eat what they need of it, and that those who do these various things shall enjoy the results of their labour which, in effect means that all the good things of life which are socially produced shall be socially shared by all those who do the necessary work of the nation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.736.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.737.5", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "I should like to address myself to the question which has been particularly in our minds, that is the method of dealing with strikes. It is only a few days ago that I heard the hon. Gentleman opposite say that neither he nor others had much love for strikes. When they say they object to them I can only believe they mean what they say, that hon. Members opposite hate strikes as much as we do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.737.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.737.5", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "that a large number of people who voted for his party at the last General Election will bitterly regret that there has not been an opportunity for inquiry into this question and they will regret that the Colonial Secretary has not redeemed the promise he made on this subject. By this refusal the party opposite have not added to the confidence which will be felt in them by the class they represent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.737.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.738.0", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURNER-SAMUELS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURNER-SAMUELS", "preceding_text": "I have wondered, having only been in the House a comparatively short time, whether this House sometimes assembles for serious work or only for comic work. It is a remarkable thing, and I hope strangers who are in the Gallery will take note of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURNER-SAMUELS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURNER-SAMUELS", "preceding_text": "blic? If hon. Members come to the county of Durham, they will find that the public in the ratio of 7 to 3 are connected with the mining industry, and I would remind hon. Members that, although they may be Members of Parliament, they are no greater than the smallest member of the public outside. We on this side are fighting for the public. We have been champions of the public rights for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURNER-SAMUELS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURNER-SAMUELS", "preceding_text": "een champions of the public rights for many years. [ Interruption. ] I am not like hon. Members opposite, who stand up and have nothing to say, and then sit down after saying it. The public would long since have got their rights if we had been in office instead of the Conservative party. I do not wear a rough suit. I do not go into the mine. I belong to the most honourable profession in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.742.2", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURNER - SAMUELS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURNER - SAMUELS", "preceding_text": " what I am certain the country cannot understand, is this. We have been told about the shibboleth of \"labour versus capitalism.\" That is a very convenient cry of the Conservative party. Anything with poison and malice is quite natural to the Conserative party. What I cannot understand, and no respectable thinking person can understand, is this. Before we came into power the country was told—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.742.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.742.2", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURNER - SAMUELS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURNER - SAMUELS", "preceding_text": "t the shibboleth of \"labour versus capitalism.\" That is a very convenient cry of the Conservative party. Anything with poison and malice is quite natural to the Conserative party. What I cannot understand, and no respectable thinking person can understand, is this. Before we came into power the country was told—[ Interruption ]—that here we have got a pack of thieves and robbers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.742.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.742.6", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: He did not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Is the hon. Gentleman entitled to describe lion Members as \"thieves and robbers\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.742.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.751.2", "colnum": "751", "heading": "LONDON TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir EDWARD ILIFFE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir EDWARD ILIFFE", "preceding_text": "I am not at all satisfied with the assurance given by the Minister. I trust that my hon. Friend will not withdraw his Amendment. The The Road Fund—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.751.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "LONDON TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "Harris) that when a Bill of this sort gets on to-the Statute Book it may be continued under the Expiring Laws Continuous Acts for many years For example, I believe the Motor Car Act really expired in 1000 and it is the foundation of a great deal of the trouble which has led to this Bill but along with a great many other Acts, it is revived every year. I would not mind betting the hon Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.760.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.800.3", "colnum": "800", "heading": "LONDON TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Be a gentleman!\" and \"Fellowship and reform!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "No, Mr. Young.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.800.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-26", "file": "debates1924-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "0604e8d178c21f36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.807.0", "colnum": "807", "heading": "LONDON TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": "g. What happens in his division will happen in many. A large section of his constituency find that unexpected powers are given in the Second Schedule of the Bill. We may find that when the hon. and gallant Member for Dulwich (Sir F. Hall), coming back late to the House in his car, desires to go by a certain road, and finds himself prevented, he will use military language, and it will be unlimited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-26a.807.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-27", "file": "debates1924-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "82761ec9ba29a36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-27a.842.3", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEGITIMACY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir THOMAS INSKIP", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir THOMAS INSKIP", "preceding_text": "The responsibility is mine, and mine alone. I am sure that the hon. and gallant Member will not charge me with any deliberate perversion of the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-27a.842.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-27", "file": "debates1924-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "82761ec9ba29a36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-27a.842.6", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEGITIMACY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BOWYER", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Come over here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BOWYER", "preceding_text": "hat they should help to give us to-day a good majority in favour of leaving out the Clause for this great reason. In Committee, upstairs it was left out by 30 votes to 4 which was a good enough majority. In another place, in Lord Buckmaster's Bill, a similar provision was inserted by 70 votes as against 15 or 17. I want the elected representatives of the people to pronounce upon the matter to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-27a.842.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-27", "file": "debates1924-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "82761ec9ba29a36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-27a.863.0", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEGITIMACY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STORRY-DEANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STORRY-DEANS", "preceding_text": "r Ladywood (Mr. N. Chamberlain) has told us that in certain other countries, even in some of our own Colonies, and in a large number—in fact, I think, in almost all—of the States of the United States, there is in force a law which is equivalent to this Bill without the proviso which we seek to add I want to know has that state of things conduced to a higher morality in those countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-27a.863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-27", "file": "debates1924-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "82761ec9ba29a36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-27a.866.0", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEGITIMACY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"Is the Noble Lady in favour or against the Amendment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "o lives with an unmarried man knows that there is a chance of marriage, but it is a very serious thing to make it easier for a woman to live with a married man. That is not really helping the country as a whole. There are desperately hard cases, but laws are never made for hard cases; they are made for the general public. I hope, therefore, that the House will understand at least my point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-27a.866.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-27", "file": "debates1924-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "82761ec9ba29a36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-27a.871.5", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEGITIMACY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": " of human life after the Bill has passed as before. An Act of Parliament may give a child legitimacy, but no Act if Parliament can alter the cruel temper that would stigmatise a child born out of wedlock as a bastard, and it would be no answer to that cruel taunt to say that an Act of Parliament has made the child legitimate. Therefore what you are conferring on the child is merely a legal status.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-27a.871.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-27", "file": "debates1924-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "82761ec9ba29a36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-27a.893.7", "colnum": "893", "heading": "CONVEYANCING (SCOTLAND) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two days!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": " is in the Bill he must be a Member of tremendous energy and legal knowledge. The hon. Member for Stirling and the hon. Member who spoke last, both referred to the careful discussion that had taken place in the Scottish Grand Committee with regard to this Bill of 69 pages of closely printed complex matter. I have made inquiry and find that all this careful discussion occupied no more than one day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-27a.893.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-30", "file": "debates1924-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "27f5fcea19464a05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-30a.973.0", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Would they get it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "on be increased. I have worked out what is the weekly contribution per man in direct taxation in my own works, and I find the result very startling indeed. I find, as a matter of fact, that if there were on my business no direct taxation, Income Tax or Super-tax, and no rates, which are another form of direct taxation, the wages of every man I employ would go up by the amount of 17s. 3d. per week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-30a.973.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-30", "file": "debates1924-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "27f5fcea19464a05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-30a.982.7", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the jumpers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "egard to the exhibition of toffee and fancy sweets—even if all the other objections could be got over as to the inclusion of honey, the baking of scones, the exhibition of a bouquet of wild flowers, and so on—the inclusion of toffee and fancy sweets renders the entertainment one that is not solely in the interests of horticulture, because they belong to the department of public health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-30a.982.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-30", "file": "debates1924-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "27f5fcea19464a05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-30a.989.2", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN:", "preceding_text": " interest which hon. Members opposite are taking in the matter raised by the Amendment, and I will do some of them the justice to say that when they sat upon this side of the House they did raise this question, and some of them were successful last year in getting a concession, and I would ask them whether the concessions which were given last year are not sufficient to meet every reasonable need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-30a.989.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-30", "file": "debates1924-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "27f5fcea19464a05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-30a.994.2", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "ries such as children's knitting competitions and the like, which my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Bristol (Sir T. Inskip) detailed to the House. That sort of thing must be made part of the annual show. I believe that it was the intention of the House to include those items last year. The words then put in have been found to be too narrow. All we are asking is that they shall be extended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-30a.994.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-30", "file": "debates1924-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "27f5fcea19464a05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-30a.1023.2", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": " the matter. The first time that his attention was called to the matter was when it was stated—I have no doubt quite accurately—in an interview with a representative deputation that if the Entertainments Duty were reduced the public would get the benefit. He also stated on that occasion, 19th June, that he saw no reason to believe that that undertaking would not be generally fulfilled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-30a.1023.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-30", "file": "debates1924-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "27f5fcea19464a05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-30a.1024.3", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nearer, or further away?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "ing that very widely indeed. I notice some cinema proprietors are saying that they have given the benefit of the tax to their customers if, for instance, they provide a better film for those persons who witness their entertainment. Another section of these proprietors are saying that they have fulfilled the pledge which they gave to the Chancellor if they provide a seat which is nearer the screen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-30a.1024.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-06-30", "file": "debates1924-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "27f5fcea19464a05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-30a.1025.0", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Is this Woolwich, or where?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "old prices were 6d., 9d. and 1s., and the new prices 5d., 8d. and 1s. He had been prepared to make the 1s. seats 11d., but the patrons had asked for the retention of is. At another house the old prices had been maintained by the vote of the patrons, who had been offered a reduction or an additional variety turn. They decided for the latter by 440 to 122. Mr. Hewitson in his statement——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-30a.1024.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-30", "file": "debates1924-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "27f5fcea19464a05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-30a.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is worth it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "equer, should go into the pockets of the owners of these cinema houses. I want to remind the Committee of the enormous amount of money that is at present paid in the cinema industry or profession. I understand that he, who is familiarly known as Charlie Chaplin, gets a salary of over £100,000 a year—that is to say, more than 20 times that received by the Prime Minister of Great Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-30a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-30", "file": "debates1924-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "27f5fcea19464a05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-30a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Viscount EDNAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Viscount EDNAM", "preceding_text": " car is an honest car, that is to say, when it declared its horsepower 12 years ago it declared its true horse-power. It cannot develop that horsepower now, but at that time it declared its true horse-power, and was not like many cars I see standing outside now in Star Court, which declare a horse-power of, say, 14. I know of one in particular, which I am perfectly certain is a 40-horse-power car.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-30a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-30", "file": "debates1924-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "27f5fcea19464a05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-30a.1071.0", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE-BRABAZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE-BRABAZON", "preceding_text": "unt he wishes the Road Fund to grow. On that matter the present Minister has never given us his views. I have noticed that one thing happens. As the Road Fund gets bigger, so the claims upon it become more and more. You have only to mention the words \"Road Fund,\" anti rural Members in every quarter of the House become interested. I have the greatest respect for our bucolic and rustic frinds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-30a.1071.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-30", "file": "debates1924-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "27f5fcea19464a05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-30a.1073.0", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "lowed to put in a plea on behalf of the motorist I meet with enthusiastic recognition from hon. Members above the Gangway opposite. I invite them not to consider the terms of the Amendment in the way in which my hon. and gallant Friend who spoke last has put it. I ask them to look at it from this point of view that practically every Member, in fact every Member of every party is to-day a motorist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-30a.1073.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-06-30", "file": "debates1924-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "27f5fcea19464a05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-30a.1089.0", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GOSLING", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GOSLING", "preceding_text": "ehicle to another. It therefore strikes right across the fundamental principle of the present method of licences for mechanically-propelled vehicles, which is that each vehicle shall have a separate licence appropriate to itself. It would be almost impossible to enforce this provision successfully, as it would really involve the police, when inspecting a, licence, being able to identify the model.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-06-30a.1089.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-01", "file": "debates1924-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a77c26b81d261b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1137.2", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "It is intended to take the Orders on the Paper from the first to No. 8 inclusive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1137.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-01", "file": "debates1924-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a77c26b81d261b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1174.0", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HEALTH (SCOTLAND) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. CHAPPLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. CHAPPLE", "preceding_text": "ment. If you once start treating a patient with insulin, you have not only to keep up the treatment but you have to keep it up with regularity, because if you once stop it the patient, in many cases, is in greater danger than if you had not started with the treatment at all. Therefore I am in favour of making the cost national if this can be done, but this is a point we can deal with in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-01", "file": "debates1924-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a77c26b81d261b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1180.5", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HEALTH (SCOTLAND) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "to be kept up at the expense of the public purse. By that I mean that if you are going to give, for a special medicine of this kind, special facilities for the poorer classes to get it the public Exchequer should come forward and provide the necessary sum to pay for that medicine. I do not think I have the support of the party sitting behind me in its entirety in the attitude I am taking up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1180.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-01", "file": "debates1924-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a77c26b81d261b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1182.0", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HEALTH (SCOTLAND) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "We do not wish in any way to delay the discussion of the Measure, but, it is the supporters of the Secretary for Scotland who have contributed most to the discussion in the last half hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-01", "file": "debates1924-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a77c26b81d261b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1183.7", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HEALTH (SCOTLAND) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By straining the law!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has pointed out that by administrative action it was competent for him to deal with the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1183.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-01", "file": "debates1924-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a77c26b81d261b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1195.7", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HEALTH (SCOTLAND) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STURROCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STURROCK", "preceding_text": "I hope that my hon. Friend will allow me to develop my argument. If the Board of Health put forward this point the local authority is bound to act; it is compelled to take action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1195.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-01", "file": "debates1924-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a77c26b81d261b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1198.0", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir KINGSLEY WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir KINGSLEY WOOD", "preceding_text": "proposals of the Government. I suppose that is solely because they read all the resolutions that were moved and the pledges which were given by hon. Members opposite. A very large number of the old age pensioners themselves will be very disappointed also. Those who cast their votes for Labour Members on the promises which were made have now a right to say that they have been very cruelly deceived.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-01", "file": "debates1924-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a77c26b81d261b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1207.1", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "nd the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he introduced his proposal, not only told us that he had not got enough money to remove the thrift disqualification altogether, and to make old age pensions universal, but he went further, and said: I do not think it right to do anything to encourage earnings by individuals above 70 years of age.\"—[OFFICIAL, REPORT 25th June, 1924; col. 474, Vol 175.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-01", "file": "debates1924-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a77c26b81d261b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1207.1", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Income Tax limit.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "e old man gardening, or the like? It is a cruel thing to say to these old people, \"Our proposition is that we ought to do everything we can to discourage you from earning after 70 years of age.\" I know the inquiries which have to be made are inevitably bound up with a means limit. For my part, I do not believe there is any way of avoiding this inquisition, except by getting rid of the means limit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-01", "file": "debates1924-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a77c26b81d261b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1210.1", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In the case of the Judge, what old age pension are you referring to?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "he were given this inducement he certainly would not. He would disclaim it, and would have the record, and the authorities, when they reviewed his estate at death, if they found his estate was more than a certain figure, would say that, unless it was proved that he did not take his old age pension, the old age pension must be returned out of the estate as from the age of 70, with interest upon it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-01", "file": "debates1924-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a77c26b81d261b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1218.0", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "tween the thrifty and unthrifty. The right hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Spen Valley (Sir J. Simon)—who I am sorry not to see at the moment in his place—said the real point was the penalisation of thrift. I agree. I have very often heard it said from a certain section of the House that thrift is not a virtue, but that, on the contrary, it is in the nature of a social crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-01", "file": "debates1924-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a77c26b81d261b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1223.0", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON", "preceding_text": "ertain amount of checking might be done later on, but I think it is a wrong thing to have all this inquisition into the means of the pensioner, because it is treating those who have the least money worse than those who have the larger sum. I hope the Government will realise that the sense of the House is in advance of their tame and halting measures, and they ought to test the House on this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-01", "file": "debates1924-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a77c26b81d261b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1239.1", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "There is no need to issue instructions of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1239.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-07-01", "file": "debates1924-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a77c26b81d261b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1241.0", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Who imposed it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STURROCK", "preceding_text": "towards this Bill. I will refer only to the inquisitorial methods which are supplied to old age pensioners in all parts of the country. I did indeed hope, altogether apart from party polities, and on this I appeal to hon. Members above the Gangway as I do to Members in every part of the House, to agree with me, that too much inquisition applied to the application of the Old Age Pensions Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-01", "file": "debates1924-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a77c26b81d261b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1247.4", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "eating universal pensions, under which system a birth certificate alone would entitle a man to a pension, which would be a ridiculous and illogical system, and would compel him to give pensions to dukes and lords. But when it came to a Motion of this kind before the right hon. Gentleman was in office, the whole Socialist party went into the Lobby in favour of making the birth certificate the test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1247.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-01", "file": "debates1924-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a77c26b81d261b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1247.4", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "t you say? It is a perfectly serious point, although it seems to amuse my hon. Friends. They have got the cash, and they are prepared to let the discredit go. \"We shall be told by the Government,\" said Mr. Myers in moving his Resolution, \"that there is any amount of sympathy for this proposal,\" and no one could express it more eloquently than my hon. Friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1247.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-01", "file": "debates1924-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a77c26b81d261b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1249.1", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "I think, Mr. Deputy-Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-01", "file": "debates1924-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a77c26b81d261b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1249.5", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "chequer when he introduced the Bill into the House, and one of the most extraordinary ones was: \"I do not think it right to do anything to encourage earnings by individuals above 70 years of age.\" In the course of this speech he referred to the Report of the Departmental Committee on Old Age Pensions, and it so happened that that Committee, under the heading in its Report of \"Industry\" said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1249.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-01", "file": "debates1924-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a77c26b81d261b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1262.0", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTY COURTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain TUDOR REES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain TUDOR REES", "preceding_text": "he expense and delay of going to the High Court, when they could have their grievances redressed in a much cheaper and more expeditious way in the County Court. I will give a very homely illustration. It was brought to my notice, a day or two ago, that a certain hon. Member of this House desecrates the early morning hours by practising, and making weird, horrible nosies in so doing, on the cornet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-01", "file": "debates1924-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a77c26b81d261b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1264.1", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTY COURTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "I should like to say a word with reference to what has been said about resenting the speech I made. Does the House really think that is quite fair?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-01", "file": "debates1924-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a77c26b81d261b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1266.1", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTY COURTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry that my hon. Friend has said that. I do not think that it was a question of manners. If he will excuse me, I think he thought that he had an opportunity of saying something which I might resent. If it is a question of manners, I would suggest to my hon. Friend that he might think again before he makes an observation of that sort, which, if he said it where he and I practice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-01", "file": "debates1924-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "a77c26b81d261b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1277.10", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTY COURTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain REES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain REES", "preceding_text": "ounty Court Judge, who knows practically every person in the district capable of filling the post, would have been the person most qualified to make the appointment. For some reason, however, this power is to be transferred to the Lord Chancellor. My fear is that in an event of that sort, and the Lord Chancellor having to make the appointment, it will lead to a good deal of political wire-pulling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-01a.1277.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-02", "file": "debates1924-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "3abb3fcfe6fd8361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1301.7", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HODGES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HODGES", "preceding_text": "t that the number and size of the Admiralty vessels which are available and suitable for taking distinguished visitors to the review, and the restricted amount allowed for purposes of entertainment, do not make it possible to invite all Members of Parliament. To accommodate all Members, one or more passenger ships would have to be, specially chartered, as on the occasion of previous reviews—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1301.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-02", "file": "debates1924-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "3abb3fcfe6fd8361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1302.2", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOVERSEED", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOVERSEED", "preceding_text": "Will new Members receive priority?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1302.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-02", "file": "debates1924-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "3abb3fcfe6fd8361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1309.4", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"McKenna Duties!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "In previous years has there not been a steady decrease in the number of unemployed in the midsummer months, June and July? What has caused the increase in June this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1309.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-02", "file": "debates1924-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "3abb3fcfe6fd8361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1309.5", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"McKenna Duties!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "The increases are mainly due to the stoppage of certain factories in Lancashire, and another part of the increase is due to unemployment in the engineering trades in the Midlands", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1309.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-02", "file": "debates1924-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "3abb3fcfe6fd8361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1327.8", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not the candidate?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "nd in drawing up this Bill, which I hope I will be given permission to introduce. I have sought to bring the subscriptions of Members of Parliament and their gifts and donations into the category of corrupt practices in exactly the same way as they would be if committed in the course of an Election. I have made certain exceptions which, I think, are sufficient to cover every legitimate enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1327.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-02", "file": "debates1924-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "3abb3fcfe6fd8361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1330.0", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. W. ALLEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. W. ALLEN", "preceding_text": "e of this House—so I have understood in the short time I have been here—that a First Reading should be given to Bills brought forward under this Rule with the idea that they should be printed. I do want, however, to submit, with the greatest possible respect, that the House will not enhance its reputation by giving its imprimatur to the First Reading of so fantastic a proposal as this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-02", "file": "debates1924-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "3abb3fcfe6fd8361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1330.0", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. W. ALLEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. W. ALLEN", "preceding_text": "the House is going to give its imprimatur to a Bill like this, there are other reforms which it seems to me would be necessary. What are we going to say of that bribery which takes the form of rash and hopelessly wild pledges? Certain hon. Members, apparently, are under the impression that I am referring to any one section of the House, and I hasten to add that all parties are equally blameworthy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-02", "file": "debates1924-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "3abb3fcfe6fd8361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1333.7", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "MONEYLENDERS (RESTRICTIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel POWNALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel POWNALL", "preceding_text": " leave be given to bring in a Bill to prohibit advertising and circularising by registered moneylenders. My reason for adapting this method instead of the more simple one of presenting the Bill at the Table of the House is that I may just give a few reasons why this Bill should not only receive a First Reading, but that it should also in the very near future receive a Second and the Third Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1333.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-02", "file": "debates1924-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "3abb3fcfe6fd8361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1333.7", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "MONEYLENDERS (RESTRICTIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel POWNALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel POWNALL", "preceding_text": "e more simple one of presenting the Bill at the Table of the House is that I may just give a few reasons why this Bill should not only receive a First Reading, but that it should also in the very near future receive a Second and the Third Reading. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"] It is very pleasant to hear that it receives such general approval. We are all of us swamped with circulars from moneylenders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1333.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-02", "file": "debates1924-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "3abb3fcfe6fd8361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1359.4", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "of this House—I mean the late Mr. Keir Hardie. He published a pamphlet called \"A Labour Budget,\" and in the course of that pamphlet he expresesd the opinion that A system of taxation which should secure that the rich should have less to hoard up or to squander on riotous living, whilst the poor should have more wherewith to purchase the ordinary necessaries of life was the ideal of taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1359.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-02", "file": "debates1924-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "3abb3fcfe6fd8361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1381.4", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KEENS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Read the letter.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KEENS", "preceding_text": "nt certain rights and will have them if Clause 20 be not carried into effect. They are content to test the question in the Courts of Law, but the position of the Government, according to a letter, is \"We are advised by our Law Officers that you are not so entitled, but if you are so entitled, we are going to take care that you do not get any benefit out of it.\" That is contained in a letter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1381.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-02", "file": "debates1924-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "3abb3fcfe6fd8361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1395.0", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. N. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is only one\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. N. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "As to whether those cases are likely to be covered by the House of Lords decision, of course it is not for a layman to express an opinion. I remember that the right hon. Gentleman did hold out to us a suggestion, in an earlier discussion on the subject, that we might have the benefit to-night of a statement from one or other of the Law Officers of the Crown. I do not see either of them here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-02", "file": "debates1924-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "3abb3fcfe6fd8361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1437.8", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "r that the duties might in the case of these estates be remitted. That action was taken, and these two particular cases were referred by the War Office to the India Office and the India Office, in their turn, passed the matter on to the Government of India to have the question decided as to whether Major Anderson and Major Orr were or were not killed in action. I desire to be as brief as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1437.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-02", "file": "debates1924-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "3abb3fcfe6fd8361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1444.1", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " the effect that the soldier was paid to be killed. That would be an extremely brutal way of putting an argument in which there is a certain clement of truth. What I mean by that is this—and I am quite sure the Committee will not misunderstand me as minimising the dangers in the life of the soldier—but these various matters are taken into consideration in fixing the soldier's emolument", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-02", "file": "debates1924-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "3abb3fcfe6fd8361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1452.0", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir CHARLES BARRIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir CHARLES BARRIE", "preceding_text": "these hospitals are really their own because they contribute towards their upkeep, and thus make provision for the day when they may require treatment themselves. I hope all sections of the House will support the views which have been expressed in this debate, and press the Chancellor of the Exchequer to make this very small concession. I am told that only something like £120,000 is involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-02", "file": "debates1924-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "3abb3fcfe6fd8361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1454.0", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a good one, too!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "will confine my few observations to that point. I am quite sure there is no hon. Member who is not in agreement with every word which has been uttered in the course of this Debate in regard to the claims of these admirable, beneficial and necessary institutions. The question which has been introduced by the noble Lord the Member for Hornsey (Viscount Edman) is becoming something of a hardy annual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1454.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-02", "file": "debates1924-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "3abb3fcfe6fd8361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1456.1", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "eir existence upon receiving a subsidy of £80 to £100 each? Not at all. There is this further point, which I do not think the Noble Lord touched upon. I do not think the hospitals themselves would gain very much. They would gain next to nothing if this Amendment were carried, but the State would lose a considerable sum, because legacies to hos- pitals are mainly left free of legacy duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-02", "file": "debates1924-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "3abb3fcfe6fd8361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1458.0", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASTER MAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Impatient oxen!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASTER MAN", "preceding_text": "ne because a speech has already been made from this bench by one of its adornments which I do not think represents the opinion of the majority of the party. I think I may be excused from any accusation of not voting against the Government on what I think has been right on the Finance Bill. This afternoon we tried to get what we thought right and we were defeated by a Conservative-Labour Coalition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-02", "file": "debates1924-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "3abb3fcfe6fd8361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1461.0", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir DOUGLAS HOGG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Honest!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir DOUGLAS HOGG", "preceding_text": "We have just heard from the right hon. Member for Rusholme (Mr. Masterman) that the Liberal party is the only consistent party in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-02", "file": "debates1924-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "3abb3fcfe6fd8361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1462.1", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "preceding_text": "I will tell you with pleasure. I voted against the Amendment last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-02", "file": "debates1924-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "3abb3fcfe6fd8361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1466.0", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "preceding_text": "men above the Gangway opposite happen to be in office. Before very long, no doubt, one of the other parties will be in office, and it also may be—probably will be—a minority Government. If it is going to be the practice of each party to endeavour to take political advantage by sniping at minor budgetary estimates, it seems to me we shall arrive at an extraordinarily difficult position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-02", "file": "debates1924-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "3abb3fcfe6fd8361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1466.1", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount EDNAM", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount EDNAM", "preceding_text": "I want to be allowed to ask the hon. and gallant Member whether he is in favour of the Amendment or not, because he has been arguing entirely against the Amendment. If in favour of the Amendment he ought to vote for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-02", "file": "debates1924-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "3abb3fcfe6fd8361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1468.0", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Gentleman the Member for Rusholme (Mr. Masterman) told us that he intended to oppose the Amendment, and that he did not think it right for the House to reduce the amount of revenue available unless in some other direction it was prepared to increase the revenue on some other account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-02", "file": "debates1924-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "3abb3fcfe6fd8361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1468.0", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": ", and that he did not think it right for the House to reduce the amount of revenue available unless in some other direction it was prepared to increase the revenue on some other account. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"] I know that neither he nor his colleagues supported that Amendment which would have that effect, nor did they support another Amendment the effect of which would have been the same—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-02", "file": "debates1924-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "3abb3fcfe6fd8361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1468.0", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "duce the amount of revenue available unless in some other direction it was prepared to increase the revenue on some other account. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"] I know that neither he nor his colleagues supported that Amendment which would have that effect, nor did they support another Amendment the effect of which would have been the same—[ Interruption. ] He knows as well as anyone else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-02", "file": "debates1924-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "3abb3fcfe6fd8361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1468.0", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "el this remission as well as that proposed by the present Amendment. All the arguments against remission of legacy duties are equally applicable against remission of Income Tax. The only two hon. Members of this House who have put forward any arguments against this proposal—the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the hon. Member for Rusholme—are, therefore convicted out of their own mouths", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-02a.1468.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-03", "file": "debates1924-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87cc7217b8f268a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-03a.1488.6", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "If I get a chance I will put my question, but I am not getting a chance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-03a.1488.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-03", "file": "debates1924-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87cc7217b8f268a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-03a.1492.1", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman not aware that that is no answer to my question, namely, whether the outrages he has mentioned did not take place hundreds of miles away from any district that has been bombarded during the past five months, and will his Department print a White Paper giving the full particulars of why and where bombing has taken place, together with the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-03a.1492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-03", "file": "debates1924-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87cc7217b8f268a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-03a.1492.1", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "undreds of miles away from any district that has been bombarded during the past five months, and will his Department print a White Paper giving the full particulars of why and where bombing has taken place, together with the fact—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"]—together with the fact that no one but the airman concerned is ever present to know whether any of the inhabitants have been killed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-03a.1492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-03", "file": "debates1924-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87cc7217b8f268a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-03a.1492.1", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ct that has been bombarded during the past five months, and will his Department print a White Paper giving the full particulars of why and where bombing has taken place, together with the fact—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"]—together with the fact that no one but the airman concerned is ever present to know whether any of the inhabitants have been killed? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"] You behave.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-03a.1492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-03", "file": "debates1924-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87cc7217b8f268a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-03a.1492.2", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "What did the late Secretary of State for the Home Department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-03a.1492.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-03", "file": "debates1924-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87cc7217b8f268a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-03a.1498.4", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nor do you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "They do not work eight hours a day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-03a.1498.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-03", "file": "debates1924-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87cc7217b8f268a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-03a.1508.3", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Hoy. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "I want to know, Sir, how to put down a question concerning the Stone of Destiny that is lying at Westminster. I have put down such a question, but it has not gone through—I am told on your instructions. The Stone of Destiny was taken by", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-03a.1508.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-03", "file": "debates1924-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87cc7217b8f268a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-03a.1569.0", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major DUDGEON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are having it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major DUDGEON", "preceding_text": "nd to-day who think that the methods by which land settlement has been promoted since the War have not been the most satisfactory or the most economical, that we have not got value for money and that the smallholders, who have very expensive, though not very satisfactory, equipment placed upon their holdings. Will in years to come have increasing difficulty in getting profit out of those holdings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-03a.1569.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-03", "file": "debates1924-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87cc7217b8f268a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-03a.1600.1", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "preceding_text": "nd if a child goes into a supplementary department to-day and develops abilities later on which are unexpected, it is difficult for him to pass into an intermediate school—very much more difficult than it should be in the new advanced divisions. We find where this system is in operation as it is in full operation in Aberdeen—a city always in the forefront of educational progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-03a.1600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-03", "file": "debates1924-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87cc7217b8f268a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-03a.1601.0", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"He is a Labour Member!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "It is the only Scottish constituency that sends an Englishman here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-03a.1601.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-04", "file": "debates1924-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "fdacb47473a65c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-04a.1683.0", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMARY JURISDICTION (SEPARATION AND MAINTENANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "cue_text": "A laugh", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "preceding_text": "It occurs to me that the view of the marriage tie, held by those who oppose this Amendment, is the view which has been held throughout the centuries, and those of us who sit on these benches have often been accused of being in favour of free love because at times we have suggested that the economic dependence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-04a.1683.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1773.2", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "What has that got to do with it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HEALY", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman add anything in regard to the number of Northern Nationalists who were killed in Belfast?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1804.0", "colnum": "1804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [14TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ce. What was the situation? The French Prime Minister agreed to the Conference before he left. He agreed to the date. The representative of the Quai D'Orsay came to the Conference and agreed to the date. There was no question of sending an invitation there. The only question was to send to Paris asking them to tell us who their representatives were to be, and how many were coming, and that we did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1804.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1811.0", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [14TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "objection at all to publishing the document. I understood, as a matter of fact, that a great deal has been written about it, although I have not seen very much of it myself, and that this statement, and more particularly the point of how it affected the three Powers which were concerned in the matter—Belgium, Italy, and Japan—would be quite satisfactory without publishing the document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1811.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1811.0", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [14TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Before Thursday?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "al has been written about it, although I have not seen very much of it myself, and that this statement, and more particularly the point of how it affected the three Powers which were concerned in the matter—Belgium, Italy, and Japan—would be quite satisfactory without publishing the document. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] If the Committee desires it, the document will undoubtedly be published.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1811.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1813.0", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [14TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "diplomacy with regard to Russia with talk of the pompous folly of standing aloof from the Russian Government. He is not as other men are, pompous, foolish, undiscriminating, in foreign affairs, or even as his predecessor. He said, in effect, \"We have no direct dealings with Russia. I have to whisper to another behind my back to tell somebody, to tell somebody to tell somebody else to tell Moscow.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1813.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1817.1", "colnum": "1817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [14TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "bondholders was admitted to be £40,000,000. An offer of 15 per cent. was to be made. That is £6,000,000. Do not let anyone run away with the idea that the £6,000,000 was to be paid off. In the first place, certain conditions were imposed. There were certain classes of bondholders whose claims were to be excluded from consideration. The larger bondholders' claims were to be excluded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1822.0", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [14TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "I can deal with francs, but we are dealing with roubles at the moment. I know what the hon. Member is thinking of. He is thinking of the fact that people who lend money to the French, on French bonds, in France have to stand the risk of the franc depreciating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1822.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1832.0", "colnum": "1832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [14TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'NEILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'NEILL", "preceding_text": "emable yearly in units of £1,000,000, so that in 30 years the claims would be fully paid. The bondholders understand a good deal better than the politicians, who are trying to embroil us in some miniature war with Russia, that the bonds are only worth a given value. Nearly everybody who has Russian bonds has written them off as utterly worthless. I have heard a distinguished banker say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1832.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1834.2", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [14TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOREL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So do we!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOREL", "preceding_text": "onourable tradition on that side, then we should be delighted with the attacks made on Russia from those benches this afternoon, because if there is one thing that millions of voters in this country will not readily forgive, it is these determined, these persistent, these implacable efforts to sabotage the Anglo-Russian negotiations. I may be pardoned for claiming to know something about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1834.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1836.4", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [14TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman the Member for Dundee has not given way and, therefore, the hon. Member is out of order in standing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1836.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1836.6", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [14TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Commander LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Tsar's.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "I apologise for interrupting the hon. Member, but he speaks of the old regime. Which old regime did we want established?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1836.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1838.1", "colnum": "1838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [14TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOREL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOREL", "preceding_text": "At the moment there are between 8,000,000 or 9,000,000 men drilling for war in Europe, many of whom are fully equipped for war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1839.1", "colnum": "1839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [14TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOREL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOREL", "preceding_text": " five years after the most annihilating victory ever known in the history of war, and when the victorious statesman had an entirely free hand to make that new world which they so confidently predicted. I shall be called upon to make some remarks in the course of going into greater detail to the Committee, and the present state of Europe as to the activity of French armament firms and French—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1844.3", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [14TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Consols?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": "ey were mere matters of money, those debts are an expression of something more material, and I should approach them from that point of view. It is immaterial for the purposes of this argument whether bonds in the market are valued at £10 or £100 per cent. The question I would submit is that they exhibit a former confidence measured in terms of money, and that confidence no longer exists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1844.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1863.0", "colnum": "1863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [14TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. WARD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. WARD", "preceding_text": "o express them. When I came back, knowing that the Zemstvo had been destroyed, and knowing that any man who either thought or talked about representative institutions was immediately shot or otherwise murdered, and I went to the Labour Congress, fresh from Russia, where every semblance of liberty and democracy was being ruthlessly massacred and destroyed, and I heard my Labour colleagues glorying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1865.1", "colnum": "1865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [14TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WARD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WARD", "preceding_text": "people are being completely humbugged.\" The whole thing so far from being an upheaval towards democracy was then and is now, after four or five years without any outside interference, the most horrible, tyrannical oligarchy that the world has ever seen. Nothing in the Star Chamber is equal to it. Nothing in the history of any of the States of Europe, not even the French Revolution, is so terrible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1866.1", "colnum": "1866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [14TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WARD", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Not Communism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WARD", "preceding_text": "ot sit down as the Russians are doing to re-establish and build up some other system. Your foreign trade must be kept going on or within a fortnight or three weeks millions of your people would be starving. Yet in that country with illimitable resources, where Communism, if it ever could be, should be successful, it has proved one of the most ghastly failures ever seen in the history of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1868.2", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [14TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WARD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WARD", "preceding_text": "hold up the State in any department whenever they chose? You would not allow anything of the kind, and you would not be carrying out your principles if you did allow such a thing, because sooner or later that combination would dethrone you and your system. Those are some of the essential facts. I am not so much concerned with money values, but I do hate to find my old trade unionist friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1868.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1872.2", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [14TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WARD", "preceding_text": "Not I, and for this very simple reason. My hon. Friend states that he was taken prisoner and was not there during the period or until some six weeks later, whereas I have had the statement of eyewitnesses who were actually there all the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1872.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1876.3", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [14TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Halifax\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "this matter. Do they want to break off the present relations, to cancel the trade agreement signed by the Coalition Government with Russia? Do they want to expel the Amos Banking Company and all the other trading concerns that have been established here, and do they want to prevent this trade being carried on? if so, I would like them to go up to Blyth, and Hull, and to the East India Docks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1876.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1876.3", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [14TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "oods. Apparently, the British Government are unable to do this, and the wretched bondholders, therefore, will go on whistling for their money. I suppose the British Government will receive support in that attitude from the Conservatives who have just cheered the hon. and gallant Member for Stoke-on-Trent, who, if he was preaching anything, was preaching red war and further bloodshed and suffering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1876.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1876.3", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [14TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "try. I suppose that they think they would not get the support of the Liberal party, but have they sounded the Liberal party? Have they done us the honour of asking what we think about it? If the matter were properly explained to the House, as I hope the hon. Member who is going to speak for the Foreign Office will explain it, I think an excellent business case could be made out for this guarantee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1876.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1895.0", "colnum": "1895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [14TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PURCELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PURCELL", "preceding_text": "o long as we do trade. They were certain care would be taken to give them security with regard to their trade relationships. In that connection there has been a great extension of trade with many countries. I think the trouble in this instance is that our friends are more concerned about the bondholders than about the working classes of this country. I am not a bit concerned about the bondholders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1899.2", "colnum": "1899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [14TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Sir V. WARRENDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The same here\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir V. WARRENDER", "preceding_text": "ide a case, the Court will come to a decision on the subject, guiding itself by the general principle of Soviet law and by the general policy of the Government of Workers and Peasants. In other words, where the code law does not happen to fit the particular case, the Judges are to base their judgment on Government policy, which may change from year to year, month to month, or even from day to day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1899.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1899.2", "colnum": "1899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [14TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Sir V. WARRENDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir V. WARRENDER", "preceding_text": "untry the same privileges and the same protection as their Russian confreres get in this country, you will never get any trade done. No one is more anxious than I am to see trade resumed between this country and Russia. I wish to deal with the attack that has been made upon hon. Members on this side. It is suggested that as a party we want to see this conference come to an unsuccessful conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1899.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1899.2", "colnum": "1899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [14TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Sir V. WARRENDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have read them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir V. WARRENDER", "preceding_text": " one only, which will show them how wrong they are. At a meeting, the fifth meeting I think it was, of the Communist Internationale not long ago in Moscow, Mr. Zinovieff, one of the moving lights in that august assembly, made the following remark about the Prime Minister and about his party. They are not very complimentary, but hon. Members opposite must not blame me, because I am not responsible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1899.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1914.0", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.— [14TH ALLOTTED DAY.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Imagination!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "preceding_text": "t accept anything on behalf of the bondholders, and it could not recommend anything to the bondholders. I had asked the Russian delegates to meet them and, to my dismay, I found that the negotiations were abortive. The scheme which the hon. Baronet elaborated in his opening speech had features of which I had not heard of before. He had drawn on sources closed to me, or he was drawing on his—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1914.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-07", "file": "debates1924-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8030813d959befe5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1922.12", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "POLICE (WHITE OVERALLS).", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "I am rather surprised not to see the Home Secretary in his place, as I gave him notice that I intended to raise a subject which, though it may appear humorous to some, yet is of serious import to others. I refer to the question of supplying white overalls for certain policemen on point duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-07a.1922.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.1947.2", "colnum": "1947", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES ACT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer,\" and \"Do not answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman give us the names of those who ordered these vessels; who have made these contracts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.1947.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.1956.0", "colnum": "1956", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "on, who introduced the public-house measurement to pints? I did not use pints at all: it was he. Men who know always talk in gallons. May I ask, further, whether the hon. Gentleman is aware, from reading the Report of the Inquiry into the last disaster, that it was clearly proved there that the barrier had not been measured, while now he tells us that this barrier is not proved? Is he aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.1956.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.1971.1", "colnum": "1971", "heading": "UNOCCUPIED HOUSES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the price!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": " could we give him for not making use of these empty houses in our present emergency? I can find no adequate reason. It does not seem to me that it would be an adequate reason to talk about the rights of private property in such cases. After all, we have not forgotten the War. We remember that during the War we took these houses to billet soldiers in and to use as stores, depots and offices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.1971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.1972.1", "colnum": "1972", "heading": "UNOCCUPIED HOUSES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "Never mind about the terms. I am told that it is an impossible proposition to bring slum dwellers to live in the best parts of the West End of London. They say there would be a tremendous slump in property values if we brought people of this sort, the very poorest people, to live next door to the rich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.1972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2016.0", "colnum": "2016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount EDNAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount EDNAM", "preceding_text": "I said before that I did not want to press the Amendment to a Division and I will keep my word. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2017.2", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "I say that the responsibility for seeing that the Budget is safely piloted rests with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and I shall be guided largely by what he says. I hope that he will give credit to me, and to those who support me, that the Budget is also partly our Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2017.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2053.2", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I misrepresent the hon. Gentleman. I am sure that every Member of the Committee who heard the speeches will agree that I am not doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2053.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2056.5", "colnum": "2056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUNN", "preceding_text": "After the statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2056.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2111.0", "colnum": "2111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": " taxing the agent because the agent ought to be taxed, but a justification for using a machinery, however unjust, because it is the only way in which you can get it. Now, is it the only way? If you really do mean, as your arguments seem to suggest, that you want to protect the British manufacturer against an importation into this country which does not pay taxes, put the tax on in the right place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2114.5", "colnum": "2114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir VANSITTART BOWATER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What firm is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir VANSITTART BOWATER", "preceding_text": "come before the House to-day possibly accounts for our receiving yesterday forms to fill in on behalf of foreign principals. Of our various principals we have only been attacked on account of one. The officials select one presumably to try to establish that we are a branch. I find those are the usual tactics. If Rule 10 protects the agent, why are the Income Tax people bullying people in this way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2114.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2117.1", "colnum": "2117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged for that statement, but I think the Attorney-General is a little wrong when he says that in 99 cases out of 100 there are no assets. My point is that in an immense number of cases, I will not say 99 per cent., but 50 per cent., there are assets in this country. Where it is a case of fraud, the arm of the English law is strong enough to get at them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2117.1", "colnum": "2117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "y-General and the Financial Secretary have quite properly made. Is it right, in order to try to deal with a comparatively few thoroughly dishonest people, instead of resorting to a process based upon the allegation of fraud, to pass a law under which you penalise and make personally liable for the tax a perfectly innocent agent, who is less able to recover the tax than the revenue authorities are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2117.3", "colnum": "2117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "rned Gentleman referred relived those companies from taxation. In reference to the company of which I am speaking, and which he says would be chargeable, may I ask with what is it chargeable, and on what profits is it chargeable? Suppose it to be rubber, the rubber is grown, all the labour in connection with it is done, all the expense is paid, and all the goods are collected in a foreign country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2120.0", "colnum": "2120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "rder that they may deliver the goods. Is that company, because it has made a special agreement to deal with one general broker only, to be liable to pay tax. The Attorney-General must give us a definite answer to this one way or another. He shakes his head now, but he nodded his head in the affirmative when I asked him whether the making of an agreement with one broker constituted a special agent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2120.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2120.0", "colnum": "2120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "but he nodded his head in the affirmative when I asked him whether the making of an agreement with one broker constituted a special agent. [ Interruption. ] I suggest to the Chancellor of the Exchequer that it is of the utmost importance that these companies should not be thought liable for taxation. It is of the greatest importance that those engaged in merchant businesses in London should—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2120.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2120.3", "colnum": "2120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT", "cue_text": "Interruptions.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "I want the Chancellor of the Exchequer—and no one realizes better than himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2120.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2123.4", "colnum": "2123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHEPPERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHEPPERSON", "preceding_text": "sal will cost the country but little, if anything at all. The subject of the Clause is beer. The question is often asked, \"What is beer\" I have always made it a rule not to speak in this House on a subject which I do not understand, and before I rose to speak on this subject. I took steps to understand something about beer. I took steps to find out the answer to the question \"What is beer\"?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2123.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2123.4", "colnum": "2123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHEPPERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHEPPERSON", "preceding_text": "ucing the new Clause, and they assured me that it is not practicable, because the British public's palate would not accept a pure beer to-day. I wanted to be assured whether that statement was or was not correct, and so I went to inquire of the British public its opinion. In doing so, I did not ask the opinion of the man who drinks a bottle of Bass for his lunch, but of the real connoisseur—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2123.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2127.0", "colnum": "2127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw! Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I should like to ask if the hon. Member, in expressing his opinion, is influenced in any way by recent personal experience", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2127.2", "colnum": "2127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for St. Helens can drink as much as anybody else, if somebody else will pay for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2127.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2127.5", "colnum": "2127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Some people do, and they look it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "ould be better if they did the same. I believe that the hon. Member who has moved this Clause honestly believes that he is doing the right thing. Therefore I am not going to charge him with being insincere, or with being \"full of his subject.\" But, after all, we have such a thing as a Food Adulteration Act, and whether we like it or not—some people, of course, do not, and they look it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2127.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2128.2", "colnum": "2128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which ones?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": " workers of this country do drink beer, and you will have an awful job on if you try to stop them, because, in spite of all your attempts to introduce Prohibition by instalments, it will not come off. What is being asked for is pure food, because, after all, in the eyes of the great mass of the workers of Great Britain—I am excluding, of course, some parts where the wild men come from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2128.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2133.6", "colnum": "2133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "How much?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "suggested in this Amendment is £75. I could not possibly make a concession in respect of a widowd mother without extending the same allowance in other cases. If my hon. Friend who is responsible for this Amendment will withdraw it now, when we reach the Report stage I will bring forward Amendments which will increase the allowance in this case and also in the case of the ordinary housekeeper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2133.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2140.1", "colnum": "2140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "use capital expenditure had been employed upon the new erection. The right hon. Gentleman knows the fundamental condition of capital expenditure in relation to Income Tax, and this proposed new Clause traverses that fundamental principle. We submit that the allowance now made is sufficiently generous to encourage any landlord to carry out these improvements, the desirability of which we all admit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2140.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2192.0", "colnum": "2192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JENKINS", "preceding_text": "In view of the sympathetic remarks of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2191.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2192.1", "colnum": "2192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. HERBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Enough to buy another hat!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "May we ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer to tell us what would be the cost of this concession? That seems to be the important thing in this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2199.4", "colnum": "2199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Clause be read a Second time.\" It is unfortunate that I should have to address the Committee at 20 minutes past four on a subject which can only be said to be one of the greatest injustices produced by the working of the Income Tax Act. Nobody has ever dreamt of this Amendment of mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2199.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2199.4", "colnum": "2199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "preceding_text": " make this deduction until the present time. I think I am right in saying that the deduction in practice has never been made, although the decision on which the case was decided last week is some 20 years old. A commercial traveler traveling for his firm is entitled to deduct his expenses from the profits made, but when you get to Schedule E of the Act of 1918 which is a question of service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2199.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2203.3", "colnum": "2203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "use he is a Recorder, he seems to have forgotten that he himself and his party did not think of that objection when they discussed the payment of railway fares for Members. I would not say a word about a mater which might be discussed without any heat if the right hon. Gentleman had not thought fit to introduce heat into it, and I shall say what I please without the leave of hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2203.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2203.3", "colnum": "2203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Carpet beggers!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "osition of Members of Parliament and Recorders than any other case that has been cited. It might just as well be said to any hon. Member that he is bound to live in London instead of near his constituency. I think the answer would be perfectly good that it is right and proper that a Member of Parliament should be in or near his constituency in order to be familiar with the needs of is constituency", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2203.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-08", "file": "debates1924-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "dbbd1d379fdd7541", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2206.2", "colnum": "2206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. HERBERT", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"What is the salary?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "lor of the Exchequer attempted to draw between this case and the case of a High Court Judge living out of London and going up to the Courts day by day. Such a Judge when traveling the country in assize gets the Recorder's job. It is a part-time job and he only goes for a few days four times a year to a distant part of the country. He is not paid a salary which will keep him for a whole year there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-08a.2206.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-07-09", "file": "debates1924-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b245675820680611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2240.3", "colnum": "2240", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "Has my hon. Friend taken any interest at all in this matter? How long is the strike going to continue Is it not time that a Court of Inquiry was appointed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2240.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-09", "file": "debates1924-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b245675820680611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2253.2", "colnum": "2253", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. G. SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lock-out?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. G. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the building trade employés are to-day on strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2253.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-09", "file": "debates1924-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b245675820680611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2305.4", "colnum": "2305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear:\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": ", that I think it a great pity he did not get closer to the purpose of this Amendment. He gave us some unexceptionable general dicta, but they had not much to do with this Amendment. He says that every poor man and woman out of work is to have benefit within this Measure as of right. That is his case. His hon. Friends behind hint endorse that case, but they add \"contributions or no contributions.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2305.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-09", "file": "debates1924-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b245675820680611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2311.0", "colnum": "2311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN THOMSON", "preceding_text": "I hope the House will support the attitude taken by the Committee upstairs. When the Minister accepted the limitation of period in the Bill, I thought it was understood that the rest of the Committee were, generally speaking, agreed in favour of the uncovenanted benefit and making it a right and not a charity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-09", "file": "debates1924-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b245675820680611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2322.0", "colnum": "2322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "hat there is no sympathy at all for these men in that Ministry. We are dealing with case after case sent to us of men out of work who are fully entitled to the unemployment benefit and do not get it. We might as well never send our cases to the Minister considering the answers we have been getting. We received last year from the Minister of Labour far more sympathy than we are receiving this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-09", "file": "debates1924-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b245675820680611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2322.0", "colnum": "2322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have got it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "fit and do not get it. We might as well never send our cases to the Minister considering the answers we have been getting. We received last year from the Minister of Labour far more sympathy than we are receiving this year. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over here!\"] No 1 shall not come over there. We were led to believe that under a Labour Government a new spirit would be breathed into all the Departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-09", "file": "debates1924-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b245675820680611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2371.0", "colnum": "2371", "heading": "LANARKSHIRE HYDROELECTRIC POWER BILL [Lords] (by Order).", "cue_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL CHAPMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear! By the country.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL CHAPMAN", "preceding_text": " small House such as we have here to-night. It is cutting at the root of all security and all foresight with regard to private enterprise. It is taking away work that is wanted at this moment more badly than at any other time. Did not we hear the Prime Minister himself, in terms which we all admired, say most distinctly that everything connected with electricity should be promoted by this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-09", "file": "debates1924-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b245675820680611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2371.0", "colnum": "2371", "heading": "LANARKSHIRE HYDROELECTRIC POWER BILL [Lords] (by Order).", "cue_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL CHAPMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Just one!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL CHAPMAN", "preceding_text": "t distinctly that everything connected with electricity should be promoted by this country? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear! By the country.\"] Either by the country itself or by private enterprise. Is it to be thought that the Prime Minister meant that he was going to wait until a scheme of nationalisation was brought in? If so, how many General Elections are we to have before electricity is developed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-09", "file": "debates1924-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b245675820680611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2380.9", "colnum": "2380", "heading": "LANARKSHIRE HYDROELECTRIC POWER BILL [Lords] (by Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "ve been told of the extraordinary number of men, engineers particularly, who will be set to work at once under this scheme. One hon. Member said that the need was urgent in order that the unemployed should be set to work. What are the facts? They are going to start when they have got £10,000. How long will they with that amount of money be able to employ 15,000, 1,500, 1,000, or even 500 men?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2380.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-09", "file": "debates1924-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b245675820680611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2380.9", "colnum": "2380", "heading": "LANARKSHIRE HYDROELECTRIC POWER BILL [Lords] (by Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Pay wages.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "t the need was urgent in order that the unemployed should be set to work. What are the facts? They are going to start when they have got £10,000. How long will they with that amount of money be able to employ 15,000, 1,500, 1,000, or even 500 men? [ Interruption. ] That is in the Bill. They are going to start when they have raised £10,000. What are they going to do with the £10,000?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2380.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-09", "file": "debates1924-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b245675820680611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2381.3", "colnum": "2381", "heading": "LANARKSHIRE HYDROELECTRIC POWER BILL [Lords] (by Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": " they may do in another district. One hon. Member said that if we oppose this Bill we are cutting at the root of all foresight I can see some foresight in this Bill. The nation cannot nationalise this until the year 1998. That is some foresight. Three-quarters of a century must elapse. Who fears to speak of Ninety-eight Who blushes at the name? The Minister of Transport gives his blessing to this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2381.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-09", "file": "debates1924-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b245675820680611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2406.3", "colnum": "2406", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "can solve what is undoubtedly a terribly complicated problem, which has been considered most carefully by both sides for years, by accepting Sub-section (1) of Section 4, insofar as it seeks to remove the present rule, which seeks to disqualify a man, however far away he is from the trade dispute, if he happens to be working under the same roof, and which introduces a fairer and more logical test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-09", "file": "debates1924-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b245675820680611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2406.3", "colnum": "2406", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "s, by accepting Sub-section (1) of Section 4, insofar as it seeks to remove the present rule, which seeks to disqualify a man, however far away he is from the trade dispute, if he happens to be working under the same roof, and which introduces a fairer and more logical test. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I hope so. If what anybody is after is that this unemployment fund should be used to finance a strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-09", "file": "debates1924-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b245675820680611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2414.0", "colnum": "2414", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They were not insured at all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": ";and what followed? That is what you have to deal with in the future—that is, if you pass this Clause as it stands. When they failed to shut down the Underground services the uniformed men, who would all have been thrown out of employment if the services had been shut down, owing to the power stations men coming out, would rightly have been brought under this Clause for unemployment benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2414.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-09", "file": "debates1924-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b245675820680611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2414.0", "colnum": "2414", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "en coming out, would rightly have been brought under this Clause for unemployment benefit. [HON. MEMBERS: \"They were not insured at all!\"] I quite understand that. I am merely illustrating the situation by what is within our knowledge, and because the thing is difficult to illustrate. The uniformed men did, in fact, come out on strike. Could anybody discover any arrangement between the two unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2414.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-09", "file": "debates1924-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b245675820680611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2416.3", "colnum": "2416", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member used to be a one-man party. Why should thousands of individuals suffer because of a one-man strike? I am glad the hon. Member accepts that idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2416.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-09", "file": "debates1924-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b245675820680611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2418.0", "colnum": "2418", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Test it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "I find myself in a very difficult position. I have to consider, not what is ideally perfect, but how much I can get for the people who have been refused benefit. I feel positively certain, from what has been said, that my Clause, which I think in its simplicity is better than the Amendment, has little chance of being carried.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2418.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-07-09", "file": "debates1924-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b245675820680611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2418.3", "colnum": "2418", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Has the Minister made his peace with the fair sex, as I see no mention of them in the Clause?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "I am now concerned as to whether what is done to-night is going to make a declaration of faith, or is going to pay benefit to men who have previously been refused benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2418.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-09", "file": "debates1924-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b245675820680611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2420.0", "colnum": "2420", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "There is a misapprehension. The Bill as it stands enables a person to get unemployment benefit even if he be out of work by reason of a stoppage of work due to a trade dispute, as long as that person is employed somewhere else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-09", "file": "debates1924-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b245675820680611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2421.1", "colnum": "2421", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD PRIVY SEAL (Mr. Clynes)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is accepted!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD PRIVY SEAL (Mr. Clynes)", "preceding_text": "fore us. In view of the limitations to which I have referred, and as the hon. Member for South Bradford (Mr. H. Spencer) has intimated his desire to withdraw the Amendment, I would suggest that that Amendment should be withdrawn, and the suggested manuscript Amendment of the right hon. Member for Spen Valley placed upon the Order Paper, so that the House should have an opportunity of examining it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2421.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-09", "file": "debates1924-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b245675820680611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2422.3", "colnum": "2422", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Gentleman has proposed to withdraw his Amendment on the understanding that we can then vote upon the new Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2422.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-09", "file": "debates1924-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b245675820680611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2423.0", "colnum": "2423", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. It does seem to me not at all unreasonable that hon. Gentlemen who appear to be in some doubt as to the effect of the new words should have a chance of seeing them on the Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-09", "file": "debates1924-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b245675820680611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2424.1", "colnum": "2424", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister propose to stick to the straight pledge he gave me personally?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-09a.2424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-10", "file": "debates1924-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "3aacd2f231460d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-10a.2450.0", "colnum": "2450", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. YATE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. YATE", "preceding_text": "Is there any regulation to prevent motor-cab drivers smoking when driving fares?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-10a.2450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-10", "file": "debates1924-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "3aacd2f231460d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-10a.2457.3", "colnum": "2457", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Is it not true that if it had not been for the raid many more people would have been killed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-10a.2457.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-10", "file": "debates1924-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "3aacd2f231460d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-10a.2539.1", "colnum": "2539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "n European countries. The House will rise in August, and it may or may not meet again. At any rate, I should think this is the last opportunity of a discussion unless some catastrophe happens. Might I ask the Under-Secretary to see whether in the forthcoming negotiations we cannot have a real experiment in open diplomacy. Is there any reason why the main discussion should not take place in public?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-10a.2539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-10", "file": "debates1924-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "3aacd2f231460d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-10a.2577.1", "colnum": "2577", "heading": "SOUTHERN RAILWAY (DOCK CHARGES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel RUDKIN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel RUDKIN", "preceding_text": "I think I have said enough——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-10a.2577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-10", "file": "debates1924-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "3aacd2f231460d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-10a.2592.2", "colnum": "2592", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "ing to put an additional tax on the British taxpayer. That is the thing I should be very unwilling myself to do, but when I see the kind of things the present Government do with the money which is available, it is intensely forced upon me that they have passed over, very unjustly, people with a far more adequate claim than many of those to whom they have dispensed the surplus which they inherited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-10a.2592.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-10", "file": "debates1924-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "3aacd2f231460d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-10a.2592.2", "colnum": "2592", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "he present Government do with the money which is available, it is intensely forced upon me that they have passed over, very unjustly, people with a far more adequate claim than many of those to whom they have dispensed the surplus which they inherited. [ interruption. ] There was a fund actually being provided by Germany in the shape of the duty which was being levied on their goods exported here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-10a.2592.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-10", "file": "debates1924-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "3aacd2f231460d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-10a.2592.2", "colnum": "2592", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "they have passed over, very unjustly, people with a far more adequate claim than many of those to whom they have dispensed the surplus which they inherited. [ interruption. ] There was a fund actually being provided by Germany in the shape of the duty which was being levied on their goods exported here. [ Interruption. ] I know the hon. Member takes a very rigid and pigheaded view upon this topic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-10a.2592.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-10", "file": "debates1924-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "3aacd2f231460d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-10a.2596.4", "colnum": "2596", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "If the Government do not feel themselves to be in a position to find more funds, if they are going to tell the Committee they are either unwilling or unable to find further funds for the purpose of meeting this very necessary object—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-10a.2596.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-10", "file": "debates1924-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "3aacd2f231460d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-10a.2601.11", "colnum": "2601", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about last night?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "There appears to be a very fine esprit de corps among hon. Members on the other side. They are prepared to shoulder each other's burdens. It was not always so when the Die-Hards were in existence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-10a.2601.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-10", "file": "debates1924-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "3aacd2f231460d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-10a.2605.0", "colnum": "2605", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir THOMAS INSKIP", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why was it fixed\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir THOMAS INSKIP", "preceding_text": " I am entitled to say this: that if the Government now announce their intention to do nothing they will be exposing themselves to the justifiable criticism which, I am sure, will come from every quarter of the House. May I also make it plain that the sum of £5,000,000 was never intended, so far as I know, to be a final apportionment and liquidation of the claims of these people by the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-10a.2605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-10", "file": "debates1924-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "3aacd2f231460d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-10a.2605.0", "colnum": "2605", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir THOMAS INSKIP", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir THOMAS INSKIP", "preceding_text": "r of the House. May I also make it plain that the sum of £5,000,000 was never intended, so far as I know, to be a final apportionment and liquidation of the claims of these people by the nation. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why was it fixed\"?] Why was it fixed? I will explain why. Remember the intention was to secure the payment of these claims by means of the Reparation Clause in the Versailles Treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-10a.2605.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-10", "file": "debates1924-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "3aacd2f231460d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-10a.2613.3", "colnum": "2613", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "al claims—and, after all, that is very largely the case which is being made to night—every member of the community has a moral claim of some kind. A very large sum can be claimed under a head of that kind. I feel very strongly that, in so far as we are called upon ex gratia to recognise the sufferings of these people, up to the present time we have taken, on the whole, a generous line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-10a.2613.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-10", "file": "debates1924-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "3aacd2f231460d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-10a.2624.0", "colnum": "2624", "heading": "POLICE (WHITE OVERALLS).", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Rhys Davies)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Rhys Davies)", "preceding_text": " this matter. He raised this issue so far back as 1921, again in 1922 and I think on more than one occasion this year. The Home Office has never yet received any representations on this subject from any representative authority. Scotland Yard has not received any complaint either during the last few years except perhaps from a, few stray individuals who have taken a little interest in the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-10a.2624.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-11", "file": "debates1924-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "c2c2b38acdbaa98e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-11a.2656.0", "colnum": "2656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": ", it will have a decidedly bad moral effect for them to know that their pension is contingent upon their giving up that work or doing it for nothing. The proposal will have also a very bad physical effect, because work is life itself, and if a man keeps up in his old age the habit of his youth he is more likely to remain healthy, and is certainly more likely to remain happy. Many people like work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-11a.2656.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-11", "file": "debates1924-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "c2c2b38acdbaa98e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-11a.2663.2", "colnum": "2663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "one of the restrictions in the existing Act was incorporated in the law by the Liberal party, and I would like to add this, that we have not been in Office yet for six months. In 1906 the Liberal Government came into power with a majority of 300 in this House, and they were in Office for three years before they made any attempt at all to redeem their election pledges in regard to old age pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-11a.2663.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-11", "file": "debates1924-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "c2c2b38acdbaa98e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-11a.2666.2", "colnum": "2666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Even to a Member of Parliament.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ut, without any disrespect, I am quite sure it should not be done by a lawyer. If it is to be done, I think I would rather undertake the task myself. I think it is quite desirable and necessary that an Old Age pensioner should understand what his rights are, and I think we could supply a little explanatory paper, put in simple words, that would be within the comprehension of the Old Age pensioner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-11a.2666.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-11", "file": "debates1924-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "c2c2b38acdbaa98e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-11a.2667.2", "colnum": "2667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not quite!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "he has done both in his Budget and in the present Measure, but I do not think we are to be blamed if we find there has been a reversal of rôles since 1908–11. In those years my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, sitting on the bench in front of where I am now standing, was pressing at the door, was banging at the door, for further concessions. Now he is holding the door.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-11a.2667.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-11", "file": "debates1924-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "c2c2b38acdbaa98e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-11a.2669.6", "colnum": "2669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Labour!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": " they get up here and with their tongues in their cheeks talk to us, who are not here to ask favours but to fight for principles, in this way. If you are now turning the other cheek to the smiter let the blood be upon your own head. Having gone through 24 years of work as a local administrator I know what we have had up against us. Successive Governments, Liberal, Conservative and Coalition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-11a.2669.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-11", "file": "debates1924-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "c2c2b38acdbaa98e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-11a.2669.6", "colnum": "2669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Snowdon?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "but I think we have a right to tell you that we have had enough of your gammon. You may be able to win Lewes, but you cannot win the Dockyard constituencies or the industrial areas of the country. If you really want these restrictions removed we want you to go the whole hog, but when we come and ask for more money to do this then hon. Members below the Gangway are not prepared to go the whole hog.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-11a.2669.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-14", "file": "debates1924-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "e1005fc78bd4744e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-14a.21.0", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH EMPIRE (WAGES AND LABOUR CONDITIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AYLES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AYLES", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman realise that if we are going to get rid of or find a solution for all the problems of Empire, in order that we may get a really consolidated Empire, we must have all the facts concerning the economic side as well as those bearing on the general economic activities of various parts of the Empire, and instead of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-14a.21.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-14", "file": "debates1924-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "e1005fc78bd4744e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-14a.94.0", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FREDRIC WISE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ships\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FREDRIC WISE", "preceding_text": "y could pay £11,000,000,000 and that, at any rate, £1,000,000,000 could be paid by May, 1921. That was quite impossible, considering what we had taken from Germany, and taken in a natural and right way. We took Alsace and Lorraine, we took the Saar coal for 15 years, we took her colonies, we took 75 per cent. of her iron ore, 34 per cent. of her hard coal, and 20 per cent. of her potash.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-14a.94.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-14", "file": "debates1924-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "e1005fc78bd4744e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-14a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about raw material?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "preceding_text": "can have them whereby one particular section of the community benefits, but it is certainly not the working class, because the only channel through which it can obtain a means of livelihood is employment, and if you are getting goods of any character into this country in the form c-f indemnity the essence of indemnity is that no goods shall be manufactured in this country to be payment in exports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-14a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-14", "file": "debates1924-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "e1005fc78bd4744e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-14a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "preceding_text": "s international trade, then obviously somebody in this country is being employed to pay for that import. If this raw material comes in not as international trade but as indemnity, the essence of an indemnity is that there shall be no export to go out to pay for that import. Therefore people previously employed are thrown open the streets and stranded. I hope that our Front Bench will take courage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-14a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-14", "file": "debates1924-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "e1005fc78bd4744e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-14a.128.5", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": " Debt, on the other hand someone has lost by losing security in the matter of capital, or whatever it may be, in the carrying on of business; and if true, assuming, as do some hon. Members that the total depreciation means nothing but Government debt, and that wiping out or repudiation of Government debt is a good thing, then, surely, it is time we tried the result of a 100 per cent. capital levy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-14a.128.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-14", "file": "debates1924-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "e1005fc78bd4744e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-14a.149.0", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "he mutual reduction of land armaments in Europe. Until we do that we cannot say that we are in any way removed from the danger of another terrible upheaval. A real effort should also be made to prohibit the private manufacture of and the sale and traffic in arms and ammunition. Anyone who knows anything about these matters is aware of the enormous influence wielded by the armament-making industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-14a.149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-14", "file": "debates1924-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "e1005fc78bd4744e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-14a.158.2", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "ptember to give a full and whole-hearted adherence to the protocol of international arbitration. There is no use disguising the fact that recent actions have caused a good deal of concern as to the attitude of the present Government. I am confident, from the reading I have been able to undertake, that the decision to build the five cruisers has had a profoundly disturbing effect throughout Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-14a.158.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-14", "file": "debates1924-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "e1005fc78bd4744e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-14a.162.3", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend may prefer that statement if he pleases. But he will realise that we get to this point: that there are 54 members of the League of Nations, of whom, may I remind him, we are one, who have signed a solemn covenant that we will reduce out armaments to the lowest point consistent with national safety. We have departed from that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-14a.162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-15", "file": "debates1924-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e302f7ed5ced061b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-15a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman intend to expend the whole of the £100,000?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-15a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-15", "file": "debates1924-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e302f7ed5ced061b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-15a.216.10", "colnum": "216", "heading": "SCOTTISH STONE OF DESTINY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "and they sued for peace, by a Treaty—this is where your honour will come in—by the Treaty of Northampton, in 1328, the Stone, with other relics, should have been restored to Scotland. The reason given for it not being returned, for the Treaty not being kept, was that the sentiment of London was against returning the Stone to Scotland. My friends and I are accused of being materialists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-15a.216.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-15", "file": "debates1924-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e302f7ed5ced061b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-15a.218.2", "colnum": "218", "heading": "SCOTTISH STONE OF DESTINY.", "cue_speaker": "Lord APSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord APSLEY", "preceding_text": "—from Dunstaffneys, where it had been presented to him by a legate of the Pope, as his reward for having converted Scotland to Christianity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-15a.218.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-15", "file": "debates1924-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e302f7ed5ced061b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-15a.220.0", "colnum": "220", "heading": "SCOTTISH STONE OF DESTINY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "er paid it. That is the reason why the Stone has not yet beers returned. Finally, I oppose this Bill for reasons which hon. Members may, perhaps, regard as superstitious. If that be the case, I will plead that I have much Scots blood in my veins. In connection with this Stone, there is an old Latin couplet of which nobody knows the origin. I will not quote it to the House, although I have it here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-15a.220.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-15", "file": "debates1924-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e302f7ed5ced061b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-15a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The word is 'or'!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "at is intended by the Clause standing later on the Paper, in the name of the hon. and valiant Member for Ashford (Major Steel) and other Members, in which are used the words …. and the term 'replacement' shall include replacement according to an improved standard necessary to meet modern requirements, or to comply with any Act of Parliament or any regulation or bye-laws of a local authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-15a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-15", "file": "debates1924-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e302f7ed5ced061b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-15a.259.4", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "At the expense of the Inland Revenue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-15a.259.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-15", "file": "debates1924-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e302f7ed5ced061b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-15a.260.1", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ember for Colchester will prevail, and that will he doing more than my right hon. Friend intends. All that we intend is to put in a provision that any landlord who, without waiting for compulsion of any kind, carries out requirements which are thought by the local authority to be desirable and right for houses of that sort and of the age and condition which they then are, should get the allowance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-15a.260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-15", "file": "debates1924-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e302f7ed5ced061b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-15a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "Let me take, then, farm houses and farm cottages. The local authority says: \"All these cottages are insanitary. They will have to be modernised in the sense that the sanitation has to be improved, and wash-houses and bathrooms must be provided.\" Under the present law the landlord would have to do it and he would get nothing allowed for the purpose of Income Tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-15a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-15", "file": "debates1924-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e302f7ed5ced061b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-15a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALMER", "preceding_text": "It seems to me deplorable that this House should be engaged in talking such trivialities as these.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-15a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-15", "file": "debates1924-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e302f7ed5ced061b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-15a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are paid by voluntary offerings, but they are paid a fixed amount also.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "d Gentleman (Mr. Rawlinson) if he meant voluntary collections, which were made on Easier Day, and he replied, \"Yes, on Easter Day, or any other day.\" It has been pointed out by hon. Members who know more about the practices of Nonconformists than hon. Members on the other side of the House that the salaries of Nonconformist ministers are subscribed by the voluntary offerings of their congregation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-15a.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-15", "file": "debates1924-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "e302f7ed5ced061b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-15a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "en it would not be difficult to give an estimate. It would not be very much; indeed, I may satisfy the right hon. Gentleman by saying it would be almost negligible. But if, as seems likely from the phrasing of this Clause, we are to exempt from Income Tax the salaries of Nonconformist ministers then, of course, it would be very considerable. I am not opposing this new Clause on the ground of cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-15a.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-16", "file": "debates1924-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "be0fa307163d3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.376.3", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel JAMES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel JAMES", "preceding_text": "Is not this a true commentary on the attitude of the Labour Government", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.376.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-16", "file": "debates1924-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "be0fa307163d3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.381.3", "colnum": "381", "heading": "MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY CAUTLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY CAUTLEY", "preceding_text": "I desire to ask your advice, Mr. Speaker, on a question of procedure. The Merchandise Marks Bill came before a Standing Committee this morning, summoned in the usual way, and at three minutes past, Eleven the Chairman adjourned the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.381.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-16", "file": "debates1924-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "be0fa307163d3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.381.5", "colnum": "381", "heading": "MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CAUTLEY", "preceding_text": "And over 33 from the other sides, the Liberal and the Government Benches respectively. At three minutes past Eleven o'clock there were present 14 Members from this side of the House, and up till six minutes past Eleven, when I protested against the Adjournment, there were 18 Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.381.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-16", "file": "debates1924-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "be0fa307163d3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.414.2", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He never makes any'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "preceding_text": "his Amendment were carried, you could, as far as I can see, go on subsidising houses at the rate of £9 a year for the rest of the natural life of the British Empire, which is certainly not the desire of the majority of Members of the House. I generally admire, with great respect, the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for West Woolwich (Sir Kingsley Wood), but I think in this case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.414.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-16", "file": "debates1924-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "be0fa307163d3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only half a dozen?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "dge that four years' notice was to be given before the guarantee was to be inoperative. Members in all parts of the House, except half a dozen Liberals, voted for it; yet within six months of the guarantee becoming operative, the Act was repealed. The Labour party supported both the Act and the repeal of the Act. The only people who voted against the original Act were half a dozen Liberal Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-16", "file": "debates1924-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "be0fa307163d3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.426.2", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "ely valueless, and the Minister of Health knows it is valueless. The experience of the Addison Act shows that it is valueless, and, still more, the experience of the Agriculture Act shows that it is valueless. In these circumstances, the building trade have no guarantee. The local authorities are under no obligation. All this is window dressing. It is all for a leaflet in the country; that is all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.426.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-16", "file": "debates1924-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "be0fa307163d3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.432.2", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "still under the political influence of some of the most prominent Members opposite. That power was taken in the Act of 1918, and in the letter which laid it down that I was leaving unimpaired the autonomy of the local authori- ties under the Housing Act of 1923 my right hon. Friend attempts to suggest that I had promised the local authorities to repeal the powers which exist under the Act of 1919.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.432.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-16", "file": "debates1924-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "be0fa307163d3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.442.1", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SUNLIGHT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SUNLIGHT", "preceding_text": "I desire to have these words inserted, otherwise the Amendment will cut across the field of private enterprise. Taking the country as a whole, there may be hundreds of small builders buying land with the intention of building, perhaps, 30 houses each, and these will be hampered if they are required to go to the local authority or to the Ministry of Health so as to work into a comprehensive scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-16", "file": "debates1924-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "be0fa307163d3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.442.2", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": " is an obligation on urban authorities with populations over that figure, but the Act of 1923 extended the period during which they might prepare schemes until the beginning of 1929. If we were to adopt the Amendment which is proposed, or any variety of it, we could not have it brought into force in any area excepting one controlled by an authority which had already adopted a town-planning scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.442.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-16", "file": "debates1924-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "be0fa307163d3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.466.1", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Both!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "d be refused under this Clause, as well as under the 1923 Act. This Bill, after all, is for the purpose of providing houses to let, and the policy of the Government is to encourage the provision of houses for letting. If the Amendment, which is supported by the right hon. Baronet the Member for Twickenham (Sir W. Joynson-Hicks), is accepted, it will be confined to the case of houses built to sell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-16", "file": "debates1924-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "be0fa307163d3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.483.6", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "le Lord the Member for Hastings (Lord E. Percy) was not called, but I am going to take this opportunity of raising the question of the application of this subsidy to agricultural parishes in the form in which the Minister proposes it in the Bill. With all respect I would like to protest, as strongly as I can, against that Amendment not having been selected by the Deputy-Chairman a few minutes ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.483.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-16", "file": "debates1924-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "be0fa307163d3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.485.10", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "rder, perhaps it is better to continue here. I have explained the first point, to which I wish to allude, but there is also the point, which is of even greater importance, and that is the adequacy of the subsidy as applied to agricultural labourers. My criticism is, that if you are to give it to people who are not agricultural labourers in country districts, you have no business to give it at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.485.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-16", "file": "debates1924-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "be0fa307163d3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.491.0", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Liberal mind!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "I am rather surprised at the attitude of my hon. Friend the Member for West Middlesbrough (Mr. T. Thomson), who has made so many eloquent pleas for an extension of the size of these houses. I expected he would be in favour of increasing the size even by a side wind, but there is no accounting for the working of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.491.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-16", "file": "debates1924-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "be0fa307163d3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.510.0", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL ROBERTS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "e agricultural worker, but, like hope deferred, it will make their hearts sick. If hon. Members opposite think that agricultural workers are going to look with pleasure at the present time to paying 6s. 6d. a week for a house, they are very much mistaken. In the past they have paid, not an economic rent, but a rent ranging from 1s. 6d. to 3s. Houses in the past have been provided by the landowner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.510.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-16", "file": "debates1924-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "be0fa307163d3122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.510.0", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL ROBERTS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "That is an absolute fact. They have been provided as part of the equipment of a holding, and not let at an economic rent. The consequence is that you have these houses let to the agricultural workers at from 1s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. a week all over the country, and through legislation, for which I am not going to thrown blame about, the landowner has been so impoverished that he can no longer afford it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-16a.510.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-17", "file": "debates1924-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3f435b756980a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord EUSTACE PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord EUSTACE PERCY", "preceding_text": "xibility. We do not want the housing which is done by local authorities to be more tied up with landlords' restrictions than the housing provided by a private landlord. Take the case of London. Over the greater part of London, in regard to every house that is being let by a private landlord, there is the implied understanding that lodgers may be taken in, and lodgers are being taken in everywhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-17", "file": "debates1924-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3f435b756980a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.634.0", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "preceding_text": "I can assure the hon. Member for Hereford (Mr. S. Roberts) that we do not object when he adds his name to our good Amendments, nor do we object, but we welcome his support in the Lobby when we go into the Lobby to carry these Amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.634.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-17", "file": "debates1924-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3f435b756980a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.653.7", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "preceding_text": "he long run, leads to the deterioration of the industry itself. I am conscious of all the objections. I know the question from both sides The first strike in which. I came out in London, now over 30 years ago, was n, perfectly justifiable strike, because the employers were trying to beat down piece-work rates, owing to the fact that the men were earning what they thought to be too large an income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.653.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-17", "file": "debates1924-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3f435b756980a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "emes put before me for the benefit of the people of Egypt. No doubt a great majority of them would have done the people of Egypt good. \"But,\" he asked first, \"what will they cost?\" and, secondly, \"Where is the money to come from? These two great principles of statesmanship seem totally absent from the purview of the present Government and, particularly, from that of the present Minister of Health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-17", "file": "debates1924-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3f435b756980a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.666.1", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To stop drinking?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": " cost the nation 10 per cent. of the drink bill. I am quoting the Minister's own word. If that statement of the Minister be true, surely it would be a sounder policy, instead of having to put forward Amendments like this, to reduce the prices which should be paid for building houses, for the Minister to get people who want houses to take the very good advice which he and his Friends so often give.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-17", "file": "debates1924-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3f435b756980a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEKS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "preceding_text": "In view of the extremely sympathetic reply of the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-17", "file": "debates1924-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3f435b756980a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIVIAN", "preceding_text": "he would devote himself to securing that the cost shall not only not rise, but shall decrease, and the possibility that this maximum may tend to become a minimum in some quarters, and in view of the recorded words of the right hon. Gentleman on the Floor of this House, and that we have a declaration of his policy—I say that in no unfriendly spirit—I ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-17", "file": "debates1924-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3f435b756980a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.673.3", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SUNLIGHT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All the better for you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SUNLIGHT", "preceding_text": "–20 I was the architect for the erection of 20 factories in Manchester, the one-storey weaving shed type of factory, and brickwork was the chief thing. After fixing the contract with the builders at a certain scheduled rate of price for brickwork, labour and material, this alteration in the size of bricks meant that my clients immediately became liable for 15 per cent. more increase in cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.673.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-17", "file": "debates1924-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3f435b756980a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or 30s.!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "hink that if a man is a successful burglar or a successful brothel-keeper, then the children of that man, because of his having accumulated some wealth, inherit healthy conditions, but if he is a man who has served his country well by giving useful industrial service, he only receives, because of the economic methods by which we fix incomes, 40s., 50s., or 60s. a week in return for those services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-17", "file": "debates1924-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3f435b756980a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "There were certain other questions put to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-17", "file": "debates1924-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3f435b756980a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.690.3", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "bound to say it is very difficult to follow the wording of that paragraph—the rents are to be the ordinary rents that the tenants are now paying, whom he would expect to get the now houses. The local authorities are, then, under these proposals, to be allowed to charge different rents for different classes of houses, and even different rents for the same class of houses in the same locality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.690.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-17", "file": "debates1924-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3f435b756980a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "asgow that they promised at the last General Election that they were going to put an end to the 40 per cent. increase under the Rent Restrictions Act, and we know that a Bill was introduced for that purpose. Now we find the Minister of Health and the hon. Member for Bridge-ton supporting a Clause which will stereotype this 40 per cent. increase for a period of 40 years. That is what the Bill does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-17", "file": "debates1924-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3f435b756980a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "crease under the Rent Restrictions Act, and we know that a Bill was introduced for that purpose. Now we find the Minister of Health and the hon. Member for Bridge-ton supporting a Clause which will stereotype this 40 per cent. increase for a period of 40 years. That is what the Bill does. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"] If hon. Members can get the Attorney-General to say that I am wrong I shall be pleased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-17", "file": "debates1924-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3f435b756980a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or Penistone!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "t that the 40 per cent. was to be stereotyped under this Bill. That would not have been so good for his constituents as the noble sentiments which he expressed. We have really a clear issue here, namely, whether this Bill is going to be a statutory stereotyping of the 40 per cent. increase under the Rent Restrictions Act. It is as well that the electors of Glasgow should know whether it is or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-17", "file": "debates1924-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3f435b756980a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "terpretation on this point, but if he is not, I hope the Attorney-General, before we part from this Clause, will tell us exactly what is the Government view. In my view, the rent normally charged in the area of a local authority for these working-class houses erected prior to the 3rd August, 1914, means now the rent charged under the Rent Restrictions Act. That rent is normally charged now by law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-17", "file": "debates1924-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3f435b756980a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MUIR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are you going to vote for the Amendment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MUIR", "preceding_text": " receiving any subsidies that they shall fix the rent in accordance with this. We feel that it is really indispensable that a Clause so important and so vital to the working of the whole housing scheme should be framed in such terms that it shall be unmistakably clear and that everyone shall understand what are intended to be the principles upon which the rents of houses are fixed under this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-17", "file": "debates1924-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3f435b756980a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.701.0", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "£650 for the 50 houses, and would be acting within the letter of the Clause, if you did it. You might not easily get £100 for the first-named houses, but you would get any number of people to compete for the 44 houses to be let at £3 a year, and the result is that the Minister of Health will achieve his purpose of subsidising those people at the expense of the rest of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.701.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-17", "file": "debates1924-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3f435b756980a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.705.2", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "May I ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.705.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-17", "file": "debates1924-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3f435b756980a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.705.8", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Let us have a proper answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "Chiefly common sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.705.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-17", "file": "debates1924-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3f435b756980a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.705.8", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "Chiefly common sense. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Let us have a proper answer!\"] You cannot give a reasonable answer to an unreasonable question. I should like to say a word or two about the speech of the hon. Member for Rochdale (Mr. R. Muir) and his reference to privileged persons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.705.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-17", "file": "debates1924-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3f435b756980a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "I am rising to a point of Order, and I protest against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-17", "file": "debates1924-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3f435b756980a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.719.0", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir J. NALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, Oh! \"and Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir J. NALL", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Is an hon. Member in order in moving an Amendment which he does not intend to press?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.719.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-17", "file": "debates1924-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3f435b756980a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.719.6", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "For once in a way I find myself in some measure of agreement with hon. Gentlemen opposite. The words which the Minister of Health wishes to substitute for this Amendment are very vague in another direction. The right hon. Gentleman talks now about a preference being given to those with large families. They might all be children or grown up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.719.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-17", "file": "debates1924-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3f435b756980a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.719.6", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ery vague in another direction. The right hon. Gentleman talks now about a preference being given to those with large families. They might all be children or grown up. [ Laughter. ] My hon. Friends opposite, of course, are the children of somebody, but I sometimes doubt if they are all grown up. I think all sections of the Committee are anxious to give preference to the families of young children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.719.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-17", "file": "debates1924-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3f435b756980a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.722.0", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\" and \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL", "preceding_text": "w—to take this Amendment seriously. It really is a remarkable thing that in all the Housing Bills which have been introduced, many of them by hon. Members opposite and some at least by a Minister from hon. Members below the Gangway, such a suggestion as this has never even been contemplated. Now we have an Amendment moved by an hon. Member below the Gangway and supported by Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.722.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-17", "file": "debates1924-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b3f435b756980a7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.733.0", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "I plead that the Amendment to the proposed Amendment should be accepted. It is a well-known fact that even local authorities in their lettings of their property under a housing scheme carefully select tenants, and when one knows, as I do, of instances of two families with, between them, a sum total of over 30 persons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-17a.733.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-18", "file": "debates1924-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f4cea5e603a1aa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.762.1", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Mr. Shaw)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Mr. Shaw)", "preceding_text": "May I call attention to the fact that one part of the proposal of the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Spen Valley is quite distinct from the other, and I ask that a separate Vote should be taken on his proposed Amendment in page 5, line 18, to insert the words \"trade union or.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-18", "file": "debates1924-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f4cea5e603a1aa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " he has to prove, first, that he is not participating in the dispute, that as an individual he is not financing or directly interested in the dispute. Further than that, he has to prove that he does not belong to a trade union members of which are participating in the dispute, and that he does not belong to a trade union or to a grade or class of workers members of which are financing the dispute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-18", "file": "debates1924-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f4cea5e603a1aa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" \"That is the object!\" and \"Not at all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "We want to extend that, and the Minister wants to extend it. He has told us that is the purpose of the Clause. People who are unemployed when a trade dispute is going on, and who have nothing to do with it, will not get benefit if the right hon. Gentleman's Amendment be carried. This to rue, and to many others on these benches, will be a complete smashing up of many of the Unions now in existence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-18", "file": "debates1924-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f4cea5e603a1aa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You were in charge!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "proud of it; I am glad to think that the people remember that it was the Government of that day which established this system. I must not, however, allow him, if he was saying it of me in the way of commendation to treat me as the author of the Bill. The author of the Bill was Mr. Sydney Buxton who was then President of the Board of Trade. He was the skilled workman, and I was merely his labourer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-18", "file": "debates1924-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f4cea5e603a1aa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We do not make a living out of it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": ". At any rate, I have taken a continuous interest in this subject, and this is how I feel about it. if you leave the Clause as it stands, you raise an entirely new question for the umpire or referee: What exactly do you mean by participating? I am sure it cannot be the desire of the House that there should be this sort of logic chopping which is quite as common among laymen as it is among lawyers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-18", "file": "debates1924-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f4cea5e603a1aa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": " other, that he is making an honest living and doing what he thinks is right. Let us get back to the point. I do not myself think that the House of Commons can believe it would be at all wise or safe to leave the word \"participating\" unqualified or unexplained, because it is obvious that in the pinch of a dispute you might have endless controversy as to whether John Jones was participating or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-18", "file": "debates1924-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f4cea5e603a1aa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "in, or financing, or is directly interested in the trade dispute which caused the stoppage of work. It is no good any section in the House sweeping aside a difficulty which may arise. It is an old difficulty pointed out ever since 1911. If you were to have certain individuals selected for the purpose of being called out with the result that you were really calling out the pivotal or key men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-18", "file": "debates1924-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f4cea5e603a1aa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.794.1", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-18", "file": "debates1924-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f4cea5e603a1aa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He spoke on it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "ve been perfectly prepared to proceed with the Debate in the way which was anticipated, but what has happened? Three Amendments were down in the name of the right hon. and learned Member for Spen Valley (Sir J. Simon), all of which were intended to carry out a specific proposal but without the faintest explanation the right hon. and learned Gentleman has suddenly withdrawn one of those Amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-18", "file": "debates1924-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f4cea5e603a1aa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.796.5", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: ''No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "I would only instance what has happened and I am within the recollection of the House. This is a very important Amendment, but the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Spen Valley, without a word of explanation, drew in, and did not move his Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.796.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-18", "file": "debates1924-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f4cea5e603a1aa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.805.0", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "preceding_text": "te of wages less than current in the district for skilled men. I have in my hand a list with names and addresses, which I could read if necessary; but we do not want a Bill passed through which is going to make conditions worse than they are. Here are cases, undoubtedly in our own divisions, where men are being absolutely victimised, not because of lack of skill, but because of political opinions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.805.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-18", "file": "debates1924-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f4cea5e603a1aa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.815.1", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Banks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "ough, that for insurance workers, is estimated on all hands to have been an unqualified success. The insurance people shall no longer get the three-tenths contribution that heretofore they were getting—that works out at about £11,000—because they have been so effective and so complete in their organisation that it is found thay are able to stand alone. That is the only experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.815.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-18", "file": "debates1924-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f4cea5e603a1aa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.823.7", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who were the organised workers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "ur of the national scheme and opposed to industries contracting out of the schemes. That was the second side of the triangle. So far as the organised workers were concerned, I asked their opinion equally, and I found them divided roughly into two equal parts. So that, of my three-sided triangle, 2½ sides were in favour of the national scheme and half a side in favour of insurance by industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.823.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-18", "file": "debates1924-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f4cea5e603a1aa51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.838.5", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "ister, confronted with a man who says, \"I claim benefit as a legal right,\" can reply, \"Can you not find work?\" If the man replies, \"I cannot,\" then the Minister at the present time has to pay. On the other hand, if the Minister can say, \"Look, here is a vacancy at my disposal. There is a job suited for your capacities. It is waiting for you. Take that job. If you do net, you will not get benefit.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-18a.838.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-21", "file": "debates1924-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7a6976b931ffbc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.881.8", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRISH FREE STATE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "My hon. and gallant Friend is a better judge of Rolls-Royce cars than I am.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.881.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-21", "file": "debates1924-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7a6976b931ffbc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.924.1", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What was the material?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": " to me within the last few days, material for erecting houses by one of the best known business men in the country, which he claims would give us more substantial houses, more beautiful houses, houses in a tithe of the time that we now use in producing houses, and cheaper houses, without the service of either bricklayer or plasterer, and with very little service from some of the best known crafts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.924.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-21", "file": "debates1924-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7a6976b931ffbc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.956.2", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIANT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIANT", "preceding_text": "eir relative proportions, and they desire to multiply them by three, and that is to be done by the date stated in the Amendment. I wish to point out that at the present moment the numbers required in the industry are in the proportion needed. There are, as a matter of fact, carpenters and joiners unemployed at the present time, quite apart from any strike or lock-out. There are slaters unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.956.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-21", "file": "debates1924-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7a6976b931ffbc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.961.5", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "e were dealing with a two-year programme. We were dealing with an admittedly experimental situation, and, what is more, we had our safety-valve, we had a balance in our scheme which is not present in this scheme. We had a slum clearance scheme under which, as the hon. Gentleman may be interested to know, I secured an allocation eight times as large as our due proportion in comparison with England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.961.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-21", "file": "debates1924-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7a6976b931ffbc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.961.5", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ance—a proposal which I could not conceive anyone bringing forward unless I saw it actually here in the Bill before me. That, again, means, of course, that from the poorest of the poor their pennies and farthings will be wrung to subsidise well-off people who can afford to pay 14s. or 15s. a week for villas on the outskirts of our great towns. What I am concerned about is to make sure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.961.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-21", "file": "debates1924-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7a6976b931ffbc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.961.5", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "all pay 30s. in taxation and only get in housing, you shall pay 10s. subsidy to the men who live in Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield, and you in Gorbals, Camlachie and Shettleston will sit there and rot in your stinking tenements because it is not my intention to alter the suggestion which I have brought forward,\" I promise myself some hours, and indeed some weeks, of very entertaining campaigning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.961.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-21", "file": "debates1924-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7a6976b931ffbc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.963.3", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "e are making, in spite of the enormous expenditure of public money, in spite of the great Bill which the Labour Government has brought forward as its attempt to deal with and to solve the housing difficulty, we are not even going to get as many houses as the programme the Tory Government laid down, I believe there will be an outburst of indignation which will sweep the Government out of existence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.963.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-21", "file": "debates1924-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7a6976b931ffbc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.965.0", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "ement with them. What applied to the builders applied also to the manufacturers. When we came to deal with the local authorities, again it was a national agreement that we reached, and the Scottish local authorities were represented at the conference. The hon. and gallant Gentleman is quite right in saying that the needs of Scotland axe much greater than the needs of any part of England and Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.965.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-21", "file": "debates1924-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7a6976b931ffbc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.965.0", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "aximum numbers. England and Wales will not object if you can so rapidly augment the supply of men and materials in Scotland as to get even more than your quota in the earlier years. I should say the hon. and gallant Gentleman would spend his time much better, instead of painting those fanciful appeals that he can make to the electors of all parts of Scotland outside Kelvin-grove, in joining—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.965.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-21", "file": "debates1924-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7a6976b931ffbc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1004.0", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBER: 'No!'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": "he Committee might reasonably ask me to go. Then I said: There is a slight difference in this case. This is not the ease of individual hardship. The question of railways is universal in its application throughout the country. It cuts out innumerable little hamlets. The Minister replied: If I said that I would take railways, would I not have immediately the advocates of some other form of property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-21", "file": "debates1924-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7a6976b931ffbc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1006.0", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "The Secretary for Scotland said we were to be considered in the same way as England. Then the Minister of Health made a pronouncement, saying, \"If I find I can concede anything, I will put it down in an Amendment.\" That does not seem to me really to me a promise that commits the right hon. Gentleman very far. In fact, I do not see what it, is going to do at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1006.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-21", "file": "debates1924-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7a6976b931ffbc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1006.0", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Monday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "nd I can concede anything, I will put it down in an Amendment.\" That does not seem to me really to me a promise that commits the right hon. Gentleman very far. In fact, I do not see what it, is going to do at all. [HON. MEMBER: \"Divide!\"] I do not see how to avoid it, because the right hon. Gentleman says, \"If I can think of anything between now and Thursday, I will put it down.'' This is Tuesday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1006.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-21", "file": "debates1924-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7a6976b931ffbc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": " a Bill purporting to provide for the erection of 2,500,000 houses, in 15 years, at an expenditure of £1,400,000,000, and to admit, when proposing the Financial Resolution on which to base the Bill, that nobody knows reliably where the houses are wanted or in what quantities. I suggest that that argument alone is sufficient justification for the Clause I am moving. Let me go a little further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-21", "file": "debates1924-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7a6976b931ffbc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1030.0", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "nny rate, or whatever rate is levied, to make up the deficiency in the Act of 1923 and 1924. I am sure Woolwich is not going to shirk. The borough I represent, Bethnal Green, is going to take on a load of responsibility, and under its local rates is going to make contributions towards housing. Although a penny rate in Bethnal Green only brings in £2,500, it brings in £25,000 in the City.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1030.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-21", "file": "debates1924-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7a6976b931ffbc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1030.0", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "nsibility, and under its local rates is going to make contributions towards housing. Although a penny rate in Bethnal Green only brings in £2,500, it brings in £25,000 in the City. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"] I am surprised that a Labour Government, through its Attorney-General, should refuse to take any side in making this long overdue measure of justice to the poorer districts of London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1030.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-21", "file": "debates1924-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7a6976b931ffbc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1031.0", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. C. GRENFELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. C. GRENFELL", "preceding_text": "As Member for the City of London I should like to say a few words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1031.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-21", "file": "debates1924-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7a6976b931ffbc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1034.2", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "I beg the hon. Member's pardon. He did not try, but he succeeded in confusing the issue. The City through all the Housing Acts has maintained, by the authority of Parliament, its independent position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1034.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-21", "file": "debates1924-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7a6976b931ffbc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1046.2", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "preceding_text": "The Clause has been rather carefully prepared to deal with the whole case. It is not before the Committee, so I must not argue the particular proposal, but we are now plunging into very deep water. The right hon. Gentleman has promised to introduce the Clause on the Report, stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1046.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-21", "file": "debates1924-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7a6976b931ffbc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. SPENCER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Scotland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "I can imagine nothing that is going to stop house building more than this proposal. If I may remind the Committee there have been model villages built by manufacturers. The village of Sutton in my constituency is an example. Not a house could have been built there if this Bill had been in force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-21", "file": "debates1924-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7a6976b931ffbc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1059.1", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "preceding_text": "May I remind the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1059.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-21", "file": "debates1924-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7a6976b931ffbc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1069.5", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Clause be read a Second time.\" This Amendment was put down at the request of the City of Glasgow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1069.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-21", "file": "debates1924-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7a6976b931ffbc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1079.4", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BLACK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BLACK", "preceding_text": "st 10 shillings to the square yard, that will be £202 for the land alone on which the houses are going to be built. I can inform the Committee that within my absolute knowledge there have been hundreds, if not thousands, of houses built where the land has cost 18 shillings a square yard. What applies to Leicester will also obtain with regard to a large number of cities throughout the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1079.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-21", "file": "debates1924-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7a6976b931ffbc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1080.0", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SUNLIGHT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SUNLIGHT", "preceding_text": "I would—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-21a.1080.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-22", "file": "debates1924-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "1315f2545fbefac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-22a.1097.1", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FERGUSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Why should they not take part?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FERGUSON", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that a Manual was published in 1914 in which it was distinctly stated that honesty of purpose was no excuse for taking part in this procession?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-22a.1097.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-22", "file": "debates1924-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "1315f2545fbefac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-22a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "Can the Secretary for Scotland explain why it is that this company should get a loan of public money at 3½ per cent. while the poor fishermen are charged 5 per cent.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-22a.1102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-22", "file": "debates1924-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "1315f2545fbefac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-22a.1185.2", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Read it. '", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "I think I had better not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-22a.1185.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-22", "file": "debates1924-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "1315f2545fbefac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-22a.1197.0", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir MARTIN CONWAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir MARTIN CONWAY", "preceding_text": "he works of man, the countryman should take an interest in things in nature. His education should be based on the book of nature rather than the actual works of man. One of the unfortunate things which arises from our system of education is that our young people are not at all suited to go out into the Colonies. I know that hon. Gentlemen opposite will regard with disfavour the idea of emigration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-22a.1197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-22", "file": "debates1924-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "1315f2545fbefac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-22a.1224.0", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major CHURCH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not two years?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major CHURCH", "preceding_text": "or teachers who have taught for that time continuously in the schools of this country. It would not cost such a lot, and it would be of great advantage, particularly if the teachers were encouraged to travel and to travel extensively (hiring that sabbatical year. They might even take it at an earlier stage in their career, should it be found possible and practicable, say, at the end of five years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-22a.1224.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-07-22", "file": "debates1924-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "1315f2545fbefac3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-22a.1256.0", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord EUSTACE PERCY", "preceding_text": "following way, and I ask hon. Members to take note of this, because it is the kind of argument on which that type of electioneering speech is based. The hon. Lady quoted the Geddes Report, and quoted three things which the Geddes Report said were absolutely necessary. She then added, \"These are the principles on which educational administration have been conducted for the past two or three years.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-22a.1255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-23", "file": "debates1924-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "1561042c7a0bd446", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1311.1", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TAXES (ARREARS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THORNE", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that if an ordinary workman does not pay his Income Tax he goes to prison?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-23", "file": "debates1924-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "1561042c7a0bd446", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1319.2", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IMPERIAL WIRELESS SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "Is it not daylight in New Zealand and Australia when it is dark here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1319.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-23", "file": "debates1924-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "1561042c7a0bd446", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1343.3", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. HOPE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. HOPE", "preceding_text": "ich I am sure the Chancellor has quite sincerely at heart. A good deal has been said in the course of the Budget discussions as to the proportion between direct and indirect taxation. I do not propose to elaborate that point at length; I am rather disposed to agree with the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Paisley (Mr. Asquith) that its importance has been exaggerated, and that for two reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1343.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-23", "file": "debates1924-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "1561042c7a0bd446", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1352.1", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the imports?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "xes—is impeding the recovery of the working man's productivity? I would like an answer to that question. Is the iron and steel trade in a flourishing condition? How far does taxation and local rating affect it? I extracted from the \"Board of Trade Journal\" just now the production of pig iron in this country. In 1913 our production was 1,550,000 tons monthly. In 1924 it was only 632,000 tons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-23", "file": "debates1924-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "1561042c7a0bd446", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1395.0", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BLACK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BLACK", "preceding_text": "eems to be straining the position to state to the House that the general condition of the people of the country is not as satisfactory as it was before the War. I know there are about 1,000,000 people unemployed, but with regard to the other 13,000,000 of the working classes who are employed, apart from the agricultural industry, they are not earning unsatisfactory wages at the present time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-23", "file": "debates1924-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "1561042c7a0bd446", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1397.0", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERSKINE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Higher wages.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERSKINE", "preceding_text": "Protection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-23", "file": "debates1924-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "1561042c7a0bd446", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1397.1", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BLACK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BLACK", "preceding_text": ", and, therefore, there are to-day employed in keeping up the condition of motor cars throughout the country 27,000 men more than are employed in the actual production of the cars. If you double the use of motor cars in this country, whether they come from abroad or whether they are made at, home, you thereby double the number of chauffeurs employed and double the number of men engaged in garages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-23", "file": "debates1924-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "1561042c7a0bd446", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1400.1", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BLACK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BLACK", "preceding_text": "If the Chancellor of the Exchequer, instead of spending money in that way, could spend it on reducing the postage to one penny, he would have done a very fine work indeed in the interests of the business of this country. Chambers of Commerce throughout the country, business associations, and the Federation of British Industries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-23", "file": "debates1924-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "1561042c7a0bd446", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1423.6", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLYDE VALLEY ELECTRICAL POWER BILL [Lord] (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "ase the capital, and also the area within which this company is able to operate. It deals with electrical undertakings in those areas. I am suggesting that those undertakings and the extension of the powers to undertake electrical work in those areas are not going to be to the public advantage, but that the result will be simply to increase the opportunities of those individuals for making profit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1423.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-23", "file": "debates1924-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "1561042c7a0bd446", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1434.2", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLYDE VALLEY ELECTRICAL POWER BILL [Lord] (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL CHAPMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL CHAPMAN", "preceding_text": "man of Committees and the Bill is sent to it. This particular Bill was sent to a Select Committee of the House of Lords by the ordinary procedure. One particular point as regards Clause 33 was discussed for a whole day by the Select Committee. I will not be so foolish as to be drawn into an argument as to whether Clause 33 is right or wrong. It was discussed by local authorities, by counsel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1434.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-23", "file": "debates1924-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "1561042c7a0bd446", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1434.2", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLYDE VALLEY ELECTRICAL POWER BILL [Lord] (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL CHAPMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL CHAPMAN", "preceding_text": "ttees have clone in the past with regard to similar Measures. One or two statements have been made to-night which it is necessary I should refute. I only mention one matter in order to avoid any misunderstanding. I do not think that when an hon. Member opposite referred to hon. Members on this side as being interested in the promotion of the Bill, that he meant that we were financially interested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1434.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-23", "file": "debates1924-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "1561042c7a0bd446", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1442.0", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLYDE VALLEY ELECTRICAL POWER BILL [Lord] (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not in Battersea! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "I do not want to enter into any acrimonious discussion on the points raised by hon. Members. The type of speech made by the hon. Member for South Edinburgh (Sir S. Chapman), whose home is in a delightful part of Perth, and by the Noble Lord the Member for South Battersea (Viscount Curzon), whose home is also, I believe, in a delightful district—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-23", "file": "debates1924-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "1561042c7a0bd446", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1453.3", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLYDE VALLEY ELECTRICAL POWER BILL [Lord] (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "eeking a solution of the great economic and social problems of this country, and with great sincerity and earnestness. I would not criticise or attack them for the attitude they take up. But I believe, in trying to strike at private enterprise, they are making a profound mistake. They are taking a step which will re-echo to the injury of the people whose interests they are so much concerned about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1453.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-23", "file": "debates1924-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "1561042c7a0bd446", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1465.3", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLYDE VALLEY ELECTRICAL POWER BILL [Lord] (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FERGUSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FERGUSON", "preceding_text": "When an hon. Member makes an accusation which has no foundation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1465.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-23", "file": "debates1924-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "1561042c7a0bd446", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1475.3", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did say it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "I understood the right hon. Gentleman to say he considered that people over 70 should be discouraged from working. I have read it many times since. I have not got it with me. If he did not say that or anything approximate to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-23", "file": "debates1924-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "1561042c7a0bd446", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1476.1", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Have you any objection?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "15s. of that. 30s. will be counted against the man in respect of pension. If that woman is a bloated capitalist, deriving 30s. a week for investments in a shipbuilding company or some other iniquitous enterprise, she will be entitled to be exempt, and will have the full benefit of the 30s. coming into the household, plus 5s. old age pension, but if she is industrious and is actually working—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-23a.1476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-24", "file": "debates1924-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9892a965213f3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-24a.1591.1", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "e have secured cheaper money for local authorities, and we have always felt, with a few honourable exceptions, such as the late Minister of Health the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Ladywood (Mr. N. Chamberlain), that the great majority of hon. Gentlemen opposite and on the benches below the Gangway have done nothing whatever to facilitate municipal banking, but indeed often opposed it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-24a.1591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-24", "file": "debates1924-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9892a965213f3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-24a.1591.1", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "ities, and we have always felt, with a few honourable exceptions, such as the late Minister of Health the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Ladywood (Mr. N. Chamberlain), that the great majority of hon. Gentlemen opposite and on the benches below the Gangway have done nothing whatever to facilitate municipal banking, but indeed often opposed it—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] I can give a few facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-24a.1591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-24", "file": "debates1924-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9892a965213f3db0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-24a.1611.5", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"30s. will bring them nearer to the same level.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "I am referring to men who are living in the same parishes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-24a.1611.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-25", "file": "debates1924-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6930c72d9db71c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1639.3", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL ROBERTS", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "erlain), who introduced it, admitted, and as everyone admitted, only introduced as a first instalment towards solving the housing problem. The right hon. Gentleman did not pretend that it was going to do everything. That Bill when he introduced it was, at any rate, a step in the right direction, as has been proved by results, in trying to get private enterprise back working again. Until we do that", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1639.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-25", "file": "debates1924-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6930c72d9db71c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1639.3", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL ROBERTS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The sooner the better.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "g the housing problem. The right hon. Gentleman did not pretend that it was going to do everything. That Bill when he introduced it was, at any rate, a step in the right direction, as has been proved by results, in trying to get private enterprise back working again. Until we do that[ Laughter ]—I suppose hon. Members opposite would like to see no private enterprise in house building at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1639.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-25", "file": "debates1924-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6930c72d9db71c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1639.3", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL ROBERTS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "and again that the Bill does no harm to private enterprise. If the Bill succeeds it will do no harm to private enterprise. On the other hand, we are going to set up all over the country a vast number of tenants of local authorities. If the Bill proves successful there will be 2½ million tenants of local authorities. That is a danger, and a very great danger, to the public life of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1639.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-25", "file": "debates1924-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6930c72d9db71c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1647.1", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": " who desire either to give their blessing, or to give their final kick to the Bill, an opportunity of doing so, and I trust that I have not said anything which is offensive to hon. Members opposite. It is very difficult not to be led away by interruptions, and not to be drawn off the point and have to retrace steps that otherwise would not have to be retraced. I was coming to an end of my remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-25", "file": "debates1924-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6930c72d9db71c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1662.1", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Silvertown (Mr. J. Jones) says, \"Why not?\" How are you going to get your labourer to wait for 60 years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-25", "file": "debates1924-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6930c72d9db71c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1662.1", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "preceding_text": "town (Mr. J. Jones) says, \"Why not?\" How are you going to get your labourer to wait for 60 years? [ Interruption. ] If you take the total amount of wages paid in the building of a cottage, and spread it over 60 years, it will amount to 1s. 3d. a week. But, if you are going to make a practical proposition, it also means that the labourer will only be paid at the rate of 1s. 3d. a week for 60 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-25", "file": "debates1924-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6930c72d9db71c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1662.1", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ridiculous!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "preceding_text": "ers frill explain how you can arrive at this rate of 1s. 3d. a week for wages if you do not spread it over the 60 years. It is perfectly obvious that you have to pay the trade union rate of wages to a bricklayer—something like £3 a week—and you cannot pay that until the house is built and the rent is coming in. Is he going to work for three months without getting any wages at all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-25", "file": "debates1924-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6930c72d9db71c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1662.3", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that interruption. I think we shall all agree that the Minister's proposal was not a practical proposal at all. It was simply so many figures put down on paper, with no practical application to the actualities of life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-25", "file": "debates1924-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6930c72d9db71c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1662.3", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "preceding_text": "ppens now under the scheme of the right hon. Gentleman? The municipalities have to raise the money. They are not bloated capitalist and money usurers who are sweating the public; they are ordinary citizens of as good repute as ourselves. They have to go into the market. They have to go to their own ratepayers, and the ratepayers lend them the money at 4 per cent., 4½ per cent., or 5 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-25", "file": "debates1924-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6930c72d9db71c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1663.1", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMSON", "preceding_text": "I want to ask the right. hon. Gentleman whether he suggests that in order to get the rent at. 3s. 3d. per week, as he has suggested—because he said he was going to dilute this 9s. 9d. the last penny—to dilute the 6s. 6d. paid in interest to the last penny—how is he going to do it? Take the municipalities. They, have to borrow the money,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-25", "file": "debates1924-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6930c72d9db71c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1668.1", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. BAIRD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. BAIRD", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is prepared to apply the same methods to producing houses as were applied to producing shells, I am prepared to support him, but I do not think hon. Gentlemen opposite are under the impression that is Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-25", "file": "debates1924-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6930c72d9db71c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1668.1", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. BAIRD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. BAIRD", "preceding_text": "He said, \"Well, none of these good things can happen for three years. At the end of three years, the whole subject will be reviewed, and, if we find that we have made a present of a certain sum of money unnecessarily to the local authorities, I am sure nobody will begrudge it.\" Are we in a position—I see there is no representative of the Treasury present—to throw about money like that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-25", "file": "debates1924-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6930c72d9db71c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1673.5", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order! Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "se not only of deaths but—I do not call it infant mortality in the case of your grandfather—it was indifferent murder. Much as I regret many things that are not included in this Bill, I will say this, that, if we are going to have opposition, let it come from men who can give the points from their personal knowledge or by decent argument, but not the kind of tripe we have heard to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1673.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-25", "file": "debates1924-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6930c72d9db71c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1714.1", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are working harder now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "riendly and not figures that are opposed to him. In the year 1901 there were 828,000 men employed in the building and allied trades, bricklayers, joiners, plasterers and so on. In 1914 there were 483,000 so employed, and in January of this year 367,000 only. We are now building more houses than we built in the years prior to the War, although we have only 367,000 men compared with 828,000 in 1901.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-25", "file": "debates1924-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6930c72d9db71c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1717.7", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "mber for Rusholme and the Minister have both been concerned in getting this Rill through, and it is rather reminiscent of the stage elephant of the pantomime. These are just the kind of remarks that the back legs would make to the front. I agree with all that has been said with regard to the Minister, but I think some of it should be allocated to the hack legs. Just one serious word in conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1717.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-25", "file": "debates1924-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6930c72d9db71c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1719.0", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or to-morrow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": " been in operation for the verdict of the country. I am quite satisfied to leave the result of this Bill to the verdict of the country. The Government have told us it is going to produce 2,500,000 houses, that they are going to get the material and the labour and that they are going to reduce the rents. That is what they have told us. I am prepared to wait whether it be six months or a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1719.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-25", "file": "debates1924-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6930c72d9db71c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1719.3", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Wheatley)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To protected countries.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Wheatley)", "preceding_text": "ed it to succeed. The Act of 1923, did it stop the emigration of our skilled workers? Is it not one of the most deplorable things of the whole situation that, as the right hon. Gentleman below the Gangway pointed out, our skilled workers, upon whose training so much has been spent, and upon whom so much of the success of the country depends, have been emigrating in thousands and tens of thousands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1719.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-25", "file": "debates1924-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "6930c72d9db71c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1724.1", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\" and \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": " watch the operations of building manufacturers. He did not give power to investigate the books, or to penalise or to control them in their efforts to put up prices. After all you who are the defenders of private enterprise should be the last to criticise us for not being able to control private enterprise. What is private enterprise but an effort to make money out of the needs of your neighbours?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-25a.1724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-28", "file": "debates1924-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "2343f3fc2525d4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-28a.1752.5", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRISH FREE STATE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "May I ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-28a.1752.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-28", "file": "debates1924-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "2343f3fc2525d4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-28a.1759.1", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PENNY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PENNY", "preceding_text": "How long are the discussions going on? Whenever this question is put, it is always \"being considered\" or \"under discussion.\" Would the Minister remember that this is one of the few places—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-28a.1759.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-28", "file": "debates1924-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "2343f3fc2525d4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-28a.1781.10", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. It would be difficult to put the Scilly Isles in the Schedule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-28a.1781.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-28", "file": "debates1924-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "2343f3fc2525d4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-28a.1783.1", "colnum": "1783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "May I respectfully submit, purely in the interest of subsequent order, that as the Bill deals with an agricultural wages committee for each county in England and Wales, and as that is the scope of Clause 1, it is very difficult to see how you can in the Schedule deal with a place which is not a county of England or Wales?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-28a.1783.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-28", "file": "debates1924-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "2343f3fc2525d4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-28a.1788.0", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "Is it not an unusual exercise of that discretion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-28a.1788.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-28", "file": "debates1924-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "2343f3fc2525d4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-28a.1803.1", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PATTINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PATTINSON", "preceding_text": "By the Labour party. If they mean it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-28a.1803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-28", "file": "debates1924-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "2343f3fc2525d4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-28a.1813.0", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not apologise!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ACLAND", "preceding_text": "w. That is not historically true. It is true, of course, as I said on Second Reading—and in Committee we carried out the view which most of us held—that our view was that specific powers should be given to the central wages board instead of absolute powers, but it is not true that the line of the Government compromise is the line that either I suggested on Second Reading or that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-28a.1813.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-28", "file": "debates1924-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "2343f3fc2525d4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-28a.1826.1", "colnum": "1826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is trying to be funny!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "I do not understand the hon. Member's reference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-28a.1826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-28", "file": "debates1924-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "2343f3fc2525d4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-28a.1829.0", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOND", "preceding_text": " this side, at any rate, I, myself, decided that the Bill was becoming quite useless without the provision of a minimum wage. Therefore, although I voted against a minimum wage in Committee, because I did not believe in Parliament fixing wages, I came to the conclusion that the Bill, in its present form, would be very little use indeed to the agricultural worker without a minimum wage being fixed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-28a.1829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-28", "file": "debates1924-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "2343f3fc2525d4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-28a.1831.0", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SIMPSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was out of order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SIMPSON", "preceding_text": "local committee had not acted in accordance with the law. The object of that Amendment was that, in cases where a minimum wage had not been fixed in accordance with Clause 2, Sub-section (4), the central wages board should have the power of fixing a wage which would represent a living, wage. That Amendment was sacrificed in the agreement come to by the right hon. Gentleman with the party opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-28a.1831.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-28", "file": "debates1924-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "2343f3fc2525d4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-28a.1847.0", "colnum": "1847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DARBISHIRE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DARBISHIRE", "preceding_text": "I desire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-28a.1847.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-28", "file": "debates1924-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "2343f3fc2525d4d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-28a.1847.0", "colnum": "1847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DARBISHIRE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DARBISHIRE", "preceding_text": "olutely futile without the central wages board and without the minimum wage of 30s. It is the claim of the Government that there has been a great victory by getting the Tory party to agree to the principle of a minimum wage in this Bill, but as I understand it, the fear is that if we do not clinch the matter pretty quickly the Tory party at the first opportunity will run away from the arrangement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-28a.1847.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-29", "file": "debates1924-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "13879694993d1884", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-29a.1860.1", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MERCANTILE MARINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What will be the price?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "preceding_text": "he provision of wheat for the ensuing year. As stated in my answer, there is no reason to suppose that there will not be ample wheat in the world for the requirements of the wheat-eating population. It is true that the prospects of the Canadian wheat crop are not so good as last year, but it would be premature to give a figure of the number of quarters that it will fall short when it is harvested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-29a.1860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-29", "file": "debates1924-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "13879694993d1884", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-29a.1868.1", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "H the right hon. Gentleman is going to make inquiry into all the matters mentioned by my hon. Friend, will he also make inquiry into the amount of the product per hour per day by the British worker as compared with the worker in competing countries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-29a.1868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-29", "file": "debates1924-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "13879694993d1884", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-29a.1940.1", "colnum": "1940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the price?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": ". But the most significant fact is that at least a number of those who bitterly opposed the Treaty, who led the opposition to the Treaty—the principal leader at this moment is the Prime Minister, who, judging by my correspondence, shows every desire to be loyal, and I am quite sure believes the Treaty was the best thing that ever happened, and feels that he made a mistake when he opposed it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-29a.1940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-29", "file": "debates1924-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "13879694993d1884", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-29a.1944.0", "colnum": "1944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW MILNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW MILNE", "preceding_text": "the Constituent Assembly of Bagdad place enormous importance upon the question of Mosul. It is no use our wasting time talking about it from the standpoint of oil. It has nothing whatever to do with oil. I do not think there. is any difference of opinion in this House that we went to Mesopotamia for reasons utterly different from and utterly opposed to any question of oil or anything of that sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-29a.1944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-29", "file": "debates1924-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "13879694993d1884", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-29a.1965.2", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": " in such a State as Iraq. What are we there for? The hon. Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Wardlaw Milne), who spoke earlier, specifically denied that there was any question of oil ownership or oil exploitation in our interference with Iraq at all. I hold in my hand a cutting from a paper called the \"Financial Times,\" which I understand is edited by a Gentleman who sits on the Front Opposition Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-29a.1965.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-29", "file": "debates1924-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "13879694993d1884", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-29a.1968.3", "colnum": "1968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "I wish I knew that. What I submit I have proved is the statement—and that hon. Members on the opposite side have so far not disputed it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-29a.1968.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-29", "file": "debates1924-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "13879694993d1884", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-29a.1993.0", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "to the Dominions absolute and complete autonomy as regards their domestic affairs, but, in reference to external matters, which vitally concern their future—and I remember the words of Sir James Surface, although I am afraid I have not verified them—\"we, the Colonies, are still in the position of outside petitioners to the Colonial Office.\" That was felt to be an intolerable situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-29a.1993.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-30", "file": "debates1924-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "736e92449528b6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2100.2", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " to over £3,000,000, while at the corresponding date last year the amount was only £500,000. Certain Government Departments are also accelerating their contracts. Since February, the Air Ministry has accelerated work upon the building of aircraft and engines which will mean employment for 15,000 additional men. The Ministry of Agriculture has certain drainage schemes under consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2100.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-30", "file": "debates1924-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "736e92449528b6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2109.0", "colnum": "2109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Protection!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "o further than that. I am quite sure that the Committee will agree that the preliminary investigation is necessary before we rush into a big scheme. I want to say a word or two upon a matter on which I have promised information to the House on more than one occasion. That is the question of sugar beet. The Government have accepted the principle of Exchequer assistance, for the sugar beet industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2109.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-30", "file": "debates1924-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "736e92449528b6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2122.3", "colnum": "2122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On a Sunday, too!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": " have carried them on in rather slow time. That is what it comes to. How in the face of this White Paper the right hon. Gentleman the Attorney-General—I wish he were here—could go to his constituents last Sunday, and say what he did beats me. What he said was: More has been done by the Labour party than I in my wildest dreams, could ever have believed possible. That really will not do!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-30", "file": "debates1924-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "736e92449528b6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2122.3", "colnum": "2122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" You did nothing in your time!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "of the expenditure which will be involved in it if started in this financial year covered by Parliamentary sanction, and will the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Government go ahead at once to meet the immediate needs of the people with these schemes so far as they pan and come back for covering sanction? We should all of us, I am sure, be very glad to back them up with Parliamentary sanction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-30", "file": "debates1924-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "736e92449528b6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2125.2", "colnum": "2125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. C. GOULD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"And the employers!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. C. GOULD", "preceding_text": " for foreign repairers, for they can do the work at 20 to 40 per cent. cheaper than it can be done in this country. A remarkable fact also is this: that the work is being done, controlled and supervised to a very great extent by the very workmen who have been born and bred in this country, and who have been driven out of this country by the intolerable conditions imposed by the trade unions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2125.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-30", "file": "debates1924-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "736e92449528b6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2125.2", "colnum": "2125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. C. GOULD", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"To pay your reparation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. C. GOULD", "preceding_text": "at every day. These are British workmen, members of the trade unions of this country. What are, they doing in Germany? The answer given to the Parliamentary Secretary was that they are working 48 hours in Germany. But the Minister of Labour knows that since the 1st January of this year it has been set aside, and they are working in Germany to-day on an average in the Ruhr district 58 hours a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2125.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-30", "file": "debates1924-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "736e92449528b6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2135.0", "colnum": "2135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Send him a candle!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ificant—a fortnight or three weeks ago whether this was to be done, and he said, \"Oh, no, it was quite unnecessary.\" So some light has come to them, not before the last General Election. It is a light that has shone upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer and his Committee within the last three weeks. The President of the, Board of Trade is still walking in darkness. He said it was unnecessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2135.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-30", "file": "debates1924-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "736e92449528b6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2142.1", "colnum": "2142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What do you mean by that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "iples which some of us Members of the Labour party still firmly believe in. The plant still remaining at Gretna could be used by the Government profitably for the nation, and we on these benches this afternoon hoped to receive some assurance from the Government that that plant will not be disposed of by auction, but will be used by the Government and by the nation for the well-being of the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-30", "file": "debates1924-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "736e92449528b6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2147.1", "colnum": "2147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BRASS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"That is the War!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BRASS", "preceding_text": " I do not think there is any solution of the problem in that way. Before the War the surplus savings of the people were put into industry, so that the surplus male population was able to be absorbed into industry. That was when Income Tax and Super-tax together amounted to 1s. 8d. in the £. To-day, when it is 10s. 6d., the incentive to a rich man to put his surplus into industry is not there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-30", "file": "debates1924-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "736e92449528b6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2181.0", "colnum": "2181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nothing!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "uestions would not have been asked had my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer had the time to speak about one or two things that are in process of being carried out, or being arranged, which have or will have a material effect on the question of unemployment. My right hon. Friend said not a word about housing. Is it claimed that the housing problem will do nothing to find employment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2181.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-30", "file": "debates1924-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "736e92449528b6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2183.0", "colnum": "2183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are talking about a year's unemployment!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "But this decrease has taken place since the beginning of this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-30", "file": "debates1924-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "736e92449528b6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2184.1", "colnum": "2184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "Yes, it must be from the Road Board Fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-30", "file": "debates1924-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "736e92449528b6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2188.0", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They have emigrated!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "the 26th November, 1923, there were 21,057 unemployed motor workers in this country: in December of that year there were 19,433, and in June of this year 13,640. Therefore, I hope the Noble Lord will withdraw his remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-30", "file": "debates1924-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "736e92449528b6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2188.0", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "the 26th November, 1923, there were 21,057 unemployed motor workers in this country: in December of that year there were 19,433, and in June of this year 13,640. Therefore, I hope the Noble Lord will withdraw his remarks. [Hon. Members: \"They have emigrated!\"] I have given the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-30", "file": "debates1924-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "736e92449528b6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2188.0", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "1923, there were 21,057 unemployed motor workers in this country: in December of that year there were 19,433, and in June of this year 13,640. Therefore, I hope the Noble Lord will withdraw his remarks. [Hon. Members: \"They have emigrated!\"] I have given the facts. [ Interruption. ] I have stated definitely that there are more people employed in the motor trade to-day than in January of this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-30", "file": "debates1924-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "736e92449528b6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2205.1", "colnum": "2205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "Some of those who pretend to be the most revolutionary Members of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-30", "file": "debates1924-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "736e92449528b6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2206.2", "colnum": "2206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "Whilst, of course, it may be that we have not the Amendments, I take it that every Member of this House has had the opportunity of obtaining a copy of the Debate in the other House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2206.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-30", "file": "debates1924-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "736e92449528b6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2206.3", "colnum": "2206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "preceding_text": "I only want to make one remark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2206.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-30", "file": "debates1924-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "736e92449528b6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2210.7", "colnum": "2210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Repealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "idance of the House on what ground you, Sir, ruled that the three principal Amendments were privileged Amendments. They are Amendments which were discussed here, and go to the whole root of the Bill. This Committee is a Committee which is going to assign reasons why the Amendments were disagreed with. Those reasons, presumably, will include the reasons why the Amendments are considered privileged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2210.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-30", "file": "debates1924-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "736e92449528b6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2210.7", "colnum": "2210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Repealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "ents. They are Amendments which were discussed here, and go to the whole root of the Bill. This Committee is a Committee which is going to assign reasons why the Amendments were disagreed with. Those reasons, presumably, will include the reasons why the Amendments are considered privileged. [ Interruption .] When we require on this side the assistance of the right hon. Gentlemen we will invite it!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2210.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-30", "file": "debates1924-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "736e92449528b6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2210.7", "colnum": "2210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments Repealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP LLOYD-GREAME", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are addressing the House!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP LLOYD-GREAME", "preceding_text": "nd go to the whole root of the Bill. This Committee is a Committee which is going to assign reasons why the Amendments were disagreed with. Those reasons, presumably, will include the reasons why the Amendments are considered privileged. [ Interruption .] When we require on this side the assistance of the right hon. Gentlemen we will invite it! [HON. MEMBERS \"Speak up!\"] I am addressing the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-30a.2210.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-31", "file": "debates1924-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f545386e186e054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-31a.2220.7", "colnum": "2220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FERGUSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FERGUSON", "preceding_text": "Has there not been reported an interview with the deputa- tion from the Roger Casement Club, in which it was stated that if the right hon. Gentleman did not stand in for the release of the Irish prisoners, the Irish vote would go against him in Lancashire, and he would lose his seat; and that he undertook to release the prisoners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-31a.2220.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-31", "file": "debates1924-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f545386e186e054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-31a.2221.0", "colnum": "2221", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is!\" and \"It is true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "There is nothing to answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-31a.2221.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-31", "file": "debates1924-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f545386e186e054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-31a.2222.9", "colnum": "2222", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Is not all this evidence that the time has arrived when there is a consensus of opinion in the House that capital punishment should be stopped?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-31a.2222.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-31", "file": "debates1924-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f545386e186e054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-31a.2309.3", "colnum": "2309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whose fault was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "than Japanese are allowed to go anywhere near the Marshall Islands, and, although they are forbidden to defend them under the Washington Treaty, they are a naval base in being, and the late War shows that you can very easily make a natural harbour into an efficient naval base, as we did at the Orkneys, because all the world knows we made no preparation at all in the Orkneys for a war with Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-31a.2309.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-31", "file": "debates1924-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f545386e186e054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-31a.2340.1", "colnum": "2340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander FLETCHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander FLETCHER", "preceding_text": "sing, I believe that they would have said so with the same frankness as they said it in the case of Singapore. That being so I do not believe that in pressing for the eight cruisers hon. Members opposite have any substantial professional backing. I would ask them to remain content with the five. Australia I believe is proposing to build three. There are indications that Australia will build three.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-31a.2340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-31", "file": "debates1924-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f545386e186e054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-31a.2346.0", "colnum": "2346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "preceding_text": "I think the Liberal party have distinguished themselves in this Debate to-day. We have had three speeches from the Liberal party, in which they have displayed the hall-mark of Liberalism, namely, their insincerity and a desire to depreciate everything British.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-31a.2346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-31", "file": "debates1924-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f545386e186e054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-31a.2360.0", "colnum": "2360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the last war?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BERKELEY", "preceding_text": "ountry and America. I rule America out. At the worst it is my belief that if this country should ever be engaged—which, God forbid!—in a war in my lifetime, America would be neutral. But if this country were engaged in a war, I believe this country would be engaged in a righteous war, and, if so, it is my belief that America would be in the war with us. That is my own personal opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-31a.2360.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-07-31", "file": "debates1924-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9f545386e186e054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-31a.2381.1", "colnum": "2381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "a favourable moment to overhaul our expenditure on armaments? And he said in reply, I think it is the most favourable moment that has presented itself during the last 20 years. Our relations with Germany are infinitely more friendly now than they have been for years. There is one thing in which it seems to me the Liberal party are invariably consistent—that is they are out for a little navy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-07-31a.2381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-01", "file": "debates1924-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "78925767c98fa5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-01a.2403.0", "colnum": "2403", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRISH TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, you would!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "I only want to ask a question, not because the right hon. Gentleman has left us in any doubt as to the intentions of the Government, but rather to emphasise them. May I say, on behalf of my colleagues and myself, that we have learnt with very great satisfaction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-01a.2403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-01", "file": "debates1924-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "78925767c98fa5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-01a.2404.1", "colnum": "2404", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRISH TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "t legislation of any kind on this question will be hotly contested. I am quite sure that this long controversy ought to be settled smoothly. We must not forget, however, that this is a Treaty—whether good or bad, I am not now arguing the merits of it—this Treaty, whether good or bad, was not only ratified by the House of Commons, but ultimately endorsed by the country as a whole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-01a.2404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-01", "file": "debates1924-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "78925767c98fa5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-01a.2427.0", "colnum": "2427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE-BRABAZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE-BRABAZON", "preceding_text": "on is practically equal. It is rather curious that the Labour party and the Liberal party are undoubtedly supporting vested interests when they support the trams. They do so because of the undoubted advantages given to the trams in the past—advantages which it is desired to continue to hold. Although trams may he run by municipalities, they are run primarily with the idea of making a profit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-01a.2427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-01", "file": "debates1924-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "78925767c98fa5cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-01a.2440.0", "colnum": "2440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Progressive.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "I was interested to hear the speech of the hon. Member for South Hackney (Mr. H. Morrison). The House will enjoy the spectacle of the divorce which is now taking place between the London Labour party and the London Liberal party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-01a.2440.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-08-04", "file": "debates1924-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "aee3ffd28028bf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-04a.2512.6", "colnum": "2512", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ALIENS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman think that people are entitled to do what they like with their own private property—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-04a.2512.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-04", "file": "debates1924-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "aee3ffd28028bf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-04a.2583.0", "colnum": "2583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND(APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CECIL WILSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For 15 years!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CECIL WILSON", "preceding_text": "owing £22 1s. 10d. for arrears of rates. There are quantities snore of the same sort of cases, indicating the position in which very large numbers of these ratepayers find themselves. A request was made some few months ago for a Government grant of 75 per cent. of what was required for local work, and that, I think, is what the Ministry are suggesting to us that they are going to give to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-04a.2583.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-04", "file": "debates1924-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "aee3ffd28028bf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-04a.2633.4", "colnum": "2633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLYDE VALLEY ELECTRICAL POWER BILL [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLIMIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEBS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLIMIE", "preceding_text": "What do you mean by that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-04a.2633.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-04", "file": "debates1924-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "aee3ffd28028bf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-04a.2634.0", "colnum": "2634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLYDE VALLEY ELECTRICAL POWER BILL [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLIMIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLIMIE", "preceding_text": "I certainly would be the last man in the House to use disrespectful language to the Deputy-Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-04a.2634.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-04", "file": "debates1924-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "aee3ffd28028bf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-04a.2663.4", "colnum": "2663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLYDE VALLEY ELECTRICAL POWER BILL [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLIMIE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLIMIE", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Member did say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-04a.2663.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-04", "file": "debates1924-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "aee3ffd28028bf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-04a.2678.1", "colnum": "2678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "preceding_text": "t, and in that department it is admitted by everybody that every condition has been honourably observed. In such circumstances, what am I to say when a debate is raised in this manner? It was agreed by the House that there have been, I will not say misleading statements, because I do not want to use a provocative expression. In any case we all admit that there was a great deal of misunderstanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-04a.2678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-04", "file": "debates1924-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "aee3ffd28028bf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-04a.2679.3", "colnum": "2679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "preceding_text": "s to what was the character of the ex-ranker officer's claims, and the general basis upon which they were founded. Answers were given to hon. Members in every section of the House who were properly desirous of carrying out their pledges. But in carrying out election pledges every Member of this House is interested in finding out what, after all, were the conditions in which the pledges were given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-04a.2679.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-04", "file": "debates1924-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "aee3ffd28028bf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-04a.2680.1", "colnum": "2680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "preceding_text": "And moral obligation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-04a.2680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-04", "file": "debates1924-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "aee3ffd28028bf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-04a.2680.9", "colnum": "2680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "preceding_text": "Every paragraph of the Report of the Committee, which went most carefully into the matter, is dead against the claim of these ranker officers. It is held to be not a claim legally established or morally established.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-04a.2680.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-04", "file": "debates1924-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "aee3ffd28028bf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-04a.2690.0", "colnum": "2690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nobody said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "preceding_text": "Did I make any disparaging remarks? Will the hon. and gallant Gentleman quote one? What I desired to establish was this: In my opinion, while I would give to these gallant men all the credit to which they are entitled, I really cannot see that they have a moral claim because of greater gallantry than anybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-04a.2690.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-04", "file": "debates1924-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "aee3ffd28028bf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-04a.2695.0", "colnum": "2695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was given for him by the Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I can reassure my hon. Friend. I gave no such pledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-04a.2695.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-04", "file": "debates1924-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "aee3ffd28028bf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-04a.2697.0", "colnum": "2697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "I only intervene to ask the right hon. Gentleman if he will take care to represent to the Prime Minister that, without dissent in this discussion, it is agreed among us that undoubtedly the House gave the vote which it did on the 30th March on the definite understanding, arising out of what the Prime Minister said, that it would come before the House if the Committee turned it down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-04a.2697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-04", "file": "debates1924-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "aee3ffd28028bf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-04a.2697.2", "colnum": "2697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRINGLE", "preceding_text": "ury) and the hon. Member fur the Park Division of Sheffield (Mr. Storry-Deans) the, Prime Minister will feel that it is his duty to give that pledge. It is because of the pledge that the matter has arisen, and we are, in the circumstances, very anxious to have something very definite from the Government. This may be the last opportunity we shall have to have something definite from the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-04a.2697.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-05", "file": "debates1924-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "bb34c1eca43e8d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-05a.2748.0", "colnum": "2748", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — JUDGES AND MAGISTRATES (PRISON VISITS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FERGUSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FERGUSON", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Speaker. Is any hon. Member entitled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-05a.2748.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-05", "file": "debates1924-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "bb34c1eca43e8d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-05a.2858.2", "colnum": "2858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANARKSHIRE HYDRO - ELECTRIC POWER BILL [Lords] (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CHAPMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, they are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CHAPMAN", "preceding_text": "That is exactly what I was going to do. The Clauses of this particular Bill are nothing to hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-05a.2858.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-05", "file": "debates1924-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "bb34c1eca43e8d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-05a.2861.3", "colnum": "2861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANARKSHIRE HYDRO - ELECTRIC POWER BILL [Lords] (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "e House, because the time of the House will be a matter of material consideration and the various ongoings of this precious company may not be considered a matter of sufficient national importance to put aside other importance Measures. It is no doubt true that under the present Chairman of Ways and Means precious time has been given to these Measures without opponents having an opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-05a.2861.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-05", "file": "debates1924-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "bb34c1eca43e8d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-05a.2862.1", "colnum": "2862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANARKSHIRE HYDRO - ELECTRIC POWER BILL [Lords] (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker, I again bow to your ruling, although I must say I think there has been in this matter not anything like the consideration shown which ought to be shown to hon. Members in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-05a.2862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-05", "file": "debates1924-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "bb34c1eca43e8d25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-05a.2873.2", "colnum": "2873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANARKSHIRE HYDRO - ELECTRIC POWER BILL [Lords] (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "oters of this Measure or the company responsible for administering the provisions of this Bill, can take many measures for considering the aesthetics of the landscape, so closetted are they within the rigid restrictions laid down by the Measure itself. I submit that the whole case made on the other side of the House by hon. Gentlemen who for reasons of their own are opposing all these Bills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-05a.2873.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.2905.3", "colnum": "2905", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order, order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "I have tried to give all the information I have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.2905.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.2905.6", "colnum": "2905", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \" Daily Herald! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "The \"Daily Mail.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.2905.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.2906.6", "colnum": "2906", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Before the right hon. Gentleman answers, may I ask him whether in the OFFICIAL REPORT to-day he will give particulars of this surcharge and the period that it covers? Is he aware that that period is 18 months and the expenditure £1,500,000, thus disproving the statement made by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.2906.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.2912.6", "colnum": "2912", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GOSLING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GOSLING", "preceding_text": "I think that a great deal of the trouble at the moment is owing to the abnormal traffic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.2912.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.2929.6", "colnum": "2929", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "With all due deference to your ruling, the issue that has been raised is something more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.2929.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.2930.2", "colnum": "2930", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DICKSON", "preceding_text": "I wish to ask the Attorney-General if any Members of this House who will be speaking in their constituencies next week express similar opinions to that contained in the article in the \"Workers' Weekly,\" does that mean that we are subject to similar prosecution?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.2930.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.2934.0", "colnum": "2934", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRISH TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Honour!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "y the very same Article as provides for the appointment of the Boundary Commission, and that this option by the terms of the Article could only be exercised provided that the Commission was so nominated, and has the right hon. Gentleman pointed out to Northern Ireland that in that view Northern Ireland is claiming to accept the advantage of the Article without discharging the burden imposed by it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.2934.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.2935.3", "colnum": "2935", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRISH TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RONALD McNEILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Except the Liberals!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RONALD McNEILL", "preceding_text": "I want to put a question to the right hon. Gentleman, and I will promise not to make it the cover of a party speech. What I wish to ask the right hon. Gentleman is this: With regard to the appeal that he has made to the Press, an appeal to which no doubt everybody would be anxious to respond if it were reasonably possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.2935.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.2935.4", "colnum": "2935", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRISH TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "If any justification were needed for my appeal, it is to be found in the incidents of the last two speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.2935.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.2971.1", "colnum": "2971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASTERMAN", "preceding_text": "ot exclude what another facetious Member of the other House called \"the black-coated brigade.\" That clerks, with their miserable salaries, should be taxed for these houses, and yet be forbidden to live in them, is, I am sure, against the intention of the whole of this House. Another Member of the other House—the Marquess of Salisbury—asserted, curiously enough, that these houses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.2971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.2977.7", "colnum": "2977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "I am a little in the dark as to what is happening. The Minister just now moved a new Amendment of his own to insert the words, \"the total amount of.\" That does not appear to have been withdrawn and he has now moved to disagree with the Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.2977.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3016.1", "colnum": "3016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have failed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "preceding_text": "erfere or to express any opinion on the Soviet laws and decrees. On this matter I think I shall certainly carry my hon. Friends behind me with me when I say that our contention has always been that whatever opinion we might have of Soviet institutions or the Soviet system it was no business of ours. After all they are attempting rather swiftly a great experiment. They may succeed or they may fail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3017.1", "colnum": "3017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \" Will they pay them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "preceding_text": "I do not think so, but we found some difficulty in finding anybody who was authorised to speak on behalf of all the bondholders. They are a large number of people, and their interests cannot very well be represented by a committee. We have got in Article 6 an admission of liability from the Soviet Government, and an assurance on their part that they will negotiate with the bondholders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3017.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3018.1", "colnum": "3018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Has anyone?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "preceding_text": "I am at a disadvantage, because even I have not got a copy of the final documents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3019.0", "colnum": "3019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What have you got? What does it amount to?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "preceding_text": "e must settle this matter,\" your conversations are likely to last a very long time, whereas if you go up to the man and you shake his hand first, and then say, \"Now let us get to a settlement,\" you are likely to reach your settlement very much quicker. The course we took then in that Act of recognition is justified by the fact that we have been able in such a very short time to get this agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3019.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3019.0", "colnum": "3019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What? At our expense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "preceding_text": "an and you shake his hand first, and then say, \"Now let us get to a settlement,\" you are likely to reach your settlement very much quicker. The course we took then in that Act of recognition is justified by the fact that we have been able in such a very short time to get this agreement. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What have you got? What does it amount to?\"] The claimants will find that they will get—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3019.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3021.0", "colnum": "3021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": ", and I cannot go into the various details now. That is to say, he gave no answer on that point. He continued: I want to assure the Leader of the Opposition that this agreement\"— that is, the one which he is now signing— line by line and word by word, will be laid before the House, and there will be full discussion upon it.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 7th July, 1924; col. 1919, Vol. 175.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3021.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3021.0", "colnum": "3021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "line and word by word, will be laid before the House, and there will be full discussion upon it.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 7th July, 1924; col. 1919, Vol. 175.] [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] The cheers of hon. Gentlemen opposite cannot disguise the fact that, whereas that was a distinct promise that this would be discussed line by line and word by word, before it was signed by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3021.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3024.0", "colnum": "3024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": " matter of his negotiation was the question of debts and claims. I wonder whether any Member of the House has really gathered any clear idea of what is proposed to be done, more than it has been at any time in the last two or three years, with regard to these matters. As far as I was able to follow the Under-Secretary, all that is arranged is that they have agreed to negotiate with the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3033.1", "colnum": "3033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not a Socialist republic\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "is worth eliciting, but whenever we made any mild criticism we were always attacked on that ground. I am not at all sure that I could not cull from the speech of the hon. Gentleman phrases in which he denounced us for our criticism of the Soviet Government. Amongst the things that make it so bad is that there is no free expression of opinion allowed there. The news in the Socialist republic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3033.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3034.3", "colnum": "3034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"£600,000,000!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "Surely—as far as I can see—this is a fake. It is a contract in which the space for every essential figure is left blank. The hon. Gentleman says he has entered into a bargain to write down the debt. By how much? I forget what the figures of the debt are, but they run into hundreds of millions. I mean the debt that is due from Russia to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3034.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3034.5", "colnum": "3034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"What about the Treaty of Versailles?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "There is a statement about something which is known as Article 9. Cannot we see Article 9? The hon. Gentleman, when he explained the Treaty only a minute ago, said he was \"writing down\" the debt. He is not. He has discovered that he was wrong in the explanation he gave a few seconds ago. It is to be discussed later on. What sort of Treaty is this? Every item of any consequence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3034.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3034.5", "colnum": "3034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Under certain conditions!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ow. Does the hon. Gentleman know? He is going to sign to-morrow something of which he has not a ghost of an idea to-night. All he knows is that he is going to sign. Sign what? Well, he is going to trust to luck. Take this loan which is to be guaranteed. It will be known in Russia to-morrow that the British Government has said in the House of Commons that there is to be a guaranteed loan to Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3034.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3034.5", "colnum": "3034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERs: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " idea to-night. All he knows is that he is going to sign. Sign what? Well, he is going to trust to luck. Take this loan which is to be guaranteed. It will be known in Russia to-morrow that the British Government has said in the House of Commons that there is to be a guaranteed loan to Russia. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Under certain conditions!\"] The amount is not specified; the conditions are not specified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3034.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3050.3", "colnum": "3050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "to hear the opinion of those who have claims against Russia in regard to property and the bond-holders on the question whether they would prefer the policy pursued by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs as a means of getting something, or the policy of hon. Gentlemen opposite. We have tried the policy of hon. Gentlemen opposite, and it has been a disgraceful and blood-stained failure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3050.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3053.4", "colnum": "3053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "It was under the auspices of the League of Nations or under the States members of the League.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3053.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3053.4", "colnum": "3053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ria with that of Russia. I say you cannot in any way compare them. A little, beaten, poverty-stricken country like Austria had to take what was offered, but Russia need not make this agreement with us at all. There is a strong party in Russia, it is quite well known, who are opposed to this agreement just as there is a strong party in this House which is opposed to any agreement with Russia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3053.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3053.4", "colnum": "3053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have not seen the agreement yet!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "arty in this House which is opposed to any agreement with Russia—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"]—and the cheers below the Gangway bear me out in that statement. Under this agreement I claim that we have a very great advance from the days of the Trade Agreement and from the Genoa Conference, a very great advance indeed, and I think the Government are very much to be congratulated upon it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3053.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3056.1", "colnum": "3056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FERGUSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FERGUSON", "preceding_text": "Yes, and you need it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3059.4", "colnum": "3059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "It is the usual practice when reference is made to the junior Member of a constituency which returns two Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3059.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3065.0", "colnum": "3065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has not been laid!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "It is quite clear that this is not a point which comes under the Rules of the House. What I stated originally is quite correct. The claim for production of a document must be made at the moment. There is no case of departure from that Rule. I understood from the statement just now that the Article which has been quoted is in a document which has been laid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3065.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3065.1", "colnum": "3065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL - MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL - MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "With reluctance, I accept that decision absolutely. But what a position the House is in!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3071.5", "colnum": "3071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is settled?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "preceding_text": "I want to make it clear that the territorial waters question is not settled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3071.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3076.1", "colnum": "3076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Friday!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "I quite agree with the view that there is nothing in the Motion to prevent a continuance of the Debate to-morrow. But I am assuming that there are many Members who are interested in other questions, and look forward to to-morrow as an opportunity to debate them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3076.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3079.0", "colnum": "3079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member has given a very novel reason why the Debate should not be adjourned, and I am going to use the very argument which he has given, as a reason why the Debate should be adjourned. The Treaty is to be signed by a Government who have not a majority in this House, and who stand here, obviously, faced with a House to-night which is hostile to their proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3079.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3079.3", "colnum": "3079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "tish Government. Certain other negotiations have been going on between the British Government and the Allies in the late War, together with our late enemies. No one in this House has said that before the Prime Minister as Foreign Secretary signed the agreement with France, Italy, Belgium and other countries, it must first come here. Everybody knows that it will come here afterwards to be ratified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3079.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-06", "file": "debates1924-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "d21f0639981214c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3080.2", "colnum": "3080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. NALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. NALL", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. In view of the ruling which you, Sir, have given with regard to hon. Members pointing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-06a.3080.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-07", "file": "debates1924-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "511b0adf11f064d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3133.2", "colnum": "3133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "terial matters in connection with this very important Treaty. The point which I have just raised is not raised for the first time this morning. A request was made to the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs last night that the draft of the abortive Agreement should be laid upon the Table, and that demand was also made by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-07", "file": "debates1924-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "511b0adf11f064d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3134.1", "colnum": "3134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "sly in a very imperfect form, as anybody who reads this document can see. I venture to suggest to the Prime Minister that, looking to the fact that in any case this Treaty has to lie on the Table of the House for 21 Parliamentary days before it can be ratified, you are sacrificing no time at all if you adjourn the signature of this Treaty and its discussion until the beginning of the next Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-07", "file": "debates1924-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "511b0adf11f064d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3136.0", "colnum": "3136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ubsequent proceedings go through. I am not even allowed to say in the proper constitutional way that I am going to do my best now to carry this through, and this is the document, these are the provisions, to which I agree,\" nobody knows better than the right hon. Gentlemen opposite that that state of things would be absolutely intolerable. Of course, they may say this is a very special case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-07", "file": "debates1924-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "511b0adf11f064d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3140.2", "colnum": "3140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOREL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOREL", "preceding_text": "aults it may have, does not represent the people of Russia? When Lenin first came into power he promised the Russian people bread and peace within 12 months, but he gave them neither. The Soviet regime has had to withstand attacks from outside by some of the most powerful nations in the world. It has had to withstand civil war fomented by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3140.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-08-07", "file": "debates1924-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "511b0adf11f064d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3144.1", "colnum": "3144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Yes!\" and \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "llect that the Prime Minister has been careful throughout all these negotiations to make plain from day to day what has been going on, and there have been persistent debates indicating the position of the various groups in the House. What are you faced with to-day? You are faced with the fact, indicated by speeches made in connection with this Treaty, that the majority of the House is against you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-07", "file": "debates1924-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "511b0adf11f064d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3145.0", "colnum": "3145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You do not mind that very much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs said yesterday is irrefrangibly true. If you sign this Treaty now, and if we decide in future to depart from it when it comes to be put before the House and is the subject of a vote, you will not only not be creating peace with Russia but you will be creating a feeling of irritation which may lead to the impossibility of amicable relations with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-07", "file": "debates1924-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "511b0adf11f064d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3145.0", "colnum": "3145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "are): Will the Government undertake to enter into no treaty until this House has had an opportunity of discussing it? The Under-Secretary replied: Certainly, Sir. This House will have a full opportunity of discussing the findings of the Conference.''—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 24th July, 1924; col. 1518, Vol. 176.] Discussion means nothing if, in spite of what we say you are going to sign the Treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-07", "file": "debates1924-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "511b0adf11f064d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3147.1", "colnum": "3147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is in the White Paper!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "thern Ireland and the Union or Soviet Socialist Republics. But in the time that I have been able to give to it, I find that there are omitted from it three important, things of which the Under-Secretary spoke yesterday. There is, for example, the complete omission of the Most-Favoured Nation Clause in our favour. There is nothing at all, so far as I can find, which deals with that important point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-07", "file": "debates1924-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "511b0adf11f064d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3147.1", "colnum": "3147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "three important, things of which the Under-Secretary spoke yesterday. There is, for example, the complete omission of the Most-Favoured Nation Clause in our favour. There is nothing at all, so far as I can find, which deals with that important point. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It is in the White Paper!\"] Really, is it fair to ask us to discuss a Treaty in these circumstances, when we have handed to us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-07", "file": "debates1924-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "511b0adf11f064d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3158.0", "colnum": "3158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RATHBONE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RATHBONE", "preceding_text": " provides nothing definite. It simply provides that such and such is to happen if an agreement is arrived at afterwards. What seems to me to be a great danger in regard to this Treaty is that when it comes for ratification this House will be in the position of having to agree to something with which, apparently, from the speeches delivered last night and to-day the House of Commons does not agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-07", "file": "debates1924-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "511b0adf11f064d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3163.4", "colnum": "3163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "My sole desire is to meet the general sense of the House. I think that it will meet the case if, supposing the Third Reading be concluded, it be understood that there should not be more than two reasonably short speeches further on the Russian question, and that then we should proceed to other matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3163.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-07", "file": "debates1924-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "511b0adf11f064d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3164.0", "colnum": "3164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CURZON", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I do not know whether I shall have a chance to get in a reasonably short speech on Russia on the Adjournment. I want to ask one or two questions, and if I might be allowed to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-07", "file": "debates1924-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "511b0adf11f064d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3180.1", "colnum": "3180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADJOURNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE.", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And other parties!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE.", "preceding_text": "e hon. Gentleman realise for a moment what it means? Before any of these claims are settled, we are to guarantee a loan. All these things will be outstanding. You may have a moderate Government in Russia now—moderate for Russia—but the hon. Gentleman knows, and no one knows better, the struggle that is going on there. It is the sort of struggle that is going on inside the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3180.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-07", "file": "debates1924-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "511b0adf11f064d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3192.1", "colnum": "3192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADJOURNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LINFIELD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not all here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LINFIELD", "preceding_text": "I rise for the purpose of calling attention to a case in reference to a Motion which I had on the Paper for some time. It is the case of a passive resister who is about to be removed from the Bench of Magistrates on account of views that he holds conscientiously and I am very glad that there is such a large number of Labour Members here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-08-07", "file": "debates1924-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "511b0adf11f064d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3197.1", "colnum": "3197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADJOURNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Major CHURCH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"They need it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major CHURCH", "preceding_text": "y education as a national investment, an investment which returns not only cent. per cent., but, one may say, thousands per cent. In passing, I should like to say that Scotland at least is very much ahead of this country in the provision of university education and the number of students in its university colleges. There are more universities, in proportion, in Scotland than in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-08-07a.3197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.12.1", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — \" WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Now we know!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL", "preceding_text": "In answer to the right hon. Gentleman, may I tell him this: I formed the deliberate opinion that the one thing which the Communist party desired was that this man should be made a martyr in this prosecution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.12.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.14.2", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — \" WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Have it now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I am not at all content to wait for the exposure of this until the end of October.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.14.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.18.5", "colnum": "18", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (GOVERNMENT BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "They have been passed under an agreement that, if the House has to be assembled for work in the autumn, it shall be for some great, special, definite work of urgent public importance, and not in order that private Members should have the same facilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.18.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.27.2", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMA TION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. J. Ramsay MacDonald)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. J. Ramsay MacDonald)", "preceding_text": " being called, is no longer with us. Lord Long has left us in the House of Commons for some time, but his death has touched a chord of sincere regret in the hearts of all colleagues whichever side of the House they happen to sit upon, and I am, sure, Sir, in paying my little tribute to his memory, I speak not merely as the head of the Government, but on behalf of the whole of the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.27.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.56.0", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMA TION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUGH O'NEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUGH O'NEILL", "preceding_text": " Members of this House that there would be no Commission unless the Ulster representative was appointed. I know, for what it is worth, that in private conversation with me at the time many Members on this side of the House, at any rate, said they brought themselves to support the Treaty because, as they said: \"Of course, in the end if Ulster does not like it she need never appoint a Commissioner.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.56.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMA TION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: as when\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "ment in power, that you ought to find out what pledge is asked for before you give it. I know this, that if any Member of this House was asked the question, as I was asked: \"Will you coerce Ulster or will you not?\" I am convinced of this, that his answer would be: \"No, I will not.\" I say once again that it all depends on the way in which the question is put and upon the situation as a whole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMA TION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "h which was delivered the other day by my right hon. Friend, Mr. Winston Churchill, who was then in reality the Chief Secretary for Ireland, as Colonial Minister, and he bore out what everybody who has spoken on this side of the Irish Channel has borne out, that if there was to be a Commission it was to be a Commission on the boundary—I use the word \"boundary\"—for minor re-adjustments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMA TION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then go on the other side!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": ", and I would ask this House to hesitate long before it sacrifices the friendship and the loyalty of those who have shown themselves, through thick and thin, loyal and faithful to this country, to the uncertainty of what may come from the South. May I say this in conclusion? I am sorry if upon this occasion I should part company with a great many of my friends, but they will understand the reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.65.0", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMA TION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord HUGH CECIL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nor of Lord Birkenhead's!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord HUGH CECIL", "preceding_text": "ind no doubt, and they left Parliament of the same opinion, that the Article would be interpreted in a particular sense. The right hon. Gentleman quoted my Amendment. Perhaps I may say that, difficult as it is to compile a Paper of this kind, I do not think it has been quite impartially prepared. I see no record of Mr. Bonar Law's very important speech on the Debate before the Treaty was ratified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.65.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.81.0", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMA TION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Leave us alone!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "d. A line was drawn, a division was made in Ireland, putting together in terms of units, because they did not want to split up countries, what the Northern Ireland people themselves put forward as their maximum claim, but what I call their own crowd in six counties, and The Act of Parliament got through, giving one constitution to these six counties and another constitution to the rest of Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.81.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.83.1", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMA TION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": " conference, were maps, diagrams, sketches, illustrated in terms of population and in terms of parishes and in other ways, the part that was the real colony. Well, now, an agreement was come to. One heard nothing at all of all this side talk of what one person said and the other person said at the conference. Is it not perfectly obvious that what was done was this? The 1920 Act was scrapped—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.83.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.83.1", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMA TION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "t was come to. One heard nothing at all of all this side talk of what one person said and the other person said at the conference. Is it not perfectly obvious that what was done was this? The 1920 Act was scrapped—[An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"]—in the same sense as the 1914 Act? The 1914 Act had to cease to exist when its place was taken by the 1920 Act and the 1920 Act had to cease to exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.83.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.91.5", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMA TION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. LYNN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. LYNN", "preceding_text": "the country. What is the Government doing now? It has got this Treaty, and we were told not a single comma in it could be altered. The Government are now asking us to alter a most important part of the Treaty in favour of one section rather than in favour of both. All that we in Northern Ireland ask is a fair deal. The Government are not giving us a fair deal. They are loading the dice against us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.91.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMA TION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOLES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who appointed him?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOLES", "preceding_text": " a High Sheriff, he was absolutely unopposed—twice two High Sheriffs. But when it comes to the paid officers, that is the real test. The office of Lord Mayor costs the occupant about £5,000 a year, for there is no remuneration as there is in Dublin. The Clerk of the Crown and Peace for the City of Belfast, as well as for the County of Antrim, is a co-religionist of my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMA TION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARBISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARBISON", "preceding_text": "ech of my right hon. Friend the Member for Ross and Cromarty (Mr. Macpherson) below me to-night, when he spoke of the pledge that was given to Ulster in 1920. He was then, I think, a Member of the Government and Chief Secretary for Ireland. I can quite appreciate his feeling in regard to Ireland because, as with many others who went before him, Ireland proved the graveyard of his reputation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMA TION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARBISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARBISON", "preceding_text": "romarty (Mr. Macpherson) below me to-night, when he spoke of the pledge that was given to Ulster in 1920. He was then, I think, a Member of the Government and Chief Secretary for Ireland. I can quite appreciate his feeling in regard to Ireland because, as with many others who went before him, Ireland proved the graveyard of his reputation—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—his political reputation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.116.1", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMA TION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARBISON", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARBISON", "preceding_text": "s touched. I would like to know what the tragedy will be. I presume they mean that there is going to be war want to know with whom they are going to war. They have the Nationalist minority in the North defenceless at their feet. They have trampled on every right we had. We have been gerrymandered out of all our rights; we are slaves in our own land; we cannot fight them because we are defenceless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.135.5", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMA TION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "Might I ask the hon. Gentleman to read the whole of the speech of Mr. Winston Churchill, and he will find many words which will confirm what I have said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.135.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.135.6", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMA TION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": " responsibility with the signatories of the Treaty which he is not now prepared to follow up. I was referring to what the Noble Lord the Member for Oxford University (Lord H. Cecil) said, which was that the only reason why the Bill of 1922 passed through this House, and through the House of Lords by a big Conservative majority was because they thought that that Bill preserved the rights of Ulster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.135.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMA TION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": " when he moved an Amendment to insert the word \"Southern,\" because, he said, the Treaty was between this country and Ireland, and he moved to introduce the word \"Southern\" on that account. The Amendment was discussed at length, and Mr. Churchill said the whole basis of the transaction was that, rightly or wrongly, the Government were treating with these people as representing the whole of Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMA TION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does the hon. Gentleman suggest that the agreement with Southern Ireland was a Treaty?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "ng to make it worse. But there it is. It was open to this Parliament to alter what had been done two years ago. But there is this difference between an Act of Parliament and a Treaty—in relation to an Act of Parliament, this House has power to deal with its own actions done previously, but in relation to a Treaty, you cannot alter it without the parties with whom you entered into the Treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMA TION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Give us your sympathy in a practical way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "ent, but on the 2nd March, 1922, the very first Amendment moved was an Amendment which sought to strike out the word \"Treaty.\" Therefore, we cannot go back upon what was done two years ago. Rightly or wrongly, this House declared this was a Treaty. They approved What had been done, and I sympathise with those who have been harshly treated. I think there will be trouble in Ireland whatever happens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMA TION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "iends on the other side did, are entitled to oppose this Bill now, but those who ratified the Treaty, even after a prolonged Debate, are surely bound by their own action and declaration. I think there will be trouble. I think it is unavoidable whether the Commission is set up or not. But I think that in the midst of that trouble it will be very much surer and safer if we stand by our pledged word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMA TION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It cannot be, by a Treaty!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "n after a prolonged Debate, are surely bound by their own action and declaration. I think there will be trouble. I think it is unavoidable whether the Commission is set up or not. But I think that in the midst of that trouble it will be very much surer and safer if we stand by our pledged word. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Which one?\"] The word which was given in 1920 may have been broken by the Act of 1922.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMA TION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "l be trouble. I think it is unavoidable whether the Commission is set up or not. But I think that in the midst of that trouble it will be very much surer and safer if we stand by our pledged word. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Which one?\"] The word which was given in 1920 may have been broken by the Act of 1922. [An HON. MEMBER: \"It cannot be, by a Treaty!\"] The Act of 1922, which ended the Act of 1920—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.139.0", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMA TION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With Ireland!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Member assert that this House of Commons can by a Treaty with Southern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMA TION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "The difference is this, that in the Act of 1920 we set a boundary. In the Act of 1922 we passed a Measure altering that boundary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.139.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-09-30", "file": "debates1924-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "9c4c4d6e90f1ec7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.139.3", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMA TION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "It does!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "In the Treaty it mentions a boundary which is the boundary of the 1920 Act. Does it anywhere suggest a new boundary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-09-30a.139.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-01", "file": "debates1924-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "40903b641485dcdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.155.7", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMATION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quote!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "ndment there. Everybody knows that when that very difficult Treaty was being advocated, and its passage secured in this House, many diverse statements were made. Some said this merely meant a rectification of the frontier. Others—and I put in this class both the Leader of the Ulster party in this House and Mr. Michael Collins—said that this meant a considerable alteration of territory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.155.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-01", "file": "debates1924-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "40903b641485dcdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.155.7", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMATION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was not the leader!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "verse statements were made. Some said this merely meant a rectification of the frontier. Others—and I put in this class both the Leader of the Ulster party in this House and Mr. Michael Collins—said that this meant a considerable alteration of territory. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Quote!\"] I do not want to take up the time of the House. I will give one or two examples. Let me take Lord Danesfort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.155.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-01", "file": "debates1924-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "40903b641485dcdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.155.7", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMATION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Craig!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "12;and I put in this class both the Leader of the Ulster party in this House and Mr. Michael Collins—said that this meant a considerable alteration of territory. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Quote!\"] I do not want to take up the time of the House. I will give one or two examples. Let me take Lord Danesfort. [HON. MEMBERS: \"He was not the leader!\"] I will take the then Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.155.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-01", "file": "debates1924-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "40903b641485dcdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.155.7", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMATION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"May!\" and Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": " time of the House. I will give one or two examples. Let me take Lord Danesfort. [HON. MEMBERS: \"He was not the leader!\"] I will take the then Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. [HON. MEMBEES: \"Craig!\"] I will take the leader of the Ulster party: The Boundary Commission …. may cut off considerable portions of our province.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 16th February, 1022; col. 1291. Vol. 150.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.155.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-01", "file": "debates1924-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "40903b641485dcdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMATION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": " words of the hon. and gallant Member for Antrim (Captain Craig). He said: We are charged with the defence of the Ulster position …. the duty of undertaking the government and the defence of as much of Ulster as we can hold.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 29th March, 1920; col. 991, Vol. 127.] That is to say, \"Give us as much minority as we can keep under, but do not make the minority big enough.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-01", "file": "debates1924-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "40903b641485dcdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMATION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Winston Churchill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "he hon. and gallant Gentleman who has just spoken has earned for himself a reputation as a fighter of which anyone might be proud; but I wish that occasionally in this House of Commons he would play the part of a pacifist, instead of the part of one stirring up strife. I cannot but express my regret that the unfortunate differences which continue to prevail in the ranks of the Liberal Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-01", "file": "debates1924-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "40903b641485dcdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMATION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No,\" \"Yes'' and \"Roguery.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "tion. It did not propose her subjection to an award given by a Commission to which she had not been a party. The hon. and gallant Member for Leith (Captain W. Benn), if I rightly understood him, suggests that to lay any stress upon this aspect is to expose ourselves to the aspersion that all the time when we were negotiating and passing the Treaty, we were tricking those with whom we were dealing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-01", "file": "debates1924-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "40903b641485dcdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMATION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"He never said so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " to me of trickery. Every word that I say now was said by my right hon. Friend the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George), by Mr. Winston Churchill, by my right hon. Friend beside me, and by myself in the Debate in December, 1921, before ever the Dail had the matter under consideration. If we were trying to trick the Irish, should we have exposed our whole hand, and made our whole claim?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-01", "file": "debates1924-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "40903b641485dcdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMATION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "we were trying to trick the Irish, should we have exposed our whole hand, and made our whole claim? [HON MEMBERS: \"He never said so!\"] No, but what he did say was that those who, like my right hon. Friend the Member for Ross and Cromarty (Mr. Macpherson), attach some importance to these declarations, to what was embodied in them, and that was in their mind all the time, were open to such a charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-01", "file": "debates1924-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "40903b641485dcdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.193.8", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMATION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are afraid of it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "I think it will clear up the whole matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.193.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-01", "file": "debates1924-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "40903b641485dcdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.197.0", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMATION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCONNELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCONNELL", "preceding_text": "When the hon. Member was working in Harland and Wolff's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.197.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-01", "file": "debates1924-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "40903b641485dcdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.218.3", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMATION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was about Lord Birkenhead!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman, surely, does not deny that he either spoke or wrote words, I will not say literally those that I have used, but words corresponding exactly to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.218.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-01", "file": "debates1924-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "40903b641485dcdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.221.0", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMATION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At 2 o'clock in the morning!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "The same invitation was sent to the Ulster Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.221.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-01", "file": "debates1924-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "40903b641485dcdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.221.1", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMATION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"About the voting!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "preceding_text": "en platforms that attitude of ours has been explained. Why should we have gone to that conference? It was clearly understood that if the interests of Ulster at any time were brought up or assailed, or it was proposed to affect them in any way, Ulster was to be given notice and asked if she would like to appear at the conference. The particular point I was trying to bring out has escaped my memory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-01", "file": "debates1924-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "40903b641485dcdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.237.7", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMATION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HEALY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is quite untrue!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HEALY", "preceding_text": "lian body armed, decided to strike. You would be surprised that such a loyal body of men should go on strike. But what do you think the men struck for? They went on strike because one Englishman had been imported as a drill instructor, and they would not give this man one brown penny out of the million odd subsidy voted in this House for the upkeep of this force. That is the type of their loyalty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.237.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-01", "file": "debates1924-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "40903b641485dcdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.275.0", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMATION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not the last!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " with the agreement that we have already made.\" Then take the case of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Ross and Cromarty (Mr. Macpherson). Here you have an illustration of the unity which characterises all parties in this matter. Curiously enough, the right. hon. Gentleman took up a remarkable attitude. He did not seem to remember one thing, that he was the last Chief Secretary for Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-01", "file": "debates1924-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "40903b641485dcdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.279.2", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE (CONFIRMATION OF AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ster to nominate one of the Commissioners, and that there is no machinery provided under the Bill in the event of her not doing so, is no mystery to me. It harmonises the Bill, with the fact that Ulster was not a party to the Treaty, which harmonises with the further fact that the basis of the negotiation of the Treaty was a basis which recognised\"— I think this is what my hon. Friend wants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-01a.279.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-02", "file": "debates1924-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "d5663cabf17e3b07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-02a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer! answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILLS", "preceding_text": "Before the Under-Secretary replies, may I ask him if his attention has been called to a statement by the Italian Consul at Tiflis to the effect that the reported outbreak was put down by the local people without the aid of troops, that order has been restored since 1st September, that there have been no massacres, and that the 9,000 is merely imagination?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-02a.310.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.612.2", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "hrough with me each item of the grounds marked ( a ) to ( e ) I gathered from the Attorney-General that he considered it quite possible that the prosecution would fail since he considered that a sympathetic jury, dealing only with a man of the excellent military record of Campbell, might well accept the defence already suggested by his fellow-Communists in the House of Commons and elsewhere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.612.3", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "n the papers, and by no one more than by Lord Birkenhead. I have to say a word or two. I am bound to say one or two things in defence. I am not attacking him for what he has done, because everything has been in the papers. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) and I know that there are things that are recorded in writing, and he can correct me if I am wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.612.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was during the War!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "t to a fine.\" Those things were actually done. I can give the case of a man who was charged and it was definitely stated that, unless this man was let off, 23,000 men would come out on strike. Counsel for the prisoner saw the Attorney-General, and told him of this fact, and the result was that the Government held an inquiry and the Attorney-General sanctioned the withdrawal of all the proceedings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " I do not want to use a War example, but it is the principle of the thing with which I am concerned. Surely the public interest is concerned in a vital question of whether you will give an advertisement to a class of people who are simply waiting for this very sort of advertisement. Up till the 30th July I had never heard of the \"Workers' Weekly.\" Had anybody in this House ever heard of it before?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Look behind you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " the hon. Member to forgive me and overlook it. It is not an easy thing for anyone to stand up here on a charge of this kind. It is all very well to say that it is part of a game. As I have already told the House, for years and years nobody has ever dreamt of mak- ing such a charge against me. What do they think I wanted to do it for? As far as I know I have never spoken to a Communist in my life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.619.0", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": " Attorney-General's Department. That is the impression which these two Ministers most unfortunately conveyed. So far from wishing to speak hardly of the Attorney-General, or of the way in which be has endeavoured to bear the brunt of this, I want to make it plain at once that the need for inquiry is the need to discover to what extent his political superiors made any attempt to influence his mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.619.0", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "ich the Prime Minister insisted on leaving open in the observations which he made just before the beginning of public business. The Prime Minister interposed to tell the House that he had—doubtless accidentally—that he had, as he realised, used language which might well mislead this House and the public as to the extent to which he had anything to do with this matter. He told us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.619.0", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "used and by the friends of the accused, and it has been widely suspected in many quarters for weeks and months, that political considerations had something to do with it; and now that I have listened to the Attorney-General's speech, able as it was, and satisfactory as it was in many respects as showing his own individual conduct, he has left me, and I think he has left the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.619.0", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "er had said that he was not to see him. I want to know from the Prime Minister whether he had said that he wanted to see the Director of Public Prosecutions, what he wanted to see him for, and what he said to him when he did see him. Until matters of that sort are investigated, it is really idle to pretend that the heart of this matter has been examined. Taking the most, as we ought to take—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.619.0", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "to give me a chance?—taking the most favourable view, as everyone would wish to do in the light of the Attorney-General's statement, the matter stands in this way: Ministers have allowed a great cloud of suspicion to arise, with one section of the community saying that they have surendered under pressure, and the most responsible newspapers of the country demanding what is the meaning of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.619.0", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "e a view. Did the Prime Minister say this to the Attorney-General—did he say, \"Well done, good and faithful colleague. I satisfied the Communists and agreed to a Treaty with Russia yesterday, after announcing the day before that I would not do it, and I now find that you, at exactly the same moment, are engaged in prosecuting the very people with whom I am trying to arrive at accommodation\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.623.1", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Assuming he did so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "It is no small matter for a Prime Minister, with all sorts of enormously important affairs on his hands, to concern himself with a prosecution initiated by the Attorney-General.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.623.1", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "lthough a week ago there was not a soul except the people sitting on that bench who knew that the Members of the Cabinet had ever had anything to do with it. I repudiate altogether the suggestion that this matter is to be disposed of by highly technical arguments between Attorney-Generals and ex-Attorney-Generals. There is not a lawyer in the House, there is not an honest man in the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.628.0", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "d in the prosecution. What happened at that conversation which followed immediately? The right hon. Gentleman, having listened very carefully to the documents read and the statements made, was still kind enough to insinuate in a statement that at the time that the learned Attorney came to see me in my room—the first time, the earlier afternoon interval—he had not made up his mind then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.632.1", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "The point I am interested in is this. The right hon. Gentleman insinuated that whether it was 3 o'clock, 4 o'clock, or 5 o'clock—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.633.1", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " of confidence. The Motion moved from the Front Bench opposite is, as I said yesterday, a perfectly straightforward Motion. It asks the House to declare that it has no confidence in us. Very well, if that is the mind of the House, let it say so. The Amendment is not of that character. I do not know if I am wrong, but I will talk quite plainly. I think that the Amendment is a very unfair Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "esty of the House to say that, concerning a Select Committee appointed by party Whips, appointed under the proportional representation principle, from the parties the very night or day after a heated Debate, every member of which is going either to be for or against it, to be sent upstairs and told to give an impartial decision upon a matter which has been shown to be a mere partisan matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.635.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.654.3", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "ing that I sincerely hope that on reconsideration the Members of the Government will, in their own interests, agree to the Amendment that has been moved. I hone it will not be necessary to go to a Division. I hope on reconsideration the Prime Minister will come down and say that after the speeches which have been delivered and, if I may say so, after the olive branch which has been extended—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.654.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.663.0", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "preceding_text": "s House. This particular case, the Attorney-General being set up to whom the Public Prosecutor is responsible—I think it was set up in 1879—is almost the only case where political pressure can be brought to bear. I think hon. Members opposite must acknowledge that there is some reason for the suspicion held by two parties in this House that political pressure was brought to bear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.663.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.675.1", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "preceding_text": "he Home Secretary, on the Attorney-General for the purpose of seeing that the prosecution was not continued. Judged by the tenor of the language used that is a fair comment. In my view on that alone the Vote of Censure would be justified, but I want to say quite candidly for my part that, in the circumstances of this case, I think that it would be more satisfactory to have a further investigation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.678.0", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh I \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALDWIN", "preceding_text": "y intervention for five minutes necessary. I am rather surprised at my right hon. Friend opposite pouring scorn on our Debate to-day as being a teapot discussion. He cannot have forgotten that teapots have played a very great part in history. The upsetting of a small amount of tea on Boston Harbour changed the history of the world. Then there is a celebrated oilfield in America called Teapot Dome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.678.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "Sir. D. HOGG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER.: \"That is not evidence!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir. D. HOGG", "preceding_text": "vernment of this country used their political influence in party interests, in order to interfere with the even administration of justice in this country. That charge is not made for the first time by us. It is a charge which, as my right hon. Friend reminded the House, made in terms, and in boastful terms, nearly two months ago by the editor of the very paper whose prosecution is being discussed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why are you ratting then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "preceding_text": "nt here is not merely that the Government interfered, but that the reason why the Government interfered was manifestly, when one reads what happened on the 6th August, the pressure brought to bear upon them by their own back benches. Speaking for myself quite frankly, in my own opinion, the facts which I have outlined seem to me to make such a case as would have justified a direct Vote of Censure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "preceding_text": "haustively investigated by a body which can ascertain the facts. Then he says if there is any better defence than that which has been put up so far, by all means let it be produced. But the one thing I am concerned about is, if I were to press for the Vote of Censure to the exclusion of any other means of redress it might involve that the Government would get off without either inquiry or censure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. HOGG", "preceding_text": "iously do say to the House of Commons that, in my judgment at least, the facts which I have outlined do constitute a grave case at least for inquiry, as to whether or not the Government have departed from what to my mind is the most essential bulwark of our liberty, that is, the freedom of the judiciary from any executive interference. It is a thing which we fought for hundreds of years to obtain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "re the same proceeding to-day as happened then. I was sitting there, and watching my right hon. Friend on his defence in this House. I pictured it this afternoon, and I said to myself, whatever he our party views, and our party titles, was there ever a statement made that impressed people more, at least people honestly desiring to be impressed, that here was an honest man trying to tell the truth?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON.MEMBER: \"A lawyer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " for the individual who said \"rubbish.\" There was a. man whose professional career was at stake, who had been maligned and abused for the last month, and he frankly comes to the. House of Commons, not only tells his own tale, but produces all the documents, and goes beyond that and says, \"If there is anything else you want, ask for it and I will give it.\" That was the Attorney-General's statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the relevancy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "e, on a frosty morning, when his signal was stuck, ran by it on his way to Carlisle and 14 people were killed. He was immediately arrested. He had an unblemished record for 40 years. The trial took place and he was sentenced. Every railway man felt that it was a cruel and monstrous sentence. They passed a resolution and said, \"We will stop work at 12 o'clock to-morrow night unless he is released.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-08", "file": "debates1924-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "f299c9df1869561b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"WORKERS' WEEKLY.\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "at is the relevancy?\"] I will tell the hon. Member the relevancy. I had to convey the desire to my right hon. Friend the Member for Paisley, and to Mr. McKenna, but I said to my people: \"Before I go and ask for his release, you have to withdraw that resolution, because no Government can capitulate-to force.\" These are the people who are now handing over law and order in this country to the rebels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-08a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-09", "file": "debates1924-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "debd240b98aad978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-09a.731.2", "colnum": "731", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ection over before the municipal elections. The Government were very anxious to reduce the inconvenience of the Election to a minimum. By a careful study of the position, we have found that it will be possible to have the Election over before the municipal elections take place. The proposal, therefore, is that this afternoon this House will be prorogued, and the Election will take place forthwith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-09a.731.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1924-10-09", "file": "debates1924-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "debd240b98aad978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-09a.733.2", "colnum": "733", "heading": "DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sundays!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Secretary for Scotland whether he is aware that the Tory Magistrates' Committee in Glasgow have shut the halls in Glasgow against Labour Members, as the first part of their campaign?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1924-10-09a.733.2"}