{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-02", "file": "debates1926-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "1eb8783709dabdd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-02a.16.0", "colnum": "16", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Major PRICE (in the uniform, of the Queen's Royal Regiment)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major PRICE (in the uniform, of the Queen's Royal Regiment)", "preceding_text": " of us. Undoubtedly without that goodwill, we cannot solve the difficult problems which are in front of us. We learned that lesson in the War. It was then ground into the hearts of many of us that we cannot serve our country and our people without giving ourselves as a service and a sacrifice to their good. Are we prepared to do that in peace. Are we prepared to do that from the top to the bottom?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-02a.16.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-02", "file": "debates1926-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "1eb8783709dabdd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-02a.32.0", "colnum": "32", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Conservative.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "y been equalled in my experience, and I should also like to congratulate my fellow-countryman upon the way in which he discharged his function, rendered all the more difficult by the skill with which the Mover had already done his part of the work. I am sorry to detract anything from his glory, but I cannot quite accept his statement that he is the first Welshman who has been chosen for that task.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-02a.32.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-02", "file": "debates1926-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "1eb8783709dabdd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-02a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " merely my opinion, but that of hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite, that the best method of dealing with all these debts was to wipe them out altogether—to cancel them. That was the general opinion. We were perfectly prepared to do so. We were prepared to wipe out all the debts which were due to us, whether from France, whether from Italy, Rumania, Serbia, the Belgians, and even Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-02a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-02", "file": "debates1926-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "1eb8783709dabdd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-02a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Two thousand millions!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "hrough. That is my firm opinion. I do not believe they would have pressed us, and in a very short time the proposal made by the Earl of Balfour that we should have a conference of the Allied nations, debtors and creditors—and we were both—would have been adopted. We owed a debt of £1,000,000,000. Other nations owed us £3,000,000,000. We were, therefore, in a perfect position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-02a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-02", "file": "debates1926-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "1eb8783709dabdd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-02a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ask Sir Alfred Mond!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "1d. We shall be paying 6d. in the in respect of that very transaction, and we get one farthing. That does not include anything for amortisation of the capital sum. How about France? Honestly, although I have made every effort to find out what is the settlement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer with France, I have failed. I should like to know what it is. Does anyone in this House know what it is?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-02a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-02", "file": "debates1926-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "1eb8783709dabdd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-02a.40.0", "colnum": "40", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "I proposed that nobody should pay. I made the proposal—I stand by it to-day—that none of these debts should have been demanded; that, on the contrary, the whole of them should be wiped out, and we should have a clean sheet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-02a.40.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-02", "file": "debates1926-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "1eb8783709dabdd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-02a.40.0", "colnum": "40", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ur months before the month of May. Do they anticipate an improvement of 27 per cent. by then? The very Bills they are bringing in—and I am glad to see those Bills—will have the effect of diminishing the quantity of coal which is being consumed. Notice has been given by an hon. Gentleman of a Bill dealing with electricity. The more power we derive from electricity the more we save coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-02a.40.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-02", "file": "debates1926-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "1eb8783709dabdd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-02a.52.1", "colnum": "52", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " and we shall not be the people to criticise it. I felt uncomfortable when I read that. If it meets with your desires\"— that is, the Italian desire— and 'we,' as you know, signifies the official opposition, which is the only opposition which counts. The policy rests entirely in the hands of the Conservative party. Those are the words of a member of the late Cabinet, and, knowing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-02a.52.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-02", "file": "debates1926-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "1eb8783709dabdd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-02a.52.1", "colnum": "52", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " is, the Italian desire— and 'we,' as you know, signifies the official opposition, which is the only opposition which counts. The policy rests entirely in the hands of the Conservative party. Those are the words of a member of the late Cabinet, and, knowing—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"]—the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Seaham (Mr. Webb), the late President of the Board of Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-02a.52.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-02", "file": "debates1926-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "1eb8783709dabdd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-02a.54.0", "colnum": "54", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": " my opinion, the way in which the story of the sufferings of the Iraq Christians is being vamped up at the present time is reminiscent of the very worst type of war propaganda and misrepresentation. If it were not for the fact that this country desires to remain in Iraq, and the motives which prompt that desire—I could deal with them if I had time, and I will do so on another occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-02a.54.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-02", "file": "debates1926-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "1eb8783709dabdd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-02a.85.0", "colnum": "85", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Lord HUNTINGFIELD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord HUNTINGFIELD", "preceding_text": "has reported that such a tax is feasible, and I would like to ask him if he will publish this Report that has been mode by the Treasury Committee. Who are the people most concerned in this question? They are the growers, the brewers, and the feeders of stock. The growers would welcome this tax. The brewers have said that they will not oppose it, because, after all, the brewers are generous people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-02a.85.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-02", "file": "debates1926-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "1eb8783709dabdd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-02a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIANT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIANT", "preceding_text": "ent were prepared to apply. We were everlastingly taunted with the fact that we had not brought in our remedy for unemployment, and at the last General Election the Conservative Government made bold play with the fact that we had been in office for nine months and not applied our remedy for unemployment. The Conservative Government led the people to believe that they had a remedy for unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-02a.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-03", "file": "debates1926-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "2758ec262399bf9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-03a.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "atsoever; but one is bound to ask as to what precisely the Government mean by the word \"friendly\" when it is used in this connection. For instance, one wants to know what is the present attitude of the Government in regard to its relations with Russia. Of course, to hon. Members opposite this is very much like King Charles' head appearing in all our speeches, much, I dare say, to their discomfort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-03a.160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-03", "file": "debates1926-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "2758ec262399bf9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-03a.187.0", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ountry. They are things which are taxed in America and they ought to be taxed here. Some hon. Members opposite, including the Prime Minister, deplore unnecessary display by the wealthy in this country because it has bad social reactions. Why do not the Government tax articles of luxury and display? Why is there not a tax on jewellery imported? You could have an Excise duty also inside the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-03a.187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-03", "file": "debates1926-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "2758ec262399bf9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-03a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": "These things have happened on many occasions, but, fortunately, it has not involved a great disaster to a passenger train. If it does at any time, I shall remember that I have drawn the attention of the Government to it, both by questions and on the Floor of this House. It may not be serious when it is only a driver or fireman. There are plenty of them, and they are cheap, but when it comes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-03a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-03", "file": "debates1926-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "2758ec262399bf9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-03a.201.0", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GUNSTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GUNSTON", "preceding_text": "city. I was fortunate last summer in going over to the United States of America and travelling through that country and through Canada, and I think that anybody who did that trip must have been enormously struck with the tremendous electrical development of Canada and the United States. Right out in the country districts of Canada you find that every little cottage practically has got electricity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-03a.201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-03", "file": "debates1926-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "2758ec262399bf9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-03a.212.1", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": " put to the Government one or two questions on proposals that I think ought to have been included in the King's Speech. I am wondering what has happened to the Coroners Bill, for instance? It always appears to me that any Government will ultimately find itself in a difficulty unless it passes that Bill. That is not included in the present programme, and I am just wondering what is going to happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-03a.212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-03", "file": "debates1926-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "2758ec262399bf9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-03a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is to happen to poor old England? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": " propensities. There is some punch in the business. We can certainly picture a representative body of men and women in Edinburgh as the national Parliament of Scotland concentrating entirely upon our own national affairs, and with the force that they already have at their back, and the body of the working people, free from the very heavy drag of old- fashioned Toryism that is prevalent in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-03a.250.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-03", "file": "debates1926-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "2758ec262399bf9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-03a.273.0", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": " after year. The war lasted something like 40 years, and it was a splendid place for the training of the Dutch soldiers, but the natives were the sufferers. There is no longer any war there. The natives are prosperous, and getting on so well that in some of the Dutch colonies they are not coolies in the rubber plantations, but are the owners of rubber plantations and are driving about in big cars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-03a.273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-03", "file": "debates1926-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "2758ec262399bf9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-03a.276.0", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEOFFREY PETO", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Scottish Officers? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEOFFREY PETO", "preceding_text": "sured. At the same time we would get economy for the nation. I put these suggestions forward and I would add to them one more, and that is the Department of Overseas Trade. That should be given to the Board of Trade, and matters there should be investigated by business men who should advise the action to be taken. I have very grave doubt whether we ought to indulge in a Minister of Overseas Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-03a.276.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-04", "file": "debates1926-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "82e37565837ac2f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-04a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROAD FUND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Well, Sir, I have answered the question which is on the Paper. Now I am asked a question which is not on the Paper, and which has no relation to the question on the Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-04a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-04", "file": "debates1926-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "82e37565837ac2f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-04a.323.7", "colnum": "323", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "On Monday there will be the continuation and conclusion of the Debate on the Address. We are, I understand, to discuss an Amendment relating to Education moved by the Liberal party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-04a.323.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-04", "file": "debates1926-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "82e37565837ac2f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-04a.365.5", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " never pledged to apply a positive remedy for unemployment. Do they say that? Did the party opposite attach no more importance to this question of unemployment at the last general election than they apparently attach to the question now, judged by the terms of their legislative programme for the Session? Hon. Members opposite were returned to this House to apply a positive remedy for unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-04a.365.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-04", "file": "debates1926-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "82e37565837ac2f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-04a.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ovember. When we raised the question by direct vote of censure on the Government in June, what did the right hon. Gentleman say: I have never pretended to have a remedy … there is but little any Government can do.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT 29th June, 1925; col. 2087, Vol. 185.] Six months before when the party opposite wanted the votes of the people, they dangled a positive remedy before them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-04a.367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-04", "file": "debates1926-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "82e37565837ac2f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-04a.367.1", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "And he is a mouse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-04a.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-04", "file": "debates1926-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "82e37565837ac2f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-04a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "e Prime Minister announced a few weeks ago that the Government intended to put forward some plan during this Session for the re-organisation of electricity, and it is mentioned in the King's Speech. I read the Prime Minister's speech at Birmingham with very great interest and very great care. I am not going to criticise it now, because there is not sufficient material upon which to base criticism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-04a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-04", "file": "debates1926-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "82e37565837ac2f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-04a.384.0", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or the municipal bank! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "d ask them what they do with their municipal enterprise. I would ask the Minister of Labour, if he takes part in this Debate, whether he will say that he is opposed to the municipal development which has taken place in Birmingham. Would he go to Birmingham and advocate giving back the trams, the gas, electric and water undertakings to private enterprise? Of course, he would do nothing of the kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-04a.384.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-04", "file": "debates1926-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "82e37565837ac2f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-04a.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But not with capitalists!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I think the right hon. Member for Colne Valley said he wished to do away with the capitalist system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-04a.401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-04", "file": "debates1926-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "82e37565837ac2f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-04a.461.0", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does that prove? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "preceding_text": "t was not rife, would obviously compare very favourably with those of today. In 1913 we imported and retained in this country £278,000,000 worth of food, drink and tobacco. The figure in 1924 is £543,000,000. If we were to take the 1924 figures on the basis of 1913 prices, the figure would be £349,000,000, which is considerably in excess of the £278,000,000 we consumed in 1913.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-04a.461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-04", "file": "debates1926-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "82e37565837ac2f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-04a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "er full well that when this subject was last debated in this House there was proposed a more full-blooded Motion, tempered by the word \"gradual\"—a \"gradual\" approach to Socialism. Now there is a slight change of words, but not a change in sense. There it was a gradual process by a number of steps; here it is the first step, and the first step only, but it is to lead to the same ultimate end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-04a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-04", "file": "debates1926-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "82e37565837ac2f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-04a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": " at the spectacle as a whole. He has not for one moment recognised the advance that has taken place. He has not recognised that on the whole men and women are better off and not worse off than at the beginning. Whatever test one takes—whether statistics of life, of health, of comfort—it must be realised that from a broad and long view there has been an advance, and not a retrogression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-04a.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-05", "file": "debates1926-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "258173c6cd0fdc78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.525.0", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEIL MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "The speech of the hon. Member for Whitehaven (Mr. R. Hudson) was rather a singular speech, in that, while he questioned the honesty of Members upon these benches, he yet felt inclined to agree with the statement made by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Shettleston (Mr. Wheatley) as to the causes of poverty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-05", "file": "debates1926-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "258173c6cd0fdc78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.528.4", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cover them with leaves!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "mpathise with the conditions in which they are placed, concluding with a quotation about going through tangled woods and clearing them away. When the Chancellor of the Exchequer came back from Epping Forest, I wondered where the other babe in the wood had got to. Last night the Minister of Labour confessed that he was the missing babe, still in the wood, still lost, and trying to find his way out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.528.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-05", "file": "debates1926-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "258173c6cd0fdc78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.530.3", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An hon. Member \"Come back\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I can give you the names.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.530.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-05", "file": "debates1926-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "258173c6cd0fdc78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Hon Members \"We do\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is mistaken. It is not about the fishermen. If hon. Members opposite did something of that kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-05", "file": "debates1926-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "258173c6cd0fdc78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "rue, and I again tell them that both Departments have been responsible for more distress and misery than any other, and I suggest also that if it could be analysed in a proper way the deaths of children can be traced directly to the maladministration of those Departments. When the division takes place, while we shall be in a minority, while the Tories will vote behind the soulless Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-05", "file": "debates1926-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "258173c6cd0fdc78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"At you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "istress and misery than any other, and I suggest also that if it could be analysed in a proper way the deaths of children can be traced directly to the maladministration of those Departments. When the division takes place, while we shall be in a minority, while the Tories will vote behind the soulless Ministers—[ Laughter ]. Laughing with misery such as is going on! What are you laughing at?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-05", "file": "debates1926-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "258173c6cd0fdc78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Did he say three?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "tten and bad and ought to be abolished, and in the next that they are all for co-operation in industry in an endeavour to recover our markets. We shall know very soon what their policy is. The hon. Member for Dundee (Mr. Johnston) made a rather interesting proposal yesterday, namely, that the three Front Benches should come together round a table and discuss the position of industry at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-05", "file": "debates1926-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "258173c6cd0fdc78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.559.0", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH,", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DRUMMOND SHIELS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DRUMMOND SHIELS", "preceding_text": "s, and who, in defending such an institution, declared that he did not care if it were described as Socialism. The City of Birmingham, indeed, has given a lead to other parts of the country in the application of our principles to municipal life. In that connection I think some of the speakers have made the mistake of always harping on nationalisation. We are not committed to nationalisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.559.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-05", "file": "debates1926-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "258173c6cd0fdc78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.569.3", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "n. Friends of the Labour party exactly what they mean. I will take mining and land. I could understand hon. Members saying that the essential raw materials should be nationalised. For instance, minerals are nationalised at the present moment in countries that are run on purely individualistic principles. That is so in Prussia and the Rhineland. I am not at all sure that that is not true of France.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.569.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-05", "file": "debates1926-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "258173c6cd0fdc78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.569.3", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "vision of buildings, repairs, drainage, etc. Unless we put in something that will fill up that essential gap the community will suffer. My right hon. Friend does not propose that the industry should be nationalised nor does the hon. Member for Peckham propose that. He does not propose that the agricultural industry should be nationalised in the sense that the mining industry is to be nationalised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.569.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-05", "file": "debates1926-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "258173c6cd0fdc78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.569.3", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "l industry should be nationalised in the sense that the mining industry is to be nationalised. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"] I have never heard anyone say that the farmer was to be put under the State and that he was to be purely in a, stipendiary position to the community, nor have I heard it suggested that the agricultural labourer should be put in that position. Therefore a distinction is drawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.569.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-05", "file": "debates1926-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "258173c6cd0fdc78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.569.3", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are officials.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ces and industry of the world. He referred to Mr. Walter Leaf and others. Those are not the people who do the banking. The men who do the banking are the big managers who are in charge of the concern; the real managers, who never appear in public, who do not strut in front of the stage as though they were doing the whole of the financial work of the world. The managers are the men who do the work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.569.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-05", "file": "debates1926-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "258173c6cd0fdc78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.569.3", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are paid servants.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " Those are not the people who do the banking. The men who do the banking are the big managers who are in charge of the concern; the real managers, who never appear in public, who do not strut in front of the stage as though they were doing the whole of the financial work of the world. The managers are the men who do the work. [HON. MEMBERS: \"They are officials.\"] They are not Government officials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.569.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-05", "file": "debates1926-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "258173c6cd0fdc78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.569.3", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "y we must look at what it has done, in spite of its many defects. I agree with a good deal of what was said by my hon. Friend in regard to our banking policy of the last few years. I have always been very doubtful about it. But, on the whole, it is the soundest banking in the whole world. When we remember that, the United States of America with practically the whole of the gold in the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.569.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-05", "file": "debates1926-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "258173c6cd0fdc78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.577.1", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I have had an opportunity of communicating with the headquarters of our party, and I have provided myself with a copy of the document to which the right hon. Gentleman was referring. It is not an Election manifesto at all. The document in question is a periodical which is issued from time to time and is reviewed and revised to meet circumstances as they arise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-05", "file": "debates1926-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "258173c6cd0fdc78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.577.4", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What date?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is not quoting the document which I have here. The right hon. Gentleman is reading from a revision of a previous document, issued subsequent to the Election. The copy which I have here—issued by the National Unionist Association, Palace Chambers, Bridge Street—was published at the time of the Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.577.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-05", "file": "debates1926-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "258173c6cd0fdc78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.580.1", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ing so to reduce costs that the service to be transferred, or the property to be transferred from private enterprise to the State, is going to bring back a return greater than it does to-day, such as will enable our industries to compete better with the industries abroad. It is significant that the only constructive idea put forward in the course of this Debate came from hon. Members On this side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-05a.580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-08", "file": "debates1926-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "0fcbae4336f9bbca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.675.5", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATIONAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "the interests of education at all, but as an announcement in the interests of reduced expenditure. The hand that wrote it may be the hand of the Noble Lord, but the voice that dictated its terms is the voice of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. What is the defence that is suggested? It is said sententiously by some people that educational efficiency is not to be measured by educational expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.675.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-08", "file": "debates1926-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "0fcbae4336f9bbca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATIONAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CRAIK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CRAIK", "preceding_text": "rinciple of the block grant. I think the percentage grant was and is a thoroughly unsound system. I will put it, for the sake of argument, on a very broad and commonplace footing. On the whole, the proverb is true that he who pays the piper had better call the tune. In the percentage grant you do exactly the opposite. You bind yourselves to pay for whatever tune the local authorities choose to set", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-08", "file": "debates1926-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "0fcbae4336f9bbca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.691.0", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATIONAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS \"It is not a party question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": " Labour party, and when the Labour party came into office, that strengthened the movement. Then the Noble Lord and his Government came with their Election promises, which stopped that swing of educationists and teachers towards the Labour party. Those promises gave hope to the great number of Conservative teachers. I do not mind a party disadvantage if it is for the sake of our educational system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-08", "file": "debates1926-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "0fcbae4336f9bbca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.691.0", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATIONAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "rd. On Saturday last I heard a meeting of teachers discussing this subject, and some who were lifelong Conservatives expressed themselves as perturbed and disappointed—in fact they felt that they had been betrayed as far as the pledges of the Government art concerned. Let the Noble Lord go on with his policy. It will be one of the biggest factors in bringing down the Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-08", "file": "debates1926-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "0fcbae4336f9bbca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.703.1", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATIONAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "f the right hon. Member for Spen Valley (Sir J. Simon) and in the speech of the hon. Member for Wellingborough, Circular 1371 and Memorandum 44 are involved in a common condemnation. I think the hon. Member for Wellingborough, who has left the House, actually spoke of the Memorandum—I shall be corrected by some of his friends if I am wrong—as more pernicious than the original Circular.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-08", "file": "debates1926-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "0fcbae4336f9bbca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATIONAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"There is not one now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "There are 50 copies in the Vote Office now, but there was not one copy this morning when I wanted it for myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-08", "file": "debates1926-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "0fcbae4336f9bbca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.726.2", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATIONAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "this year. That would mean a saving to them of about £900. That was in a discussion as to how they were going to meet the Noble Lord. Sixty free scholarships—quite a small thing ! It only affects 60 children. It was part of the Conservative policy. I do not know whether it is now. My hon. Friend the Member for Wellingborough cited how Berkshire has drawn up a scheme of dental treatment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.726.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-08", "file": "debates1926-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "0fcbae4336f9bbca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.730.1", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATIONAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member for York,\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the hon. and learned Gentleman. I think some of my hon. Friends misled me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-08", "file": "debates1926-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "0fcbae4336f9bbca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.732.6", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATIONAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": "nd we may look for the local authorities having money enough to turn to new services. That qualification was not in the bond at the time of the General Election. I should like to challenge the whole of that idea. Education is a necessity of which the sons and daughters of the people are perpetually starved. Educational progress ought to go on irrespective of the financial condition of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.732.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-02-08", "file": "debates1926-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "0fcbae4336f9bbca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.753.1", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATIONAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": "proud, and rightly proud, of the results of the Scottish educational system; yet, is it not a act that the Scottish educational system, as pointed out by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education, in winding up the discussion that took place before Christmas on this subject—is it not a fact that the Scottish educational system is working successfully under the block-grant system?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.753.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-08", "file": "debates1926-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "0fcbae4336f9bbca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.753.6", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATIONAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SOMERVILLE", "preceding_text": "re are at least as many hon. Members on this side of the House as on that side of the House who really care for education, and understand what is real education. The mover of the Motion and the right hon. Gentleman the Member for the English Universities did what seemed to me a very unwise thing. They insinuated that by the action of the Minister the position of the teachers was rendered insecure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.753.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-08", "file": "debates1926-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "0fcbae4336f9bbca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.757.0", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATIONAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "hat occasion. He said: I know as well as you that there are still too many, far too many, insanitary schools, and that there are many ill-nourished and defective children. The Prime Minister then went on to say: You have handicaps to fight against, and handicaps of the bad environment in which your children are raised, handicaps of heredity. We can do something to help you, and we intend to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.757.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-08", "file": "debates1926-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "0fcbae4336f9bbca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.787.0", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL-MINERS, DURHAM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Two and a half\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "ent of the problem insistent. There are a million people in Durham County, and there is no doubt not less than half-a-million directly or indirectly concerned in the unemployed. The men themselves who have been in work have done what they could out of their own scanty earnings to help the unemployed men. The miners of Durham have paid no less than £2,000,000 during the last four years —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.787.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-08", "file": "debates1926-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "0fcbae4336f9bbca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.795.4", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL-MINERS, DURHAM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": ". That is the case for the Ministry of Health, and it has nothing to do with the case of the Ministry of Labour. I do not think there is anything else I need say, except to take notice of the suggestion that has been made more than once that the spread of small-pox in this district is connected with the refusal of the guardians to give this relief. There is not a shadow of evidence to that effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-08a.795.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-09", "file": "debates1926-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "5ed9b1d1212c32c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-09a.935.1", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Carrier pigeons!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "nder Maintenance and Repairs. I certainly never yet heard of pigeon holes being regarded as part of the maintenance of a building or even the repair of a building. If it be true that this £43,700 increase is due to the provision of pigeon holes, what caused the increase of £17,000 in the item for Furniture? He told us this is scattered over a great number of Votes. Is it desks or chairs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-09a.935.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-09", "file": "debates1926-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "5ed9b1d1212c32c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-09a.937.1", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"He is beyond it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": ". If we had that forecast, we could save the time of the Committee by not having to ask questions. Then we would only ask questions on the points we thought were not clear, and try to help the Government through on a business basis. You can be helped, you know, if you only take advice. The Home Secretary is the one man in the House who requires the help of all the other Members to get him through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-09a.937.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-09", "file": "debates1926-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "5ed9b1d1212c32c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-09a.950.2", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS £14,000.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "I see that in the main Estimate the amount required for this particular purpose for 1925–26 was £1,000", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-09a.950.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-09", "file": "debates1926-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "5ed9b1d1212c32c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-09a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNQUALIFIED MEDICAL PRACTICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETO", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETO", "preceding_text": "characterise people of that sort as those who pursue secretive methods is hardly fair. I look at this matter in a broader aspect. What we all want is that humanity should have every advantage which it can have from all fresh discoveries in the art of healing, and I think it is notable that nearly all the great discoveries in the art of healing have come from outside the orthodox medical profession", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-09a.984.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-10", "file": "debates1926-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8b02095a8b4ff20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-10a.1154.3", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "hat have, arisen within their ranks which, to satisfy political vanity, are playing with forces they will not be able to control or to direct, and which policy, if persisted in, must ultimately bring about a national calamity. I am forced to the conclusion, after careful inquiry, that the greatest hindrance to an increase of production is the policy of restriction of output which is pursued—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-10a.1154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-10", "file": "debates1926-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8b02095a8b4ff20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-10a.1154.3", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": " not be able to control or to direct, and which policy, if persisted in, must ultimately bring about a national calamity. I am forced to the conclusion, after careful inquiry, that the greatest hindrance to an increase of production is the policy of restriction of output which is pursued—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"]—and the coercion which is all too frequently practised to secure that end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-10a.1154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-10", "file": "debates1926-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8b02095a8b4ff20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-10a.1164.0", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Russian coat?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "preceding_text": "s, and which mean the withdrawal of other services to the community. Let me give a simple illustration to show what I mean. If you want increased production we can demonstrate how you can get it. It is well known that the costlier an article the less is the labour represented in the production of it. I have here an illustration of a fur coat, and similar illustrations can be seen in any newspaper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-10a.1164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-10", "file": "debates1926-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8b02095a8b4ff20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-10a.1175.1", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is we?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "nterests he represents. I think the trade union leader who, practically by his own unaided efforts and his own intelligence, has placed his men on the backs of everybody else is one to be envied. I think the ingratitude of some of those whom he placed in that fortunate position is very much to be deprecated. We are carrying the building trade on our shoulders, we are carrying the transport workers", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-10a.1175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-10", "file": "debates1926-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8b02095a8b4ff20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-10a.1175.1", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is too low!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AUSTIN HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": " lavatory attendants only get 43s. 6d. In my own district the agreed district rate for a skilled fitter or turner is 56s. 6d. if he is lucky enough to get a job. That that man should, week by week, have to pay shillings out of his wages in order to keep men in the sheltered industries and the municipal and State employés in what to him is comparative luxury seems to me the greatest injustice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-10a.1175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-10", "file": "debates1926-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8b02095a8b4ff20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-10a.1187.1", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Domestic coal!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is well aware of the conditions that were obtaining in 1924 as compared with the conditions that are obtaining now, and if he will go through some interesting figures which have been given to me of sales in the Scottish Co-operative Society, they show that as the price of coal fell, so consumption increased—not in the full ratio, but it has undoubtedly increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-10a.1187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-10", "file": "debates1926-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8b02095a8b4ff20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-10a.1188.0", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "ives in wages. Yet you hear, underlying all these Debates and discussions, this economic fallacy, which would disgrace a fourth form boy who has made a study of economics, that wages are a surcharge against production. If you want enthusiasm in your workers, the best thing that any employer can do is to give them the fullest possible remuneration and to reduce overhead charges in other directions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-10a.1188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-10", "file": "debates1926-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8b02095a8b4ff20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-10a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have not said what!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "e of taxation and the burden on industry would at least have occurred to his mind. I will take these things, and I will ask the employing class who are in this House amongst The hon. Members opposite, if they would be prepared to support those of us on this side of the House who would take immediate action to remove certain rates and taxes off industry, and put them on another place. Will you? No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-10a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-10", "file": "debates1926-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8b02095a8b4ff20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-10a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah! Tell us!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "and I will ask the employing class who are in this House amongst The hon. Members opposite, if they would be prepared to support those of us on this side of the House who would take immediate action to remove certain rates and taxes off industry, and put them on another place. Will you? No. [HON. MEMBERS: \"You have not said what!\"] I am asked, put them on what? I will tell you on another occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-10a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-10", "file": "debates1926-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8b02095a8b4ff20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-10a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "e two suggestions. There are now two bases upon which you can levy rates and taxes of any kind. The first is upon the value of the products of human labour—and when you do so you increase the cost of production and give rise to unemployment. If, on the other hand, you levy your taxation upon monopoly values inherent in special franchises, and upon the value of the soil of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-10a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-10", "file": "debates1926-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8b02095a8b4ff20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-10a.1192.0", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You will talk it out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "t. They will be directors of companies, some of them directors of 13 companies at one and the same time. One of them admitted to the Coal Commission that there were 14 companies which he directed. God help us! Where did his brains come from? He gets £1,000 a year for each £14,000 a year for looking after 14 companies—and he knows less about them than the lowest man who works there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-10a.1192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-10", "file": "debates1926-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a8b02095a8b4ff20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-10a.1197.0", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (KITCHEN AND REFRESHMENT ROOMS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "I do not see any calves-head or ox-tail mentioned in the Motion. Is the House not willing to take a Vote?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-10a.1197.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1212.6", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Wait for the answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Is he aware that the employers are demanding a reduction in the cost of production in the hope of improving their trade, and will he try to bring these costs down?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1212.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1215.2", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENTONVILLE PRISON (DISTURBANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'How do you know?'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has not been an inmate of that prison. Is it not a fact that this is one of the worst prisons we have in the Metropolis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1215.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1296.2", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY-MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY-MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "e to the Government alone. There is power to make shareholders. But we are now informed that the Government are going to supply all the capital. We are now informed that there are to be no subscriptions through outside sources. The meaning of this is that the Government have appointed a committee, consisting of a certain number of persons, whose names are attached to these articles of association.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1296.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1298.1", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "tors, who, as a matter of fact, in relation to the capital, and in relation to the authority, are simply a sub-committee of a Government Department in Scotland; and that everything the company does is of the nature of the act of a Government subcommittee. For these things the Government themselves are responsible, and must be held responsible. That is the situation. I am not at all averse to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1298.1", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "o do actually by the Government is to vote £200,000, which is still to be spent, and which ought only to be spent in ways and under conditions in accordance with the expressed view of the House of Commons this afternoon. Let us be perfectly clear about that. Lord Weir has not got a contract for 1,000 houses, and to-night we are not voting for that contract going through. Where is the trouble?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1308.0", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "I like to tell people to their face. Remember that it is the same Lord Weir that, with the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon (Mr. Lloyd George) came down to the Clyde to get us to accept dilution of labour, so reducing our standard. That is why the building industry view with suspicion—and rightly so—anything which emanates from Lord Weir. Just as I told Lloyd George—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "To the Government—put to the Government by Lord Weir. I want hon. Members to bear in mind that so far as I am concerned, at any rate, that I view with some satisfaction the fact that the Prime Minister is prepared to go a long way in order to assist us out of this awful difficulty in which we find ourselves at the moment, I have that feeling. I hope the Prime Minister will not let me down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " the lowest shed that was ever raised on Scotland's plains. It is not the building. It is not the shed. It is the people that are in it! But to-day many people are not getting a chance, even of a shed, because those who control the matter have denied our people a home. There are no homes for tens of thousands of people in this country. They have to go into furnished lodgings. Even MacDonald—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Circulate it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "when it suits him, he never made a bigger mistake, because we are here to look after the interests of the people who are going to be affected. We are not against the idea of houses being built, but we are up against the idea of houses being built by methods which mean the lowering of the standard of life in that industry. The Glasgow Corporation have a scheme which they call the Balshagray scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1313.2", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "I do not want to get into any dispute as to matters of fact with the hon. Member for Dumbarton Burghs. I was not referring to the first cost, it was to the rent, and to the rent alone that I was referring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1313.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1314.1", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "I do not think it is fair to the hon. Member for Dumbarton Burghs to enter into a discussion of that now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1318.1", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Commander FANSHAWE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"You have created this state of things.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander FANSHAWE", "preceding_text": " are in Scotland about one million houses and 12 per cent. of them are houses with one apartment only. About 40 per cent. have two apartments and 21 per cent. three apartments. No less than 8 per cent. of the population live in one-apartment. houses and 39 per cent. in two-apartment houses. Therefore every second person you meet across the border lives in a house with either one or two apartments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1326.3", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Yes:\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "If the houses can be put up by unskilled labour, neither the engineers' nor the builders' unions have anything to do with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1337.0", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "and can never give way. I for one want to register my strongest protest against the Government surrendering the rights of this House to this one man, surrendering the principles of trade unionism and fair wages that have become embodied in the law and practice of this land. I do not know what the bribes have been. I do not know what the arguments have been. I want houses turned out by the million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1337.0", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " that they should demand something better. All the time we were doing so, hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite were telling the people, \"This is only Socialist agitation. Your houses are all right. A room and a kitchen were good enough for your father and your grandfather, and should be good enough for you. If your houses are verminous and dirty, it is because your womenfolk are lazy and dirty.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1343.0", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": " is earnest about the housing of the people of Scotland when he builds a stone house for his motor car and a steel house for the chauffeur who drives the motor car. Hon. Members opposite smile, but surely if a tin house or a steel house is good enough for a human being, it is good enough for a motor car; or are we to understand that a motor car is to be considered as of more value than human life?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1343.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1343.0", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about 1924?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "been repeatedly asking for more houses in that district and the Scottish Board of Health have repeatedly refused. An application was made by one borough for the erection of 60 houses, but the demand was whittled down to eight, and during the time the Conservative Government was in office in 1923 I appealed again and again that they should be built. Those eight houses are not completed even to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1343.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1343.0", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WESTWOOD", "preceding_text": "because I was an individual who took drink, not because I had wasted my substance in any form, not because I do not want better housing, not because I was not prepared to make any sacrifice in order to pay the rent for a three or four-roomed house, but because there was not such a house to be got. Can you wonder I speak with a great deal of feeling. I say that hon. Members opposite are not honest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1343.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1350.0", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major TASKER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major TASKER", "preceding_text": "o Scotland than to any of the municipalities in England, and they were unable to carry out their project, though they were perfectly willing to provide those houses, had labour been forthcoming. It was not. My hon. Friend spoke about the shortage of work, only he put it in another way—a certain percentage of men out of work in the building trade. It is always there, and always must be there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1350.0", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major TASKER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Like you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major TASKER", "preceding_text": " myself is that I have had a longer experience than he has, and it has extended over more than one trade. I submit that for the building trade to attempt to dictate to an engineering trade is impertinent. Why, the operatives cannot agree among themselves. Three of the trade unions have broken away from their organisation. The hon. Member would have us suppose that they are a kind of plaster saint.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1369.0", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"18 months!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": " be made æsthetic and lasting, and would be better from every point of view than these things which Lord Weir wishes to foist upon the people of Scotland, faced with the desperate condition in which they stand to-day so far as the housing of their people is concerned. I look with some alarm upon the haste with which a responsible Government will rush into the erection of these hideous things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1369.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1369.0", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members opposite think that we are likely to accept that point of view, they have made a very considerable mistake. I know something about the building trade, because I spent 20 years of my life in it. I know the conditions under which the building trade operatives live. I say that they are thoroughly justified in attempting now to preserve what advantage they have obtained in their trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1369.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1369.0", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": " trade have thought themselves lucky to get an average of 24s. per week. I say that they are thoroughly justified in attempting to avoid these new conditions so far as they can. In their attempt to preserve their standard of life, which they have won with so much difficulty, I am heartily behind them in the fight that they are making. I regard this housing problem as capitalism's greatest failure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1369.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1375.3", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ed from the benches opposite. I have called a front bencher in evidence. It is not always, I understand, that the views of the Front Bench are taken as the pure, unadulterated milk of the word on both sides of the House. Let us call a back bencher, one who is supported by the mass of the party. Let us take the chairman of the party, the man democratically elected by the rank and file of the party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1375.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1375.3", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not a back bencher at all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ence. It is not always, I understand, that the views of the Front Bench are taken as the pure, unadulterated milk of the word on both sides of the House. Let us call a back bencher, one who is supported by the mass of the party. Let us take the chairman of the party, the man democratically elected by the rank and file of the party. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is he?\"] Mr. Cramp, the chairman of the party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1375.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1377.1", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do you accept that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "nt by results—a recognised feature in the engineering industry—is peculiarly appropriate to the methods both of manufacture and assembly, followed by Messrs. Weir in house construction, and we are convinced that such a system, worked out in conjunction with the men's trade unions, will, if put into operation by Messrs. Weir, result in advantage both to the firm and to the men employed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1386.1", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "ambling. I worked at it for years, and it is a deplorable thing when we hear so much about family life, for let me illustrate the effects. Here is an hon. Member who knows possibly more than anybody about payment by results. What is the effect? The woman never knows the man's income, or very seldom, and the result is, it does not make for harmony in home life. My main purpose was to get an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1393.5", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "what is the relationship between the additional grants payable in the current year on the latter account—will someone tell me what the latter account is—and the £47,000. It is so much Dutch to me. It seems to me that Scotland spends a lot of money on the police. The original Estimate was £765,000 and now you put on £47,000. No one has told us what the £47,000 is for", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1393.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1393.5", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "does not, require anything to be given to him, because he takes care to take it. Here is the paragraph that deals with these deductions in respect of police pay and allowances. I hope the Committee will take notice. The Report says: The deductions which are the subject of our inquiry are ( a ) the deductions from rent allowances (with corresponding charges for quarters). What does \"quarters\" mean?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1393.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1393.5", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Barracks!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ct of police pay and allowances. I hope the Committee will take notice. The Report says: The deductions which are the subject of our inquiry are ( a ) the deductions from rent allowances (with corresponding charges for quarters). What does \"quarters\" mean?[ Laughter! ] Hon. Members are amused. You can have quarters on your coat-of-arms. I do not understand what \"quarters\" means in this connection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1393.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1397.1", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a policeman!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "uncils have been discussing this matter and have revealed an increasingly strong cleavage of opinion as between representatives of the police authorities, on the one hand and the police forces on the other. I suppose the representatives of the police forces are men who represent the policemen, and somebody represents the officials and the authorities. Are the police authorities the Police Council?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-11", "file": "debates1926-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "954939e8c5aba8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1399.0", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBRES: \"You called him!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Gorbals (Mr. Buchanan) was at fault in allowing a Southron to be the only Member to rise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-11a.1399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-12", "file": "debates1926-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "cdc5a53a955eaaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-12a.1420.1", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RE-ELECTION OF MINISTERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'NEILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ten.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'NEILL", "preceding_text": "ices of profit under the Crown. I have not had time to obtain the figures for the subsequent years, but I should think that is a pretty average state of affairs as regards by-elections. So far as this Parliament is concerned, I cannot recall exactly how many by-elections there have been. There have certainly been three in Scotland quite recently, and I daresay there have been about a dozen in all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-12a.1420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-12", "file": "debates1926-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "cdc5a53a955eaaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-12a.1427.0", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RE-ELECTION OF MINISTERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "r constitution—and now, as always, our constitution is changing with very great rapidity—it is really wise to do anything that will further disturb the equilibrium of the constitution in favour of the Executive and against the Legislature on the one side and the electorate on the other. We all remember that about 150 years ago a very famous Resolution was brought forward in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-12a.1427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-12", "file": "debates1926-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "cdc5a53a955eaaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-12a.1427.0", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RE-ELECTION OF MINISTERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the exception mentioned?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "t it very much if Ministers of the Crown are not in continuous attendance on our Debates. That would be an impossible system but for one thing, that this country possesses what, I believe, with one possible exception, is the very finest permanent Civil Service in the world. It is the excellent permanent servants of the Crown who render possible the occasional attendance of Ministers in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-12a.1427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-12", "file": "debates1926-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "cdc5a53a955eaaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-12a.1431.0", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RE-ELECTION OF MINISTERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord ERSKINE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord ERSKINE", "preceding_text": "Crown, and if anyone is appointed to that office he does not stand for re-election. But if someone is appointed as an unpaid junior Lord of the Treasury, he is presumed to hold an office of profit and has to stand for re-election. Take the case of the Paymaster-General. Be not only gets no salary, but because he is a Minister he loses his £400 a year, and he also has to stand for re-election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-12a.1431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-12", "file": "debates1926-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "cdc5a53a955eaaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-12a.1441.0", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RE-ELECTION OF MINISTERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "e is a good deal of argument that has been used in its favour with which I agree—I think there are special reasons why it should not be made at this moment, more particularly if it is to apply to the present Parliament, first, because of the exceptional circumstances of the last General Election, and, secondly, the anomalous condition in Parliament as the result of the last General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-12a.1441.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-12", "file": "debates1926-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "cdc5a53a955eaaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-12a.1466.1", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RE-ELECTION OF MINISTERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And lose his position.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "r of Agriculture the other day—the particular person who represents a constituency. The point about the best man for office not being available if he had a small majority, that the Prime Minister of the day would pass him over, is not even a debating point, because it is perfectly easy for the particular Member to be shifted to another place, where he can give his services to the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-12a.1466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-12", "file": "debates1926-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "cdc5a53a955eaaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-12a.1471.0", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RE-ELECTION OF MINISTERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ndividual cases when adequate notice has been taken of our abilities. I want to say that it is not that which is influencing me. The fidelity of my constituents is so great that my re-election would be assured in any event, and so great is the fidelity of my constituents that no fewer than 16 Members of the party opposite have in despair visited my constituency within quite a short period of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-12a.1471.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-12", "file": "debates1926-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "cdc5a53a955eaaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-12a.1499.0", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (PAYMENT OF EXPENSES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: 'Blowing your own trumpet!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ratepayers, who are directly concerned, ought to have some indication of the cost. It might be that in some districts the cost would be trifling. I served as a member of a municipal authority for some years. I recollect with pleasure that my election expenses were 1s. 9d., but that was because I was well known in the district, and my merits were so recognised that I was elected without opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-12a.1499.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-15", "file": "debates1926-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "44bcd9c5aebe18fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-15a.1588.1", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the cord used for?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "It is under the heading \"Miscellaneous Office Supplies.\" An increase in the demand for these supplies has made this Supplementary Estimate necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-15a.1588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-15", "file": "debates1926-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "44bcd9c5aebe18fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-15a.1653.1", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not necessarily!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": " discussed in this House, and it would seem from the questions that the object of the subvention is to some extent misunderstood. The idea was to leave the collieries in their various relations with each other. Some pits were doing well and some badly. If you had given a subsidy only to those which were doing badly, and which one might presume to be the less efficient and less well-managed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-15a.1653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-15", "file": "debates1926-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "44bcd9c5aebe18fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-15a.1667.4", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "oney. It would be a sheer waste of public money to tamper with this question; and to do it thoroughly the Secretary will have to go back to the periods of which I have been talking, to appoint a staff of skilled mining engineers and supply them with the necessary equipment, supply them with skilled draughtsmen to prepare the plans necessary, and make actual experiments in boring in many districts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-15a.1667.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-16", "file": "debates1926-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "bfdf66011937fed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-16a.1732.2", "colnum": "1732", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I would ask the Prime Minister to give us some estimate as to what particular hour, or, approximately, what hour the House will adjourn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-16a.1732.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-16", "file": "debates1926-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "bfdf66011937fed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-16a.1754.3", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "Am I entitled to ask whether it is correct that the wages of the workmen in the sugar-beet factories are getting cut down?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-16a.1754.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-16", "file": "debates1926-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "bfdf66011937fed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-16a.1762.0", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"What about Ostend\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "told that this scheme was going to provide employment, and yet it is well known that a great deal of the machinery for this new industry has been bought abroad, just as in the case of the stamp used by the Post Office authorities for stamping on letters the words, \"Buy British Goods.\" The same argument applies to people who urge people to buy British goods and then go for a holiday to Monte Carlo.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-16a.1762.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-16", "file": "debates1926-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "bfdf66011937fed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-16a.1845.0", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "KING'S ROLL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALIN", "preceding_text": "We all appreciate the very kindly speeches which have been made by hon. Members on the opposite side who have spoken to this Resolution. I am afraid, however, that the Resolution, if carried, is likely to be a pious hope. I feel that, generally speaking, Government contractors and public authorities have already done all that it is possible for them to do in this direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-16a.1845.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-02-17", "file": "debates1926-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ef3975a2be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.1914.2", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "May I point out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.1914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-17", "file": "debates1926-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ef3975a2be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.1915.5", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "May I press the Minister, if his last answer is correct, as to whether he has any staff employed as investigators into the homes of those people to whom girls are transferred as domestic servants?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.1915.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-17", "file": "debates1926-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ef3975a2be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.1916.4", "colnum": "1916", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Sir. Are these girls not as much entitled to ask their employer for a character as the employers are entitled to ask the servant girl for references as to her character!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.1916.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-17", "file": "debates1926-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ef3975a2be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.1916.5", "colnum": "1916", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.1916.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-17", "file": "debates1926-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ef3975a2be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.1916.11", "colnum": "1916", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "Is an hon. Member entitled after you, Sir, have called the next Question on the Paper—as you did in this case—to raise further Supplementary Questions and to go back upon the previous question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.1916.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-17", "file": "debates1926-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ef3975a2be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.1917.1", "colnum": "1917", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "Why does not the hon. Member apologise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.1917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-17", "file": "debates1926-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ef3975a2be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.1917.2", "colnum": "1917", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "We can shout \"Order!\" as well as they can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.1917.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-17", "file": "debates1926-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ef3975a2be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.1924.0", "colnum": "1924", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "d being led to assume that, if they do not undergo this medical examination, their claim to benefit will be prejudiced, and probably disallowed; and, further, since this has been done with the right hon. Gentleman's consent, will he now withdraw that consent and have the Exchange used for the purpose for which it ought to be used, that is, finding unemployed people employment, and not allow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.1924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-17", "file": "debates1926-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ef3975a2be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.1924.3", "colnum": "1924", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "But I want to point out this is really a very serious matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.1924.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-17", "file": "debates1926-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ef3975a2be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.1931.9", "colnum": "1931", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SHIPS' WIRELESS OPERATORS (WAGES DISPUTE).", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not see them yourself?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "I will undertake to see that everything is done which can properly lead to a proper settlement of the dispute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.1931.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-17", "file": "debates1926-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ef3975a2be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.1991.0", "colnum": "1991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "I should like to draw attention to the question of telegraphs and telephones. No greater calamity ever befell the country than the taking over of the telegraphs and telephones by the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.1991.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-17", "file": "debates1926-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ef3975a2be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.2070.0", "colnum": "2070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD FUND.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Keep off the grass!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": " Exchequer are concerned will be enormously increased. If we are to find the whole field cumbered with the barbed wire of Motions and Resolutions of the House of Commons when we get to the moment of making our proposals to Parliament, it will be very hard indeed. I am told I am exposed on every side to criticism. Minatory notices are put up on every side—\"hands off \"this and hands off\" that!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.2070.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-17", "file": "debates1926-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ef3975a2be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.2070.0", "colnum": "2070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD FUND.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Road Fund?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": " of the day, there begins the duty of the House, and the House, which has always regarded finance as its central business, as, indeed, it is the means by which this House has obtained its great power, has carefully prescribed the most elaborate procedure for examining every detail of the Budget of the year. There are the Resolutions in Committee of Ways and Means on which the Budget is introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.2070.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-17", "file": "debates1926-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ef3975a2be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.2070.0", "colnum": "2070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD FUND.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Road Fund!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "discussion of the Budget. Every opportunity will be afforded of examining every aspect of this question, should it be included in the Budget, in the regular procedure, and I suggest to the House that it is far better to take a decision at the right and proper time, with full information, than to seek to prejudge difficult questions without any opportunity of the facts being laid before Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.2070.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-17", "file": "debates1926-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "2f683ef3975a2be1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.2076.2", "colnum": "2076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD FUND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"The widows were weary waiting for them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "t them have confidence in the Administration; give them a reasonable measure of confidence. I think a year ago, almost to a night, a Motion on a private Members' evening was put on the Paper by Conservative Members, requiring the Government, most imperatively, to introduce a Measure of widows' pensions that- very Session. We had been working already for many months on a system of widows' pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-17a.2076.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-18", "file": "debates1926-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "460bfe1dde40aaa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-18a.2167.1", "colnum": "2167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-IRAQ TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the COLONES (Mr. Amery)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Successfully!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the COLONES (Mr. Amery)", "preceding_text": "selves from the Debate. It may be due to the internal organisation of the party opposite, to the employment, shall I say, of propulsive rather than of tractive motive power, that their heavy artillery, though powerful, is not always very mobile. They have now had two months of preparation, and have been able successfully to push their big guns into position, and to train them at a definite target.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-18a.2167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-18", "file": "debates1926-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "460bfe1dde40aaa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-18a.2197.1", "colnum": "2197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-IRAQ TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PURCELL", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PURCELL", "preceding_text": "m to be able to settle the religious difficulties of the Middle East. Again I turn to the question of the oil business in this connection. I think we are entitled to say that if we had some security with regard to the working conditions of the people employed in these oil sinkages, if we had an under taking that they would have proper hours adequate wages, reasonable sustenance and clothing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-18a.2197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-18", "file": "debates1926-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "460bfe1dde40aaa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-18a.2197.1", "colnum": "2197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-IRAQ TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PURCELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PURCELL", "preceding_text": "12;if we ever did set ourselves really to the task, of helping in the general uplifting of these backward races. It is said that we only went there to assist the native races, but if ever native labour demands better conditions for the people employed either at the oil-wells or on oil transport, British troops will be used to help the oil companies to suppress and even to shoot down these workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-18a.2197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-18", "file": "debates1926-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "460bfe1dde40aaa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-18a.2197.1", "colnum": "2197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-IRAQ TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PURCELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PURCELL", "preceding_text": " to shoot down these workers. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] It has been done again and again. The Royal Dutch, the Anglo-Persian, the Shell Mex and these companies which have to-day, either directly or indirectly, certain influence in connection with this part of the world, are the very people who in Mexico have murdered thousands of people simply in their attempt to crush those people and keep them down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-18a.2197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-18", "file": "debates1926-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "460bfe1dde40aaa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-18a.2203.0", "colnum": "2203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-IRAQ TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It does nut follow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": "righter picture. Indeed, I cannot follow his argument, when he speaks under the influence of oil, in regard to the improvement of the conditions of the labouring classes in Iraq, particularly at the oil wells, when there are any there, but can one really suppose that the conditions of those future workers at the oil wells will not be improved if there are a British connection and British advisers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-18a.2203.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-18", "file": "debates1926-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "460bfe1dde40aaa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-18a.2216.0", "colnum": "2216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-IRAQ TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "e League who suggests that by this Treaty with Iraq and this settlement with Turkey we are doing any good to the League. It is arrangements such as these which tend to bring discredit on the League. They make it quite clear that; the League is being used, not for the purpose of administering justice, but for the purpose of fostering the interests of the strong as against the interests of the weak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-18a.2216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-18", "file": "debates1926-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "460bfe1dde40aaa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-18a.2216.0", "colnum": "2216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-IRAQ TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": " want to see this situation properly we have got to go a good deal further back than what has been happening in the last 12 months or two years. Let me draw attention to this fact. The real reason why there is so much bitterness now between the Turks and those Syrian Christians is because in the days of the War British Imperialism deliberately used those Christians as pawns for their own purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-18a.2216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-18", "file": "debates1926-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "460bfe1dde40aaa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-18a.2252.0", "colnum": "2252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-IRAQ TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HARRY BRITTAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is the whole point!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HARRY BRITTAIN", "preceding_text": "ry richest lands in the world. It has a fertile soil. What irrigation can do in the region of Basra, where perhaps the finest dates in the world are grown, and with which they have never been able to meet the demand, will be done. I am not afraid at all to take up the subject of oil. Whenever oil is mentioned there are in some quarters of the House sure to be sneering observations in regard to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-18a.2252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-18", "file": "debates1926-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "460bfe1dde40aaa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-18a.2255.0", "colnum": "2255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-IRAQ TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "fore it. I would ask the Government to realise how the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the right hon. Gentleman the Foreign Secretary have actually by their recent activities poisoned the wells of the League of Nations itself. We in the Communist movement all over the world have never looked upon the League of Nations as anything except an instrument of brigandage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-18a.2255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-18", "file": "debates1926-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "460bfe1dde40aaa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-18a.2266.0", "colnum": "2266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-IRAQ TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Commander FANSHAWE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander FANSHAWE", "preceding_text": "nt forces, 70 per cent. of the rank and file became casualties on account or the brutality of the Turks. I do not believe that is generally known. In 1915, when our enterprise began to be big, we entered into a contract with a very gallant people, the Arabs. They are people who can look you straight in the face. They are not people who have shifty eyes. They stand up to us and look us in the face.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-18a.2266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-18", "file": "debates1926-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "460bfe1dde40aaa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-18a.2266.0", "colnum": "2266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-IRAQ TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Commander FANSHAWE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander FANSHAWE", "preceding_text": "general prosperity of the mandated territory and ourselves, why not? All hon. Members opposite ought to realise that, if there is a closed country, like Iraq is now, with nothing coming out of it at all, and we can develop it through security and through a secure frontier line, we are getting another potential market and getting something else in the world that is going to do good to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-18a.2266.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-19", "file": "debates1926-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "855a693aa18e769a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-19a.2321.1", "colnum": "2321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE (INCREASE OF PENALTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "I do not think any prisoner would prefer Dartmoor to other prisons on account of its outside work. With regard to what has been said about cruelty in our local prisons, that has been eliminated for a long time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-19a.2321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-19", "file": "debates1926-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "855a693aa18e769a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-19a.2330.0", "colnum": "2330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE (INCREASE OF PENALTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"The number of postmen has increased too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "good authority, that about 20 years ago it was customary to sentence a postman who had tampered with a letter to penal servitude for not less than seven years. Now, however, for exactly the same offence the sentence is sometimes only a month's imprisonment. So far as the Post Office is concerned, just as the severity of the sentence has declined the number of offences by postmen has also declined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-19a.2330.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-22", "file": "debates1926-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "81fedc6202e4fe50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.94.1", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NORTHERN IRELAND AGREEMENT) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I only cast it out as a surmise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.94.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-22", "file": "debates1926-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "81fedc6202e4fe50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.94.4", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NORTHERN IRELAND AGREEMENT) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Certainly, if the hon. Member did not approve of the policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.94.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-22", "file": "debates1926-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "81fedc6202e4fe50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.111.2", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NORTHERN IRELAND AGREEMENT) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CRAIG", "preceding_text": " persons to deal with. Owing to the nature of our trade—and, unfortunately, we cannot do what an hon. Member opposite suggested, namely, set up new trades to supply the necessary insurance funds to carry on the trades which are unsuccessful—we found ourselves with our two staple industries affected to a greater extent by unemployment than was the case in any part of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.111.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-22", "file": "debates1926-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "81fedc6202e4fe50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.120.4", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NORTHERN IRELAND AGREEMENT) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOLES", "cue_text": "A laugh .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOLES", "preceding_text": " the Committee to remember this; that when the Government of Northern Ireland was set up, this Special Constabulary was a force in being, having been created by the authority of this Parliament. It was a first charge upon the British Exchequer up to the point when we took over. We had to take it over as a liability along with the other terrible heritage of terrorism and crime you bequeathed to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.120.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-22", "file": "debates1926-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "81fedc6202e4fe50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.123.3", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NORTHERN IRELAND AGREEMENT) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MOLES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hea!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MOLES", "preceding_text": " the Labour benches—for that is where the real opposition comes from—then let labour in Ulster know this: that the only enemies it has are the men who profess themselves to be its friends; that the only men who seek to do them mischief are the men their societies make returns to and help to keep in office. That is the position. There are some men there fighting the battle of Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.123.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-22", "file": "debates1926-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "81fedc6202e4fe50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.131.0", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NORTHERN IRELAND AGREEMENT) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT LYNN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is for the Army.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT LYNN", "preceding_text": " seems to be under the misapprehension that Ulster is contributing nothing towards the Imperial Exchequer. May I remind him that we are contributing towards Imperial expenditure exactly in the same way that Scotland is contributing, and during the last four years, in addition to paying our own expenditure at home, we have contributed no less than £18,000,000 towards Imperial expenditure here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.131.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-22", "file": "debates1926-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "81fedc6202e4fe50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.131.2", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NORTHERN IRELAND AGREEMENT) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. LYNN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. LYNN", "preceding_text": "I can quite understand my hon. Friend being rather touchy on that point. After all, we are only making a very reasonable request. This country has forced upon us a system of Government which we did not want, and I ask hon. Members if they want Ulster trade unionists to be put in a worse position than the trade unionists of this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.131.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-22", "file": "debates1926-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "81fedc6202e4fe50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.168.1", "colnum": "168", "heading": "LONDON POWER COMPANY BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No,\" and \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": " once to understand that the Bill before us this evening really arises out of a definite contract and understanding between all the parties concerned in the long series of negotiations which preceded the passing of last year's Act, and if the hon. Gentleman is coming down to the House this evening and asking the House to depart from a definite understanding between all the parties concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-22", "file": "debates1926-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "81fedc6202e4fe50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.168.1", "colnum": "168", "heading": "LONDON POWER COMPANY BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not with us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "this evening really arises out of a definite contract and understanding between all the parties concerned in the long series of negotiations which preceded the passing of last year's Act, and if the hon. Gentleman is coming down to the House this evening and asking the House to depart from a definite understanding between all the parties concerned—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No,\" and \"When?\"] Last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-22", "file": "debates1926-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "81fedc6202e4fe50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.188.0", "colnum": "188", "heading": "LONDON POWER COMPANY BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "Some of the arguments I have heard advanced to-night in favour of the Bill remind me of the remark made by Blücher when he visited London after the Battle of Waterloo, \"What a magnificent city to sack!\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-22", "file": "debates1926-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "81fedc6202e4fe50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.188.0", "colnum": "188", "heading": "LONDON POWER COMPANY BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is done\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "Walthamstow, and all the other outer areas of London, are part and parcel of those who are going to be sacrificed. In the papers this morning we have a huge request for £3,000,000 of capital so far as this company is concerned, probably believing their friends in the House of Commons will rally to their assistance and carry this Bill. If it is not carried, will they raise the £3,000,000?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-22", "file": "debates1926-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "81fedc6202e4fe50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.160.6", "colnum": "160", "heading": "TRADE FACILITIES [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "e violating that principle if I endeavoured to answer the question. A question like that should be addressed to the Committee. I can well understand the difference of opinion there would have been from the outset as to the principle of this legislation, but I do not think there can be any reasonable doubt that it has had a substantial effect in the way of producing employment and mitigating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.160.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-22", "file": "debates1926-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "81fedc6202e4fe50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.215.3", "colnum": "215", "heading": "TRADE FACILITIES [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member knows there are restrictions if he has any intelligence at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.215.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-22", "file": "debates1926-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "81fedc6202e4fe50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.215.3", "colnum": "215", "heading": "TRADE FACILITIES [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What Government?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member knows there are restrictions if he has any intelligence at all. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"] One restriction on the development of Anglo-Russian trade is this—that the political uncertainty created by the Government's attitude, and their refusal to clear up outstanding questions, prevent manufacturers from undertaking long term risks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.215.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-22", "file": "debates1926-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "81fedc6202e4fe50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.239.3", "colnum": "239", "heading": "TRADE FACILITIES [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": " March, 1924, that they should not be involved in long, complicated, political and economic negotiations with Russia without taking steps to extend the exports credits scheme to Russia, a small, modest, simple matter which would have been of substantial assistance to the industries of this country. That remains one of the most serious grounds of criticism of the Socialist admistration of that day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-22a.239.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-23", "file": "debates1926-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "10e014c3b0b4c9f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.433.0", "colnum": "433", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Major COHEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major COHEN", "preceding_text": "y a Division. The Minister will be followed into the Lobby by all his supporters on this side of the House and the Mover of the Resolution will be followed into the other Lobby by all his supporters. As the Opposition is in a minority the Conservative majority on this side will win, the Ministry of Pensions will give itself a pat on the back and go home rejoicing. Everyone will be satisfied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-23", "file": "debates1926-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "10e014c3b0b4c9f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.437.2", "colnum": "437", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "t the assessment tribunal has neither a Welsh-speaking member nor official. I appeal to the right hon. Gentleman to have that remedied. I have a letter here written within the last fortnight in which the man writes—he is a native of Anglesey: I cannot tell you how sharp and nasty they all were, and they were all Englishmen on that Board. It might be that the man's impression was quite wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.437.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-23", "file": "debates1926-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "10e014c3b0b4c9f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.448.4", "colnum": "448", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. KENNEDY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. KENNEDY", "preceding_text": "e had up to now. That is, of course, a complete reversal of the policy which the Minister is now proceeding on. The general feeling—and this is no exaggeration—amongst a very considerable section of ex-service men, of pensions committees, and area administrators, is that the pensions machine to-day is a soulless machine which grinds out official decisions on purely legal grounds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.448.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-23", "file": "debates1926-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "10e014c3b0b4c9f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.448.4", "colnum": "448", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. KENNEDY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. KENNEDY", "preceding_text": " committees, and area administrators, is that the pensions machine to-day is a soulless machine which grinds out official decisions on purely legal grounds—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—and on grounds that are taken to secure the end that I am certain this House does not generally desire to reach, of achieving economy of administration at the expense of the ex-service men and their dependants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.448.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-23", "file": "debates1926-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "10e014c3b0b4c9f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.448.4", "colnum": "448", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. KENNEDY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. KENNEDY", "preceding_text": "continuance of this principle of final awards? Does anyone in this House dare to assert that any medical authority, however competent, can examine a man to-day, and say that in 12 months, in two years, or three years hence the disability from which he is now suffering will have disappeared, and he will be in a normal condition? That is what the Minister assumes to do in the matter of final awards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.448.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-23", "file": "debates1926-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "10e014c3b0b4c9f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.448.4", "colnum": "448", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. KENNEDY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Non sense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. KENNEDY", "preceding_text": "bility will be 12 months hence. The truth is that the principle of final awards is on exactly the same basis as the principle of the seven years' limit. It is part of the machine contrived in order to create as many obstacles as possible in the way of an ex-service man proving his claim and maintaining his right to a pension. It is so regarded, I do assure the House, by thousands of ex-service men", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.448.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-23", "file": "debates1926-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "10e014c3b0b4c9f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.448.4", "colnum": "448", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. KENNEDY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All of them !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. KENNEDY", "preceding_text": "alone, I think, prove the necessity for some inquiry into the manner in which those cases are now being disposed of. In the 10 months ending 31st October, 1926, only 1,000 cases were dealt with under the regulations governing erroneous awards. Are we going to assume that, in regard to those erroneous awards, even that limited number of corrections was made on the initiative of the Ministry itself?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.448.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-23", "file": "debates1926-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "10e014c3b0b4c9f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.448.4", "colnum": "448", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. KENNEDY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Time!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. KENNEDY", "preceding_text": "e disability from which he suffers. Our general complaint against the Pensions Ministry to-day, apart from the general issues I have tried to describe, is that neither the House, nor the country, nor the ex-service men know what the Ministry is doing in the way of its pensions Regulations. I put a question last week to the Minister asking him to tell me if he would circulate to hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.448.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-23", "file": "debates1926-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "10e014c3b0b4c9f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Major TRYON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And intimidation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "he signatures of women as well as men, and of men who are not ex-service. It must be remembered that there are no fewer than 5,000,000 ex-service men in the country, and with their dependants and people who might be tempted by the various offers held out, there might be anything from 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 people who could have signed. Out of that enormous total, and after all the use of cinemas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.458.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-23", "file": "debates1926-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "10e014c3b0b4c9f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "preceding_text": "Order! Order!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-23", "file": "debates1926-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "10e014c3b0b4c9f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-23", "file": "debates1926-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "10e014c3b0b4c9f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.461.5", "colnum": "461", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "You were pointing out, quite rightly, that the right hon. Gentleman has some 15 counts to answer. May I ask if it is not fair to ask that he should answer the points that have been put?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.461.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-23", "file": "debates1926-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "10e014c3b0b4c9f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Major TRYON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": " alluded to the amount of unrest and uncertainty amongst pensioners. It would be better if he would remember that the Labour party made this question a party issue. I have here a number of points to that effect. We are told that there was anxiety among the ex-service men. Certainly there was. They were told that the Conservative and Liberal parties had pinched £11,000,000 from the pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-23", "file": "debates1926-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "10e014c3b0b4c9f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Major TRYON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "y issue. I have here a number of points to that effect. We are told that there was anxiety among the ex-service men. Certainly there was. They were told that the Conservative and Liberal parties had pinched £11,000,000 from the pensioners. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"] An hon. Member says, \"Hear, hear!\" Then why did his Government take off another £6,500,000 when they came into office?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-23", "file": "debates1926-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "10e014c3b0b4c9f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Major TRYON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "#163;6,500,000 when they came into office?[ Interruption. ] The Labour Government came in and brought in Pensions Estimates £6,500,000 lower than the particular Estimates which they said had pinched £11,000,000 from the pensioners. One hon. Member who is not here to-night, a member of the late Government, told us that medical boards existed for no other purpose than to cut down pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-23a.462.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-24", "file": "debates1926-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0360cc28072aea86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.509.5", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I want to ask what instructions have been given to this Exchange to prevent women getting even the first week's unemployment pay? How can you charge women with not having genuinely sought work when they have only been out of work a day or two? You are just starving them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.509.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-24", "file": "debates1926-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0360cc28072aea86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.510.2", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that at the very time this woman was accused of not genuinely seeking work she was at work, and that those women whose names are given here were compelled by the State to pay contributions out of their weekly earnings and now through some secret instruction to the Employment Exchange officials—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.510.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-24", "file": "debates1926-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0360cc28072aea86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "The statement of the right hon. Gentleman that the statement I previously made was inaccurate, is untrue. Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that at the time this woman's case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-24", "file": "debates1926-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0360cc28072aea86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "The statement of the right hon. Gentleman that the statement I previously made was inaccurate, is untrue. Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that at the time this woman's case—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"]—it is not a speech—was being investigated, and when she was charged with not being genuinely seeking work, she was at work; and, further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-24", "file": "debates1926-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0360cc28072aea86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.568.2", "colnum": "568", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1925–26.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "My exordium was not suggesting any particular form of legislation, but only asking the Minister himself to give his consideration to these questions. We, in Scotland, do feel proud of the Scottish regional headquarters and of the very able men who staff it and who do their best within the limits by which they are bound.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.568.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-24", "file": "debates1926-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0360cc28072aea86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.596.2", "colnum": "596", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1925–26.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "I have just received a notification from the Minister as to a very sad case which I talked over and reasoned over with him, and I might as well have appealed to Old Nick—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.596.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-24", "file": "debates1926-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0360cc28072aea86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.596.2", "colnum": "596", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1925–26.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "tter soon and that his native air would renew him. But such was not the case, because now he is unable to do anything. He is practically paralysed. I have visited his home myself. He still believes this was a war to end war. He is not a Socialist, but a patriot, who believes the Tory party mean what they say. He does not realise, as I do, that they are liars, and have deceived the working classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.596.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-24", "file": "debates1926-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0360cc28072aea86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.596.2", "colnum": "596", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1925–26.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fairfield!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "ll have to say about it. Personally, I do not care the snap of my finger for the British Legion, but it is the men who are in the British Legion for whom I care. The British Legion got a telling off here yesterday from the Minister of Pensions. There are no two ways about that. I do not know what constituency is represented by the hon. and gallant Member who spoke for the British Legion yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.596.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-24", "file": "debates1926-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0360cc28072aea86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.612.3", "colnum": "612", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1925–26.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " functions and the functions of private Members. He seems to think that it ought to be regarded by us as a privilege and pleasure to run on little errands for his Department and whenever a fault is alleged against the Ministry his reply is \"Bring it to me.\" But the fact that such complaints come to us at all, shows that throughout the country among ex-service men there is complete dissatisfaction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.612.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-24", "file": "debates1926-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0360cc28072aea86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.613.1", "colnum": "613", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1925–26.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "en who fought their War with the same generosity as that which you have extended to your late Allies and your late enemies. A period of 70 or 75 years is the period during which the Allies are to be allowed to liquidate their responsibilities. If the policy of last year is carried out in regard to pensions, it will wipe out the whole responsibility of the country to the ex-service men in 20 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-24", "file": "debates1926-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0360cc28072aea86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.616.2", "colnum": "616", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1925–26.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "nd the country to believe that the exceptions are extremely few, but there is no Member of the House who has not one or two or half-a-dozen exceptions in his division. It was about one such exception that I was thinking last night when the Minister, in spite of the charm and grace with which he can address the Committee was treating this very serious question at times almost in a spirit of levity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.616.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-24", "file": "debates1926-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0360cc28072aea86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.660.3", "colnum": "660", "heading": "UNEMPLOYED (REMUNERATIVE EMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "t is ours\" when the War is over? The question was not touched upon in regard to the fitness of things at all. We had various encompassing statements but no detail. But you cannot take men born in industrial areas, just dump them down on agricultural land, and expect them to be successful. They have not got the knowledge requisite. Some people do not understand that farming is a skilled occupation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.660.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-24", "file": "debates1926-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0360cc28072aea86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.662.2", "colnum": "662", "heading": "UNEMPLOYED (REMUNERATIVE EMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Commander O. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander O. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "he large body of unemployed that we have by settling people upon our own land. I quite agree that if it were possible we ought to do that, but we must remember that at this time we have a million more people than we can find work for. If we look at statistics we find that this million is not the result of any mistakes we have made in this country, but solely a result of the war which fell upon us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.662.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-24", "file": "debates1926-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0360cc28072aea86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.665.0", "colnum": "665", "heading": "UNEMPLOYED (REMUNERATIVE EMPLOYMENT).", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. Amery)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Britain!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. Amery)", "preceding_text": "ople. There is much common field and agreement between us on these matters, and even on the point to which the hon. Member for Rothwell (Mr. Lunn) referred in an interesting suggestion, and to which the hon. Member for Springburn (Mr. Hardie) referred, namely, the development of agriculture in this country. I fully agree that there is a field to be explored there. If England is in one sense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-24a.665.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-02-25", "file": "debates1926-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "02ceabc07a80280c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-25a.684.10", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "No, the law!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. MEYER", "preceding_text": "Is the public itself not the best judge of these plays?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-25a.684.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-25", "file": "debates1926-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "02ceabc07a80280c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-25a.715.2", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POOR LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Has it never dawned on the Chancellor of the Exchequer's mentality", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-25a.715.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-25", "file": "debates1926-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "02ceabc07a80280c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-25a.715.2", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POOR LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Has it never dawned on the Chancellor of the Exchequer's mentality [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order !\"]—to apply the same rule to the National Debt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-25a.715.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-25", "file": "debates1926-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "02ceabc07a80280c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-25a.773.3", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah, Singapore!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "run the risk of a forced landing, and I have every hope that, not only will this section of the route be started satisfactorily next year, but that it will stimulate so great a demand for extensions of it that at no distant date we shall have a through aeroplane route, not only from Egypt to India, but from London to India, and possibly, when we have got to India, to Rangoon and even to Singapore.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-25a.773.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-25", "file": "debates1926-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "02ceabc07a80280c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-25a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ATTLEE", "preceding_text": " lead, where we could be extremely influential, is specially given by Section 8 of the Covenant—the right to direct the nations on the road to disarmament, having regard to their particular circumstances. These Estimates are not presented with any regard whatever to this international situation. The position is taken up that someone else has got an Air Force and, therefore, we must have one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-25a.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-25", "file": "debates1926-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "02ceabc07a80280c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-25a.855.3", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Locarno?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "o-day, the Government would not last 14 hours, and the Minister responsible would probably be hanged by the mob. It is only because the country does not understand the awful terrors and horrors of an air attack, and the way in which this new force can leap over armies and navies and wipe out the means of communication and of replenishment of the beaten Air Force, that this sort of thing can go on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-25a.855.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-25", "file": "debates1926-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "02ceabc07a80280c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-25a.872.0", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "The policy is the policy of having as many pilots, as much flying and as much flying efficiency as possible. I disagree with my hon. and gallant Friend, who seems to think that when he was at the Air Ministry everything went well, and that since he left everything has gone badly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-25a.872.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-25", "file": "debates1926-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "02ceabc07a80280c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-25a.877.1", "colnum": "877", "heading": "BISHOPRIC OF SHREWSBURY MEASURE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WINDSOR-CLIVE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel WINDSOR-CLIVE", "preceding_text": "e with The Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act, 1919, this House do direct that the Bishopric of Shrewsbury Measure, 1925, be presented to His Majesty for Royal Assent. I rise to move this Resolution by which the House is asked to agree to a measure passed by a large majority in the Church Assembly for the creation of a new diocese of Shrewsbury as soon as sufficient funds have been collected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-25a.877.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-25", "file": "debates1926-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "02ceabc07a80280c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-25a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "BISHOPRIC OF SHREWSBURY MEASURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": " found that to a great extent the influencing personnel was the same. I felt the whole time that the dice was loaded against me—if I may say so without meaning any offence—and there was no chance of obtaining a reversal of the decision originally come to. Hon. Members may say that the House to-night has not the time and has not the evidence before it to enable it to come to a decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-25a.887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-26", "file": "debates1926-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "669143b12b5aab02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-26a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "BANK OF ENGLAND (NATIONALISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Irish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "bring in a Bill. We have now done so, just as I brought in a Bill for getting hold of the Stone of Destiny for Scotland. That was a Bill which had as far-reaching effects, according to some people, as this Bill has. The only difference was that there was a good deal of sentiment surrounding the Stone of Destiny, and that appealed to the intelligent minds, not only of the Scots, but of the English.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-26a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-26", "file": "debates1926-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "669143b12b5aab02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-26a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "BANK OF ENGLAND (NATIONALISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "em under which we live and rule and have our being. This Bill would mean that we should be getting control of the finances of this country and of the capitalist system and when we have control we should organise that system in the interest of the working classes as against the interest of the capitalist classes. That is the only reason I can see that you, Mr. Speaker, are giving that ruling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-26a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-26", "file": "debates1926-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "669143b12b5aab02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-26a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "BANK OF ENGLAND (NATIONALISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " control of the finances of this country and of the capitalist system and when we have control we should organise that system in the interest of the working classes as against the interest of the capitalist classes. That is the only reason I can see that you, Mr. Speaker, are giving that ruling—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"]—and this ruling is biased really in favour of the Government", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-26a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-02-26", "file": "debates1926-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "669143b12b5aab02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-26a.940.0", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADOPTION OF CHILDREN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALIN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALIN", "preceding_text": " have to be considered as well as legal interests in a Measure of this description. I want to support the Bill, because, in the first place, I want to take the opportunity of saying that the party with which I am associated are not guilty of the charges that have been so frequently made against us at election times, that we want to nationalise women and children and put them all into institutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-02-26a.940.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-03-01", "file": "debates1926-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "96581a7f8f306ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-01a.1027.0", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Which Prime Minister?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " charged with drunkenness, omitting to register himself as a foreigner, and uttering offensive language against the Prime Minister. He was sentenced to eight months and five days' imprisonment and fined 1,400 lire. His Majesty's Consul at Florence arranged with Messrs. Roberts' for the defence of both men. Ellison has lodged an appeal against the sentence. His Majesty's Consul will watch the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-01a.1026.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-01", "file": "debates1926-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "96581a7f8f306ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-01a.1103.6", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "UNCLASSIFIED SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "Some must be, otherwise the scheme would not have come into operation. One of the chief reasons why the scheme was called for was that other people would not take these long dated and consequently risky bills. The consequence is that, in order to stimulate industry, we have to take these risky bills, some running over long periods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-01a.1103.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-01", "file": "debates1926-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "96581a7f8f306ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-01a.1111.3", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "UNCLASSIFIED SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "t a large number of mills, factories, and industrial undertakings have absorbed a large amount of the money invested in Russia. The Russian Government has confiscated the whole of that property and the people of this country who put that money into those undertakings—not warlike undertakings—have lost it. I then have to consider this, having lost our money once, shall we lose it again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-01a.1111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-01", "file": "debates1926-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "96581a7f8f306ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-01a.1115.1", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "UNCLASSIFIED SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HASTINGS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HASTINGS", "preceding_text": "Surely, my hon. Friend cannot seriously consider that any body would overlook that. We have heard within the last five minutes that the joint stock banks are prepared to take the risk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-01a.1115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-01", "file": "debates1926-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "96581a7f8f306ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-01a.1121.3", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "UNCLASSIFIED SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They will never do that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "I do not think the hon. Gentleman is quite right in regard to the facts. I think that relates to trade facilities. We are now dealing with export credits, which are quite a different thing. But I would say quite frankly that if the position of affairs in Russia, if their economic system were altered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-01a.1121.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-01", "file": "debates1926-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "96581a7f8f306ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-01a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "UNCLASSIFIED SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the same principle.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "Like the hon. Gentleman, I am only speaking from memory, but so far as my memory serves me I was referring then to the Committee dealing with the Trade Facilities Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-01a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-01", "file": "debates1926-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "96581a7f8f306ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-01a.1132.2", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "UNCLASSIFIED SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": " Navy, and when the War came we had an almost universal response. It would be a cruel thing if the House or the Government were to be witnesses of misery and destitution among the herring fishing population without undertaking some positive, constructive effort to help it. Let me say I think we ought to modify our views slightly from the somewhat cast-iron attitude we have taken up towards Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-01a.1132.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-01", "file": "debates1926-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "96581a7f8f306ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-01a.1137.2", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "UNCLASSIFIED SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "preceding_text": "confuse the Government, I think we should be allowing ourselves to be led rather astray. It seems to me that the Opposition think they have got on a strong scent here, which, if they follow it, will annoy the Government; but I venture to think that cool reflection in the morning will show them that, if they were in power, their Ministry could not do otherwise than our present Government are doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-01a.1137.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-01", "file": "debates1926-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "96581a7f8f306ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-01a.1137.2", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "UNCLASSIFIED SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "preceding_text": "ed rather astray. It seems to me that the Opposition think they have got on a strong scent here, which, if they follow it, will annoy the Government; but I venture to think that cool reflection in the morning will show them that, if they were in power, their Ministry could not do otherwise than our present Government are doing. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] I would ask hon. Members to take a sensible view", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-01a.1137.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-01", "file": "debates1926-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "96581a7f8f306ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-01a.1139.1", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "UNCLASSIFIED SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.'", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member will allow me to say so, he is not correct in saying that the Government have refused the advice of their Advisory Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-01a.1139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-01", "file": "debates1926-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "96581a7f8f306ec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-01a.1139.3", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "UNCLASSIFIED SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have nothing to buy them with.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "preceding_text": "allow that risk to be taken. It is quite obvious that if none of the joint stock banks will take the risk there must be other considerations which come in, and the fact remains that if you are so convinced that the Russian Government is going to honour its bond you can buy a £100 bond for £5. Why do you not buy them? In exactly the same way we can buy shares in Russian mining securities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-01a.1139.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-02", "file": "debates1926-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "adcf073a370469bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-02a.1249.2", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "REAR REFLECTORS ON CYCLES.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BRASS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Red stockings!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BRASS", "preceding_text": " stuff to put on the arm or ankle might be used, but I am told that the real reflector is a pair of pink silk stockings. I remember hon. Members opposite during the Debate on the Silk Duties telling us that it was necessary for the health of the proletariat that they should all wear silk stockings. I do not think we should ask every lady who rides a bicycle to promise to wear silk stockings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-02a.1249.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-02", "file": "debates1926-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "adcf073a370469bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-02a.1283.1", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Carried unanimously!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ation. What is the use of encouraging capital in a small way on the one hand, and taking great blocks out of the capital of this country and expending it on the other hand? It would be wiser if the Chancellor of the Exchequer would lay down that he was going to gradually drop this Measure and eliminate all taxation on capital, and that would do more to encourage industry to-day than anything else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-02a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-02", "file": "debates1926-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "adcf073a370469bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-02a.1299.0", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Gold!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "irst instance to the country which gets the loan. You may make a loan to Athens, but it does not translate itself at once into goods sent to Athens. Some of the goods they buy may be bought in Germany, but it is certainly in the end balanced by goods going from this country abroad. Can hon. Members suggest any other way in which a loan raised in this country can leave this country except as goods?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-02a.1299.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-03-02", "file": "debates1926-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "adcf073a370469bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-02a.1361.3", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "NECESSITOUS AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Extra expenditure!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. REMER", "preceding_text": "It says that expenditure should be a national charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-02a.1361.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-03", "file": "debates1926-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "836b054230d25840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1420.7", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Is it not true that these tests have led in other countries to great social reforms?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1420.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-03-03", "file": "debates1926-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "836b054230d25840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1429.9", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "If it is suggested that this remedy is futile, will the right hon. and gallant Gentleman indicate what other remedy he suggests which would be effective?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1429.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-03-03", "file": "debates1926-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "836b054230d25840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1430.3", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman not aware, as he ought to be aware, that in July, 1924, his inspectors reported that there were no less than 14 places in which they found inflammable gas; and is it the case that although this was reported by the local inspectors there are no reports entered in the reports book as regards this as well as cases of broken timber and other matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1430.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-03", "file": "debates1926-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "836b054230d25840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1441.1", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH NALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH NALL", "preceding_text": "May I ask you, Sir, whether, in view of the fact that the libraries are the only places where private Members can transact their Parliamentary correspondence, you will consider if they can be closed to the public during the morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-03", "file": "debates1926-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "836b054230d25840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1468.2", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1925–26.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": " read out the letter. Does he dispute that the Atholl firm pay 1s. 8d. per hour to skilled men and 1s. 3¼d. per hour to labourers? I ask him for an answer. Does he dispute that, apart from steel erectors' work—which has not been claimed by the building trade—1s. 3¼d. per hour is paid to labourers and 1s. 8d. per hour to skilled craftsmen? I think we are entitled to an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1468.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-03", "file": "debates1926-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "836b054230d25840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1480.0", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1925–26.", "cue_speaker": "Captain A. HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain A. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "g methods and using the employés in the engineering trade unions. He wants to do that and not to touch the building unions. In doing that he says he will pay fair wages, but the wages he will pay are those of the engineering trade and not of the building trade. The 10½d. that has been mentioned as the pay of the unskilled labourer is, I believe, the trade union wage for unskilled labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-03", "file": "debates1926-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "836b054230d25840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1486.6", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1925–26.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "I have not been briefed, nor am I in the habit of being briefed for discussions of this kind. Take the figure of 1s. 2½d. Is it not the case that the men who receive these wages are members of the Engineers' Union? Is it not the case that this is the recognised figure of an hourly wage arrived at by collective bargaining in that union?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1486.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-03", "file": "debates1926-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "836b054230d25840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1486.6", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1925–26.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "in a speech by some hon. Member from the opposite side, that there is no collective bargaining in the case of the figure of 1s. 2d. per hour. I believe that there is. I have no doubt that that is so. That there has not been collective bargaining in regard to the Building Union is admitted, but that there has been collective bargaining in the relevant union, the Engineering Union, is equally clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1486.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-03", "file": "debates1926-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "836b054230d25840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1486.6", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1925–26.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What unions?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "nion. The opposition to Lord Weir's scheme and his rates of pay come entirely from another union. More than one speaker on the other side has said that it is the duty of the Government in these circumstances to fix the rate of wages. That is not so. I cannot for a moment agree to the proposition that where two unions are at variance as to the amount to be paid for a particular piece of work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1486.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-03", "file": "debates1926-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "836b054230d25840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1486.6", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1925–26.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "er union. More than one speaker on the other side has said that it is the duty of the Government in these circumstances to fix the rate of wages. That is not so. I cannot for a moment agree to the proposition that where two unions are at variance as to the amount to be paid for a particular piece of work—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What unions?\"] The Amalgamated Engineering Union and the Building Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1486.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-03", "file": "debates1926-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "836b054230d25840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1501.1", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1925–26.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And then what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "e lines, they are riding for a fall. The right hon. Gentleman opposite smiles. Probably he thinks that with his 200 majority behind him, he is safe for another three-and-a-half years. The Coalition thought itself equally safe—and he was a member of it—but the Coalition vanished at one election. His own party vanished at a succeeding election, and came back only one-third of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-03", "file": "debates1926-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "836b054230d25840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1516.0", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1925–26.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY UNDERSECRETARY for HEALTH, SCOTLAND (Captain Elliot)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Debating society points!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY UNDERSECRETARY for HEALTH, SCOTLAND (Captain Elliot)", "preceding_text": "r the poor, for the lowest of the low. Why should our people be forced into them?\" And then he said, \"These houses are going to be let at rents so high that none of our people will be able to get into them, only the wealthy will be able to get into them.\" Further, he said, \"These houses are too dear; they will not be sufficiently cheap until they are produced by the assistance of mass production.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-03", "file": "debates1926-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "836b054230d25840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1520.1", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1925–26.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are too modest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "r request agreed to meet them again on Tuesday this week, and he did so. All I can say is that, although these conversations have not yet resulted in a definite agreement, I see no reason why it should be impossible to arrive at an agreed conclusion. Nobody knows better than right hon. Gentlemen opposite how delicate negotiations may be ruined by the clumsy interference of some novice like myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-03", "file": "debates1926-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "836b054230d25840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1523.1", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1925–26.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are talking about it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "on—for his opinion. As he went out, the doctor said, \"That will be five guineas, please.\" \"Oh,\" he asked, \"What is that for?\" \"For my advice,\" replied the doctor. \"Oh,\" he said, \"but I am not taking your advice.\" At the moment we are in conversation with the various interests concerned. We are following out, not only in the letter but in the spirit, the recommendation given in the paragraph.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-03", "file": "debates1926-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "836b054230d25840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1523.1", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1925–26.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "ied the doctor. \"Oh,\" he said, \"but I am not taking your advice.\" At the moment we are in conversation with the various interests concerned. We are following out, not only in the letter but in the spirit, the recommendation given in the paragraph. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You are talking about it!\"] If the hon. Member knows any way of settling trade union questions other than by talking about them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-03", "file": "debates1926-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "836b054230d25840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1524.3", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1925–26.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why refer to them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to broach any conversations which we have had,-because they have been conducted in confidence", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1524.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-03", "file": "debates1926-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "836b054230d25840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1526.1", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1925–26.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "Is it, or is it not, the case that the labourers who were to be engaged at the building trade rate of 1s. 3¼d. struck work, and refused to make the foundations because the houses were to be Weir houses?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-03", "file": "debates1926-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "836b054230d25840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1526.6", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1925–26.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "Since the hon. and gallant Gentleman asks me a straight question, I will give him what he has not given me—a straight answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1526.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-03", "file": "debates1926-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "836b054230d25840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1533.3", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "LONDON AND NORTH-EASTERN RAILWAY (SUPERANNUATION FUND) BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TOWNEND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TOWNEND", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, to leave out the word \"now,\" and, at the end of the Question, to add the words, \"upon this day six months.\" I hope the House will bear with me, particularly if I transgress any of its traditions arising out of the fact that this is the first time I have inflicted a speech on it. I had hoped that those responsible for the Bills would agree that they should be taken together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1533.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-03", "file": "debates1926-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "836b054230d25840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1538.1", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "LONDON AND NORTH-EASTERN RAILWAY (SUPERANNUATION FUND) BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENNIS HERBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENNIS HERBERT", "preceding_text": "e directly concerned than I am with regard to the matter—like the hon. Member who opened this Debate, who is himself one of those concerned—is that if the proposals of the Company are turned down on Second Reading without going before a Committee to be thrashed out at all, it may be very much more difficult to negotiate or to get the Company to start a new and more satisfactory scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-03", "file": "debates1926-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "836b054230d25840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1570.0", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRUNDY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRUNDY", "preceding_text": "us know, but with the general decrease over the country. I make another statement in respect to that, and it is, that there is all the more reason why Parliament, as selected by the people of this country, should do something. I have never complained of the other side. I have never got up and belittled hon. Members opposite. They were chosen by the people. They were chosen by the democratic votes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1570.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-03", "file": "debates1926-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "836b054230d25840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1570.0", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRUNDY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRUNDY", "preceding_text": "my Scotch friends. They are very persistent, but on some occasions when I miss my train that respect is turned to—. I may say that the other side thinks exactly as I do about the time they keep us here. Those gentlemen say that they took 11,049 samples of sugar, and that 2,129 of those samples were incorrect, and that the percentage of deficiency in weight out of the whole was 15.6 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-03a.1570.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-04", "file": "debates1926-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "38251677938ba425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-04a.1585.11", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I am going to ask you, how, as a matter of fact, can order be maintained? There has been one scene here this afternoon because a Minister refused to answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-04a.1585.11"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-04", "file": "debates1926-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "38251677938ba425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-04a.1666.0", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " a point which involves the honour of the nations making the claims, it is inexpedient and it is wrong for this House to tie the hands of the Foreign Secretary at Geneva. That is the situation we have to face and that is a situation which I think this House has a perfect right to profoundly regret. The right hon. Gentleman said this is no party issue. It is not. I decline to make it a party issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-04a.1666.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-04", "file": "debates1926-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "38251677938ba425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-04a.1685.2", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "se how serious is the accusation against M. Briand and Signor Mussolini and M. Benes, if it is said that at this meeting the Council may consider nothing else except the admission of Germany, not merely to the League itself but to a permanent seat on the Council—a thing which was reserved from the beginning to whom? To the Allies who fought in the War and who signed the Treaty of Versailles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-04a.1685.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-04", "file": "debates1926-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "38251677938ba425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-04a.1689.1", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "of the most impracticable and unstatesmanlike suggestions ever made. We may some day wonder whether we are right in continuing to give so much time, sadly wanted for our own affairs, in trying to reconcile the irreconcilable jealousies of the States of Europe. I sometimes wonder whether we would not be more usefully occupied in considering the development of the great Empire to which we all belong", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-04a.1689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-04", "file": "debates1926-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "38251677938ba425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-04a.1705.6", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1925–26.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " The women I am talking about are those who went before the Court of Referees, and they tell me that they were hardly asked any questions at all, and most of them are not as glib as Members of this House, and they are not always able to state their real position. I am sorry they do not all belong to some trade union. I know hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite are always denouncing trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-04a.1705.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-04", "file": "debates1926-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "38251677938ba425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-04a.1737.1", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "LONDON, MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That does not matter!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " will be unified nationalisation. But we have not got that. Whilst we have not got it, I put it to the Minister of Transport, who is not responsible for fares—which is a matter for the Railway Rates Tribunal—what are the factors which most influence the Railway Rates Tribunal? To put it quite seriously, they have to consider, not what were the fares in 1917, but that they are more now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-04a.1737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-04", "file": "debates1926-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "38251677938ba425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-04a.1740.3", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "LONDON, MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "ied with that explanation, he can go out and make a hole in the Thames. Coming to the point where I was interrupted by the hon. Member for Watford (Mr. Herbert), I wish to say a word or two on workmen's fares. It is something affecting very seriously the people whom I represent. I can remember when I worked at John Brown's on Clydebank, and how I had to rise at half-past four in the morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-04a.1740.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-04", "file": "debates1926-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "38251677938ba425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-04a.1743.2", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "LONDON, MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "s that the reason why we were discussing this Bill, and the line as referred to by the hon. Member, was that it so happened that the London, Midland, and Scottish control this part of the line. We were not discussing the Metropolitan Bill. This part of Aldgate to King's Cross while it was part of the Metropolitan line the control of it was in the hands of the London, Midland, and Scottish Company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-04a.1743.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-04", "file": "debates1926-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "38251677938ba425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-04a.1745.0", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "LONDON, MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did they say to you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "ught to conduct its business. Only last Friday, when I went up and claimed a seat on which there was an empty bandbox, the porter came along and was most abusive that I should dare to claim that seat. As a matter of fact, I complained, but the hon. Member for one of the Divisions of Birmingham, when he comes to this House to speak on a railway Bill, gets far less abuse than I got on that occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-04a.1745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-04", "file": "debates1926-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "38251677938ba425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-04a.1757.1", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "LONDON, MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "preceding_text": " professed himself in favour of the Bill three times during the process of his argument, but at the same time I could see that he desired to raise prejudices on the other side of the House with regard to this company when he referred to the Clause which deals with the buying of land. I look at Clause 77, to which he referred, and find that it enables them to deal with land which is already theirs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-04a.1757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-04", "file": "debates1926-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "38251677938ba425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-04a.1757.1", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "LONDON, MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, we know all about it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "preceding_text": "nstructors in the Thames area think they have been unfairly treated by reason of the London General Omnibus Company contractors, a totally separate company, registered not under this combination at all but under the Company's Act, a private company called the Associated Equipment Company, a Company which we all know from their advertisement of lorries going over a slope with a sunset behind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-04a.1757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-04", "file": "debates1926-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "38251677938ba425", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-04a.1757.1", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "LONDON, MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "preceding_text": "ely no connection between the Associated Equipment Company, and the company that is promoting this Bill, none whatever. The London General Omnibus Company is certainly one of a combine, but, except that they make contracts for the delivery of lorries, they have absolutely nothing to do with the Associated Equipment Company, save that the capital is largely held by the Underground Electric Railway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-04a.1757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-05", "file": "debates1926-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "aa87a53b1ff9146f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-05a.1802.0", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUFF COOPER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why do anything?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUFF COOPER", "preceding_text": "President of the Board of Education possess to deal with schemes of afforestation or drainage, and what qualifications would the Secretary of State for the Colonies possess in regard to drainage schemes? Of course, hon. Members may say that those Ministers need not attend when those particular subjects are being considered, and, if that is so, why is it necessary to set up such a Committee at all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-05a.1802.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-05", "file": "debates1926-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "aa87a53b1ff9146f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-05a.1829.0", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "preceding_text": "ployment because we produced more than we could consume. If that be the case, it seems a little unfair to retain the present Title of the Bill. One cannot help feeling, as the Seconder of the Amendment pointed out, that this Title is intended as a suggestion that the party opposite can put an end to unemployment, though by its own admission it is prepared to face a perpetual state of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-05a.1829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-05", "file": "debates1926-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "aa87a53b1ff9146f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-05a.1830.0", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Garden of Eden!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "preceding_text": "What about the fifteenth century?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-05a.1830.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-03-05", "file": "debates1926-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "aa87a53b1ff9146f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-05a.1833.2", "colnum": "1833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "preceding_text": "Then you would bring into existence a body which would be over and above every other body in this country and would take the place of the Cabinet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-05a.1833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-05", "file": "debates1926-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "aa87a53b1ff9146f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-05a.1836.0", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALBERY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh…\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALBERY", "preceding_text": "s. In times of prosperity one certainly should endeavour to consolidate one's arrangements for times of bad trade. One should endeavour to build up reserves with which to meet distress if and when that time comes along. On those grounds there is a good deal in this Bill which eventually might be put through. I wish, however, to say right at the start that I do not propose to vote for this Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-05a.1836.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-05", "file": "debates1926-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "aa87a53b1ff9146f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-05a.1836.0", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALBERY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALBERY", "preceding_text": "ress if and when that time comes along. On those grounds there is a good deal in this Bill which eventually might be put through. I wish, however, to say right at the start that I do not propose to vote for this Measure. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh…\"] Yes, there are two or three reasons I shall give for that attitude. One is that I do not believe in swopping horses when you are crossing a stream.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-05a.1836.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-05", "file": "debates1926-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "aa87a53b1ff9146f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-05a.1850.0", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir NEWTON MOORE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir NEWTON MOORE", "preceding_text": "es and of land. I do not know that that is going to bring about any very desirable result. I have known places where the mines are owned by the State and where they collect their royalties just the same as private owners collect them in this country. At the same time in Australia, where the Labour party have been in power for years, have they ever taken a step towards the nationalisation of mines?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-05a.1850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-05", "file": "debates1926-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "aa87a53b1ff9146f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-05a.1865.0", "colnum": "1865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SHAW", "preceding_text": "rfectly common-sense solution of an admitted difficulty. It is replacing haphazard, bad methods, without order and without coordination by a definite co-ordination and a definite order. That is the Bill—co- ordination and order, as against haphazard and imperfect methods. We are told by the hon. Member for Oldham that under the present Bill there is no need to present a Report to Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-05a.1865.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-08", "file": "debates1926-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "5b15828ac0d36b9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-08a.2009.1", "colnum": "2009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETO", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETO", "preceding_text": " is really meant by this Defence Ministry. I have not been able to gather from the speeches whether hon. Members are quite clear in their mind what they are asking for. Is it that we are to have only one Ministry of Defence, that the Secretary of State for Air, the Secretary of State for War and the First Lord of the Admiralty are to disappear, or is the proposal that they are all to remain there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-08a.2009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-08", "file": "debates1926-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "5b15828ac0d36b9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-08a.2047.0", "colnum": "2047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount SANDON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount SANDON", "preceding_text": "ot properly treated by the Air Force. Gunner officers—I was a gunner officer—often go up in the air to see the effect of their shooting, and the Navy have their observers in the Air Force. So really, when it comes to the actual facts of the case, they have not a leg to stand on, but are simply resting on prejudice and feelings of whether their uniform and buttons are of the right kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-08a.2047.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-09", "file": "debates1926-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "2b38e7d0312bdcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-09a.2100.3", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. BRITTAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unsound!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BRITTAIN", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman consult the Home Secretary, who yesterday expressed very sound views on this subject?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-09a.2100.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-09", "file": "debates1926-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "2b38e7d0312bdcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-09a.2115.1", "colnum": "2115", "heading": "MILK AND DAIRY PRODUCE SUPPLY (LOCAL AUTHORITIES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "y brains a child may be born with—and there are just as many brains given to children in slums as to children in other places—if it be deprived all through its younger life of an ample supply of dairy produce, which supplies the vitamines for the brain and other parts of the human organism, then it is impossible for that child to grow up an intelligent and useful citizen of the Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-09a.2115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-09", "file": "debates1926-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "2b38e7d0312bdcf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-09a.2165.3", "colnum": "2165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NORTHERN IRELAND AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Road Fund?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "he Irish surplus per head of insured population, then there would be a transfer of funds. But is not that really a very unlikely contingency to occur? When our Insurance Funds begin to show surpluses instead of deficiencies, I presume that the rates of contribution which now press so heavily on employers and employed will be promptly reduced, and that is the form in which the relief will be given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-09a.2165.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-10", "file": "debates1926-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "c018fb1d482f23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2285.6", "colnum": "2285", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Is it in order for an hon. Member to express an opinion, as in this question, that there is a widespread feeling among many sections, when it is not true of any trade union?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2285.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-10", "file": "debates1926-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "c018fb1d482f23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2287.1", "colnum": "2287", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Captain A. EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain A. EVANS", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the Committee set up by the Prime Minister have stated in their Report that they considered the broadcasting of Parliamentary proceedings did not come within the scope of their terms of reference, will the right hon. Gentleman consider the advisability of appointing a small Committee of this House to consider that point?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-10", "file": "debates1926-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "c018fb1d482f23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2295.0", "colnum": "2295", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "Why is the right hon. Gentleman not getting something done in regard to this good ground, instead of the old ground for which he has been paying, and where foundations cannot be got in? It is swindling away Government money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-10", "file": "debates1926-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "c018fb1d482f23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2302.4", "colnum": "2302", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I hope to get the first five Orders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2302.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-10", "file": "debates1926-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "c018fb1d482f23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2409.0", "colnum": "2409", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": "ngland and Wales—this does not include Scotland—was 13,500,000 cwts., the value of which was £14,750,000. My own constituency of Grimsby were responsible for something like 25 per cent. of the total. I have worked out figures of the production per man, which show that every man employed in the industry earns £634 per head per year. That is taking the value of the fish landed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2409.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-10", "file": "debates1926-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "c018fb1d482f23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2442.2", "colnum": "2442", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Mr. Guinness)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about winkles.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Mr. Guinness)", "preceding_text": " on mussels. We have found the satisfactory way of cleansing mussels and making them absolutely safe from the danger of sewage. Oysters have proved more delicate, and seem much more susceptible to the effects of climate, but we are experimenting with them also. There are a good many very interesting and possibly productive experiments being carried out as to the breeding of that form of shellfish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2442.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-10", "file": "debates1926-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "c018fb1d482f23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2447.6", "colnum": "2447", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Increase of amount of loans which may be guaranteed under 11 & 12 Geo. 5. c. 65, and extension of period for giving guarantees.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": " of private enterprise without any return being obtained in a direct form. For that reason, if you go half way you ought to go the whole way. The truth is that the public finance at the present time shows enormous public debts and practically no public assets to set against them. The balance sheet of capitalism is a bankrupt balance sheet so far as the public finances of the country are concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2447.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-10", "file": "debates1926-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "c018fb1d482f23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2469.2", "colnum": "2469", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Increase of amount of loans which may be guaranteed under 11 & 12 Geo. 5. c. 65, and extension of period for giving guarantees.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "Calculated by whom? The mover of the Amendment must have somebody in his mind. There must be some tribunal. You must have somebody to decide that point. Does the hon. Member mean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2469.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-10", "file": "debates1926-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "c018fb1d482f23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2471.0", "colnum": "2471", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Increase of amount of loans which may be guaranteed under 11 & 12 Geo. 5. c. 65, and extension of period for giving guarantees.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "loyment be created, in Wales or Durham or Scotland or any other coalfield, by the opening of a coal field in Kent? Might it not be that, if this Kent coalfield goes forward and becomes a success, it will draw off unemployed people from other parts of the country and give them employment? I submit that that is precisely the object of the guarantee, and that that will be the effect of the guarantee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2471.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-10", "file": "debates1926-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "c018fb1d482f23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2477.4", "colnum": "2477", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Increase of amount of loans which may be guaranteed under 11 & 12 Geo. 5. c. 65, and extension of period for giving guarantees.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Order, Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Surely if any document is issued to Members of this House which contains paragraphs bearing on the matter under discussion, we are entitled to quote them. As you have not yet heard what the hon. Member was going to quote, you cannot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2477.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-10", "file": "debates1926-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "c018fb1d482f23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2486.2", "colnum": "2486", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Increase of amount of loans which may be guaranteed under 11 & 12 Geo. 5. c. 65, and extension of period for giving guarantees.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": " would really have been wrong to have intervened, and he would have been acting against the rules laid down by the House in this Act of Parliament if he had come in and said that that guarantee should not be given. Those were the circumstances of that particular case. The Kent coal case is an analogous case, and it is only in cases where the Committee recommends on the facts that employment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2486.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-10", "file": "debates1926-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "c018fb1d482f23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2499.0", "colnum": "2499", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Extension of periods during which guarantees may be given and remain in force under Overseas Trade Act, 1920 to 1924.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "I must say I am extremely surprised both by the action and still more by the language of the hon. Member who has just spoken. I think he practically accused me of some breach of faith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2499.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-10", "file": "debates1926-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "c018fb1d482f23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2500.1", "colnum": "2500", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Extension of periods during which guarantees may be given and remain in force under Overseas Trade Act, 1920 to 1924.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "On the Motion to report Progress, I want to say that I cannot accept the Financial Secretary's statement as being adequate to the situation. I do not want to cast the same reflection on his moving the Closure deliberately as I do on the Chairman's acceptance of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-10", "file": "debates1926-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "c018fb1d482f23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2501.3", "colnum": "2501", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Extension of periods during which guarantees may be given and remain in force under Overseas Trade Act, 1920 to 1924.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "l come as business before this House in the next few weeks are so important and so vital to the interests of the country that I would not like to incur the possibility of not being able to take part in their discussion here. It is out of consideration for the unemployed and for the miners awaiting the Report of the Coal Commission, and not out of respect either for the Government or for the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2501.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-10", "file": "debates1926-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "c018fb1d482f23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2516.7", "colnum": "2516", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Extension of periods during which guarantees may be given and remain in force under Overseas Trade Act, 1920 to 1924.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "hat the Leyland omnibus was the best omnibus in Europe so far as they were concerned; it gave them the greatest satisfaction. We found the Leyland omnibus in use in the City of Kharkov, where they wanted more of them, and we were told by the highest authorities in Russia that if they had the chance they would place orders for hundreds and thousands of these Leyland omnibuses with the Leyland firm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2516.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-10", "file": "debates1926-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "c018fb1d482f23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2516.7", "colnum": "2516", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Extension of periods during which guarantees may be given and remain in force under Overseas Trade Act, 1920 to 1924.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "ards had no paved roads or footpaths. Obviously, from the time that war broke out in 1914 the internal condition of Russia began to get very bad indeed. As a matter of fact, it got so abominably bad that the revolution broke out in March of 1917, caused by the breakdown of civic life and the loss of governmental control in Russia. The towns have not got better since then. They must have got worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2516.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-10", "file": "debates1926-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "c018fb1d482f23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2520.2", "colnum": "2520", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Extension of periods during which guarantees may be given and remain in force under Overseas Trade Act, 1920 to 1924.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "t if these orders can be obtained it is desirable that they should be. May I point out still further that if it is going to be urged, as probably it will be urged by the Government Front Bench, that we are not going to trade with a country that repudiates its debts, you are trading with Czechoslovakia, and she has not met all her liabilities. You are trading with Italy who has repudiated her debt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2520.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-10", "file": "debates1926-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "c018fb1d482f23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2526.4", "colnum": "2526", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Extension of periods during which guarantees may be given and remain in force under Overseas Trade Act, 1920 to 1924.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"British banks?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Friend the Member for Swansea gave to the House, I think on a previous occasion, a very curious account of what the banks were doing. I would challenge anybody connected with the banking business in this House to dispute these two propositions. As far as I know, to-day no bank is giving any long-term credit to Russia at all. The whole of the credit given by the banks is short-term credit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2526.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-10", "file": "debates1926-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "c018fb1d482f23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2530.0", "colnum": "2530", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Extension of periods during which guarantees may be given and remain in force under Overseas Trade Act, 1920 to 1924.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They always have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "ade of America with Russia has grown to more than its pre-War volume. Even Mr. Henry Ford, who never trades on credit, has recently broken his rule and sold ten thousand tractors to Russia on a part-payment system. American agricultural machinery—the International Harvesting Company—can see their new machinery in various parts of Russia to-day and they are getting virtually a monopoly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2530.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-10", "file": "debates1926-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "c018fb1d482f23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2531.0", "colnum": "2531", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Extension of periods during which guarantees may be given and remain in force under Overseas Trade Act, 1920 to 1924.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. and gallant Member has not seen very much of Russia!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "I know the agricultural districts of Russia intimately and I have examined them. For one English machine there were 10 American or German.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-10a.2531.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2555.0", "colnum": "2555", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Major TRYON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Member's intention would be to give secondary education to every child of every soldier who has been killed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2653.3", "colnum": "2653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "preceding_text": "their lines of communication or astride their food supplies. Therefore, we are acting in a way that is bound to set up suspicions and rivalries with other countries. That is, as I see it, the position which we are up against now, for Singapore is so placed that the development of that naval base cannot be construed, and is not construed by Japan as other than an unfriendy act towards that country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2653.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2664.0", "colnum": "2664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "he account for the purposes of comparison, it is clear that the increase over 1924 is nearly £2,000,000—£1,970,000. The right hon. Gentleman may plume himself on having made a reduction of £2,500,000, or more nearly £2,000,000, this year, but he is still nearly £2,000,000 above the Vote of two years ago, and if he goes one year further back he is £3,500,000 out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2679.1", "colnum": "2679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BELLAIRS", "preceding_text": " it, satisfies the Admiralty and satisfies the War staff. In that case it satisfies me. But there are certain things to which I wish to draw attention. I think the greatest danger that threatens this country at this moment is the loss of the sea sense—that sense in the country of how much it depends upon the Navy—and that has been intensified by propaganda from the Air Force advocates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2691.0", "colnum": "2691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "To listen to some of the Members on the opposite side of the House, you would think the present Government were not doing everything they could in the way of trying to establish peace, not only in Europe, but here at home. I am perfectly certain that the economy of £2,500,000 which the Admiralty have made will not satisfy some Members of the front Opposition bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2691.0", "colnum": "2691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A wife!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "inances of the country get a little better, he will keep to the present rate of pay. If he could see the difference in the homes of the lower deck men since they have been properly paid, he would see the advantage, not only to the Navy, but to the country The children are much better kept. It was very difficult for a sailor to have a home at all. They used to say a sailor had a home in every port.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2691.0", "colnum": "2691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " in some parts of the House, and there is certainly less peace in Europe to-day. We shall not bring peace about simply by crying for \"disarmament\"; we must get the rest of the world to follow our example. I hope and pray that they will, but it is very difficult, for in this Debate there is the suggestion from one section of the House that the Government are building Singapore as a menace to Japan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2703.2", "colnum": "2703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": " from those appreciations, but I think it is not doing justice to these men to say that they, as prospective victims of this machine, would regard a statement of the kind I have quoted as \"sob-stuff.\" The hon. and gallant Member has a Golden Rule of his own. The Golden Rule that he commends to the men is not \"Trust in God,' but \"Trust your boat.\" Sir Alfred Hopkinson, K.C., plumps for Prohibition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2703.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2704.3", "colnum": "2704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "That is why I made the interjection to hon. Members opposite not to get excited. I stopped at the word \"Prohibition,\" for the sake of humour, but I was keeping to the water all the time. I want now to concentrate as much I possibly can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2704.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2715.7", "colnum": "2715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "preceding_text": " it, because the hon. Member who spoke for the Labour Opposition earlier in the evening said the Labour party were going to support the Amendment of the senior Member for Dundee but not going to support that of the hon. Member for Bow and Bromley. Although the difference in the Amendments may not be apparent to the senior Member for Dundee, it is evidently apparent to the leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2715.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2729.3", "colnum": "2729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who started it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "ss heavily on the well-to-do. When we see that the cost of the British Navy has increased from £10,500,000 in 1880 to £40,000,000 in 1910; £50,000,000 in 1914; £60,000,000—allowing something off, of course, for the rise in prices—in 1925; and only £2,000,000 less this year; and when we see there is a building programme to cost £58,000,000in addition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2729.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2729.3", "colnum": "2729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "ot wait for someone else to make a suggestion with which we can agree, a course which seems to be the present policy of His Majesty's Government. When we talk about this increase in the expenditure on armaments, against which we are protesting, we recognise that one of the darkest features promoting this continual increase are the intrigues, the corruptions and the briberies of the armament firms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2729.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2735.2", "colnum": "2735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEBS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "third, of a firm whose name has been familiar in recent Debates in this House—Messrs. G. and J. Weir, who supplied the minor adornments of the battle cruiser. Full accounts of this trial will be found in the newspaper \"Forward,\" in case the hon. and gallant Gentleman does not read Japanese, but fuller accounts will be found in the Japanese Press of that date. Am I asked for further examples?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2735.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2735.2", "colnum": "2735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Mines!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": " as long as the shareholders receive their dividends. Yet one more example. A little while before the War Armstrongs got a large order to fortify the Dardanelles. They built the forts of the Dardanelles, and put the guns into them. The dividends on that achievement were drawn by British shareholders. The guns from those forts helped to sink the British battleships in their attack upon the Narrows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2735.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2738.1", "colnum": "2738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "things at the same time. You pretend that you are keeping a Navy for the defence of your own little island home, and at the same time that you are keeping the same Navy to rule the waves of all the seas and oceans in the world. We find an example. The First Lord of the Admiralty told us that now for the first time a ship was going into Chinese waters with an aeroplane service attached to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2747.3", "colnum": "2747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "the following resolution: That this conference is of opinion that it should be the policy of the Labour party in Parliament to vote against all Military and Naval Estimates. I know that decision was supported by some of my hon. Friends who are now Members of this House, and amongst them was the hon. Member for Limehouse (Mr. Attlee). That resolution was defeated by 2,229,000 votes against 808,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2747.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2749.2", "colnum": "2749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "I would like an answer to my question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2749.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2749.5", "colnum": "2749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Navy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " go into countries for plunder. I am interested in missionary work in India, and have done much work of that kind, but I am not such a hypocrite as to say that we hold India for the Indians. I do not know what the Under-Secretary for India thinks about that. We hold it as the finest outlet for British goods in general, and for Lancashire cotton goods in particular. What of our dealings with China.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2749.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2749.5", "colnum": "2749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " our Navy in 1840 to carry on a war against China. What was that war about? The Navy was used to insist that against the will of the Chinese people they should be compelled to allow the importation of opium. When that war broke out Dr. Arnold said: The war was so wicked as to be a national sin of the greatest possible magnitude. Those were days before such pacifists as I talked about these things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2749.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2749.5", "colnum": "2749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " by the East India Company to promote the growth which almost quadrupled the supply, I believe it never would have created that extraordinary alarm in the Chinese authorities which betrayed them into the adoption of a sort of coup d'etat for its suppression. Prom 1842 to 1858 the Chinese Government steadily refused to consent to the expansion of the trade. Here is what a poor heathen Emperor said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2749.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2749.5", "colnum": "2749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Navy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "hinese Government steadily refused to consent to the expansion of the trade. Here is what a poor heathen Emperor said. [ Laughter. ] I am astounded that some people will grin at this sort of thing. If I were a patriotic Englishman like some hon. Members opposite I would go and hide my head in shame. This House boasts of its Christianity every morning. This is what the heathen Chinese Emperor said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2749.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2754.1", "colnum": "2754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Captain FitzRoy, you must really protect me from these interruptions. I should be out of order if I dragged in the Army, but what I said at the Albert Hall I am perfectly prepared to stand by if anyone challenges me upon it. I pass on to bring hon. Members a little nearer the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2754.1", "colnum": "2754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ally protect me from these interruptions. I should be out of order if I dragged in the Army, but what I said at the Albert Hall I am perfectly prepared to stand by if anyone challenges me upon it. I pass on to bring hon. Members a little nearer the present time. [ Interruption. ] The Marquess of Hartington, the late Duke of Devonshire, speaking in his capacity as Secretary for India in 1880—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2754.3", "colnum": "2754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "It was the Navy which made it possible for British merchants to make fortunes out of the opium traffic and push it on to the Chinese people, and I do not want the British Navy to be used in the same way again now. I point out another thing. The celebrated Li Hung Chang—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2754.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2754.3", "colnum": "2754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "It was the Navy which made it possible for British merchants to make fortunes out of the opium traffic and push it on to the Chinese people, and I do not want the British Navy to be used in the same way again now. I point out another thing. The celebrated Li Hung Chang—[ Interruption ]—said this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2754.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2755.1", "colnum": "2755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or mothers!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members or their fathers sent to China—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2755.1", "colnum": "2755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members or their fathers sent to China—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Or mothers!\"]—That is a very sensible remark. I suppose you had a mother too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2755.4", "colnum": "2755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " the other side of the Committee has been subjected to anything like the treatment I have received. I do not want to notice interjections, but if a Member opposite, when I am quoting a Chinaman, chucks in a word about his mother, I think he ought to be ashamed of himself. The Gentleman whose ancestors have made fortunes out of opium might have the decency to remain quiet, or I shall say something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2755.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2755.6", "colnum": "2755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " this country fought in order to keep Russia out of Constantinople. The men whose graves are all along the Crimea died for that purpose, but those who died in the last War fought to put Russia into Constantinople. When I am told that the British Navy is necessary for British interests, I want to know what British interests really mean and of what they really consist. I desire, in conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2755.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2756.2", "colnum": "2756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "it was a war to end war, that once German militarism and the German Fleet were destroyed, we would have peace in the world. We know that was a lie. We know that those who said it knew it was a lie. We know that it was propaganda in order to keep up people's spirits. We know that that war was waged, just as every other war is waged, on behalf of plunder and loot in Europe, in Asia, in Africa—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2756.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2756.2", "colnum": "2756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": ". We know that was a lie. We know that those who said it knew it was a lie. We know that it was propaganda in order to keep up people's spirits. We know that that war was waged, just as every other war is waged, on behalf of plunder and loot in Europe, in Asia, in Africa—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw !\"]—and we know it was an abominable lie to say we went to war on behalf of little Belgium.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2756.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2757.4", "colnum": "2757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "The Navy played a great part in the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2757.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2757.4", "colnum": "2757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "the whole position that one country or one nation was wholly responsible for what happened in that war between European nations, but I do maintain that the wars are never ware that help the workers or are wage don behalf of the masses of the people, who, however, pay, as they are paying to-day. I have been interrupted several times by being told that I dishonour the men who fought in the late War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2757.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2767.0", "colnum": "2767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "is owned by one per cent. of the people. The other 99 per cent. of us have to scramble for the 40 per cent. of wealth, and a big proportion of the 99 per cent. get a very small amount in the scramble. Very few of the working classes whom I represent own one scrap of land of the British Isles, and hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite have no desire or intention that they shall own any part of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-11", "file": "debates1926-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "ef15f497e636ad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2771.1", "colnum": "2771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With the force of the law behind him\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "preceding_text": " can never provide. I take, as an illustration, the fact that when duelling was common in this country, it was held that the only safe man was the man who carried arms; that human nature being what it was, men must carry arms, and that duelling was inevitable. Now the position is quite the reverse. The man who carries arms gives and gets challenges; the man who does not carry arms walks in safety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-11a.2771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-12", "file": "debates1926-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "501b28684c72332b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-12a.2799.2", "colnum": "2799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OMNIBUSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRANT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRANT", "preceding_text": "My hon. and loyal Friend shakes his head. If we are going to make procedure cheaper, will it not be the case that many more boroughs will come here to apply and try to extend their trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-12a.2799.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-12", "file": "debates1926-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "501b28684c72332b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-12a.2805.2", "colnum": "2805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OMNIBUSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WOODCOCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Birmingham.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WOODCOCK", "preceding_text": "al trading in many ways which are quite illegitimate, outside the scope of the proper work of a Corporation, and outside the legitimate scope of municipal powers. Recently, in many Bills put forward by Corporations, small additional things are being introduced for the extension of municipal trading, and only last week a proposal had to be rejected which sought powers to introduce a municipal bank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-12a.2805.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-12", "file": "debates1926-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "501b28684c72332b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-12a.2805.2", "colnum": "2805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OMNIBUSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WOODCOCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Borrowed capital.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WOODCOCK", "preceding_text": " the handicap of very unjust and unfair competition on those who are endeavouring to do good work for the country and for the municipal areas. The Mover of the Amendment has referred to the handicap on private enterprise caused by the fact that it has to use its own capital, while a Corporation can use the municipal capital, and if there is a loss on its undertaking it simply goes on to the rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-12a.2805.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-12", "file": "debates1926-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "501b28684c72332b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-12a.2807.1", "colnum": "2807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OMNIBUSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WOODCOCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A good investment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WOODCOCK", "preceding_text": "ng is that the sinking fund does not always carry the life of a omnibus or of a tram. I have given authentic figures from the year book which shows the comparative statistics in these cases. In Lincoln the figure of £1,290 represents about a penny rate on the town. The whole population of Lincoln, whether they use omnibuses or not, will have to pay a penny rate for the people who do use them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-12a.2807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-12", "file": "debates1926-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "501b28684c72332b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-12a.2807.1", "colnum": "2807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OMNIBUSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WOODCOCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WOODCOCK", "preceding_text": "s is gene rally delegated to the Watch Committees of the various towns. The Watch Committees may reject any private enterprise which wishes to run omnibuses unless it fits in entirely with their own scheme. That is unfair competition. I know an appeal can be made to the Minister of Transport, but in nine cases out of ten the Minister is forced by circumstances to support the municipal authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-12a.2807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-12", "file": "debates1926-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "501b28684c72332b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-12a.2808.2", "colnum": "2808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OMNIBUSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WOODCOCK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You do not know that it was built by one man.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WOODCOCK", "preceding_text": "ve had 20 years' experience on municipal authorities, and I have never known a committee run a municipal trading enterprise as well as a board of directors could do. They are not in the same position. They are handicapped in a very different way from a beard of directors. It has been said that if a committee, instead of one man, had had to build the Ark, it would never have been built to this day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-12a.2808.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-12", "file": "debates1926-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "501b28684c72332b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-12a.2808.2", "colnum": "2808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OMNIBUSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WOODCOCK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WOODCOCK", "preceding_text": "ation, as they do with municipal trams and omnibuses in many towns. I hope the Bill will not be allowed a Second Reading, as I think it would do a great deal of harm, give a great deal too many powers to local authorities, and stifle private enterprise, a great deal of which in this motor omnibus work has been started and built up by ex-service men, who have put the whole of their capital into it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-12a.2808.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-12", "file": "debates1926-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "501b28684c72332b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-12a.2822.1", "colnum": "2822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OMNIBUSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "ese pre-exemption Clauses had not been put into the Act. Some people consider it right to frown private enterprise as a means for providing these services, but you will get far more waste in municipal service than ever you do in private. There is far more nepotism. There is always tremendous wastage of labour. Take the London County Council trams. You will get an inspector for every hundred yards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-12a.2822.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-03-15", "file": "debates1926-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a839ca587364c6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.34.6", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel APPLIN", "preceding_text": "Will the Noble Lord assure the. House that the Mother of Parliaments shall be the father of broadcasting from a Parliamentary point of view?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.34.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-15", "file": "debates1926-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a839ca587364c6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.112.2", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"14!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "I meant on the French front, and later on in other centres of the War also. Just at the time when the transport of food in this country was exceptionally difficult there were these horses eating off their heads on 40 lbs. of oats per day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.112.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-15", "file": "debates1926-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a839ca587364c6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.184.3", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman can inquire, if he chooses. I have endeavoured to get the assistance of the trade union movement for the Supplementary Reserve, and, singularly, there has been not only no attempt to assist, but there has been an actual attempt to block it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.184.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-15", "file": "debates1926-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a839ca587364c6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.192.4", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": " soldier's sources of political knowledge and is interfering with his rights. The soldier having received a vote—let me be perfectly frank—if I as a Communist Member am at liberty to go to civilian citizens and say to them that their safety, their good, their country's good, and human good generally, require that they should vote for Communists only—I may be right or wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.192.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-15", "file": "debates1926-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a839ca587364c6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.198.0", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "May I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-15", "file": "debates1926-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a839ca587364c6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.198.0", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "May I—[HON MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"].—I hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.198.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-03-15", "file": "debates1926-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a839ca587364c6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Divide!", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "May I—[HON MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"].—I hope—[ Interruption ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-15", "file": "debates1926-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a839ca587364c6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.198.4", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "The reason I have intervened in the Debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.198.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-15", "file": "debates1926-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a839ca587364c6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.198.4", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "The reason I have intervened in the Debate—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"]—is because, unlike hon. Members who have spoken from the opposite side recently, I have served as a soldier, I have worked with the soldiers and I have loved them for 20 years and I know something about them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.198.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-15", "file": "debates1926-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a839ca587364c6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.198.4", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "able to cut down the Estimates by £2,000,000. But there is one subject on which I cannot agree with him, and that is the fact that he has selected as a means of cutting down the Estimates the pay of the new entrants into the Army. The economy to be affected must go hand in hand with justice but in this case justice is absent. I refer particularly to Army Order 366, which was issued last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.198.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-15", "file": "debates1926-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a839ca587364c6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.198.4", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\" Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "ho have gone to Sandhurst or Woolwich, when this bombshell was suddenly dropped on them. The parents entered into a contract with the War Office on behalf of their boys under which they committed them to a career on certain terms, and pay was actually one of the most important. After about a year the War Office, without any warning, break the contract by saying that the pay is to be reduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.198.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-15", "file": "debates1926-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a839ca587364c6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.198.4", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide:\" Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "ak the contract by saying that the pay is to be reduced—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\" Divide!\"]—but that further obligation would remain the same. In other words, the War Office say to the young soldier, \"You will go to any part of the world we send you, and to any conditions we may send you; if you are married you will be separated from your wife and family, and your pay is to be reduced.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.198.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-15", "file": "debates1926-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a839ca587364c6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.198.4", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": " and at the end of it all he has got is the information from the War Office that his pay is to be reduced. The young officer is put in a very peculiar position. The War Office commit him to a career for which it is absolutely impossible for him to withdraw, and not only is his pay reduced, but it is subject to the cost of living reductions. I ask the Committee to consider the position of the boys.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.198.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-15", "file": "debates1926-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a839ca587364c6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.198.4", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "ity of living on their pay. The father of a young officer is generally a retired officer who has given his whole life to the service of the State, and he wants his sons to carry on the traditions of the family. He has no money beyond his retired pay, but as he wants to see the old name carried on in the old regiment he stinges himself in order to give his boy an education at Sandhurst or Woolwich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.198.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-15", "file": "debates1926-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a839ca587364c6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.198.4", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "nal decision is given. We soldiers feel very deeply on the point. We have no trade union to fight for us. I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether this order may be held to apply only to those cadets who enter Sandhurst or Woolwich after 25th October. Allow the parents full warning, so that they can decide, before they put their boys into Sandhurst, whether or not they can afford this great expense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.198.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-15", "file": "debates1926-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a839ca587364c6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.198.4", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "pense. [ Interruption .] I appeal to the sanity and sense of justice of the Government in my request for this concession. I am not going to oppose the Government, nor do I think it would cause the Government any alarm if I did oppose them. On this side of the House we have a feeling of mutual trust and confidence, and we ask the Government to see our point of view in a matter which we feel keenly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.198.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-15", "file": "debates1926-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a839ca587364c6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.200.2", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about his officials?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "preceding_text": "at many topics, but whose whole concern was for the hardships of those people who cost this country £400 or £500 a year in being prepared for this profession. The hon. Member has been a captain or a colonel. Perhaps he may now be drawing a pension from the Army; I do not know, but he has had £500 or £600 a year. The miner in this country gets less than £100 on the average.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.200.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-15", "file": "debates1926-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a839ca587364c6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.202.0", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GEE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GEE", "preceding_text": "hat I am talking about. I do not know when this Committee has had to listen to such insults to the Army as we have heard from some hon. Members opposite, and I particularly use the word \"some.\" In every case the insults have come from people who had not the pluck to join the Army and fight in the war. They were quite content to sow sedition at home while we were fighting for their worthless skins.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-15a.202.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-16", "file": "debates1926-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "56562eb31a899105", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.273.2", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "se who will be disappointed on this occasion, because the savings which will result from this Bill, if it is accepted by the House, will, over the same period of four or five years, amount to at least ten times the total which the right hon. Gentleman scornfully assigned to it only a week ago. There are two main questions before us this afternoon. The first is: Are the proposals of the Bill right?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-16", "file": "debates1926-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "56562eb31a899105", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.274.1", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "rance. There is an apparent inconsistency in legislating to reduce the State grant to the Unemployment Insurance Fund only nine months after we have legislated to increase it; but in the interval the circumstances have changed They have changed partly no doubt through a stricter administration of the Unemployment Insurance Acts. They have changed mainly through the improvement in trade conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-16", "file": "debates1926-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "56562eb31a899105", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.274.1", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "terruption. ]. I am trying to state the facts fairly, and I stated the first fact although I knew it would excite the derisive applause of hon. Gentlemen opposite. They must also apply their brains to facts which are not entirely congenial to them, such as the improved conditions in the trade of this country being one of the causes which have led to a decline in the total number of the unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-16", "file": "debates1926-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "56562eb31a899105", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.279.1", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ductions are possible in this field, although it might mean that, along with the immense reductions in the burden, would come a still greater reduction in the strength to bear the remaining burden. It has been suggested—I have seen it suggested, not in one quarter only, but not, I think, by any responsible politician—that we ought to repudiate a portion of the interest on our War debt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-16", "file": "debates1926-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "56562eb31a899105", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.279.1", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And reductions\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "refore, I say that the debt services are obligatory, and that they cannot be diminished except by regular processes of conversion through improving credit, or, of course, by largely increased taxation for the more rapid extinction of the liability. I do not gather that anybody seriously disputes that assertion. As to pensions, the War pensions are declining with the deaths of the pensioners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-16", "file": "debates1926-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "56562eb31a899105", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.279.1", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ency I only once remember to have seen in all the 20 years I have served in the 'Government, in the period of the Geddes Committee—even in this year, when we have gone over the field and gleaned and scraped in every way we could possibly find open to us, we have found ourselves unable to refuse to assent to increases compared with last year of over £1,000,000 in education— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-16", "file": "debates1926-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "56562eb31a899105", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.279.1", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "the 'Government, in the period of the Geddes Committee—even in this year, when we have gone over the field and gleaned and scraped in every way we could possibly find open to us, we have found ourselves unable to refuse to assent to increases compared with last year of over £1,000,000 in education— — [HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] and over £200,000 in health grants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-16", "file": "debates1926-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "56562eb31a899105", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.292.0", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "What about the women?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-16", "file": "debates1926-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "56562eb31a899105", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.292.3", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "rward without a break until now. It has been left for the Government of to-day to impose upon that scheme a drastic retardation, in view of the improved international situation, and for the Secretary of State for Air to effect economies which have reduced Estimates definitely forecasted at £18,000,000 for next year to £16,000,000. Lastly, I come to the Navy. Everyone is down on the Navy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.292.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-16", "file": "debates1926-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "56562eb31a899105", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.299.0", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "ressive reduction of £10,000,000 a year, and it was to be an all-round reduction. Everybody was to make sacrifices and the purpose of this reduction—and this is interesting in view of the very last sentence the right hon. Gentleman uttered — the only thing he hopes from this dastardly, mean and contemptible proposal is to avoid re-imposing the taxes that he so wantonly squandered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.299.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-16", "file": "debates1926-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "56562eb31a899105", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUFF COOPER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUFF COOPER", "preceding_text": " that any fund which has ever been devoted to one object should be turned into a different channel for the benefit of the State in general, seems to shock them—although in my opinion that is one of the more sensible principles of Socialism. The next principal Clause of this Bill deals with the Unemployment Fund. Can it be argued that a single unemployed man or women is going to suffer by it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-16", "file": "debates1926-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "56562eb31a899105", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUFF COOPER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are shoving them off!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUFF COOPER", "preceding_text": "tate in general, seems to shock them—although in my opinion that is one of the more sensible principles of Socialism. The next principal Clause of this Bill deals with the Unemployment Fund. Can it be argued that a single unemployed man or women is going to suffer by it? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"] No, they will not suffer but will continue to reap exactly the same benefits as they reaped before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-16", "file": "debates1926-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "56562eb31a899105", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.338.0", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FREDRIC WISE", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FREDRIC WISE", "preceding_text": "I do not propose to follow the hon. Lady the Member for East Middlesbrough (Miss Wilkinson), who, apparently, endeavoured to bring class hatred into the question. We all sympathise with the Middlesbrough unemployed, and I sincerely hope that the, reduction in the amount of Super-tax to which she referred will help them in some way to get employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-16", "file": "debates1926-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "56562eb31a899105", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.391.1", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman approves of that statement. Surely he must know better; surely he must know that the large majority of the 15,000,000 insured persons will lose something which they now possess if the Bill passes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-16a.391.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-03-17", "file": "debates1926-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "421c341f6506b773", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-17a.412.3", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Speech:\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "It is very important that the House and the country should get accurate information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-17a.412.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-17", "file": "debates1926-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "421c341f6506b773", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-17a.466.1", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "Yes, but that is no reason why we should spend all this money on cruisers which are not needed at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-17a.466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-17", "file": "debates1926-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "421c341f6506b773", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-17a.475.0", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"HOW would you reduce it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "opædic hospitals. Very excellent work is being done in that way, and they are spending large sums upon it. These orthopædic hospitals are largely maintained, or to a considerable extent maintained, out of education funds. I would take that work entirely away from the education authorities and put it into the hands of the people to whom it properly belongs, namely, the health authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-17a.475.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-17", "file": "debates1926-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "421c341f6506b773", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-17a.488.0", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain STREATFEILD", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain STREATFEILD", "preceding_text": "ly the Government stick to their gulls, and go ahead on the right lines. I may cause some surprise to hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite if I plead with them that they ought to support this Bill. I put it to them that this Bill, by helping industry, and by assisting eventually, though not immediately, to relieve the crushing burden of taxation, will go a long way towards reducing unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-17a.488.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-17", "file": "debates1926-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "421c341f6506b773", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-17a.491.0", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "heir age, would either have to pay greater contributions or receive less benefit than others, to receive the same benefit by the same contributions. When that had been done, if there was any balance in the Fund, that balance was to go towards wiping out the sinking fund. The Chancellor of the Exchequer in effect says, \"Here is a proposal which will have the result of creating deficiencies \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-17a.491.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-17", "file": "debates1926-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "421c341f6506b773", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-17a.507.1", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS\" Yes ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " I think it is only fair to them and to this House that the relations which are to exist between them and the conditions which are attached should be defined in the clearest terms. There is next the question of unemployment insurance. What is the criticism there? Is it suggested that a single unemployed man is going to be worse off in any respect whatsoever by reason of the proposals in this Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-17a.507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-17", "file": "debates1926-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "421c341f6506b773", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-17a.514.2", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "May I interrupt the right hon. Gentleman?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-17a.514.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-17", "file": "debates1926-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "421c341f6506b773", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-17a.543.0", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE FACILITIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But there is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "or wrong. I will only say one word with regard to the guarantee for the Kent coalfield. One of my hon. Friends on this side of the House suggested that it was a very bad transaction from the point of view of the Treasury, and that the security was, or might be, very shaky. I do not think I ought to allow that particular comment to pass, because I do not think there is any foundation for it at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-17a.543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-17", "file": "debates1926-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "421c341f6506b773", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-17a.560.0", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Liberal party ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "ich this Bill re-enacts. I do not think anyone will consider these expedients to be satisfactory. They go against all sound principles of taxation through representation, and can only be justified as a temporary measure. Therefore, I press upon the Government that in the next 12 months they should take their courage in both hands and produce a Bill. I for my part am prepared to back them up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-17a.560.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-18", "file": "debates1926-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3371663a2d446878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-18a.644.0", "colnum": "644", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has gone!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "er all, is a highly skilled occupation, you have got to persuade them, and, in many cases, not only to persuade them, but to train them. We know that at one time it was one of the favourite arguments of the stunt Press to talk about the long line of unemployed girls going and drawing the dole while they refused to go into domestic service. There was so much row about it that the Governmente—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-18a.644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-18", "file": "debates1926-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3371663a2d446878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-18a.644.0", "colnum": "644", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has nothing to give away!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ave got to persuade them, and, in many cases, not only to persuade them, but to train them. We know that at one time it was one of the favourite arguments of the stunt Press to talk about the long line of unemployed girls going and drawing the dole while they refused to go into domestic service. There was so much row about it that the Governmente—[An HON. MEMBER: \"He has gone!\"] Has he gone?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-18a.644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-18", "file": "debates1926-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3371663a2d446878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-18a.663.0", "colnum": "663", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No. When he reaches 60!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "ure that the Parliamentary Secretary cannot seriously hold to that proposition. I am an old stager on this subject, but am a bit rusty now. If this unfortunate man were to die to-day the Act provides, or it used to do so, that his executors would be entitled to get out from the Fund so much of the contributions in respect of him as have not been used in paying unemployment benefit in his lifetime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-18a.663.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-18", "file": "debates1926-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3371663a2d446878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-18a.731.1", "colnum": "731", "heading": "EXTENDED BENEFIT CONDITIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rabbits!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "I apply it to either standard or extended benefit. If an injustice is being done, the Minister of Labour can remedy that injustice, and there is nothing to prevent him. It is rather a paltry excuse, and it is a little mean, to get out of your own crimes by pretending that the other person is the criminal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-18a.731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-18", "file": "debates1926-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3371663a2d446878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-18a.731.1", "colnum": "731", "heading": "EXTENDED BENEFIT CONDITIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They cannot get labour!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "he Minister is making no attempt at all to survey the position of industry and to suggest a remedy to his colleagues. There is no evidence whatever that he is taking any steps to make any suggestions at all. Take the question of agriculture. Only a few days ago I was in a small town in the heart of Kent, and walking clown the High Street, in almost every shop one saw Danish produce displayed. Why?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-18a.731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-18", "file": "debates1926-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3371663a2d446878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-18a.731.1", "colnum": "731", "heading": "EXTENDED BENEFIT CONDITIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"How many hours do they work?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "nk the hon. Member knows that is rather weak. I will continue my argument, and then he will see my point. What is the Minister doing to call the attention of his colleagues in the Cabinet to the fact that Denmark has worse land than ours, that her transport difficulties a-re infinitely greater, and yet she is a prosperous agricultural country? Her people are not badly fed. They are not badly paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-18a.731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-18", "file": "debates1926-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3371663a2d446878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-18a.731.1", "colnum": "731", "heading": "EXTENDED BENEFIT CONDITIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"And he has Protection!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": " difficulties a-re infinitely greater, and yet she is a prosperous agricultural country? Her people are not badly fed. They are not badly paid. [An Hon. MEMBER: \"How many hours do they work?]. I think it is fairly safe to say the Danish worker does not work longer hours than ours work. He is as highly educated as our men, he is more comfortable than our men, and he is a freer man than our men are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-18a.731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-18", "file": "debates1926-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3371663a2d446878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-18a.731.1", "colnum": "731", "heading": "EXTENDED BENEFIT CONDITIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Protection!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "is fairly safe to say the Danish worker does not work longer hours than ours work. He is as highly educated as our men, he is more comfortable than our men, and he is a freer man than our men are. [An Hon. MEMBER: \"And he has Protection!\"] I have heard about King Charles's head, and Mr. Dick was not a particularly intelligent gentleman. These men have got this result by certain very simple things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-18a.731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-18", "file": "debates1926-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3371663a2d446878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-18a.735.1", "colnum": "735", "heading": "EXTENDED BENEFIT CONDITIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "I am going to deal with what the Minister stated in the last Debate on this subject was his policy. He said that his policy was to develop markets and to get people work in a normal way. I ask him how has he applied that policy and what are the results? The three greatest potential markets in the world for us are India, China and Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-18a.735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-18", "file": "debates1926-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3371663a2d446878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-18a.735.1", "colnum": "735", "heading": "EXTENDED BENEFIT CONDITIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "e Minister has no remedy. He is no further ahead than his predecessors of 40 years ago. May I give the House what was said 30 or 40 years ago, and by well-known politicians, and then ask the Minister of Labour if he has learned anything or if his party have learned anything. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman said that there were over 10,000,000 people in this country always on the verge of destitution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-18a.735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-18", "file": "debates1926-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3371663a2d446878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-18a.735.1", "colnum": "735", "heading": "EXTENDED BENEFIT CONDITIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "he had thrown himself in front of a train and committed suicide. Destitution is not a thing for laughter. I do not want to say any more on that subject because if I did I shall probably say things I may regret afterwards. That is the position. As far back as 40 years ago you had the same state of things. The, present Government have no remedy. You cannot propose a remedy. Sneers will not help you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-18a.735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-18", "file": "debates1926-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "3371663a2d446878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-18a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "EXTENDED BENEFIT CONDITIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BETTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why has it been necessary?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": " such a statement as that, with which I entirely agree, that we must consider all these schemes which have been suggested to-night. Speaking quite frankly for myself, I greatly regret it has been necessary to cut some of them down, and one of these is the women's training course. I also regret that it has been necessary to cut clown, to some extent, the grant for the juvenile unemployment centres.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-18a.737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-19", "file": "debates1926-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "92aeb5ca3141032d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-19a.762.1", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Some of them !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": " for them to say, \"There is a lot to be said for your case, but this is not the way to deal with it.\" Let them show us a better way to deal with it. We are sent here from the shops, the pits, the mines, and the factories to sit at the feet of people who have generations of traditions of government behind them. The grandfathers and great-grandfathers of hon. Members opposite were ruling the Country", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-19a.762.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-03-19", "file": "debates1926-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "92aeb5ca3141032d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-19a.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSDEN", "preceding_text": "he importation of foreign building materials and to find employment for our own people in this country, I should have been delighted to back it up, but the contrary effect, in my opinion, will he the result. Another thing, in embarking upon such Socialist Measures such as this, where you propose to take hold and control a man's trade or business, you would tend to drive capital out of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-19a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-19", "file": "debates1926-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "92aeb5ca3141032d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-19a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are 60s. per thousand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ributed to be £461,000, and that would include the percentage of profit and the bonus. But a calculation of the profits does not seem to me really to show a rate of profit in respect of the commodity sold—I do not know the precise price, but, I think, it is somewhere in the neighbourhood of 50s. or 60s. per thousand—that one would use the word \"profiteering\" in connection with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-19a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-19", "file": "debates1926-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "92aeb5ca3141032d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-19a.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why 1914?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "\"Daily Mail Year Book,\" which was written by the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition. The position in the brick trade before the War was that there had been a. long period of depression, the result of many causes, the result, as some of us think, of the unwise land legislation of 1910. The rates of wages paid in the brick trade were, in my opinion, definitely on the low side in 1914.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-19a.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-19", "file": "debates1926-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "92aeb5ca3141032d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-19a.778.1", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Sewers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " Socialist. War is the most outstanding example of socialism in action. It is the one case where a community applies the whole of its forces collectively for the purpose of doing something which is regarded, rightly or wrongly, as in the common interest. The only other aspect of life which we should seek to socialise is that aspect which is allied to defence, namely, the administration of justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-19a.778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-19", "file": "debates1926-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "92aeb5ca3141032d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-19a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not your grandfather.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " up. Therefore there must be some other reason for the rise in the price of houses. All I am anxious to have is sonic adequate explanation of this point. The hon. Member for Gateshead, in defending his Bill from the allegations of imperfection that might be brought against it, said that his party had not the great traditions in regard to these matters that we on this side and our grandfathers had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-19a.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-19", "file": "debates1926-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "92aeb5ca3141032d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-19a.791.9", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major TASKER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major TASKER", "preceding_text": "fits are made by combines of manufacturers, so far as building materials are concerned, I would ask the representatives of trade unions in this House, as I have frequently asked them outside this House, why do not they turn manufacturers themselves and make the profits for themselves? The answer is not forthcoming. The real reason is that they have not the knowledge and they have not the capacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-19a.791.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-19", "file": "debates1926-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "92aeb5ca3141032d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-19a.801.4", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bad!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "en no argument used to-day against the principle of this Bill. There has been no argument used to say that monopoly is either a moral or a good thing. Those who have been trying to oppose this Bill have been going off at various tangents and up small culs-de-sac , but that is no method of dealing with the principle brought forward in this Bill. Either the principle of control is good or it is bad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-19a.801.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-19", "file": "debates1926-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "92aeb5ca3141032d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-19a.829.0", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS (CHARGES AND SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "I said, \"and we will have those houses, even though you go down in the process.\" I said we wanted to be reasonable, but unless you are reasonable we are going to take these powers to compel you to be honest in your treatment of the nation while we are in office.\" Then, as the hon. Gentleman says, I had that interview with them, and they offered to stereotype prices. I said it was a generous offer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-19a.829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-22", "file": "debates1926-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "5ac529601195d7f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-22a.878.7", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir COOPER RAWSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" At what price?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir COOPER RAWSON", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that last year 248,000 tons of foreign roadstone were imported into this country, and that many men in the quarry industry are out of work, in spite of the fact that there are many thousands of tons of home-produced material available for the use of our own roads?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-22a.878.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-22", "file": "debates1926-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "5ac529601195d7f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-22a.917.3", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. FALLE", "preceding_text": "the medical branch or accountant branch. What he feels is the taking away of that right and giving him the purple stripe of a Particular description. Every day the position of the engineer officer is increasing in importance. I see that Italy is laying down a battleship of 150,000 horse-power, and we are going to give command below deck to an engineer officer who must be of inferior social status.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-22a.917.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-22", "file": "debates1926-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "5ac529601195d7f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-22a.930.0", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GERALD HOHLER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GERALD HOHLER", "preceding_text": "at which they prefer? When one comes to think the matter out, there may appear to be very little in it, when one does not speak as an officer in the Navy; but, undoubtedly, the feeling in the matter is widespread. In a like way, there is feeling among the engine room artificers respecting the black buttons. I have had many complaints not so much from the young men themselves as from their mothers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-22a.930.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-03-23", "file": "debates1926-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "182d87cd3918509f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1020.4", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HIRST", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman also aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1020.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-23", "file": "debates1926-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "182d87cd3918509f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1030.6", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BUDGET.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNEILL", "preceding_text": "The matter was very carefully considered, and it has been recognised that it would be impossible to mix the two systems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1030.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-03-23", "file": "debates1926-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "182d87cd3918509f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1034.5", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order, order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "preceding_text": "uite apart from the data, that having nothing to do with the question, is the hon. Gentleman not aware that since the number of exemptions have been increased small-pox has diminished? In view of that, will the hon. Gentleman consider a change in the present law so as to make it easier for people to get exemption, or rather, to put it the other way, not to compel people to be vaccinated, if—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1034.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-23", "file": "debates1926-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "182d87cd3918509f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1035.7", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order! order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "If this disease is on the increase, surely the Minister ought to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1035.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-23", "file": "debates1926-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "182d87cd3918509f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1042.4", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "ASYLUM OFFICERS' SUPERANNUATION (AMENDMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to introduce a Bill to amend the Asylum Officers' Superannuation Act, 1909. The need for the amendment of this Act was recognised by the House of Commons as far back as 1911, when it appointed a Committee to consider a Bill introduced by the Noble Lord who is now Assistant Postmaster-General.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1042.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-23", "file": "debates1926-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "182d87cd3918509f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1057.8", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "cclaimed without distinction of party. Speaking for myself, when I rose to congratulate him, I did it with a much better heart than now, when I am getting up to cast a doubt upon what he has done. The Liberal Press gave him prompt, unequivocal and unreserved praise for his action on that occasion, and he could not have been acclaimed with greater unanimity or warmth had he been one of our leaders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1057.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-23", "file": "debates1926-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "182d87cd3918509f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1060.3", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the point?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "epresenting the Foreign Secretary, not in the least. That is why I was anxious to hear his explanation first. Without qualification, I accept what he says now. But he calls attention—I can put it in this way if he thinks the other is unfair—to \"a regrettable misunderstanding, he ought even to say a regrettable failure on either side to mention a point which was of critical importance.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1060.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-23", "file": "debates1926-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "182d87cd3918509f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1060.3", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "vent of America that will make the League of Nations the perfect success that we all hope for. There is no doubt at all that what has happened here has put off America and antagonised her in a way nothing else has for some time. I am mentioning this in. order to show the impression created abroad by the fact that. this essential condition was withheld from Germany. This is what Senator Borah said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1060.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-23", "file": "debates1926-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "182d87cd3918509f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1060.3", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption ,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ive papers that have not given very consistent support to the Government, but I am not quoting them; I am quoting the papers that have been faithful, through good and evil report, to the Government—papers, some of them, edited by men who are great personal friends of the Foreign Secretary, and who are most reluctant to disagree with him or to hurt him—papers like the \"Observer \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1060.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-23", "file": "debates1926-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "182d87cd3918509f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1060.3", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman in the Press said: Locarno was a blessed word, but it is now a by-word. Let us concentrate on saving the League. Britain alone can do it. We are free of these entanglements and past feuds. We have had our fight. We saved Europe from the threat of a great despotism and, as is our habit, we harbour no resentment. We have done the work that Providence called upon us to discharge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1060.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-23", "file": "debates1926-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "182d87cd3918509f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1085.0", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Special article! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "val of the Foreign Secretary who has done so much to raise the name of this country, so much to establish the League of Nations, so much to secure peace by—instead of doing what would be the proper and natural thing and devoting its first leading article to the discussion of the issues before us this afternoon — very conveniently and equally discreetly, writing about London University.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1085.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-23", "file": "debates1926-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "182d87cd3918509f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1093.2", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " the Foreign Secretary and Lord Cecil— return, the Members of this House who, perhaps, are inclined to be too suspicious and critical of their good faith and ability, will be the first to acknowledge once more that they have held high the honour of the country, and have built one more stone in the Temple of the Peace of Europe.\"— [OFFICIAL REPORT, 4th March, 1926; col. 1698, Vol. 192.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1093.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-23", "file": "debates1926-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "182d87cd3918509f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1093.2", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " of the Peace of Europe.\"— [OFFICIAL REPORT, 4th March, 1926; col. 1698, Vol. 192.] [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] I understand that cheer—the cheer of loyalty; they are standing by their Executive. The situation now is that this country occupies in Europe a very much lower position, so far as influence is concerned. It has almost got to this, that none is so poor as to do us reverence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1093.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-23", "file": "debates1926-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "182d87cd3918509f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1093.2", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The newspapers are not at all representative of French public opinion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "that cheer—the cheer of loyalty; they are standing by their Executive. The situation now is that this country occupies in Europe a very much lower position, so far as influence is concerned. It has almost got to this, that none is so poor as to do us reverence. [ Laughter .] Well, one has only got to take up the French newspapers and to read the articles that appear from day to day in Paris.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1093.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-23", "file": "debates1926-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "182d87cd3918509f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1135.0", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RENNIE SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RENNIE SMITH", "preceding_text": "nt culminated in the humiliating spectacle on Friday of the meeting of the Locarno representatives with M. Unden, who represents, as I think all parties in this House will agree, the real incarnation of the spirit of the League. He was brought to the humiliation of being insulted and assailed by our own Foreign Secretary for his tenacious attitude in trying to sustain the principles of the League.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1135.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-23", "file": "debates1926-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "182d87cd3918509f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1150.0", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "n plain English that Sweden was acting the part of an agent of Germany; and now he comes here and [...] vers Sweden with praise. I have no more time to develop the few points that I wish to develop, but let me say this final word. I gather that, in endeavouring to indict the Foreign Secretary to-night, we are also indicting the Government. The Government is going to stand by its Foreign Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-23", "file": "debates1926-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "182d87cd3918509f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1158.1", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " the Prime Minister to try to square them up. The Prime Minister, seeing that things were going wrong, and satisfied that the Foreign Secretaty had made a hopeless muck of it, and having heard the whispers of his disgruntled supporters, said to himself, \"I had better step into the breach. They will, at least, treat me as an honest man, if nothing else. After all, that is worth votes in the Lobby.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-23", "file": "debates1926-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "182d87cd3918509f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1158.1", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And will to-night !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " Geneva, that is to get Germany into the League and into the Council.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 4th March, 1926; col. 1697, Vol. 192.] That was the Prime Minister's testimony. That was the Prime Minister's invitation to his supporters to go into the Lobby. It is true they do not want much persuading. They welcomed the excuse. The Prime Minister, having found the excuse, they trotted into the Lobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-23", "file": "debates1926-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "182d87cd3918509f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1158.1", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ly that he was asking the House to vote because he was satisfied that the Foreign Secretary was going to succeed in bringing Germany into the League, we shall go into the Division Lobby to-night to intimate to the Prime Minister what he himself ought to know, namely, that it did not come off. If there had been some justifiable excuse for the Foreign Secretary we would be the people to look for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-23", "file": "debates1926-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "182d87cd3918509f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1162.0", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "an was known by the Foreign Secretary. For be knew that that meant danger and possibly shipwreck. Now the right hon. Gentle- man comes back to this country describing not a shipwreck nor a danger, but a tragedy. That was not the description given by the Noble Lord. He said that all was well. He said that the Foreign Secretary had returned from Geneva with a very good record, and that all was well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-23", "file": "debates1926-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "182d87cd3918509f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1162.0", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": ". That was not the description given by the Noble Lord. He said that all was well. He said that the Foreign Secretary had returned from Geneva with a very good record, and that all was well. [ Interruption .] Yes, but that was not the description given by the 'Foreign Secretary himself. The Foreign Secretary said it was a tragedy. The right hon. Gentleman added that it was a bitter disappointment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-23", "file": "debates1926-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "182d87cd3918509f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1162.0", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": " a life-long French scholar, and, owing to the good fortune of having a far-sighted father, he scent a great deal of his youth in Paris. He certainly had that great advantage over some of his predecessors, but it may also be a limitation. If the negotiations were carried on in French, it is quite possible that some of the niceties of that language may have been missed by the, right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-23", "file": "debates1926-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "182d87cd3918509f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1167.0", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "It was a most deplorable thing that the advice of the right hon. Gentleman was not taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-23a.1167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-24", "file": "debates1926-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "8c6e75c193eb1a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-24a.1183.1", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Is it a fact that America will be represented at this Conference, and, if so, will it be possible to have any conversations with that country before the Conference takes place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-24a.1183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-24", "file": "debates1926-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "8c6e75c193eb1a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-24a.1254.3", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "INTER-ALLIED DEBTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "which we were to have dealt with, if M. Caillaux's ministerial life had been spared, in a subsequent discussion. The first of these points related to the exchange. It was that a certain elasticity should be given in making payments, that a year's delay or something of that kind might be allowed if it could be shown that the passage of the payments over the exchange unduly compromised the exchange.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-24a.1254.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-24", "file": "debates1926-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "8c6e75c193eb1a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-24a.1295.1", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "PRISONERS (RELEASE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "he reason the remaining five are in is because they have been there ho ore. That is to say, they have done similar things. They are going to be kept longer, because it is said they are a kind or hardened offenders. I put it to the House, what would you think of them if they were not hardened offenders? You could not change the religious belief of the right. hon. Gentleman by sending him to prison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-24a.1295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-24", "file": "debates1926-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "8c6e75c193eb1a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-24a.1295.1", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "PRISONERS (RELEASE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " right to try to convert the country to their point of view. Their point of view is quite definite, that the possessing classes will not give way when their interests are affected. I hope the right hon. Gentleman will not mind my saying that the whole of the Carson agitation gave point to that contention, because it was the big possessing classes who stood behind the Ulster revolutionary movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-24a.1295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-24", "file": "debates1926-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "8c6e75c193eb1a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-24a.1312.4", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "GUILDFORD CORPORATION BILL, (By Order.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "ussion of a Bill with which we very largely agree. We have put down this Instruction because in our opinion these two Clauses involve proposals for municipal trading, and it is for that reason alone that we wish to have them deleted. Those who have read the Bill and the statement circulated by the corporation, will have observed that Clause 52 empowers the corporation to sell electricity fittings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-24a.1312.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-24", "file": "debates1926-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "8c6e75c193eb1a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-24a.1315.0", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "GUILDFORD CORPORATION BILL, (By Order.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir HARRY FOSTER.", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HARRY FOSTER.", "preceding_text": "y provoke a sympathetic strike among their fellow employés. The result, of course, would be that the town would be plunged into complete darkness during critical labour troubles, and there is no hon. Member on the opposite side of the House, whatever may be his views and sympathies with regard to labour, who would look with calmness, and certainly not with pleasure, at such a state of things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-24a.1315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-24", "file": "debates1926-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "8c6e75c193eb1a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-24a.1315.0", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "GUILDFORD CORPORATION BILL, (By Order.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir HARRY FOSTER.", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What losses?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HARRY FOSTER.", "preceding_text": "the price that all consumers have to pay for their current. The Coal Report emphasises the fact that it is impossible to prevent municipal trading losses being made good out of the rates. In a private undertaking, successive losses can only end in one way—in the bankruptcy court. In a municipality there is the bottomless purse of the ratepayer to meet those losses year by year as they arise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-24a.1315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-24", "file": "debates1926-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "8c6e75c193eb1a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-24a.1319.1", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "GUILDFORD CORPORATION BILL, (By Order.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. FOSTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. FOSTER", "preceding_text": "I know that to hon. Members opposite the consumer ought always to have something supplied to him, and if there is a deficiency, it should fall on the shoulders of somebody else, and the shoulders are those of the ratepayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-24a.1319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-24", "file": "debates1926-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "8c6e75c193eb1a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-24a.1330.1", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "GUILDFORD CORPORATION BILL, (By Order.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "On the capital provided by the rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-24a.1330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-24", "file": "debates1926-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "8c6e75c193eb1a30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-24a.1339.0", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "GUILDFORD CORPORATION BILL, (By Order.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIGGS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rank Socialism!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIGGS", "preceding_text": "est than the interest of the individual, and that is the interest of the community at large. If the interest of the community means nationalisation, it will have my support, at all events. What is the good of making a pretence that, this is the thin end of the wedge Have we so little confidence in ourselves as to think that, if it is the thin end of the wedge, we cannot hold it back, if necessary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-24a.1339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-25", "file": "debates1926-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "2b2e0280070c8b3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-25a.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\" and other HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "On that point of Order. I think both were brought forward in the indictment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-25a.1393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-25", "file": "debates1926-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "2b2e0280070c8b3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-25a.1393.3", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " or supposed action in the papers, they are going to move a Motion that it be referred to the Committee of Privileges, that is a threat to the independence of the Press, and I do not think it is in conformity with the best interests of the House that such a matter should be ventilated in this way. The 21 Members whose names are given in the article are not directly accused of any improper motives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-25a.1393.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-25", "file": "debates1926-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "2b2e0280070c8b3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-25a.1395.0", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major BOYD-CARPENTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Paid servant!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major BOYD-CARPENTER", "preceding_text": "Perhaps in this matter I am not altogether un interested, as my name is one of those 28 Members. Yet I have only a question of principle at heart, and have no interest in any electrical undertaking in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-25a.1395.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-25", "file": "debates1926-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "2b2e0280070c8b3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-25a.1437.0", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And specialists!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "al benefits suggested by the Act of 1911 will be possible if the £2,225,000 be taken away? I should rather like to know that, and I have no doubt the Department is in a position to tell us. I should also like, if it were possible, to discuss, on the assumption that that sum had already been taken out, the character of the other medical benefits—dental benefits, maternity benefits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-25a.1437.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-25", "file": "debates1926-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "2b2e0280070c8b3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-25a.1477.0", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CASH ON DELIVERY SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": " the delivery of a chicken from a rural area to a town, would, I thought, do well to study with me some time the detailed costings of a retailer through from his purchase direct in the country to the delivery to the customer, and then compare it with what would be the cost under this system. So far as the consumer is concerned, I conceive that he will get no advantage at all—absolutely none.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-25a.1477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-25", "file": "debates1926-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "2b2e0280070c8b3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-25a.1477.0", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CASH ON DELIVERY SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"You are on both sides !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "in the country to the delivery to the customer, and then compare it with what would be the cost under this system. So far as the consumer is concerned, I conceive that he will get no advantage at all—absolutely none. [ Interruption. ] I am only trying to show, not that I am against the system, but that I think many of the things that have been said in support of it are very much exaggerated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-25a.1477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-26", "file": "debates1926-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "c4769cb7ea8a16cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-26a.1560.0", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And more people\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "calculating non-fatal accidents owing to recent workmen's compensation legislation, and the arrangements thereunder—show that the fatal accidents last year amounted to only 956. That, I agree, was an increase on 1923 of some 80, but the fatal accidents before the War, in 1913, were 1,309. After the War, when, of course, we had all the machinery that had been established during the War—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-26a.1560.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-26", "file": "debates1926-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "c4769cb7ea8a16cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-26a.1571.3", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "f a century without any serious amendment of the factory laws. If that be not justification for our using all the force of which we are capable, and all the opportunities at our disposal to press this matter home, there can be no justification for any Opposition taking any course whatever. This makes the Amendment standing on the Order Paper all the more surprising, because it means further delay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-26a.1571.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-29", "file": "debates1926-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "df82a0d33a6cc273", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-29a.1689.3", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Colonel Ashley)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Colonel Ashley)", "preceding_text": "rent originally stirred up by Michael Faraday with his magnet and coil of copper wire have now become great rivers of force and energy subservient to the use of man. Why is it that we in this country are, unfortunately I must say, behind many other countries in our electrical development? In the first place, we have an old-established and well-run gas industry. We are naturally conservative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-29a.1689.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-29", "file": "debates1926-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "df82a0d33a6cc273", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-29a.1689.3", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Colonel Ashley)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"118!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Colonel Ashley)", "preceding_text": "inent of Europe and in the United States. But I would ask the House to approach the problem not so much from the angle of power cost as from the consideration of the amount which this country annually has to pay for its electricity. Making a modest estimate, in 15 years from now the annual consumption per head of the population should have increased from the 200 now supplied to 500 units per head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-29a.1689.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-29", "file": "debates1926-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "df82a0d33a6cc273", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-29a.1703.3", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "aper than you are now making it, then, surely, it is no great hardship to anyone. May I say one word to right hon. and hon. Members opposite. I see they are going to try out that old chaser, \"public ownership,\" and put it over the national course. Surely, they ought to know that that horse will never complete the course. Wherever it has been tried it has always failed at the first or second fence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-29a.1703.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-29", "file": "debates1926-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "df82a0d33a6cc273", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-29a.1709.1", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": " which already exists and partly by the fact that a very large part of these undertakings is already under public ownership in this country. The Weir Report shows £103,000,000 of capital expenditure by the local authorities. If you judge this scheme by way of comparison with other countries in the world it fails from whatever point of view. The financial part of it is a rotten proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-29a.1709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-29", "file": "debates1926-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "df82a0d33a6cc273", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-29a.1727.1", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": " years with powers of moral suasion, but moral suasion has entirely failed to overcome that parochialism, that blindness very often to private vested interests, and above all that insane jealousy in many cases shown by municipalities. We believe that if we are to get some system of electricity that will work we must take powers that will overcome those vested interests and that parochialism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-29a.1727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-29", "file": "debates1926-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "df82a0d33a6cc273", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-29a.1727.1", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "ties. We believe that if we are to get some system of electricity that will work we must take powers that will overcome those vested interests and that parochialism—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] I wonder whether hon. Members opposite will say\" Hear, hear\" when they hear the end of my sentence— and also powers to put an end to that insane parochialism and jealousy of the municipalities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-29a.1727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-29", "file": "debates1926-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "df82a0d33a6cc273", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-29a.1768.0", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GEORGE HUME", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When was than?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GEORGE HUME", "preceding_text": "Lancashire and Cheshire Electricity Supply System, the Association of County Councils in Scotland, the municipal authorities in Ireland, the railway executive committee, six corporations supplying electricity on the north-east coast, and so on—I could go on for another dozen and then it is suggested that we have not evidence before us, and that these Committees have been working in the dark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-29a.1768.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-29", "file": "debates1926-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "df82a0d33a6cc273", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-29a.1787.5", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "preceding_text": "ave an output of 100,000 kilowatts, the capacity of the station may be in the nature of 130,000 to 135,000 kilowatts installed, and if you make an allowance in capital cost for that, I think my hon. Friend opposite will find that £15 per kilowatt is not very far wide of the mark, in so far as the capital cost per kilowatt year supplied is concerned, if the station is running at full capacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-29a.1787.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-29", "file": "debates1926-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "df82a0d33a6cc273", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-29a.1787.5", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "preceding_text": "embody the standardisation of voltage or pressure. It was left out of the Bill, although it was included in the Weir Report, because, I understand, the Government did not wish to overload the Bill, and I am further informed that an extra capital expenditure of something like £20,000,000 would be required if the voltage was to be standardised at the same time as the frequency was standardised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-29a.1787.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-29", "file": "debates1926-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "df82a0d33a6cc273", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-29a.1790.0", "colnum": "1790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLARRY", "preceding_text": "s which have first to be met in connection with the administration of this Bill before the consumer gets anything at all. I am told by authoritative people in this matter that there is quite a reasonable possibility that there may be even an increase in price of electricity during the interim period between now and 1940. Looking generally at the Bill, and I spent six hours over it yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-29a.1790.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-30", "file": "debates1926-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "d801d438d5792702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1818.0", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. The fact is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-30", "file": "debates1926-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "d801d438d5792702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1818.0", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. The fact is—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"] The point of Order is that members of the Government were on the platform.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-30", "file": "debates1926-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "d801d438d5792702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1818.7", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "We could not hear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1818.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-30", "file": "debates1926-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "d801d438d5792702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1836.5", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "The witnesses examined by the Weir Committee were: —Sir John Snell, Chairman of the Electricity Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1836.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-30", "file": "debates1926-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "d801d438d5792702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1904.1", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have water power\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "I have never visited that country, but if the hon. and gallant Member does not like to be Shanghaied, let us take Sweden and Norway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-30", "file": "debates1926-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "d801d438d5792702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1915.2", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. BARNETT", "cue_text": "HON-. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. BARNETT", "preceding_text": "ood deal of abuse in the Press and elsewhere, and to good natured criticism in this House. One important Sunday journal, which combines garrulity with a great flair for all spectacular causes like \"Coal and Power,\" Land Nationalisation and Prohibition, has referred to us as an obstructive group of economic die-hards, and as the ministerial residue and the flies upon the circumference of the wheel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1915.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-30", "file": "debates1926-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "d801d438d5792702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1921.0", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " of their point of view, frequently quote the fact that a certain publicly-owned undertaking, say, an electricity works, has not made a profit, but they always ignore the fact that, before it declares what is called a profit in private enterprise, it has to make the interest charged upon its loans, and it has to make allowance for depreciation, but a private company has to do nothing of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1921.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-30", "file": "debates1926-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "d801d438d5792702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1921.0", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Pioneers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "experience of the operation of this Bill probably a further measure of a more nationalising character would be necessary and would be introduced. Nobody who knows anything at all about the evolution of legislation in regard to public control in this country would deny that statement. What has been the history of that evolution? First, private enterprise in regard to public services and monopolies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1921.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-30", "file": "debates1926-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "d801d438d5792702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1955.1", "colnum": "1955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HERITAGE OF THE MINORITY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "d a tax of 95 per cent, on inherited wealth in order to prevent any man who had great wealth from dictating the actions of the living after he had passed away. That is a very sensible proposal. These and other suggestions should be investigated by a Select Committee. We make that proposition to the Government. A proposal made by my old dad over 50 years ago should also be taken into consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-30", "file": "debates1926-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "d801d438d5792702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1965.0", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HERITAGE OF THE MINORITY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Both.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "ther vague generalities supported by speeches which, if I may say so respectfully, seem of very questionable validity. I will do my best to meet the arguments as presented to the House. What was the cause of complaint which was made by both hon. Gentlemen opposite\" Is it a cause of complaint that large fortunes are inherited, or is it that large fortunes are accumulated, or do they object to both?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1965.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-30", "file": "debates1926-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "d801d438d5792702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1965.0", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HERITAGE OF THE MINORITY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Jack Jones?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "but I am not thinking so much of the individual as they are—but to the community, there is everything to be said for the accumulation of big fortunes. Let me take a very simple case which was reported a short time ago. Such cases are constantly reported, but this happened to catch my eye in a newspaper. The paragraph to which I refer recited that Mr. Jones, we will call him, had lately died,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1965.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-30", "file": "debates1926-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "d801d438d5792702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1969.1", "colnum": "1969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HERITAGE OF THE MINORITY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are the figures?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Pontypool referred to a very remarkable speech made by the right hon. Member for West Swansea (Mr. Runciman). It so happens that I obtained figures from the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Colne Valley, who was at that time Chancellor of the Exchequer, which went a very long way towards substantiating the figures quoted the other day by the right hon. Member for Swansea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-30", "file": "debates1926-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "d801d438d5792702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1975.0", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HERITAGE OF THE MINORITY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRIGHT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRIGHT", "preceding_text": "What applies to that particular mining area applies virtually to every mining county in this country. If you take South Wales, or Lancashire or Yorkshire or Scotland there has been during the last 50 years a number of men who began life at the bottom, penniless, and who were humble workmen like ourselves, who died with fortunes of from a quarter of a million pounds to three or four million pounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1975.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-30", "file": "debates1926-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "d801d438d5792702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1977.0", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HERITAGE OF THE MINORITY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman allow me? Does he suggest for a moment that conditions of labour in Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-30", "file": "debates1926-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "d801d438d5792702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1978.5", "colnum": "1978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HERITAGE OF THE MINORITY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "He dare not listen to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1978.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-30", "file": "debates1926-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "d801d438d5792702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1988.1", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HERITAGE OF THE MINORITY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are you the youngest or the eldest? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "ch of us has the stronger case in this matter. I am reminded of a remark by Dr. Johnson, when, referring to primogeniture, by which the first son took the whole inheritance and the others had to work for their living, he said there was one advantage in that system which was that it made but one fool in the family. If the eldest son worked for his living as well, the number of fools might diminish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-30", "file": "debates1926-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "d801d438d5792702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1988.1", "colnum": "1988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HERITAGE OF THE MINORITY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "f the right her. Gentleman the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, who sits for the Colne Valley (Mr. Snowden), that in these cases we must think, not only of what is taken by the State, but of what is left behind for the lucky ones who inherit it. Judged by that, standard, at any rate, this proposal to remove by taxation all inherited fortunes in excess of £100,000 is a very mild proposal indeed", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-30", "file": "debates1926-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "d801d438d5792702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1991.6", "colnum": "1991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (PROCEDURE).", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "oting. There is nothing new in the wording. It merely puts it in words on the Paper, and therefore the words, if carried, will appear in the Standing Orders as a declaration of what is the existing practice. I will just say this—and I want to say no more—that individual views in the different parties may legitimately differ. Some may think that the first punishment is too little—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1991.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-30", "file": "debates1926-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "d801d438d5792702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1999.0", "colnum": "1999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (PROCEDURE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": ". He said it in polite language, because they were brought up differently from us. He was not suspended. The Prime Minister and others were sitting on the Front Bench, and did not raise a question about it. I will undertake to say if I had said the same thing, I should have been suspended immediately. I want to know exactly what these penalties mean. The hon. and gallant Member for Bass and Burton", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.1999.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-30", "file": "debates1926-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "d801d438d5792702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.2000.1", "colnum": "2000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (PROCEDURE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. HERBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about his constituency\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "ain amount of responsibility is placed on the Leader of the House. But I do not think that that is very great. At any rate the Leader of the House would always be only too willing to move that a suspension should be removed directly a proper letter of apology was written. I say quite frankly that if a 14fember does not apologise, I have no sympathy with him, and. I do not think that the House has.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.2000.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-30", "file": "debates1926-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "d801d438d5792702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.2002.0", "colnum": "2002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (PROCEDURE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "ion, and made 20 Parliamentary days' suspension the punishment of a first offence. That would be a good sound warning to any hon. Member who committed a breach of the Rules of the House, and thereafter he would be suspended in accordance with the existing Rule. I believe it to be necessary that we should not cultivate these \"insurrections,\" if I may so call them—these defiances of the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.2002.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-03-30", "file": "debates1926-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "d801d438d5792702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.2004.2", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (PROCEDURE).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Agreed!", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I first got up. It was one week for the first and one fortnight for the second offence. We keep the week which was in the original Order, but we have increased the fortnight to a month. In the case of the third or any subsequent occasion, the term was a month, but at this time we say that the third occasion—and that carries with it subsequent occasions—will be at the will of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-30a.2004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-31", "file": "debates1926-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e5148e493bb23fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2088.2", "colnum": "2088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shanghaied !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "I have endeavoured to obey your ruling, Mr. Chairman, but it is very difficult to sit quietly and to keep coal under the circumstances, when we know that we are to be suddenly bludgeoned and garrotted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2088.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-31", "file": "debates1926-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e5148e493bb23fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2090.4", "colnum": "2090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"What were the conclusions?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "f this House. My right hon. Friend made a statement to that gathering and explained at considerable length the provisions of the Bill. The members of the Consultative Council came to certain conclusions about the proposals. Having considered them at length, carefully and seriously, they were willing and able to come to the conclusion, on that day, as to what they considered the merits of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2090.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-31", "file": "debates1926-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e5148e493bb23fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2094.2", "colnum": "2094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": " the Minister or make suggestions themselves in their capacity as representatives of the insured persons of the country. That is the statutory duty as laid down by the Act of 1911. All that was said to them was that as we were meeting that morning and Members of the House of Commons might not receive the draft of the Bill until 11 or 12 o'clock, we desired until the Bill was public property—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2094.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-03-31", "file": "debates1926-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e5148e493bb23fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2100.1", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer !", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "ee representing the contributors and they could not get any further. On this point I think we are entitled to a straight answer. Did the right hon. Gentleman receive such a telegram, and if so what was his answer to it? The telegram definitely asked that the Government should postpone the discussion of this Clause until the members of the approved societies had had an opportunity of discussing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-31", "file": "debates1926-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e5148e493bb23fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2105.2", "colnum": "2105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "e never received the telegram referred to by the hon. Member for Chester-le-Street (Mr. Lawson) last night, but he received it this morning. I wonder, however, if he has received, as most Members on this side have received, letters of protest from the members of the various approved societies affected. I have one in my hand now, dated 27th March. I do not know that I ought to trouble the Committee", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2105.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-31", "file": "debates1926-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e5148e493bb23fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2136.0", "colnum": "2136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "e, and it has been left to the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Health to defend something which I think, in his heart, he must feel to be rather indefensible. I was very much amazed by the interruption of my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary on the question of pledges, when he suggested that the clear statements made by Ministers in charge of the Bill in 1911 did not constitute pledges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-31", "file": "debates1926-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e5148e493bb23fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2150.0", "colnum": "2150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDWAY CONSERVANCY BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SANDEMAN ALLEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is to blame?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDEMAN ALLEN", "preceding_text": " to deal with what is fair and sound in the lax and practice regarding these matters and to maintain our reputation as a great maritime nation. On the question of uniformity, I expect to hear some hon. Members say, \"What is the use of taking that line, when other ports in the Kingdom have managed to get some clause of this kind.\"Yes, but how? They did it without the fact being noticed at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-31", "file": "debates1926-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e5148e493bb23fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2157.2", "colnum": "2157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDWAY CONSERVANCY BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Member allow me to ask the House whether it is agreed that, as far as this issue is concerned the one discussion will cover the two Bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2157.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-31", "file": "debates1926-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e5148e493bb23fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2163.1", "colnum": "2163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRISTOL CORPORATION BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " having been heard, counsel briefed, and so on. The company who are affected by these proposals is a private company known as the West Gloucestershire Power Company, and I shall be quite frank. Apart from the question of principle which I have already dealt with and apart from a number of other principles which I shall bring up, a number of people, who happen to be voters in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-31", "file": "debates1926-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e5148e493bb23fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2170.1", "colnum": "2170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRISTOL CORPORATION BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WOODCOCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WOODCOCK", "preceding_text": "gentlemen who live in Hull are shareholders in this West Gloucestershire Power Company—ladies and gentlemen in his constituency —that that seems to be the explanation of his great solicitude. These constituents having their money invested in this West Gloucestershire Power Company. I am not concerned at all for this Power Company. It is a private company, and it must look after itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-31", "file": "debates1926-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e5148e493bb23fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2186.0", "colnum": "2186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING OF LAND VALUES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BOURNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BOURNE", "preceding_text": "lding, and I can assure the House that the greatest difficulty we have bad is to meet the claims of the allotment holders and the general interests of the community. I think any land that is occupied in urban districts for allotments may be claimed to be suitable for building, and under this Bill the allotment holder will get no compensation whatever, and on this ground I protest against the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-31", "file": "debates1926-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e5148e493bb23fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2191.1", "colnum": "2191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS\"What about parish relief?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "f that Act is bound to go beyond that point after the passing of the Act, because the demand upon them will not be so great. The second point is that the average of contributions per year is steadily going up. At one time the average number of contributions was 43, but it has risen and is now 47. I daresay it will go higher still if unemployment continues to decrease as it has been doing recently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-31", "file": "debates1926-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e5148e493bb23fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2203.2", "colnum": "2203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BLUNDELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BLUNDELL", "preceding_text": "on seems to me to be quite unfair, because it had nothing whatever to do with the action of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Hillhead (Sir R. Home) or anybody except the Royal Commission themselves, I would remind hon. Members opposite that when the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Hillhead made his proposal it was I who opposed it, and not hon. Members on the opposite side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2203.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-31", "file": "debates1926-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e5148e493bb23fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2204.1", "colnum": "2204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BLUNDELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BLUNDELL", "preceding_text": "I think it was the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) who suggested they were insulted, and the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Westhoughton also suggested it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-31", "file": "debates1926-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e5148e493bb23fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2239.5", "colnum": "2239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Optimism!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "When the third valuation takes place—and when the hon. Member refers only to the second valuation he means that pending the third valuation no additional benefits will be paid to anybody—there will be five times £2, 800, 000 less to be distributed to the members. He knows that, so far as he and his party are concerned, in five years' time they will not have to meet the difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2239.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-31", "file": "debates1926-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e5148e493bb23fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2273.1", "colnum": "2273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Prime Minister will reply! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ainst the inadequate reply to the reasons given in favour of the Amendment by my hon. Friend the Member for best Middlesbrough (Miss Wilkinson). It is quite true that the hilarity of a number of hon. Members opposite prevented them from appreciating the eloquence of the hon. Member, but those of us who listened to her speech feel justified in saying that the Minister himself ought to have replied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-31", "file": "debates1926-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e5148e493bb23fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2292.1", "colnum": "2292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What has that got to do with the Amendment? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "ountry did not agree with the Act in its original stages, and opposed it for all they were worth. As a consequence, it took a great deal of propaganda by some of the workers' leaders to get them to accept the principle of national health insurance. It went so far that in some places there were actually strikes, but eventually the opposition died down on the strength of the promises that were made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-31", "file": "debates1926-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e5148e493bb23fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2292.1", "colnum": "2292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Question !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "n. The actual reality is that £2, 800, 000 are being taken away. How can you take £2, 800, 000 away from a fund and leave the fund as it was? I am not clever at figures, but I can understand that if you take £2, 800, 000 away from a common pool into which workmen, the employers, and the State have each contributed, you cannot do so year by year without eventually depleting the fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-31", "file": "debates1926-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e5148e493bb23fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2292.1", "colnum": "2292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": " Continent like some of their masters do. They could go and take a cure at Wiesbaden or at Homburg. I have heard propagandists of the Conservative party praising the National Health Insurance Act up hill and down dale. The Parliamentary Secretary has been one of them himself. Instead of taking the money from the people who have got it, you are going to pinch it from the people who have not got it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-31", "file": "debates1926-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e5148e493bb23fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2306.12", "colnum": "2306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "here is going to be the gag on every effort that is made to deal with each point in detail. Here we have the principle that has always run through the Tory party—taking away from the poor and giving to the rich. What this Bill is aiming at is simply to in one way decrease taxation on the rich and take more from the poor. Because we have got a dud and stupid Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2306.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-03-31", "file": "debates1926-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e5148e493bb23fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2314.2", "colnum": "2314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": " Horne) was contemplating that in future it would lie possible to reduce the contributions while still retaining the additional benefits which are being declared by the societies as the result of surpluses accumulated in past quinquennial periods or whether he proposes to do away with those additional benefits and use the money which would be required for that purpose to reduce the contributions.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2314.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-03-31", "file": "debates1926-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e5148e493bb23fec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2339.1", "colnum": "2339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order, order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "The difficulty is that many of us have these very serious matters to raise from our people who are being robbed, and owing to the very unfair action and mean action of the Chair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-03-31a.2339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-01", "file": "debates1926-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "0eb211082c3f5211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-01a.2420.0", "colnum": "2420", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER).", "cue_speaker": "Sir GERALD STRICKLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GERALD STRICKLAND", "preceding_text": " knows that we can only produce in this country enough food for three months of the year, and that for the other nine months we must obtain food by exchange from overseas, that is to say, by working. Exports must be carried by our fleets through the trade routes, flanked on every side with rivals, some of whom have already declared their determination to build up their Empire on the ruins of ours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-01a.2420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-01", "file": "debates1926-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "0eb211082c3f5211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-01a.2420.0", "colnum": "2420", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER).", "cue_speaker": "Sir GERALD STRICKLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GERALD STRICKLAND", "preceding_text": "es, where the same incentives will obtain long after we are dead and buried. Any pact made regarding the limitation of armaments will be liable to alteration with uncontrollable changes of opinion when causes of war arise. Probably, for the next 15 years, say, during the life of a generation that has seen the horrors of war and does not want them repeated, there is no real danger of any great war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-01a.2420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-01", "file": "debates1926-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "0eb211082c3f5211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-01a.2427.1", "colnum": "2427", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. B. SMITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. B. SMITH", "preceding_text": "an hour waiting. I regret to say that although that offer was made, subject to endorsement. by the representative associations, the Home Secretary could not see his way clear to accept it. He then issued a statement, after correspondence with myself—a very courteous correspondence, I am glad to say—to the effect that in a fortnight from that date he intended to license two-seater cars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-01a.2427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-01", "file": "debates1926-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "0eb211082c3f5211", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-01a.2435.0", "colnum": "2435", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To Scotland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "e not going to ask for change. The taxi-man, after all, does not really make his earnings out of the rigid, legal fare. The last speaker said something about a taxi-man being courteous when given a strictly legal fare. I gathered that my hon. Friend had had the audacity to pay only the legal fare. It is a thing of which I never would have dreamt. I could not do it. I would rather walk all the way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-01a.2435.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-13", "file": "debates1926-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "43916d035fd01336", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-13a.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC PROCESSIONS (POLICE ACTION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ity students, and others who parade the West End? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that two women were knocked down in that scrimmage on Sunday, that two men were knocked down, that there was no blocking of the traffic, that the whole of the disturbance took place on the other side of Battersea Rise, where there was no traffic blocking whatever taking place, and that the police authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-13a.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-13", "file": "debates1926-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "43916d035fd01336", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-13a.38.1", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "That is a question which I shall be very glad to answer, but it would be more appro- priate to deal with it on Clause 5 of the Economy Bill relating to that matter", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-13a.38.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-13", "file": "debates1926-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "43916d035fd01336", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-13a.51.2", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "een taught by hon. Gentlemen opposite whenever we have put up the Super-tax. It would be regarded as confiscation. What is the difference between £150,000 voted out of profitable transactions at the end of a year to a reserve and money which has been accumulated out of the pennies and three-halfpennies of sailors and soldiers who have been risking their lives for their country? This is worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-13a.51.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-13", "file": "debates1926-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "43916d035fd01336", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-13a.51.2", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " transactions at the end of a year to a reserve and money which has been accumulated out of the pennies and three-halfpennies of sailors and soldiers who have been risking their lives for their country? This is worse. [ Interruption .] There is an hon. Gentleman who says that it is a laughing matter. Let him say so in public. He laughs when one refers to the sacrifices of the soldiers and sailors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-13a.51.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-13", "file": "debates1926-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "43916d035fd01336", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-13a.56.3", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was part of the wages!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "Up to 1920 that was the ease, but since 1920 it has been paid by the Government Departments out of the funds voted by this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-13a.56.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-13", "file": "debates1926-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "43916d035fd01336", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-13a.68.3", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " an acting officer. Can he deny that the ordinary soldier who is affected by this particular Clause is denied the same right of questioning him and agitating on this matter as the ordinary approved society member? I think he admits it. Is that fair? If you admit that it is true, if you admit that it is not fair, surely mere obedience to the party Whip ought not to prevent you from doing something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-13a.68.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-13", "file": "debates1926-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "43916d035fd01336", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-13a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"What about the Fund?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "le who cannot join an approved society. Many of them are people who have tried to get a pension, but who have been told that, while it is true they are suffering very much now, they have not succeeded in showing that their suffering is due to their war service. And they may not succeed. If there are any people in England who are entitled to the full consideration of this Committee it is these men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-13a.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-13", "file": "debates1926-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "43916d035fd01336", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-13a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": " he leaves to the Secretary of State for War to defend, because it is an attack upon this Fund; and the third of which, I suppose, is to be defended by the Noble Lord the President of the Board of Education. This is indeed putting the Treasury into commission. The one person who is never here is the person who has caused all this disturbance, all this quaking inside amongst Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-13a.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-13", "file": "debates1926-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "43916d035fd01336", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-13a.87.0", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "I do not want to be drawn into a detailed argument..", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-13a.87.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-13", "file": "debates1926-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "43916d035fd01336", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-13a.113.0", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "preceding_text": " which has just been raised, if I said \"capital expenditure\" I meant \"working expenses.\" Obviously, it, is necessary to have a sum set, aside for working expenses. Just imagine the case of this Department in the process of winding up certain companies and the Official Receiver having to pay interim dividends to creditors. Of course, he must have a sum of money available for such a purpose as that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-13a.113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-13", "file": "debates1926-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "43916d035fd01336", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-13a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hundreds of millions!'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": ". I would, however, mention again the silence from the opposite benches, which has shown that, apart from the Ministers of the Government, Members of the Tory party have not a word of justification to say in support of this Measure or any bearing it has on the future welfare of the working people. It is paltry to think of a nation which now has to balance its Budget in thousands of millions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-13a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-13", "file": "debates1926-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "43916d035fd01336", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-13a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "is Measure is going to be. We know with certainty they are to have £2,800,000 stolen from them, because this Committee has passed the Clause which allows the Minister—or I should say the Chancellor of the Exchequer—to do so. I am sure the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Health does not wish to do so, and he must feel very uncomfortable at being made the scapegoat for Winston.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-13a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-13", "file": "debates1926-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "43916d035fd01336", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-13a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "That is the difficulty in which we find ourselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-13a.164.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-04-14", "file": "debates1926-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "55929467c2a26a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.196.1", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ALIENS REGISTRATION (INDIANS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "They were not aliens.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "Two years ago, when the last Conservative Government was in power, there was the case of the Irish deportations. Then the Home Secretary did not apply for the orders, but the Secretary for Scotland did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-14", "file": "debates1926-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "55929467c2a26a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.196.6", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ALIENS REGISTRATION (INDIANS).", "cue_speaker": "Captain HACKING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain HACKING", "preceding_text": "I must have notice of that question. With regard to the first question, all these people know exactly what they have to do in order to avoid registration as aliens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.196.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-14", "file": "debates1926-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "55929467c2a26a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.199.4", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SMALL FARMS, SCOTLAND (SUB- DIVISION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Order\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Is not the Secretary for Scotland aware that there is something seriously wrong here? Here are men who are anxious to get work and who have gone on to the land to work the land and not to eat it or steal it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.199.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-14", "file": "debates1926-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "55929467c2a26a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.214.2", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER\"Who owns it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "scate; we are going to lay our hands upon £1,100,000 which does not belong to us\"—which does not belong to the State, except in precisely the same significance as you can say that every halfpenny which I own and every halfpenny which any other hon. Member owns belongs to the State. If you use language in that loose kind of way, then you are perfectly right in voting for this Resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.214.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-14", "file": "debates1926-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "55929467c2a26a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.214.2", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "ery halfpenny which I own and every halfpenny which any other hon. Member owns belongs to the State. If you use language in that loose kind of way, then you are perfectly right in voting for this Resolution. [An HON. MEMBER\"Who owns it?\"] It belongs to the society which was created under the Act. It belongs to the corporate society known, I think, as the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.214.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-14", "file": "debates1926-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "55929467c2a26a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.219.5", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER:\"Not a bit of it !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "e, but was a solemn and official obligation, entered into by the representatives of the Government, and. therefore, of this House, at that Box, that the balances of this money were to be used in the interests of those who were insured under the Fund that was being created. That is a nice state of things to come to. I hope my hon. Friends who are rather inclined to Moscow will take a warning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.219.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-14", "file": "debates1926-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "55929467c2a26a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "Let us examine who they are. One section of the contributors is the War Office, or the Admiralty, or the Air Department. That is the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.224.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-14", "file": "debates1926-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "55929467c2a26a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.224.4", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Yes !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "confiscating. His answer is the three parties to the insurance. I am going to examine who those three are. One is the Government Departments employing the men. The second is the Insurance Votes which pay the two-ninths or the one-seventh. That is the Government again. The third party is the soldiers, sailors or airmen who contribute. Are we confiscating anything that they have any right to at all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.224.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-14", "file": "debates1926-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "55929467c2a26a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"You did !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "I hope the hon. Member does not think I said that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-14", "file": "debates1926-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "55929467c2a26a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "12;it would he absurd—therefore, to talk about confiscation, and to taunt hon. Members on this side of the House with talk about robbery of the soldiers. It is utterly unfair and it is ridiculous, and such misrepresentation should not be allowed to go unchallenged. It is done, and obviously done, if not by the right hon. Gentleman himself, then by his supporters for party political purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-14", "file": "debates1926-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "55929467c2a26a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No, no!\"and Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "It is done with the obvious intention of creating dissatisfaction in the Forces of the Crown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-14", "file": "debates1926-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "55929467c2a26a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"So they are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "It is done with the obvious intention of creating dissatisfaction in the Forces of the Crown. [HON. MEMBERS:\"No, no!\"and Interruption ]. It is done in order to suggest that they are being unfairly treated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-14", "file": "debates1926-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "55929467c2a26a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.227.2", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Alone?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "at no friendly society will accept them: An obligation to maintain its solvency was accordingly placed on the Departments. Presumably in view of this condition it was decided that members of the Fund should not be entitled to additional benefits. It is quite right that we should remember that, as the law stands at this moment, this Fund, which is built up by the soldiers, sailors and airmen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.227.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-14", "file": "debates1926-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "55929467c2a26a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption,.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " attitude. Everything that can be said about this Clause ought to have been said already. But it must be remembered that the Government have got their second team on to-night, and my difficulty is that if I were sure that last night's team was here to-night, there would be no need for me to speak. But this is the extraordinary difficulty in which I find myself. I have got to repeat to-night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-14", "file": "debates1926-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "55929467c2a26a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "of the first \"team'' ordered back. Therefore, I am quite sure that I shall get the sympathy of those on this side, and they will not only bear with me but appreciate my difficulty and my reluctance. There should be no Member opposite who could do other than sympathise with a Member on this side having to re-state something about which he thought he had already convinced other people. I felt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-14", "file": "debates1926-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "55929467c2a26a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "If you had a majority decision I would save you that because I am quite sure that I should be safe, but, unfortunately I have got to rely on those people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-14", "file": "debates1926-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "55929467c2a26a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.337.3", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is it from Eccleston Square?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " department adopts the usual method of introducing an imaginary constituent. They issue a pamphlet, in which they say that a constituent having asked a Member whether it is true what the Opposition say, they desire to supply to the Member, lest he should not be intelligent enough to give an answer, the answer that they thought he ought to give. The Publicity Department has already been on the job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.337.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-14", "file": "debates1926-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "55929467c2a26a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.340.3", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "events he called this conference of Press reporters, and I can only conclude that his object in doing so was to try to remove the damage that had been done by the Parliamentary Debate showing the effect of Clause 2. Is it not significant—would it not strike you, Sir, as peculiar—that with a majority such as the Government possess, overwhelming in numbers, in brains and in beauty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.340.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-14", "file": "debates1926-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "55929467c2a26a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.340.3", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The beauty is not behind them, is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " the effect of Clause 2. Is it not significant—would it not strike you, Sir, as peculiar—that with a majority such as the Government possess, overwhelming in numbers, in brains and in beauty—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw]—and in everything except eloquence expressed, that such a course should be adopted. With all these advantages, with all these qualifications behind them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.340.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-14", "file": "debates1926-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "55929467c2a26a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.363.3", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is the Solicitor-General.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "ight to use the word \"we\" in this respect. It is not we who are giving an additional boon, but we are withdrawing our money, keeping it in our pockets and imposing an undefined additional expenditure in regard to medical benefit in certain districts of Scotland. The Government are evading their obligations in Scotland. It does not apply to the Highlands. We have not a Scottish representative here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.363.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-14", "file": "debates1926-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "55929467c2a26a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBERS: \"You cannot find such a society.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "is what we wish to continue. But let me point out to the Committee what would be the result of this Amendment if it were accepted. Suppose you have two societies comparable in most respects as regards the class of claim that comes upon them, and also in respect of numbers. One society is careful, economical and conscientious in the administration of its work. The other Society is lax and careless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-14a.383.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-15", "file": "debates1926-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "ea101bbe16e86b81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.504.12", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": " .] I have listened to these Debates very keenly indeed, and I agree with the remarks that have been made by several of my right hon. and hon. Friends as to the position the Government have taken up. I say here emphatically that, if this proposal is proceeded with, and the Government fail to do justice to these people, there is only one way in which it can be rightly designated, and that is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.504.12"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-15", "file": "debates1926-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "ea101bbe16e86b81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "ndeavour to conceal the real intentions of his act and the real effect of his act in a whole maze of phraseology and intricate argument. I appeal to the right hon. Gentleman to reconsider the whole matter. I saw just now that he was having a conversation with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I am sure that the three days' Debate must have affected the conscience of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-15", "file": "debates1926-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "ea101bbe16e86b81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.512.0", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Member who has just spoken has been a little unfair in saying the ex-service men under this Bill would not get what had been promised them. He knows they will get what was originally promised them, and they have been assured that they will get all they would get from the best approved societies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-15", "file": "debates1926-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "ea101bbe16e86b81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.523.2", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "I will reply to that later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.523.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-15", "file": "debates1926-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "ea101bbe16e86b81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.530.0", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": " this Fund, it would have gone to men who, if not all wounded, if not all gassed, if not all injured by service, have by virtue of their service had their health undermined for the rest of their lives. Again, I say, am I unfair in asking where it will go now? It is quite reasonable to say that it will go to the relief of the taxpayer, of wealthy people who never contributed a farthing to the Fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.530.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-15", "file": "debates1926-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "ea101bbe16e86b81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "on. Members can imagine, could complain if, inasmuch as this is a guaranteed Fund, and the contract has been honourably kept, the whole of the surplus money went back to the Treasury. The proposal is that a very considerable sum of that surplus, in fact, £400,000, should be devoted to the interests of a class of the community whom everyone would desire to benefit in the greatest possible way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-15", "file": "debates1926-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "ea101bbe16e86b81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.547.1", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or a railway company!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "they would have done. Taking that into account you cannot treat this sum of money as being in the nature of a windfall for the general taxpayers. You cannot do it. The mere fact that the State has contributed makes no difference, because here the State is purely an employer of labour. What would have been said if the coal owners had made a proposal of this kind in order to enable them to carry on?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-15", "file": "debates1926-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "ea101bbe16e86b81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.591.0", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "I want to take the opportunity of making a few comments in connection with this Clause. In the first place, I possibly might be allowed to congratulate the Under-Secretary to the Ministry of Health that we have come to a Clause on which there is not a great amount of controversy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.591.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-15", "file": "debates1926-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "ea101bbe16e86b81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.606.0", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "This Amendment does not raise the important issues which the hon. Member seems to suggest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-15", "file": "debates1926-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "ea101bbe16e86b81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.606.0", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We cannot hear you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "Ireland by Section 117. All the provisions of this Bill which we have been discussing so far affect Great Britain alone. If Northern Ireland desires to take steps similar to those which we are taking, they must of necessity do so by their own Bill. If the Government of Northern Ireland adopts a plan similar to the British plan for providing grants out of the Central Fund to assist societies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-15", "file": "debates1926-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "ea101bbe16e86b81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.611.4", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was one of them !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "citated and not likely to be rehabilitated into any industrial concern. Some of the men represent the wreckage of the transference on to the fund of the Unemployment Act of the Government of 1920. I can quite imagine in that respect that the Chancellor will say, \"Do not hold me responsible, for goodness sake, for the Act of 1920.\" I would not care to do that. There was quite a hotel-potch in 1920.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.611.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-15", "file": "debates1926-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "ea101bbe16e86b81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.611.4", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "ion would have been more vigorous than it is now, although it must reach the utmost limit of our capacity to express it without expletives, but in order that it may be thoroughly understood, not as representing a mere pious thought but an innermost feeling that something more ought to be done than the act committed at the moment by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Section 5 of the 1924 Act.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.611.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-15", "file": "debates1926-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "ea101bbe16e86b81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.611.4", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": "m of light that opened up a new era and much brighter prospects. A land for heroes ! All our troubles were to be dispelled. Quite naturally, the Labour Government thought that it would direct its penetrating beams upon the situation, in order to bring a measure of comfort and ease to the people. They provided that one-third should be our share. Compare that with the Act of the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.611.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-15", "file": "debates1926-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "ea101bbe16e86b81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have been closured for discussing them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I hope I am not straying from the rules of Order except in a sentence or two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-15", "file": "debates1926-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "ea101bbe16e86b81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"What about the Army and Navy !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "hem.\"] My difficulties with the right hon. and learned Gentleman (Sir J. Simon) began a good many years ago. All I can say on that point is that it shows how very foolish are those who imagine that £50,000,000 or £60,000,000 can be struck from the National Expenditure easily without all the consequences that mould fall upon the social life of the people if those fierce inroads were made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-15", "file": "debates1926-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "ea101bbe16e86b81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " That is what we have endeavoured to the best of our ability, and what we are still endeavouring night and day, to save the country from. That is why I have been called upon, as the Minister responsible, to find £19,000,000 this year, and £4,000,000 in the estimates of nest year, in addition to some other sums. This immense sum, which has disturbed the whole range of our financial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-15", "file": "debates1926-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "ea101bbe16e86b81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.648.0", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": " He was warned, but he went on, and in spite of the reductions he made, I am going to say that his budget after all did not present such very bad calculations. Where he had gene wrong, of course, is that he did not foresee that he would have to pay a subsidy to the coal trade Otherwise his budget would have balanced well on the right side. I think probably about £5,0000,000 on the right side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.648.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-15", "file": "debates1926-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "ea101bbe16e86b81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.687.9", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Seven minutes !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again.\" It is now six minutes to four—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.687.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-15", "file": "debates1926-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "ea101bbe16e86b81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.707.0", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "but a determined body. That does not mean that I think they are right; on the contrary, I think they are hopelessly wrong, because I believe they are wrong and their methods are dangerous, because I believe it would be ruinous to this country if that policy was to succeed. I am at least entitled to ask Members on the other side of the House who have more interest in this matter than I have —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-15a.707.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-19", "file": "debates1926-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "aa46682e1ba541d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-19a.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)", "preceding_text": "one room. The idea has been to put one presiding officer in charge of three polling stations, and divide up the register in that respect. Quite naturally I do not want to go against the feeling of the House, lint the position is that this Clause was submitted to and approved by the central organisation of each of the three parties, of my own party, the Liberal party, and I think, the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-19a.885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-19", "file": "debates1926-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "aa46682e1ba541d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-19a.920.0", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": ",\" and he said: Education in a country like ours is absolutely vital, not only to progress but to peace. Those who thought that we could become richer or more stable as a country by stinting education and crippling the instruction of our young people were a most benighted class of human beings. It was absolutely necessary that thrift and economy should be practised in every branch of our Services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-19a.920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-19", "file": "debates1926-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "aa46682e1ba541d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-19a.936.4", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did you pillory Bradford? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "ure of 300 per cent., and that is the way in which I intend to pursue this. I intend to call the attention of local authorities to expenditure which I think is not explainable on the facts before me at the present time and to ask them to justify it, and I absolutely refuse to pillory any local authority in this House as an abnormally high spender until I have exchanged views with them in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-19a.936.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-20", "file": "debates1926-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a2fa83e1658a77bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-20a.1019.6", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUSPENSION OF MEMBERS (ALLOWANCES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETO", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETO", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman consider it fair that the British taxpayer should have to pay the salaries of hon. and right hon. Gentlemen who have been suspended?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-20a.1019.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-20", "file": "debates1926-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a2fa83e1658a77bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-20a.1048.5", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": " must of necessity be put into a state of repair fit for the children to attend them. According to the report of the Minister's own inspectors, there are schools in the county of Durham which the local education authority have asked should be put right long ago, and which in many cases should be replaced by new schools. May I urge that nothing should be done to prevent them going on with the work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-20a.1048.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-20", "file": "debates1926-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a2fa83e1658a77bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-20a.1131.0", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR- GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR- GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "preceding_text": "riate word. Any sums which are not provided for in Sub-section (3) of this Clause are provided for in Sub-section (4), to be dealt with as the Treasury shall direct. In that case the intention is carried out by the use of the word \"may.\" The intention is that the Treasury shall pay such sums, but it does not follow that there will be any sum, for instance, under paragraph ( b ) of Sub-section (3).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-20a.1131.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-20", "file": "debates1926-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a2fa83e1658a77bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-20a.1132.11", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "f Trade already knows it—is bought in America. I also wish to protest in a very few words against the Government finding it necessary to scrape a few pounds together by putting advertisements on His Majesty's matter and stationery. I think that that is altogether undignified and unworthy of the Government of a great Empire, and when they allow advertisements of strong liquor to appear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-20a.1132.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-20", "file": "debates1926-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "a2fa83e1658a77bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-20a.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BETTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BETTERTON", "preceding_text": " contents of a Bill must not go beyond the description given of the Bill in its title at the time of its introduction, wit any objection on this ground should be Taken before the Bill is read a Second time. Now, for these reasons, each one of which, I submit, is conclusive by itself, which in the aggregate are quite overwhelming, I submit that the right hon. Gentleman's point is without substance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-20a.1157.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1205.2", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount SANDON", "preceding_text": "Is it not about time that this vested interest was brought to heel?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1214.5", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "LEGALISATION OF BETTING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": " they would not other waste. I say with respect that I do not consider that the legalising of betting would have any such result. I think that if betting were legalised, we would undoubtedly get better and cleaner conditions with regard to betting; we would clear away a large number of bookmakers of an uncertain sort; and we would give many material advantages to most of the people of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1214.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1233.1", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"Sob-stuff!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "I would say this even with regard to those men. Men differ very much in their power of imagination and in their sensitiveness, and any man who ever went oversea knows that one of the most trying and tragic moments of all was that moment which came when he had to say good-bye to his wife and children and those who were nearest and dearest to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1233.1", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER:\"Not if there was a death penalty attached! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "has to endure. When this House has been up just for about 16 hours and kept out of its bed five or six hours more than is usual, you find all over it Members falling asleep, because they cannot help themselves. If this House could be kept up for about 96 hours, without any sleep at all, I will guarantee to say that, willy nilly, 75 or 80 per cent. of the Members would be falling into deep slumber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1233.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1270.0", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No, no!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. M. WATSON", "preceding_text": "ring the whole period of the dispute, not only at the place where the disturbance occurred, but in all the villages round about. No good purpose was served by introducing them. As a matter of fact the feeling that was aroused by that action did a great deal more to stiffen the backs of the miners than to conciliate them. I say frankly that, although we shall be in another dispute next month—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1267.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1271.0", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"To keep order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "t that the War Office and the Government have taken the employers' side against us. There can be no other view of it. The military are not brought in to assist the workpeople. They are not brought in even to create an atmosphere that would be favourable to the workpeople. They are brought in to assist the employer and to create an atmosphere. Hon. Members may smile, but what other reason is there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1271.0", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS\"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "essions, refuse to accept a Clause which seeks to prevent the stigma of blackleg being imposed upon the man in the ranks? We have heard this afternoon of what officers can do. We have heard that an officer who felt that his nerves would not allow him to lead his men, could go to his superior and say he was not feeling fit to lead those men. We have heard that the officer in such a case can resign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1273.3", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander BURNEY", "preceding_text": "ut forward and the wording of the proposed new Clause itself, one is somewhat amazed. The Mover said he had no objection to the military power being used to support the civil power in a case of emergency and for keeping order, but the Clause says' that the recruit is not to take duty in aid of the civil power. Surely the civil power would not require aid unless for the purpose of preserving order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1273.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1275.0", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": " at the earliest opportunity. What we desire to point out, however, is something quite different. If hon. Members opposite are fair to their own inner consciousness they know that military forces have been placed on the scenes of industrial disputes, not because there has been the slightest semblance of disorder or riot, but with the fixed intention of cowing the workmen in favour of the employer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1275.0", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": " riot, but with the fixed intention of cowing the workmen in favour of the employer. [HON. MEMBERS:\"No!\"] There is no doubt about it. Let us be honest with each other here at all events. We may blink these things on political platforms, but we are men of the world here, and we know troops have been brought in, often with disastrous results, in order to intimidate strikers and for no other purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1280.0", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain KING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS\"It does!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain KING", "preceding_text": "the orders of his officers. He has to do his best, and, therefore, he should use his military discipline, and, if necessary, he would have to use his weapons. The Clause would prevent the soldier being used—apart from emergency—in support of a civil power in case of an industrial dispute. I take it that hon. Members opposite accept the principle that the civil power is not taking sides", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1281.0", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain KING", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain KING", "preceding_text": "he civil power. We agree on these benches with what has been voiced by hon. Members opposite, that it is a very distasteful duty and certainly not one entered upon unless requested by the civil power. With regard to intimidation and taking sides, there is no question, to my mind, of taking sides, and I can see no reason why there should be any suspicion of intimidation. The troops are there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1281.0", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain KING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"In theory, but not in fact!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain KING", "preceding_text": "llect the details. They sounded to me in some particulars, perhaps, not quite complete, but in any ease I cannot deal with them, because they are not within my knowledge or recollection. I want to emphasise, however, that it is more by reason of misrepresentation that strikers look on troops as being there to intimidate them. They are there just as much to protect the strikers as any other people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1301.3", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUBVERSIVE PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir ALAN BURGOYNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir ALAN BURGOYNE", "preceding_text": "s in helping this propaganda to dive deep into the body of our nation. Finally, I shall urge that the time has come for us to take more strenuous steps for the suppression of this evil, and if to-day the law be not sufficiently strong for that work, we should immediately with the utmost expedition of this House so strengthen that law that it may be fitted to deal with any emergency that can arise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1301.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1301.3", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUBVERSIVE PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir ALAN BURGOYNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir ALAN BURGOYNE", "preceding_text": "riday last that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Derby (Mr. Thomas), speaking on the Economy Bill, made one or two pregnant observations. In the first of them he said, referring to the Communist party in this country: They are using all their energy and all their power deliberately to break the Parliamentary method. Five minutes later he said: I look upon Communism as a danger to the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1301.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1302.0", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUBVERSIVE PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir ALAN BURGOYNE", "preceding_text": "ves with the Communist movement. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Platting (Mr. Clynes) said: The Communists have really done the Labour movement a service by publishing their hysterical demands for a campaign of sedition and disaffection among the soldiers and sailor.… The whole Labour movement will be with us in disavowing any sympathy with this childish talk of violence and Mutiny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1301.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1302.1", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUBVERSIVE PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BURGOYNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"It is 'impropaganda'! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BURGOYNE", "preceding_text": "rganised upon a Communistic basis. No one will agree with that more readily than the hon. Member for North Battersea (Mr. Saklatvala), and I give him this credit, that he has always been open in his avowal of these principles, and that is more than can be said by some of those who breathe hot and cold in their sympathies with Communism. This propaganda is growing day by day and hour by hour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1304.0", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUBVERSIVE PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BURGOYNE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BURGOYNE", "preceding_text": "policy or to be prepared to die on the barricades next week. Every worker who is ready to play a part in the class struggle should be encouraged to join the party, and he will be made into a Communist, by contact with the party and work in its organisations. I will now give a rather interesting quotation from one of these papers known as the\"Empire Rebel,\" which has a circulation among the miners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1304.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1304.0", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUBVERSIVE PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BURGOYNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BURGOYNE", "preceding_text": "make this the last victory of Thomas. Show that at, the next annual general meeting the majority is the other way. By steady work inside your organisation, fight the Thomas policy in every branch by rallying and organising the militant elements. I do not know whether that has any influence upon hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite. Does it occur to them to think that this is a thing to laugh at?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1304.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1305.2", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUBVERSIVE PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BURGOYNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"This is all new to us! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BURGOYNE", "preceding_text": "I do not remember charging anyone with having read these papers. I am reading them; I am telling hon. Members that they exist—a fact which seems to be of no importance whatsoever to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1305.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1305.2", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUBVERSIVE PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BURGOYNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER\"What is wrong with that? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BURGOYNE", "preceding_text": "ed to break strikes, and workers were shot. At Featherstone, in Yorkshire, Asquith and Churchill sent troops against the miners on strike, and one was shot dead. Gunboats were used to help the scabs during the 1912 dock strike. In March and April last year British armed forces shot down hundreds of Indian mill strikers. Are the troops of to-day willing to be used against their own class like this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1305.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1310.3", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUBVERSIVE PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. BURGOYNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. BURGOYNE", "preceding_text": "ws, some to the left, some to the right, none of which can aid in the better governance of our land.\" It is impossible for hon. Members to advocate revolution one minute and then to come here and tell us that they have nothing to do with it. I do not know whether they will believe me when I say that the hon. Member for West Leicester (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence) is believed in America to be a Communist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1310.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUBVERSIVE PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS\"Yes! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " opposite believe this tale. What is the effect of it all? Has there been one case of a soldier or sailor refusing to do his duty on account of this propaganda? Can the present trouble in the engineering trade be traced to these efforts? Can the threatened trouble in the mining industry, and the trouble we recently escaped in the railway industry, be really seriously saddled on all this agitation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUBVERSIVE PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "to do his duty on account of this propaganda? Can the present trouble in the engineering trade be traced to these efforts? Can the threatened trouble in the mining industry, and the trouble we recently escaped in the railway industry, be really seriously saddled on all this agitation? [HON. MEMBERS\"Yes! \"] What absolute nonsense this is. Can the strikes before the War be traced to the same source?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1325.0", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUBVERSIVE PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"What about the police strike? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "de the Home Secretary into the sort of Measures asked for by the Mover and Seconder of this Resolution. That is the only danger in this country. We have a law that can be applied and that can deal with real incitements to violence or with actual violence. The law is there, and the police are absolutely loyal. No suggestion can surely be made that this propaganda has had any effect upon the police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1325.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1332.2", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUBVERSIVE PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Name! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "preceding_text": "y mixed up today with an organisation which, whether it be lawless or not, is at any rate favourable to a system of government opposed to Parliamentary government. If Fascism means anything, it is a system opposed to Parliamentary government, and if the British Fascisti are anything, they are a group opposed to Parliamentary government and many hon. Members opposite belong to that seditious group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1332.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1336.0", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUBVERSIVE PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "talists of this country to beat them back. Whether 'you take notice of it or give advertisement to it, or whether the last prosecution gave undue advertisement to it or not, makes no difference, because that is not a serious way of considering a serious position which is becoming a world position. The hearts and minds of people are being educated. I myself am the child of the British Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1336.0", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUBVERSIVE PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": " of the Trade Union Congress which took place in Birmingham in 1868, it was resolved that the Trade Union Congress was brought into existence for the purpose of organising the workers of this country in order that they may take possession of the means of production, distribution and exchange. I want to know how and when I am to take possession of the means of production, distribution and exchange.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1336.0", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUBVERSIVE PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "n as well as all accumulated wealth produced by the workers in the past. Now I am quietly told that I, the dispossessed one, must wait till I am strong enough to buy out everything from those who have monopolised the whole wealth. When I hear of such processes, I naturally disbelieve in their feasibility, and I say:\"No; my idea of taking possession of the means of production is simply to take it.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1336.0", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUBVERSIVE PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "tly told that I, the dispossessed one, must wait till I am strong enough to buy out everything from those who have monopolised the whole wealth. When I hear of such processes, I naturally disbelieve in their feasibility, and I say:\"No; my idea of taking possession of the means of production is simply to take it.\" [ Interruption .] That is my view, and when I read the Conservative newspapers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1347.3", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUBVERSIVE PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "al conclusion of what he learned at the feet of the Labour party some few years ago. Wherever the hon. Member learned it does not matter. The fact is that there is a distinct organisation in this country—it is not denied—the Communist party, who are out far in advance of the Labour party, far in advance of the trade union movement. They have been expelled from the trade union movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1347.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-21", "file": "debates1926-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ff0aa006b59c32ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1347.3", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUBVERSIVE PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": " ago. Wherever the hon. Member learned it does not matter. The fact is that there is a distinct organisation in this country—it is not denied—the Communist party, who are out far in advance of the Labour party, far in advance of the trade union movement. They have been expelled from the trade union movement. [An HON. MEMBER:\"No! \"] They have been turned out of the trade union movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-21a.1347.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-22", "file": "debates1926-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b9219dce3af70e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1356.5", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ALIENS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman is spending so much time going up and down the country to make speeches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1356.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-22", "file": "debates1926-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b9219dce3af70e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1377.1", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS (HOURS OF SITTINGS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "How is it that other countries can conduct their business without all-night sittings?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-22", "file": "debates1926-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b9219dce3af70e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1416.3", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "Certainly not. I think the best that can be said is that they were received with acquiescence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1416.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-22", "file": "debates1926-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b9219dce3af70e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "t's answer is given that there was no breach of pledge, and then Mr. Kershaw's comment on the Government's answer is as follows: That is technically true, but at the same time it has always been understood that the State contribution would remain at two-ninths of the expenditure and that this two-ninths would continue and be available for extended benefit when the reserve values had been redeemed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-22", "file": "debates1926-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b9219dce3af70e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1430.2", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "than were those men in 1924 when we had to conduct the negotiations. It is an insult to them to come to the House of Commons, to assume, to suppose that the Government could not go to them and negotiate an agreement with them that would be honourable and fair to the State. That is the main point There are others—the Army, Navy and Airmen's Fund. We are now told it is not an insurance at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1430.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-22", "file": "debates1926-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b9219dce3af70e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1435.4", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the eggs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " many ways a unique Measure. It is perfectly right that, in an Economy Bill, there should be scraping and filing. I am not complaining that it has dots of odds and ends; I am only complaining of the character of what has been put into it. It is like a gipsy stewpot—a rabbit snared in one spinney, a hare trapped in another field, a. chicken or two purloined from someone else's farmyard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1435.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-22", "file": "debates1926-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b9219dce3af70e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1439.1", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " in France, and the reports in many newspapers of all colours. They are very remarkable and very ominous. The artistic races of Europe are, for the first time, developing mass production. They are re-equipping their factories and, for the first time, they are organising their selling. What is the result in France? Woollen exports are 45 per cent. above what they were pre-war. Cotton exports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-22", "file": "debates1926-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b9219dce3af70e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1461.0", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "itations, and I know those of others, to the hon. Member for West Birkenhead (Mr. Nuttall) who made such an admirable maiden speech. I believe that that speech, closely reasoned as it was, will have a considerable effect on opinion, and I warmly congratulate the hon. Member. We have over and over again during the last 10 days been derided from the benches opposite for having sat here as dumb dogs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-22", "file": "debates1926-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b9219dce3af70e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1461.0", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN MARRIOTT", "preceding_text": "t blame hon. or right hon. Gentlemen opposite for making the best of an obvious and easy opportunity, but I respectfully suggest that a good deal of the criticism which, in the course of the last 10 days we have been hearing from those benches, is really irrelevant to the purposes of this Bill. A great deal of it is grossly exaggerated, and some of it—I do not want to use a harsh word—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-22", "file": "debates1926-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b9219dce3af70e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1490.3", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where have you been living?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": " National Health Insurance, I have not received a single line of protest from any one of the 15,000,000 people who, according to the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs, are angrily protesting. I am satisfied that if a proposal were seriously brought forward to scrap the National Health Insurance Act, it would meet with almost united approval from the people who are at present affected by it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1490.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-22", "file": "debates1926-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b9219dce3af70e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1490.3", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have done very well out of it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "ving?\"] It is an intolerable liberty to take money from the working man and say, \"We will take this money from you and pay your doctor on your behalf.\" That is what it amounts to. The working man should be treated like a gentleman, and left to pay his own doctor, according to his own way. I think the whole principle of it is absolutely unsound. I have never yet met a doctor who did not condemn it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1490.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-22", "file": "debates1926-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b9219dce3af70e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1490.3", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"It will be too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": " on the working classes. I do not think that the benefits of the Act will be seriously affected by a diminution of contribution from the State. As far as I have been able to follow the Debate, they are still going to get the full benefit. It may be that at some future date some benefit which otherwise they would have obtained may not be obtained, but it is time enough to cry out about that when it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1490.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-22", "file": "debates1926-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b9219dce3af70e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1493.3", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does she get value?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": " industrial destruction, in which he said we were threatened in our own markets by the competition of other countries, simply because the Minister of Education is getting powers more clearly defined than he has at the present in order to check injudicious expenditure. He did not tell us that France gets her education for £18,000,000 a year, or less than one-fifth of the cost of our education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1493.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-22", "file": "debates1926-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b9219dce3af70e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1512.1", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman says that that is why they are shortening the period of qualification. They are shortening it in order to deprive my railwaymen of the opportunity of voting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-22", "file": "debates1926-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b9219dce3af70e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1514.4", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " accepted as the friends of true economy, which consists of endeavouring to secure value for money in every sphere in which money is expended, and preventing expenditure in any direction from reaching a disproportionate scale, having regard to the general situation of the public fortunes. The only true friends of economy, as has been revealed by these Debates, are the supporters of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1514.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-22", "file": "debates1926-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b9219dce3af70e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1514.4", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Houston? What about Jersey?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "e at 4s. 6d. and that he contemplated some time when a reduction might be made. Therefore, it is common ground between us that it was a, matter that might be considered. As far as the Super-tax is concerned, of course it does quite well outside to mention the Supertax and not to mention the increase in the Death Duties, but here in this House really our controversies have passed beyond that stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1514.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-22", "file": "debates1926-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b9219dce3af70e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1514.4", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the War Debt?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "tely immense funds which otherwise were held in reserve to provide them with their undoubted rights, and simultaneously with that death, which has thrown upon the State a heavy burden in providing, as it does to a greater extent than any other country in the world, for their dependants, there is the rise in the rate of interest, referred to by the right hon. Gentleman the leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1514.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-22", "file": "debates1926-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "5b9219dce3af70e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1520.1", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMY (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "whole of the Economy Bill. How was this Fund accumulated? It was accumulated mainly by the contribution of the State. It was accumulated partly and even largely by the contributions of persons who are dead and untraceable. To whom does this surplus belong? Does it belong, and can it be contended that it belongs, to the 23,000 original contributors, that they are the heirs of the whole of this sum?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-22a.1520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-23", "file": "debates1926-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d76d55a6bd77c4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-23a.1558.0", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONEYLENDERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER:\" Not on their turnover.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": " other companies which make huge profits as shown in recent annual returns. They quote the \"Daily Mirror,\" which makes 38 per cent. profits, and the \"Yorkshire Post,\" which shows 75 per cent. I agree that it is quite a proper argument for them to use. \"If these trading concerns are allowed to make 40, 50 and 75 per cent. on their turnover, why should they not make 75 per cent. on their business? \"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-23a.1558.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-23", "file": "debates1926-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d76d55a6bd77c4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-23a.1600.1", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONEYLENDERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"What interest did you charge?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "o say, \"Sir, it is illegal.\" There have been occasions in my past life when I have been successfully touched, and I remember two cases, and two only, when I got my money back. Therefore I am in the same position as the ordinary moneylender, and if they have no better luck with their clients than I had with mine I am not surprised that they have to charge a stiff rate of interest to cover the risk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-23a.1600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-23", "file": "debates1926-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d76d55a6bd77c4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-23a.1600.1", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONEYLENDERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is a Liberal principle !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "cking case in the Court a prejudice has arisen against moneylenders. We shall shortly hear the ex-Solicitor-General speak, and I wonder when he addresses this House which side he is going to take up. I know him very well, and a more stubborn defender of individual liberty does not exist in this House except myself. There is no man in the House who hates grandmotherly legislation more than he does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-23a.1600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-23", "file": "debates1926-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "d76d55a6bd77c4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-23a.1601.1", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONEYLENDERS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "trange, His father's grandfer's father's father's name, Unchanged, unhyphened, even spelt the same. We all feel that it is preferable to pass on your fathers name unhyphened and even spelt the same. I would point out to hon. Members opposite who share this prejudice, quite rightly, that their own Front Bench is a shocking example. We have Worthington - Evans, Locker-Lampson, Cunliffe-Lister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-23a.1601.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-04-26", "file": "debates1926-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "14d2017de049626b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-26a.1665.1", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BISHOP'S CASTLE RAILWAY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Is the right hon. and gallant Gentleman aware that the Great Western Railway Company have already intimated their willingness to take over this concern, on condition that the Government co-operate financially?", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "I will consider that flatter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-26a.1665.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-04-27", "file": "debates1926-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "3da2ac2408a209c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-27a.1835.1", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL MINING COMPANIES (PROFITS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "There are no losses.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. BRITTAIN", "preceding_text": "At the same time, is it not desirable that some record of the losses made should be circulated?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-27a.1835.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-04-27", "file": "debates1926-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "3da2ac2408a209c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-27a.1875.0", "colnum": "1875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": "of which he announced last year, and assisted by the Colwyn Committee, who have been probing every nook and corner to see if it were possible to save a £5 note. The right hon. Gentleman has denied that he gave a promise or pledge last year to reduce expenditure progressively by;£10,000,000 a year. Let me read his actual words. He said: I believe we ought to aim at a net reduction\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-27a.1873.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-27", "file": "debates1926-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "3da2ac2408a209c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-27a.1881.1", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " experience of those Duties has amply justified everything that I said. I said last year, mare than once, that the right hon. Gentleman would not kill the artificial silk industry by those Duties. I said that it would take more than that, to kill a new and growing industry like that. I said that he would get his revenue. I made a mistake. He has not got his revenue to the extent that ho estimated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-27a.1881.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-27", "file": "debates1926-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "3da2ac2408a209c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-27a.1906.1", "colnum": "1906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBVI: \"Some of it !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": ", but what has happened since then really is this: Take my own constituency in Yorkshire. Much of the wool that is being carried to the West Riding of Yorkshire, and which comes into Manchester Docks, does not go by railway to Bradford at all; it goes by road to Bradford. The cotton that comes into Liverpool does not go by railway to the Lancashire towns; it goes by heavy traction along the roads.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-27a.1906.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-27", "file": "debates1926-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "3da2ac2408a209c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-27a.1990.3", "colnum": "1990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": " Stuart Mill, said that war always makes the rich richer and the poor poorer, and we have now a greater gap shown between the wealthy of the country and the poor, and I regret that at this time the Chancellor should so far go back upon his published eloquence and wisdom as to increase the proportion of the taxation to be paid by the indirect taxpayer and reduce the charge upon the direct taxpayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-27a.1990.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-28", "file": "debates1926-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "87334c5cf763a371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-28a.2016.0", "colnum": "2016", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman be prepared to hear this statement by the Lord Provost?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-28a.2016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-28", "file": "debates1926-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "87334c5cf763a371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-28a.2053.6", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh, Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "is unhappy figure has only been reached after a series of what I may call makeshifts by which the contribution of the Exchequer to the social services of this country has been whittled away while the depressed industries of the country have been left to bear the burden of their disproportionate share. That is a record which even the most ardent supporters of the Government, of whom I am one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-28a.2053.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-28", "file": "debates1926-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "87334c5cf763a371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-28a.2053.6", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "there is not the slightest sign of sectionalism of any kind, and I hope there never will be. We are the most docile body of back benchers who ever sat on these seats. Accordingly I say that I do not think it is appropriate, if I may use an American expression, to \"pass the buck\" to us. The policy and expenditure of this House are the responsibility of the Government and the Government alone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-28a.2053.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-28", "file": "debates1926-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "87334c5cf763a371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-28a.2056.1", "colnum": "2056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "mes into force this year. I perfectly realise that, but, at the same time, I think it is obvious that my right hon. Friend in estimating for his income it the current year has taken a rather gloomier view—he may correct me, but I estimate that he has taken rather a gloomier view of the position of trade than h did the previous year. For myself I think that that is the right course to pursue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-28a.2056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-28", "file": "debates1926-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "87334c5cf763a371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-28a.2056.1", "colnum": "2056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "rliament to do as it chooses in the long run, then the only question becomes one of degree. Have the roads available an amount which is more than is necessary. That is a question of practical knowledge. I should say, looking at the Fund which has been piled up, that it is perfectly obvious that there is more being provided from these duties than is actually required for consumption upon the roads.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-28a.2056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-28", "file": "debates1926-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "87334c5cf763a371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-28a.2056.1", "colnum": "2056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "r Spen Valley (Sir J. Simon) yesterday said—and I agree with him—that A would be impossible at the present time to eradicate betting in this country. If that be so, what is our practical duty 7 I see no reason why we should not do everything we can to check it, and, if taxation is supposed to check the consumption of drink, I should imagine it would equally check the amount of betting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-28a.2056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-28", "file": "debates1926-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "87334c5cf763a371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-28a.2067.0", "colnum": "2067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Road Fund proposals!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "ughout his speech that he has viewed the present Budget not only from the point of view of a member of the Conservative party, but also from that of a trader who is conscious of the trials and difficulties of industry at the present time. Having taken a complete survey of the Budget, the right hon. Gentleman has practically only two things to praise—the Preference Duties and the Betting Tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-28a.2067.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-28", "file": "debates1926-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "87334c5cf763a371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-28a.2111.0", "colnum": "2111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are using them now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "8212;that meed of praise and encouragement they merely make this act of correctitude and propriety on my part a ground for a vague, ill-founded denunciation. I come to the question of economy. Here I should like to say a few words of a general character about false arguments. It seems to me—and I have a lengthening experience in the House—that false arguments very rarely pay in debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-28a.2111.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-04-29", "file": "debates1926-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8aae066af0ef7d0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-29a.2189.2", "colnum": "2189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — VAGRANCY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "erday there were a man and a woman who arrived here with five children. They walked all the way from Scotland, and they were right up against it, starving. They had nowhere to go, the eldest of those children was 10 years of age, and we had nowhere to put them. Is there nothing that the Minister of Health—because this is a question of health, and it is human beings we are dealing with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-29a.2189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-29", "file": "debates1926-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8aae066af0ef7d0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-29a.2193.1", "colnum": "2193", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "In view of the appeal, I do not press the point further, but I do ask the right hon. Gentleman to represent to the Prime Minister that these proposals were carefully laid before the country, were approved of by the majority of the coal lessees at the time, and that Sir George Elliot allowed for an immediate increase of wages to the coalminers of 10 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-29a.2193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-29", "file": "debates1926-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8aae066af0ef7d0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-29a.2197.8", "colnum": "2197", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROAD RELIEF SCHEME, PERTH (WAGES AND CONDITIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "Seeing that personally I have been in communication with his Department and I had had letters from his superiors and the Department, and that this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-29a.2197.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-29", "file": "debates1926-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8aae066af0ef7d0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-29a.2200.3", "colnum": "2200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROSYTH DOCKYARD (TRANSFERRED EMPLOYES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "But, Mr. Speaker, in this question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-29a.2200.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-29", "file": "debates1926-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8aae066af0ef7d0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-29a.2230.0", "colnum": "2230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "preceding_text": " this country, but the international conditions that we lay down are that in gaining national economic security, and in raising the standard of life of the British people, we are not entitled to do it at the expense of other communities throughout the world. The party opposite, at election times or whenever they discuss this problem, presume that they are the real custodians of the British Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-29a.2230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-29", "file": "debates1926-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8aae066af0ef7d0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-29a.2236.1", "colnum": "2236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "preceding_text": "eveloping Preferences on sugar, wines and dried fruits. I am opposed to the policy of a 10 years stabilisation of Preference. I do not, consider that the party opposite have any right to pledge this country to that policy. The Labour party, speaking for over 5,000,000 people, a party which is growing more rapidly in the confidence of the people of this country than any other political party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-29a.2236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-29", "file": "debates1926-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8aae066af0ef7d0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-29a.2243.1", "colnum": "2243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PILCHER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PILCHER", "preceding_text": "I will develop that subject if I have the time to do so. The Lancashire worker from his own point of view is engaged in what he describes as stabilising a new and higher standard of comfort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-29a.2243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-29", "file": "debates1926-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8aae066af0ef7d0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-29a.2259.2", "colnum": "2259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "to be our united effort to raise the purchasing power of our customers, and not proceed with a policy of depressing it. The party opposite proclaim themselves to be the great friends of Empire— especially at electioneering times. Let us see what they are doing for the Empire. We talk about people from all over the world coming to London, and of the Colonies coming here. They are turned away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-29a.2259.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-29", "file": "debates1926-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8aae066af0ef7d0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-29a.2259.2", "colnum": "2259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "s to go to America for her loans. They are driven away from here, while at the same time Czechoslovakia can get money. Austria can get money here— at 8 per cent! Germany can get money here. Loans are floated upon the London money market for practically every country but our own. The party opposite are in power. They have encouraged this, or at all events have winked at it. They profit by it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-29a.2259.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-29", "file": "debates1926-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "8aae066af0ef7d0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-29a.2259.2", "colnum": "2259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is impossible!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "untry but our own. The party opposite are in power. They have encouraged this, or at all events have winked at it. They profit by it. [An HON. MEMBER:\" No!\"] Oh, yes, they profit by it. The Government yesterday issued a White Paper dealing with the Trade Facilities Act— No. 61. If I cannot make an impression upon the Government Benches perhaps I may be able to do so on hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-29a.2259.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-30", "file": "debates1926-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "4fdfc0877baefa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-30a.2301.2", "colnum": "2301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF INDUSTRIAL EMPLOY MENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: ''Then why do you want the Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": " the 48-hours week, and now it is 1926, and the first time that the Bill was introduced by a Government was in 1924 by the Labour Government in order, as the Minister then said, honourably to fulfil their obligations. Is it not strange that in this great industrial country, without legal protection for the hours of workers, 90 per cent. of the organised workers are working a 48-hours week or less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-30a.2301.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-30", "file": "debates1926-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "4fdfc0877baefa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-30a.2301.2", "colnum": "2301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF INDUSTRIAL EMPLOY MENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Go ahead !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACKINDER", "preceding_text": "r. I say it is not reasonable, and, above all, it is not good Government. It is exceedingly bad Government to forget that the people, the toiling millions of this country, who look to the House of Commons to protect their interest, may fail to find that protection. I suggest that this Bill will protect their interests, assuming it is accepted. Earlier I said that I was not going to-bore the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-30a.2301.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-30", "file": "debates1926-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "4fdfc0877baefa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-30a.2349.1", "colnum": "2349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF INDUSTRIAL EMPLOY MENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They will be eliminated, anyhow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "The old-fashioned employers will be eliminated by modern competition unless they bring their equipment, plant and management up to the state of modern efficiency,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-30a.2349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-30", "file": "debates1926-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "4fdfc0877baefa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-30a.2356.1", "colnum": "2356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF INDUSTRIAL EMPLOY MENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are talking of robots.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "different number of hours. This is not a question of what other countries do. The volume of your sales will at all tines depend upon your selling price, and the lower your selling price the greater the volume of your sales, and, other things being equal, the greater the volume of employment. If the change in hours of labour results in decreased efficiency, a permanent decrease of efficiency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-30a.2356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-04-30", "file": "debates1926-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "4fdfc0877baefa2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-30a.2376.5", "colnum": "2376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOURS OF INDUSTRIAL EMPLOY MENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "and a part of the understanding was that it should be submitted to the competent authority within 18 months. We found the Government taking the extraordinary line that the Convention was a treaty, and that it did not lie with Parliament to deal with it, but that it was a matter for His Majesty the King. The name of His Majesty the King was brought in to cover up the shortcomings of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-04-30a.2376.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.33.3", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FRANCO-TURKISH TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the Government did consider it was its business to convey this representation to the German Government, and, if so, why not to the French Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.33.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the threat of a lock-out?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "hat some such assurance might be forthcoming. I did not feel so hopeful last night, although I determined not to abandon hope till the last moment. But the time was running out; and do not let anyone on either side of the House forget the risk that I was running as Prime Minister, responsible to the whole country, in negotiating like that up to the last minute under the threat of a general strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.70.2", "colnum": "70", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "xecutive, through their council, have put all their resources at the disposal of the miners. They did not consult their members by ballot before taking this momentous step, when their rules required such consultation. They secured on Saturday last plenary powers to order a strike without notice. This was done, I imagine, without prior consultation with or authority from their members and branches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.70.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "cts have been honoured and are being honoured. How are we going to help the wages of this nation to be increased, if we teach men to break contracts, if we throw men out of work by the million—and we know that, whatever happens, the state of unemployment afterwards must be worse than that which we have to-day. At this moment we are enjoying the lowest unemployment we have had for some years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.73.0", "colnum": "73", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "robably—indeed I know it is —his clear and definite conception of everything that took place. Equally, I am going to give to the House my view and my impression of all that took place, because, like the Prime Minister, I share in the responsibility for the negotiations in which I have taken part. I want to say at the outset that whilst I am going to join issue on interpretations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.73.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The Government has proclaimed a state of emergency\"— and so on. On Friday, when we were trying to bring about peace—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The Government has proclaimed a state of emergency\"— and so on. On Friday, when we were trying to bring about peace—[ Interruption ]—this was brought to us. Again we kept it private. We merely showed it to the Prime Minister and asked him, was it fair? Again, quite honestly, he said he knew nothing about it, which I accept.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.80.2", "colnum": "80", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "g which ought not to be forgotten. This has been a dispute about wages. It arose about wages. I do not say that is what is at the bottom of it, but it was a demand for a reduction of wages that precipitated this conflict. Yet I did not know until now that it was not until Friday, after the lock-out had begun, that the demands of the owners were formulated and submitted to the Trade Union Congress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.80.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.85.0", "colnum": "85", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT SANDERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT SANDERS", "preceding_text": "May I interrupt the right hon. Gentleman? Was it not a fact that when the lock-out notices were posted it was at the same time announced what rates of pay the owners intended to give.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.85.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "This shows exactly the position we are in. It only shows the confusion that exists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.86.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.86.3", "colnum": "86", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "reduction.\" What I ask the Government is this, and I ask it in all solemnity—that instead of asking that there should be a resumption of negotiations on the basis of a reduction of wages they should say to them, \"Are you prepared to enter into a. discussion about wages?\", which is a different thing. Then, when you enter into the negotiations, the question of reduction will naturally come in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.86.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Sit down!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "Might I interrupt the right hon. Gentleman again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.88.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.88.8", "colnum": "88", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "That is important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.88.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.89.3", "colnum": "89", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "That does not mean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.89.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.89.3", "colnum": "89", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "That does not mean—[ Interruption .] I really am not making difficulties. I am trying to clear up difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.89.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.89.4", "colnum": "89", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Dodging again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "It would be inconvenient for me to attempt to answer categorical questions on these very complicated matters as part of a discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.89.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.97.1", "colnum": "97", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "that he would be prepared to accept the principle of a reduction of wages. But the matter does not stop there. He attended other meetings after that, and his last words of importance, as far as I can find, to the delegates at the miners' conference on Saturday Were that they must not, be asked to accept any reduction of wages. That was not a question of being preliminary to anything; it was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.97.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.98.4", "colnum": "98", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "There is no question about it. The Commissioners' Report would be nonsense without accepting what they say as to an immediate reduction of wages being necessary, and that reduction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.98.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.98.4", "colnum": "98", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"From the Report !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "There is no question about it. The Commissioners' Report would be nonsense without accepting what they say as to an immediate reduction of wages being necessary, and that reduction—[ Interruption ]—well, I will read the passage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.98.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.104.2", "colnum": "104", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER, \"That is nothing at all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " that,\" and it makes much stronger the statement, whatever it is, when it is said in that much more definite way. What did Mr. Smith say in his second speech? This is his second statement: Somebody had declared that he had agreed to accept the Report. What he intended to say was that he was prepared to examine the Report from page one to the last page and stand by the result of the final judgment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.104.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.114.2", "colnum": "114", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "The MINIATER of LABOUR (Sir Arthur steel-Maitland)", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman say that that is the wage paid for a full week's work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.115.2", "colnum": "115", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "If the earnings I have quoted are all he is getting, the average figures will not help him in his savings. These are actual wages paid to miners. I do not consider whether they are average or not average. This idea of average earnings is a method of dealing with human problems that is misleading us altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.115.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.115.2", "colnum": "115", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " average figures will not help him in his savings. These are actual wages paid to miners. I do not consider whether they are average or not average. This idea of average earnings is a method of dealing with human problems that is misleading us altogether. [ Interruption .] I have had four or five or six of these slips handed in, and I say these are the wages earned by miners working in a coal pit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.115.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.116.0", "colnum": "116", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A fortnight.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "d from the position which they then held so strongly and intensely that there must not be one minute's prolongation of the time or one shilling's diminution of the wage. If they will not accept a reduction of wages, and if the owners cannot be forced to carry on the business at a loss, it is perfectly clear the only alternative left is for the State to continue the. subsidy for a prolonged period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.120.0", "colnum": "120", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "on we a-re in to-night is that we have either got, to face the ruin of the country or submit to a demand which is placed on us under duress. Therefore, it seems that the general strike turns, not upon the decision of the Trade Union Congress even as to whether the claims of the miners are just. it turns on the failure of the Trade Union Committee to persuade the miners to accept some modification.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.120.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.123.0", "colnum": "123", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "n HON. MEMBER \"Not the majority! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ituation is concerned, it affects it in no way, and what Government in the world could enter into partnership with a rival Government, against which it is endeavouring defend itself, and society, and allow that rival Government to sit in judgment on every train that runs and en every lorry on the road? Our title deeds in this House—and, after all, we represent a great mass of electors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.127.0", "colnum": "127", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "preceding_text": "till more, between people who have not, that there are a few questions about which we ought to get a little more clear. Let us take the question of the so-called lock-out notices. There are no lock-out notices. The notices at the pits which I have seen, giving notice of termination of service at a certain date, state that on that day work will be continued at certain rates. That is not a lock-out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.127.0", "colnum": "127", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On reduced wages? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "preceding_text": "rk will be continued at certain rates. That is not a lock-out. [ Interruption .] Hon. Gentlemen opposite must be correct in their terminology. Hon. Members opposite know what a lock-out notice is. They also know that day-to-day rates will be carried on, and, if these negotiations went on, there is absolutely no reason why, as has often been the case in previous disputes, the mines cannot carry on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.127.0", "colnum": "127", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Give us that assurance!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "preceding_text": "must be correct in their terminology. Hon. Members opposite know what a lock-out notice is. They also know that day-to-day rates will be carried on, and, if these negotiations went on, there is absolutely no reason why, as has often been the case in previous disputes, the mines cannot carry on. [An HON. MEMBER: \"On reduced wages? \"] Negotiations could go on at day-to-day wages at the present rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.127.0", "colnum": "127", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED MOND", "preceding_text": "lock-out notice is. They also know that day-to-day rates will be carried on, and, if these negotiations went on, there is absolutely no reason why, as has often been the case in previous disputes, the mines cannot carry on. [An HON. MEMBER: \"On reduced wages? \"] Negotiations could go on at day-to-day wages at the present rate. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Give us that assurance!\"] It is on the notice issued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"So are the miners!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "I have no objection to that myself, but that is the position. I have all the time been anxious for a peaceful settlement. I am to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then why worry?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "N MEMEITR \"Miners work 8½ hours in many instances.\"] The legal day is seven hours, Will hon. Members go and tell the chemical workers who are working an eight-hour shift, to go out and lose their wages in a dispute in which they have no interest? They will not do it, that is all; and you will find they will not do it. Why should they? I am not arguing on merits. I am arguing what will happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are you not going to pay them when they work?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "al workers who are working an eight-hour shift, to go out and lose their wages in a dispute in which they have no interest? They will not do it, that is all; and you will find they will not do it. Why should they? I am not arguing on merits. I am arguing what will happen. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Then why worry?\"] Because I see these thousands of men without wages, and their wives and families suffering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The coalowners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": " Let the matter be decided by a. majority as to what action should be taken, and then let the Government, by legislation, compel compliance with the findings of the Committee. That ought not to be a long, nor a complicated process, and not impossible to achieve. This House has got to take responsibility. It cannot afford to see the trade of the country ruined by the obstinacy of any set of people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.151.3", "colnum": "151", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "preceding_text": "mate benefit out of the re-organisation of the industry being the nation as a whole, I suggest the nation as a whole should bear the brunt of the cost of re-organisation during the interim period, whether it is to be a year or two years or more. We agree in principle that a subsidy is wrong, but no Protectionist should object to a subsidy, because Protection is based upon subsidy and nothing else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.151.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.151.3", "colnum": "151", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS:\" America!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "preceding_text": "se without asking the miners to accept either reduced wages or increased hours. We believe the industry could produce coal at a greater rate per man per shift on a seven-hour day basis if it were properly organised. The British miner on the present hours produces more coal per shift than any other miner in Europe. That has been admitted by the Mines Department in answer to questions in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.151.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.151.3", "colnum": "151", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "preceding_text": " down the wages of the miners. The miners have had to fight for everything they have. They are accustomed to fight and to sacrifice and to suffer. They are prepared to do so again, and the workers in other industries know that if the miner is allowed to go down in this fight, their turn will come next. This attack on the miners is only part of a. general attack on organised labour in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.151.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.156.0", "colnum": "156", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "ehalf of the negotiating committee, as well as of the miners, said just one thing with which I may show a little disagreement. He referred probably to the Communists, but did not name them, and he said they did not count, that nobody has consulted them, that nobody has gone near them to talk to them. That may be so, but, as I have pointed out, all the figures who are acting are pushed from behind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-03", "file": "debates1926-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "b160fc685ec8cff2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.167.0", "colnum": "167", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUFF COOPER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUFF COOPER", "preceding_text": " that they did make a concession. But that does not appear to be the opinion of everyone else who was at the conference and it is not the Opinion of their leader in the country to-day. Mr. Cook has said again and again—only yesterday I think—that he wishes the miners to understand that never for a moment have they considered the question of a reduction of wages or an increase of hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-03a.167.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-05", "file": "debates1926-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fa5619a96eb57b4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.293.2", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "Most of these Regulations are to enable the Government to take possession of land, buildings and various undertakings which they desire to keep in operation for the benefit of the nation as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.293.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-05", "file": "debates1926-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fa5619a96eb57b4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "I have directed that the supply of electricity is a vital necessity. I have directed that the maintenance of the electrical and mechanical plant and machinery of the Port of London is a vital necessity. I have further directed that the transport of motor spirit is a vital necessity, and that the continuance of the railway service is a vital necessity. The House will see that the Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-05", "file": "debates1926-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fa5619a96eb57b4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.296.3", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "hese Regulations. In the first place, having made these Regulations, I have been in communication with the railway world. Perhaps the House will desire to know that although the country is in a very serious condition—I do not wish to minimise that, because a considerable stoppage of the railways has taken place throughout the country—the position in regard to the railways is improving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.296.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-05", "file": "debates1926-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fa5619a96eb57b4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.301.0", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Offer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR HENDERSON", "preceding_text": " the Government have come into [...] during the past day or two—cannot carry the whole of the responsibility if sufferings follow as a result of a policy which has been put into operation in connection with the essential services. I think the Home Secretary must be aware of a communication that the Prime Minister received, as late as Saturday evening, in which a very definite offer was made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.301.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-05", "file": "debates1926-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fa5619a96eb57b4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.302.2", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "two o'clock. What is more, I want to say that overtures were made even on Monday. Some of us on this side realise the gravity of the situation. I am not sure that all hon. Members—I want to say this without arousing any passion—the impression that I had on Monday afternoon when our proceedings opened was that a large num- ber of hon. Members on the opposite side did not realise —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.302.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-05", "file": "debates1926-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fa5619a96eb57b4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.306.0", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "here was real sympathy with the miners—I felt it myself, and I know that I was only one out of multitudes of people who felt it—and it led people to believe that their means of livelihood had been suppressed beyond what was fair to people pursuing a very dangerous avocation. What has happened since has for the moment obscured that and provoked a good deal of sympathy on the wrong side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-05", "file": "debates1926-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fa5619a96eb57b4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.306.0", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "e language that was threatening. When he made that statement, I think he was merely stating his conviction, and I may say, apprehension—an apprehension that is shared by many of us. I do not take the view that so many take, that this is something that will pass away easily. The Government have got the whole resource of the community behind them, and public opinion in the main is behind them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-05", "file": "debates1926-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fa5619a96eb57b4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.306.0", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "g depends upon the temper with which it is done. It should be done with tact and discretion and, above all, it should be made clear that these regulations should not be initiated for any party purposes. I say that, because there are one or two things that have happened which give the impression that there is desire rather to make party capital out of the situation instead of to act for the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-05", "file": "debates1926-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fa5619a96eb57b4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.306.0", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " of this country. It was very injudicious. The Home Secretary may believe it is right. But is it wise at the present moment, when this is practically the only paper, and the Government are issuing it on behalf of the nation, to include something in it that is an attack en an Act of Parliament which gave special powers to trade unions and a sort of hint that it was the Liberal Party who carried it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-05", "file": "debates1926-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fa5619a96eb57b4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did you not edit it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "May I say at once that I quite appreciate the view which the right hon. Gentleman has taken? I do accept responsibility, of course, but until this moment I had not read the paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-05", "file": "debates1926-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fa5619a96eb57b4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "I accept the assurance given by the Home Secretary. What we want is news, and not dope. It is not fair. Another suggestion I want to make is this: I think if news is to be given, it ought to be news conveying what in substance is said on behalf of all parties. I will show what I mean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-05", "file": "debates1926-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fa5619a96eb57b4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HADEN GUEST", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HADEN GUEST", "preceding_text": " you are using the supremacy of force. I believe it is quite easy for an army corps or two, a few regiments, with machine guns, and for battleships and so forth to cow this country into a state of submission, whatever happens, but if you do that you are destroying our political institutions, and I am afraid the temper of some of the Members on the other side of the House would wish you to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-05", "file": "debates1926-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fa5619a96eb57b4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.320.0", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": "at they took up a position to protect the interests of the mine owners, and preferred the degradation of the mine workers. If they take up that position, then we may have to admit that it may be a challenge to the Government. What I myself grieve about is as to what I saw here on Monday, and I want to use no offensive words. I thought that I saw on Monday a spirit of truculence and of Jack-bootism", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-05", "file": "debates1926-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fa5619a96eb57b4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.322.0", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Some of you over there were shrieking for blood on Monday!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "I only wanted to say that I think the House needs to keep steady. It is not quite right to say that we were in an hilarious mood on Monday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-05", "file": "debates1926-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fa5619a96eb57b4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.322.0", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "I only wanted to say that I think the House needs to keep steady. It is not quite right to say that we were in an hilarious mood on Monday. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Some of you over there were shrieking for blood on Monday!\"] I only want to say that some of us were really horrified at the shouting and the noise of hon. Members opposite. We kept quite quiet here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.322.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-05", "file": "debates1926-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fa5619a96eb57b4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. P. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "uction has not taken place. After all the suffering and humiliation which the miners have undergone, a man must be without heart or reason if he can look upon such a situation without compunction. This situation can only be dealt with by frank and honourable discussion on both sides. I object altogether to the position that people should issue ultimatums before they enter into the council chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.328.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-05-05", "file": "debates1926-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fa5619a96eb57b4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.339.6", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to quibble about words. It is beyond question that there is common agreement on both sides, the Government side and the Labour side, that if nothing had happened the notices posted were tantamount to a lock-out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.339.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-05", "file": "debates1926-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fa5619a96eb57b4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.343.0", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"What was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ossession as a means of settling, and I accepted it. Let the. House be under no misapprehension about that. I accepted it. When I say \"I\" I speak for the Trades Union Congress. Perhaps I had better use the word \"we.\" We had not only accepted it, but we had taken the responsibility of saying, \"Never mind what the miners or anybody else say. We accept it.\" That was at eleven o'clock on Sunday night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.343.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-05", "file": "debates1926-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fa5619a96eb57b4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AUSTEN HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AUSTEN HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "of the Miners' Federation last week, after receiving the unanimous reports of the districts against any reductions in wages, increase in hours, or district agreements, reaffirmed its unalterable opposition to any settlement embodying any of these proposals.' I submit, therefore, that at this stage of the proceedings any discussion of this formula is absolutely useless. What that formula was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-05", "file": "debates1926-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fa5619a96eb57b4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.349.0", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "t be got because they had left London. I had been to the Cabinet and had heard discussion there. In the evening we considered it again. There is some discrepancy in the rest of the statement. The right hon. Gentleman (Mr. Macdonald) seems to think there was some lack of courtesy in the way the negotiations actually broke down. They were broken because of the actual beginning of the general strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-05", "file": "debates1926-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fa5619a96eb57b4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.358.1", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For how long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "elf right and to start a solution of the problem, because the coal problem is not one to which you can apply a solution to-day that will be effective to-morrow. Whenever it is applied, it will be a progressive solution, and I sincerely hope that wiser counsels will prevail, and that we shall agree that. it is necessary at this stage for some further financial assistance to he offered the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-05", "file": "debates1926-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fa5619a96eb57b4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the strike order withdrawn?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": " it will take a couple of months to prepare a scheme and get it set into motion. That is the line upon which we have to proceed, and if the House would only bring the necessary pressure to bear or convey to the Government its desire that they should move on these lines, surely there is no loss of dignity involved. I should not fear any loss of dignity to suggest that this course should be pursued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.362.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-05", "file": "debates1926-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fa5619a96eb57b4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.393.0", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Full of stones!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "preceding_text": "der whether some of those could not be arrested who were on this job in connection with this matter. People will attend meetings, and very often as they are walking along through the streets, not with the intention of going to one at all, they accidentally get to a meeting. That may seem strange to hon. Members, but you might be going along Whitehall and possibly meet three or four hundred people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.393.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-05", "file": "debates1926-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fa5619a96eb57b4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.419.0", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE NEGOTIATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "Having the notes in your hand, you will, I am sure, because we all want to do the right thing, read on, and you will then find another quotation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-05", "file": "debates1926-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "fa5619a96eb57b4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.419.0", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STRIKE NEGOTIATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ve it all out now. You will find another quotation which explains this—and I ask the House in fairness whether anyone on our side could have done any other thing. Of course, we were the negotiating body, but we would have been road, we would not only have been fools, but we could not have helped, unless in our negotiations we brought into consultation the people with the technical knowledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-05a.419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.435.0", "colnum": "435", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "I wish to ask two questions with regard to business. The first is as to the Secretaries of State Bill, which I understand is to deal with the raising of the status of the Secretary for Scotland. Large numbers of Scottish Members, particularly on the Opposition side, cannot be present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.435.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.456.0", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "siderable distance of a landlord. What is \"known character\"? It may be that the Attorney-General, who, when he is asleep, always seems to have a nightmare of Communists or of Irish deportees, if he were seen within a considerable distance of anything like that, might be a \"known character\" I want to put it to the Attorney-General that this business of \"known character\" ought to be clearly defined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.456.0", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An Hon MEMBER: \"Who is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "all seriousness, what does \"known character\" mean? Does it mean the holding of political opinions? Does it mean the holding of unpopular views? Does it mean being in association with a trade union? Does it mean past criminal convictions? One of the best colleagues that ever I had—and I am sure that even hon. Members who are not of our opinions will agree—my bedmate, has been in prison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.460.0", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "I beg to support the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.460.2", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "Last night when the Attorney General was speaking on this Regulation, he said that we on this side had voted against the previous Regulation, the object of which was to safeguard human life. The Attorney General was not in the House during much of the Debates on the previous Regulation. If he had been, I am certain he would not have uttered that remark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.460.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.462.4", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "That is just drawing the line at what I want to show. I have not the slightest wish to come into collision with the Chair, but I think on these Regulations I am entitled to point out the indecent haste of the Government to protect property, and their eagerness to assist the coalowners to starve the miners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.462.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.462.5", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "ne at what I want to show. I have not the slightest wish to come into collision with the Chair, but I think on these Regulations I am entitled to point out the indecent haste of the Government to protect property, and their eagerness to assist the coalowners to starve the miners. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] There is no question about it. In supporting the Government you are helping to starve the miners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.462.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.471.1", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not to work.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ter, and I certainly do not claim any legal knowledge at all and can only read them as an ordinary layman. With regard to the first part of this particular Regulation, I would like to ask the Attorney-General a question, in view of the fact that we are allowed, even under the Emergency Powers Act, to take part in a strike; we are allowed to picket, and generally to persuade people not to blackleg.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.471.1", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": ", we are not infringing the guarantee that is on the face of the Emergency Powers, and that we shall have the same right as under the Emergency Powers Act, to persuade and do our best to prevent people carrying on the distribution of food, water, fuel, light, etc., whenever any of these are taken over by whoever acts on behalf of the Government. It is very necessary that we should have that clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.477.0", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "rict, and arm with executive authority power, and he may use that little bit of power to display it before the world at large, and make himself such as the Attorney- General made himself a few moments ago in the eyes of this House. But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority. Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, Plays such fantastic tricks before High Heaven, As make the angels weep.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.477.0", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"From Burns!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "s the Attorney- General made himself a few moments ago in the eyes of this House. But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority. Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, Plays such fantastic tricks before High Heaven, As make the angels weep. [ Laughter. ] That, Mr. Speaker, may seem to amuse individuals, but I would ask them just to think of the words which I have quoted from Shakespeare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.477.0", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "y are trying by these Regulations to crush something which every power that ever reigned in any time has failed when it has attempted to do it, to crush liberty! I warn them, while there is yet time, that our people will never give way from where we stand. We are standing for something upon which the very fate of the British Empire depends. We are standing here to-day defending the British Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.477.0", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " will never willingly submit to rules and regulations such as these. Our forefathers fought for the rights of British subjects and died for them, and you are asking us here to-day to pass these Regulations. You have brass faces on you to think you can come down here quietly with a quite contented smile on your faces to do this. But remember One may smile, and smile, and be a villain all the while.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.477.0", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " and died for them, and you are asking us here to-day to pass these Regulations. You have brass faces on you to think you can come down here quietly with a quite contented smile on your faces to do this. But remember One may smile, and smile, and be a villain all the while. [ Laughter. ] I wish from the bottom of my heart that it was a laughing matter. I know where I may find myself within a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.479.4", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has failed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "D.O.R.A.\" I was whipped by \"D.O.R.A.\" I was deported and separated from my wife and family without a trial by regulations such as these. I say again, this Regulation 21 will place power in the hands of some nincompoop, for instance, the hon. Member for one of the Divisions of Woolwich—Sir Kingsley Wood, to make no mistake. He is away up in Newcastle to put Regulation 21 into operation there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.479.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "What, has he been sent back? In Glasgow I came under similar regulations, and I look about as decent a man as is in this House. Not only that, but my character will stand the closest investigation. It has had to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "ou have been tried, Kirkwood, by Court Martial in Edinburgh, and sentenced to deportation.\" It was a lie; but I was deported. I do not want to go over what happened to me, because hon. Members can see for themselves that with all the tyranny that was exercised upon me they did not crush me. You have never crushed the spirit that I represent, because the spirit I represent is the spirit of liberty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.480.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.489.0", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You must not touch the 'Daily Mail.'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ion among the civil population? Am I inciting to violence? Do I come under this Regulation, and am I liable to arrest and imprisonment for making that statement? I understand the Attorney-General will say, \"if you incite people to use their right hands to strike for freedom and liberty you come under this Regulation.\" Then, I say, arrest the editor of the \"Daily Mail,\" in whose paper this appears.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.489.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.489.0", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ept any conditions and any terms of wages that you put before us. That is your idea of us accepting peaceful persuasion. Get down to the very mud, down into the gutter. You want to crush the people because they dare to claim manhood and life for themselves and their families and you issue these regulations and declare that there is a state of revolution. What is revolution? What are you afraid of?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.489.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.489.0", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "efore even the miners were out on strike? Afraid of nothing! Some of you are afraid that your little world is coming to an end. Some of you are afraid that if higher wages and better conditions are given to the miners and other low paid workers you will lose some of your privileges, and instead of fighting for yourselves to preserve your privileges you get the forces of the State to fight for you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.489.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.491.0", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Is the hon. Member in order in addressing his remarks to us?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "aid that your little world is coming to an end. Some of you are afraid that if higher wages and better conditions are given to the miners and other low paid workers you will lose some of your privileges, and instead of fighting for yourselves to preserve your privileges you get the forces of the State to fight for you. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"] Mr. Deputy-Speaker will keep me in order, and not you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.489.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.491.2", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "ergency Act or under the law, but there are some people who evidently stand above the law, whom the law cannot reach or whom the Government are afraid to touch. I want to know who they are. I want to know if this regulation will apply impartially. If it does, since the Attorney-General or the Home Secretary took such speed in arresting a member of this House and having him sentenced to two months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.491.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.491.2", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "do not let them accuse us of breaking the traditions of this country. For any consequences that may arise, the Government is to blame and on their shoulders and no one else's will rest the responsibility for any trouble or disturbance. You could have had peace, the whole matter would have ended, but for the attitude adopted by the Government. We cannot submit to dictation, says the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.491.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.499.2", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By the Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "t speech I cannot say whether it is seditious or not. It has been said that the Government were afraid of what might be happening or coming to this country in the future. It was said almost by way of a gibe. I am not ashamed to say that I am afraid of what may be coming to this country as the result of what, in our views, seems to be the most unhappy and most misguided course which has been taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.499.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.507.1", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "ing is likely to cause grave disorder, he himself—this simple magistrate—will have the power to pro- hibit that meeting or that procession as the case may be. We submit seriously that this Regulation is going to militate entirely against the working classes. The great majority of the magistrates of this country are drawn from political parties who are in opposition to the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.517.2", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "preceding_text": "side our town hall. The reason was that the town hall was not large enough for all of them, or even half of them, to get in, with the result that we were in the street, and we held a meeting and gave the men certain information as to what had been transpiring, which they are always ready and willing to receive, and indeed expect to receive, especially from a representative of the labour interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.517.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.519.0", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "said: I believe without exaggeration that the anxiety of His Majesty's Ministers is greater to-day than the anxiety of the Ministers during the War period, and for this reason. During the War period the whole nation united as one nine behind the Ministers, whereas there is no such unanimity now. To-day there is a prospect, I would almost say, of war. This was said long before the strike commenced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.519.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.519.0", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Last Saturday week.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "y of His Majesty's Ministers is greater to-day than the anxiety of the Ministers during the War period, and for this reason. During the War period the whole nation united as one nine behind the Ministers, whereas there is no such unanimity now. To-day there is a prospect, I would almost say, of war. This was said long before the strike commenced. [An HON. MEMBER: \"When was it?\"] A week or two ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.519.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.540.0", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": "might have a greater effect in the direction desired by the Government than the putting of it into operation. The time for words has gone by I feel by Sunday next the present industrial trouble will be very greatly intensified and that by this time next week there will be an appalling industrial situation in this country. I repeat, if it be necessary, that this is nothing but an industrial dispute", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.540.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.540.0", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": "nse form by Sunday next. They are generally useful for footing a subscription list or presiding at a banquet, but they have never had to tackle such a great problem as we are confronted with at the moment, and it is easy for any one of them to be led away when seeing these great masses of people assemble and to be thrown off their balance for a moment and then to issue some instruction to stop it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.540.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is a threat.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "preceding_text": ". With their dependants the figure reaches 15,000,000, or one-third of the population of the country. I agree with what my hon. Friend the Member for Barrow (Mr. Bromley) said, that by Sunday next there will be millions more out. A week from now it will have spread over the whole country, and no industries will be working except those which the trade unions have decided shall work for the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Press?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "preceding_text": "during this crisis. That means that we shall be forced more and more to hold our meetings in the open air. Everyone who has had experience knows that it is not so easy to control an outdoor meeting as it is to control an indoor meeting. Neither are the people in the audience able to appreciate the case so well. But whether the meetings are indoors or out of doors we claim the right of free speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.548.0", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "t of inconvenience to the public. Where you leave these matters to the local police there is always confidence and respect on the part of the local inhabitants. Hon. Members may think it is an exaggeration, but it is the case that 100 police will keep more order and will better prevent the danger of an outbreak than 10,000 soldiers in the same district. That is absolutely true at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.548.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.556.1", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member will keep patient for a moment, I will describe the circumstances to which I am referring. Last night, at about 8 o'clock, a force of police about 60 strong, armed with a warrant, raided the premises where the \"Daily Herald\" is printed.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.556.1", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "d obstruction and to confine themselves strictly to their legitimate duties. That is the big tpye message sent out by the General Council of the Trade Union Congress in the bulletin which His Majesty's Government, through the Home Secretary, and through the police, held up for two hours last night, and there is no pretence of a prosecution. It is a clear interference with the liberty of the Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.556.1", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "he General Council of the Trade Union Congress in the bulletin which His Majesty's Government, through the Home Secretary, and through the police, held up for two hours last night, and there is no pretence of a prosecution. It is a clear interference with the liberty of the Press. [ Laughter. ] You will observe, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, the cat-call. It is an interference with the liberty of the Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.558.1", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "tical opponents such as the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs used during the War, and such as the Attorney-General is asking for to-night. 10.0 P.M. If any newspaper breaks the law; if any editor breaks the law, let there be a prosecution. Why should you give anybody power to use it against political opponents? Why should you give any power to anyone to stop public criticism?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.558.1", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "ny editor breaks the law, let there be a prosecution. Why should you give anybody power to use it against political opponents? Why should you give any power to anyone to stop public criticism? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] I did not hear those cheers before. I think we understand now that hon. Members opposite are only concerned for the liberty of the Press when it is the Press that supports them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.558.1", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "iberty of the Press when it is the Press that supports them. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] What else are we to understand from the exhibition of the last 10 minutes? When I give an instance of raiding for sheerly political purposes, hon. Members opposite—and this was a non-military, a non-naval question altogether, a question purely of trade regulation,—hon. Members opposite say \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.558.1", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "nt by giving power to the Secretary of State to raid any printing establishment \"which may cause disaffection among the civil population.\" I cannot imagine any form of criticism of the Government of the day, which would not be likely to cause disaffection among the civil population. If it were not really to cause disaffection amongst the civilian population, the criticism would not be worth while.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.558.1", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For the benefit of everybody.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "st the civilian population, the criticism would not be worth while. [ Laughter. ] In fact, the sole purpose—I will wait till the laughter from hon. Members who are anxious for the liberty of the Press, has subsided! I take it that the purpose of public criticism of the Administration of the day is to promote dissatisfaction against the activities of the Government, and in favour of a change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "No, sir, it is not. But it is my view that the owners of the Press, should not publish, at critical moments in the history of the people of this country, fallacious and lying misrepresentations about great sections of the people who have little or no opportunity of replying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.561.2", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Captain O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "That is the only publication that you are permitting to be issued. Others are published in spite of you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.561.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.562.1", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "ntly a grave industrial dispute may leave marks on the life, thought and minds of the people of this country that generations will not wipe out, and I do beg the House of Commons and the Attorney-General to pause before claiming these powers, how- ever well intentioned the Attorney-General may be as to their use. I do not for a moment imagine that the present Attorney-General or the Home Secretary", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.563.2", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "preceding_text": "vily of all upon people who have nothing to do with the dispute, and not a single mine owner will suffer. I know that many of my hon. Friends have been very closely associated with industrial disputes, and I have been a close observer of them all my life. I have always found that these acts of repression recoil on the heads of those who use them, and in this as in other matters force is no remedy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.563.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.563.2", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "preceding_text": "f my hon. Friends have been very closely associated with industrial disputes, and I have been a close observer of them all my life. I have always found that these acts of repression recoil on the heads of those who use them, and in this as in other matters force is no remedy.[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] But we are not using force. We are simply using a constitutional right to withhold our labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.563.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.568.6", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "aper, and I cannot guarantee to say that the particular passages to which I direct attention are the only ones which might occasion offence or give rise to the belief that the publication of this document was calculated to delay the measures of the Government for securing public safety and the life of the community. I observe on page 3 this headline: Beware of Wireless. The Government controls it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.568.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.569.2", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ouse will remember that not only is it broadcasting which nobody is to believe, but nobody is to take notice of any statement that may be circulated either by wireless or in any other form. The Regulations themselves, the orders as to the movement of food and announcements which may vitally concern the public safety and the general welfare of the community, are branded in advance as untrustworthy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.569.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.570.1", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "I have read the headlines. I am quite anxious and willing to lend the document to any Member of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.570.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.572.5", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Read it out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "llowed. They were: Fear of Oscillation. Government anxious lest its broadcasting be spoiled. With reference to the broadcasting arrangements described above the \"Daily Herald\" was informed yesterday that fears are entertained in Government circles lest the broadcasting be interfered with by oscillation on a large scale. It is possible by means of\" —so and so—direction of finders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.572.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.572.5", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "ng be spoiled. With reference to the broadcasting arrangements described above the \"Daily Herald\" was informed yesterday that fears are entertained in Government circles lest the broadcasting be interfered with by oscillation on a large scale. It is possible by means of\" —so and so—direction of finders—[HON. MEMBERS \"Read it out.\"] I have no objection. I understood it was —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.572.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.577.1", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"1264.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "n. I know perfectly well, that under these Regulations, particularly this one, other people who are equally good citizens will probably, in a very short time, be shut up within prison walls. It is a poor plight to which Great Britain has come if this House of Commons, which has been now for 800 years regarded as the custodian of the liberties of the people, is going to pass a Regulation like this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "ssion gave its report, and the original report of the Commission, the subsidy was to be continued: attention is drawn to the fact that there was considerable coming and going between the Commissioners and the Prime Minister and the other members of the Cabinet; and the statement is definitely made that the Prime Minister influenced the Committee to change their Report, so that he might have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-06", "file": "debates1926-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "442ff3509e78ebb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "ced the Committee to change their Report, so that he might have—[An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"] You go to the \"Sunday Times.\" The owner of that paper is Sir William Berry, and the Lord Chancellor is, or was, a writer in it. It. is a Tory newspaper, and the statement is made by its political correspondent, and if it is wrong, then the Tory party or the Government ought to see that it is contradicted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-06a.591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-07", "file": "debates1926-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "73ece969c94e70b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-07a.644.3", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " the Labour movement or the rank and file of the movement by the fact that perhaps the Government can sell all their goods and chattels or put these people into prison, I repeat what was said to me by a prison warder, that in this country nothing has ever been gained until someone went to prison. Speaking for myself, old as I am, and not wanting to he any martyr or any of that humbug at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-07a.644.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-07", "file": "debates1926-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "73ece969c94e70b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-07a.644.3", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "is trying to crush and break and destroy the Labour movement, I did not say that all of us, whether in this House or out of it, will stand four-square whatever the consequences and whatever may be ordered to he done. So far as I am concerned, the only people responsible in this business are the Prime Minister and his colleagues, who first on a mere subterfuge broke off negotiations and then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-07a.644.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-07", "file": "debates1926-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "73ece969c94e70b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-07a.650.2", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HADEN GUEST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HADEN GUEST", "preceding_text": "Member and before the House, because I think it imperative at a moment like this, to have a calm objective view and not an exaggerated view of the situation. I do not know if the hon. and gallant Member regards me as a firebrand, but that is a place where my influence is very extensive. At the present moment, if the hon. and gallant Member will go round there he will find that area calm and quiet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-07a.650.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-07", "file": "debates1926-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "73ece969c94e70b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-07a.653.0", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ainly wish to read it, and I think it ought to be printed, but I also think that the speech of the hon. Member for North Southwark (Mr. Haden Guest), to which we have just listened, ought to be printed too. My complaint is that this \"British Gazette,\" which is printed and published at our expense, at the taxpayers' expense, is not impartial. It ought to publish all the speeches made in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-07a.653.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-07", "file": "debates1926-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "73ece969c94e70b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-07a.653.2", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And in the West End !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": " an official paper, you have to be extraordinarily careful really to speak the truth, in the first place, and, secondly, not to give isolated bits of information and put them forward in an attempt to influence public opinion. You should confine yourself to news, and above all you should not put in anything of a nature to inflame passions at this time. There are hooligans in the East End of London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-07a.653.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-07", "file": "debates1926-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "73ece969c94e70b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-07a.655.0", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Himself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SCRYMGEOUR", "preceding_text": "hich seeks at times to batten down any man, and the more determined he is to serve the public interest as against private interests the more unscrupulous they are. Therefore, I do commend this provision which the Government have made, apart altogether from the way they are handling it, and apart from the present editor. I am not surprised that he shows a very biased opinion for his own side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-07a.655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-07", "file": "debates1926-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "73ece969c94e70b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-07a.658.0", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Out of the nation's money\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": " cannot imagine workmen taking such a paper as evidence of the Government's impartiality in the dispute. The public interest is not the issue. If the Government want to be fair, why cannot they say, \"We will have an official Government statement, and we will provide space to allow the General Council of the Trade Union Congress to state their case in another part of the paper.\" That is all we ask.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-07a.658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-07", "file": "debates1926-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "73ece969c94e70b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-07a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "publish national newspapers, let them be national. Let all sides be known, all sides of public opinion have a fair show. But no, this is a series of libels from beginning to end. Seventy-five per cent. of the men engaged in the dispute represent half the productive powers of the nation. They are the community, not you. When you go down the pit and get the coal, you can call yourself the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-07a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-07", "file": "debates1926-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "73ece969c94e70b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-07a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "mass of the people of this country to believe what you tell them, you may be able to smash the strike. But you will not smash the strike. Whatever may happen you are educating the workers of this country as it has never been done before. What are you doing now? You are using all the power of the State, horse, foot, and artillery to try and cripple the most important body of workmen in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-07a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-07", "file": "debates1926-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "73ece969c94e70b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-07a.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIANT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIANT", "preceding_text": " have what for want of a better term one may call mining sharks. Here you have a device brought into existence to hoodwink the general public and rob the miner of a fair deal. Let us wipe out the £40,000,000 or £50,000,000 of watered capital and, after doing so, review the mining situation and we will find that the major portion of the economic difficulty will recede into the background.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-07a.676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-07", "file": "debates1926-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "73ece969c94e70b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-07a.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIANT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Blasphemy !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIANT", "preceding_text": "it in the hearts and souls of men. Hon. Members opposite will forgive me if I say this: I may be wrong, and I hope I shall be forgiven if I am wrong, but I do feel that they have taken sides on this occasion, that the Government have taken sides on this occasion, and that instead of nailing the Christ to the cross, they are crucifying the Christ in humanity to-day by starving them into submission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-07a.676.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-05-07", "file": "debates1926-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "73ece969c94e70b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-07a.680.0", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What about the sugar beet industry?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "preceding_text": "ible effect on the miners' interests, and at a later stage it will be my ambition to try to put the suggestions of a back bencher for the consideration of the powers-that-be and the colliery representatives, as to how this colliery impasse may be overcome It will be overcome. But I would urge this, that it must be overcome by the industry itself. Each of our industries must stand on its own basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-07a.679.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-05-07", "file": "debates1926-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "73ece969c94e70b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-07a.683.0", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Order, order,\" and \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": " the miner? The Prime Minister in 1921 helped the coal owners to fight the miners until he beat them, but as soon as that was over his star began to set and he was driven from office. The present Prime Minister does not pretend to be brilliant or clever, because everybody knows that he is not, but a great bulk of the men of this country have begun to believe that he is neither straight nor honest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-07a.682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CONNOLLY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CONNOLLY", "preceding_text": " Minister offered the Strike Committee a system of dual control, which was refused; and further, has the hon. Gentleman's notice been drawn to the following statement issued by the Newcastle Trade Council: If proof is needed for this statement we can get it from Sir Kingsley Wood. Yesterday he made an appeal to the trade unions for help. He admitted that he had lost control of the situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.691.4", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "In view of that answer, may I ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.691.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.692.4", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Neither the appeal of the Archbishop of Canterbury nor the remarks of Cardinal Bourne were published. It was thought that if one was permitted, the other should be permitted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.692.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.693.0", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Who is responsible?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I cannot answer any question about broadcasting, for which I have not even a general responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.693.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.704.2", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "The whole time.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "That does not destroy my argument one bit. If these men work eight hours a day it does not spoil my argument. A member of this force is going to get 10s. a day, and the announcer never said yesterday how many hours he was required to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.704.4", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman the Home Secretary who is, as it were, the villain of the piece, has at last come into the House. I hope I can get the attention of the right hon. Gentleman. I was dealing with the rate of wages which he is going to pay to special constables. If I were called upon, or were willing to do this very doubtful task, I would undertake the job of a commander and nothing short of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.704.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.704.6", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "vine Providence would enlighten hon. Members opposite on the comparison. How delighted and how willing they are to pay these wages—these millions—to special constables, to special constabulary commanders, men who after all will not produce anything. They will keep law and order I agree. They will sit on the omnibuses and probably prevent anybody damaging the omnibuses or anything else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.704.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.704.6", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "llions—to special constables, to special constabulary commanders, men who after all will not produce anything. They will keep law and order I agree. They will sit on the omnibuses and probably prevent anybody damaging the omnibuses or anything else. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] If that statement delights hon. Gentlemen opposite let me repeat it. These men will probably defend the omnibuses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.704.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "he attitude of the people in Newcastle. I do not know what has transpired in Newcastle. I do not know what the Organisation for the Maintenance of Supplies is able to do there; but I assure hon. Members that unless you can get the good-will of the people in this connection the Organisation for the Maintenance of Supplies will avail you little indeed. You must have the goodwill of the people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "transpired in Newcastle. I do not know what the Organisation for the Maintenance of Supplies is able to do there; but I assure hon. Members that unless you can get the good-will of the people in this connection the Organisation for the Maintenance of Supplies will avail you little indeed. You must have the goodwill of the people—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"]—and you are not getting it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.707.0", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Out with it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "utely satisfactory, but I must call his attention to one thing that has happened in reference to the \"British Gazette.\" I am not going at this stage to criticise the whole of that paper. The time will come when there is a good deal to be said about that paper, and about the way in which it has been negotiated, even from the commercial point of view, but I am not going to say a word about that now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.707.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.707.0", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then why mention them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "er. The time will come when there is a good deal to be said about that paper, and about the way in which it has been negotiated, even from the commercial point of view, but I am not going to say a word about that now. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Out with it!\"] I am not going to say a word about a good many paragraphs which have been inserted, which contained offensive matter about political opponents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.707.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.707.0", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are you complaining about?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "out a good many paragraphs which have been inserted, which contained offensive matter about political opponents—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Then why mention them?\"]—paragraphs which cannot in the least help what the Government have in view, namely, the preservation of law and order and the sustaining of the spirit of the nation. I think it is unfair to take advantage of the powers they have got.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.707.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.707.0", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have it out\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "\"]—paragraphs which cannot in the least help what the Government have in view, namely, the preservation of law and order and the sustaining of the spirit of the nation. I think it is unfair to take advantage of the powers they have got. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What are you complaining about?\"] If hon. Members insist upon my going into that, I will do so, but I am only rising to raise one question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.707.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.707.0", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "t fighting a foreign fee, and I am perfectly certain something of this kind will have to be done. Would it not have eased matters for the Government to have published it? Because you want to get public opinion on the right lines. It. does not really get it on the right lines to rouse merely the spirit of antagonism, to rouse the mere spirit of saying, \"Break them in pieces like a potter's vessel!\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.707.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "As a matter of information to the Committee, it would be interesting to know if the right hon. Gentleman is speaking on behalf of his party.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "Every word you are saying is mischievous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.710.2", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " am speaking as a Member of the House of Commons, with a full sense of my responsibility, and with a real desire, as I have shown before, to save this country from disaster. I am as entitled as any man in this House to say that, and I am speaking my honest opinion at this moment quite sincerely. I am for con- ciliation. Hon. Members may take a different view. They may think they must fight it out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.710.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.711.2", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Including the editor.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "to the policy which the Government were carrying out, and which, if they failed in carrying out, could only be attended by some shocking and calamitous breakdown. With all the expert printers and other classes of experts in the production of a newspaper suddenly taken away, and only a handful of loyal technicians, and a few amateurs coming in who have never been in a newspaper office before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.711.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.711.2", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "r that part there have been articles which ought to have been put in and which have been left out—that the observations of the Christian churches on this controversy ought to have figured in the paper—well you may be right and I am not going to contest it; but it is only possible to set up the type very slowly in many different places largely by amateurs unaccustomed to linotype—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.711.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.711.2", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will you put this in to-morrow?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "an be completed so that the dies can be stamped and the production can begin and, once production has begun, it is impossible to stop the machines to make any alterations. In these circumstances, I say, quite certainly, that there will be any number of important things that ought to be put in and which the Government would have not the slightest objection to seeing put in which will not be put in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.711.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.713.3", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "proaches of that kind will have the slightest effect upon me. I am trying to do my best to produce what is advantageous and helpful. The hon. Gentleman is trying to win distinction by rudenesses. I see no reason at all why it should not be put in. I do not know whether it will be possible to-morrow, but, if there be a feeling that it would be helpful there is no reason why it should not be put in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.713.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.713.5", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "h we stand. They are enormous, and in the gravity of the situation with which we are confronted, to my mind it will be far better that gradually in the course of the next fortnight or so, assuming that this horrible ordeal lasts so long, independent newspapers should resume in all parts of the country. Those who sit on those benches have but to raise their fingers and the entire Press will resume.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.713.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.714.0", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I have really not read this particular item myself, but I have said, if importance be attached to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.714.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HADEN GUEST", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did you see this?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HADEN GUEST", "preceding_text": "uietly playing their games. They shouted—I use the word \"shouted\" advisedly—at them, \"Get out of this,\" and they commenced to beat them over the heads and bodies with truncheons before they had time to get up from their seats. They were uniformed constables and special constables. They then drove them out of the door, and the men were bludgeoned with batons as they ran into the street.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HADEN GUEST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"If it be true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HADEN GUEST", "preceding_text": " statement as he would have given it to his superior officer in giving evidence. I had the story confirmed from half-a-dozen other people in different parts of the area. I can assure the Committee that I am exceedingly and earnestly and honestly sorry that it should be my duty to raise a matter of this kind at a time such as this, but I hope I shall have the support of all hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HADEN GUEST", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You did not see it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HADEN GUEST", "preceding_text": "dozen other people in different parts of the area. I can assure the Committee that I am exceedingly and earnestly and honestly sorry that it should be my duty to raise a matter of this kind at a time such as this, but I hope I shall have the support of all hon. Gentlemen opposite. [HON. MEMBERS: \"If it be true!\"] I hope my reputation in this House is such that no hon. Gentleman will doubt my word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HADEN GUEST", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HADEN GUEST", "preceding_text": ", up Summers Street by Noah's Ark Alley and a number of other places, and, when they were in those streets, they shouted at the people, using abusive and obscene language which I will not repeat. They chased women, they charged a crowd of children, they went up to a house in Zoar Street and broke open the door by charging it, and they asked the people to come out into the street and to fight them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HADEN GUEST", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So you say!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HADEN GUEST", "preceding_text": "the people, using abusive and obscene language which I will not repeat. They chased women, they charged a crowd of children, they went up to a house in Zoar Street and broke open the door by charging it, and they asked the people to come out into the street and to fight them. [ Interruption. ] I agree that this sounds an almost incredible story, but it occurred just on the other side of the river.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HADEN GUEST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HADEN GUEST", "preceding_text": "lothes—I am not sure whether he was a detective or a special constable—had been injured, and no arrests were able to be made at the time. That is one thing. I deplore that. I have been round my district, on Friday and Saturday, speaking to the pickets outside the docks and outside the factories, and going to the strike committees, and saying: \"My friends, this is an industrial dispute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HADEN GUEST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HADEN GUEST", "preceding_text": "have given the right hon. Gentleman ample notice so that he could find out. What is the Government's action to be in the future in regard to North Southwark? Let me just add before coming to a finish one of the incidents which shows the absolutely indiscriminate nature of these police reprisals. One man whose name I can give—his name is Jones—I have other particulars of him here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.726.5", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ARTHUR EVANS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ARTHUR EVANS", "preceding_text": " the continuance of supplies in any way whatsoever, and making adequate arrangements for preserving life and property in this country, unless public opinion was behind them. I do not think there is a single hon. Member on this side of the House who will disapprove of that statement. The hon. Member went on to say that it was not true to say that public opinion was with the Government at this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.726.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.728.2", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain EVANS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain EVANS", "preceding_text": "this question, but I was simply trying to answer the arguments put forward by the hon. Gentleman opposite. As far as I have been able to get in touch with the local authorities and the leader of thought in Cardiff, and as far as I have been able to ascertain the opinion of men belonging to the National Union of Railwaymen at Cardiff Docks, they have not the least sympathy with this general strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.728.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.735.0", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLETON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLETON", "preceding_text": "ad to rescue this little child and take it to the pavement, the man on horseback ran him into a shop doorway. An inspector, whose name and station I have, came up, and this man said, \"Let me take the child away,\" and he hit the man behind the ear with his truncheon. He tells me he is a member of no trade union and no political party, but he did what he thought every upright Englishman ought to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.735.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.735.0", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLETON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What do you mean by that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLETON", "preceding_text": " horseback ran him into a shop doorway. An inspector, whose name and station I have, came up, and this man said, \"Let me take the child away,\" and he hit the man behind the ear with his truncheon. He tells me he is a member of no trade union and no political party, but he did what he thought every upright Englishman ought to do. [ Interruption ]. They were sober when they wrote them at all events.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.735.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.735.0", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHARLETON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHARLETON", "preceding_text": "range division. What happened at Camden Town? I have it on the evidence of witnesses. About half-an-hour after the omnibus had been attacked they sent out a call, and a number of motor cars came with these hooligans in. They stopped at the Britannia, a hundred yards from where the omnibus had been assaulted, and turned them out and they batoned men, women and children, regardless of who they were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.735.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And well employed, too!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "im is to take notes and pass them on to the Home Secretary. To my surprise on Saturday, the day on which this country was supposed to be trembling on the brink of revolution, a Member of the Government, occupying a very important position, spent a large part of his time going round his constituency in his motor car calling on the newsagents and handing out to them bundles of the \"British Gazette.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.753.1", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We know!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "preceding_text": "I will give you that right away, and I come back to the position. Here we are in a fight. I will not say who are the aggressors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.753.1", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMMON", "preceding_text": "I will give you that right away, and I come back to the position. Here we are in a fight. I will not say who are the aggressors. [HON. MEMBERS: \"We know!\"] Hon. Members say they know, but let me tell them that the Government are the aggressors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.759.6", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What sort?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILSON", "preceding_text": "In the earlier part of my remarks I suggested that we ought to have some declaration from the Home Office as to whether agents provocateurs are being employed in this way, because, unless we can have that made perfectly clear, if incidents of this sort do occur—and I suggest that this is not an isolated incident—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.759.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "ty it was issued I do not know, but I imagine on the authority of the Secretary of State for War—to the effect that the Government would undertake to support either now or at a later time any acts by members of the armed forces which were undertaken in the honest belief that they were for the general wellbeing. That is a paraphrase. I am not saying those were the actual words employed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "Hon MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "hem.\"] I have not got them to read, but anyhow, that was the general tenour of this statement. The statement has now been handed to me. It is:— All ranks of the armed forces of the Crown are hereby notified that any action which they may find it necessary to take ill the honest endeavour to aid the civil power will receive both now and afterwards the full support of his Majesty's Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: What about the Press?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "nionism, and the insertion of this incitement to the armed forces to go out of their way to cause trouble and provocation—these three things in themselves condemn the use which the Government are making of the \"British Gazette,\" and for my part, mean to protest most strongly against it. An hon. Member opposite said we cannot protect liberties by destroying them. We subscribe to the doctrine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.773.4", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Member for West Norwood knows as much about the matter as I do, and does not require me to give him information. I was answering certain points made this afternoon that we on these benches could, by raising our finger, remove the embargo. I want certainly to say that there are those men and women in the Press who do not take any more notice of some of us here raising our finger or our voice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.773.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.773.6", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "de union movement for very nearly 40 years, and I know that the biggest General Labourers' Union in this country could not engage in the struggle without a ballot vote of its members. The rules under which any of the executive act are rules made by a democratic vote of the men belonging to the Union. The Press have been stopped by the men themselves. Everybody knows that who knows anything at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.773.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.774.3", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "The whole situation we are facing is an industrial situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.774.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.775.1", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I shall not abuse that privilege, Mr. Hope; I shall not do so because the whole business is much too serious for any of us to score in the matter. But I want to put it to the Committee as to whether they really believe that at the back of all this there is a gigantic conspiracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.775.1", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "that privilege, Mr. Hope; I shall not do so because the whole business is much too serious for any of us to score in the matter. But I want to put it to the Committee as to whether they really believe that at the back of all this there is a gigantic conspiracy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Well, all I can say is that you have a very poor opinion of four or five millions of your fellow-countrymen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.775.5", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get on with your reply.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Yes, but I think it ought to be done publicly and not privately. I emphatically protest against it. You may be able to muzzle us in this sort of way, but Mr. Hope, we shall not be muzzled outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.775.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " think I can say that since the first day, both on the Poplar side and on the Bow and Bromley side, there has been practically no disorder at all worth speaking of—in Bow I believe there has been practically none, and if the Home Secretary has allowed the East End of London to be invaded by thousands of troops, in steel helmets and with fixed bayonets, and accompanied by armoured cars—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did you picket the docks?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "that, and yet we got thousands of fully-armed and fully-equipped troops clumped down on us, and I want to know what for. It is said that it was to keep us in order, was for the protection of the flour mills and the docks. Well, now, do you imagine that we people in the East End are such stupids as to want to stop you or the Government getting food, of which we hope to eat some when the time comes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The British people would sooner starve.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "hich we hope to eat some when the time comes? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did you picket the docks?\"] We told those who have the management of this business, told the authorities before the strike, or at the time the strike was declared, that, knowing that essential Industries—essential services, I think the words should be—should be carried on, the strike should not apply to those services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.778.7", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I repeat it, and it is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.778.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.778.7", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I repeat it, and it is true. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Name?\"] There are hon. Members in this House who can prove it equally with myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.778.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.779.5", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " person who has got views entirely visionary or entirely mad. I do not believe it is any more right to kill by order of a Government than it is to kill in any other way. Killing is killing, however it is done. The sending of troops, the sending of the Army, the sending of all that parade of force down to the East End, is simply done for the purpose of terrorising the people, and not to have peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.779.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.779.5", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "is to kill in any other way. Killing is killing, however it is done. The sending of troops, the sending of the Army, the sending of all that parade of force down to the East End, is simply done for the purpose of terrorising the people, and not to have peace. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Well, that is my opinion. I stood this morning in Bow Road and saw those great armoured ears trundling along the road.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.779.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.779.5", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "d in the negotiations—but if there is to be peace during this period of disorder ( Laughter )—no, not disorder, during this period of strife, I want to join in the plea that we should not be divided up into enemies of society and friends of society. It may be we are quite wrong. It may be that the right hon. Gentleman over there was quite wrong when he assisted to arm people in Ulster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.779.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-10", "file": "debates1926-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e010adb7aa697e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.788.5", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"At, ten minutes past eleven.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "preceding_text": "nsidered by a judge and jury, whether there is or is not a legal liability. I deprecate very strongly any tendency in any part of the House to lay down maxims of law when the facts in relation to which those maxims have to be considered have not yet been discovered. I regret that I was unable to raise this matter in the House the other night. I understand it was raised considerably after midnight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-10a.788.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-11", "file": "debates1926-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8900fa1733e892e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-11a.804.7", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that in the House yesterday the Chancellor of the Exchequer made a definite statement that the Archbishop's terms would be printed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-11a.804.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-11", "file": "debates1926-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8900fa1733e892e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-11a.804.7", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL CRISIS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that in the House yesterday the Chancellor of the Exchequer made a definite statement that the Archbishop's terms would be printed? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] he made a definite promise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-11a.804.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-11", "file": "debates1926-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8900fa1733e892e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-11a.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENERAL STRIKE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You need not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "er has fortunately not yet had to be decided. The hon. and learned Member was writing some time ago. Most unfortunately it has now to be decided. As a matter of fact, it was decided in the Law Courts this morning— I have very little doubt that such a strike would not be covered by the words and the definition of the Trade Disputes Act. I just want to point out to members of the Labour Party,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-11a.861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-11", "file": "debates1926-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8900fa1733e892e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-11a.865.1", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENERAL STRIKE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"We do not want it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend will wait for a moment, he will find I am doing full justice to them. I am saying I entirely acquit the responsible Parliamentary leaders of Labour from having been guilty of such motives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-11a.865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-11", "file": "debates1926-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8900fa1733e892e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-11a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENERAL STRIKE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How about the miners' wives?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "Does any human being of any party or opinion believe that by making those girls do that for a week or two, you are going to make them more favourable to the miners' case? You can make these people go to immense incon- venience and suffering and I dare say want, and when you have finished you may wear out the girl's shoes, but you cannot wear out her spirit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-11a.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-11", "file": "debates1926-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8900fa1733e892e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-11a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENERAL STRIKE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "—which has led perfectly respectable people to imagine that they can adopt the method of the General Strike without completely changing the whole of the character of the activities which are associated with organized labour. I know that I have to-day, and the other day, been talking law, but I am the last person in this House to suppose that law is the whole of life. I have never thought so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-11a.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-11", "file": "debates1926-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8900fa1733e892e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-11a.872.2", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENERAL STRIKE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the breaking of contracts !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "y. He has kindly absolved some of us from the responsibility for the General Strike. May I say to him, with all clue respect for his legal knowledge, that it is not illegal in this country for a person or a body of persons, however large, to cease work if they wish to, and I am not aware of any law which prevents any working man who desires to leave work at the request of any person from so doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-11a.872.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-11", "file": "debates1926-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8900fa1733e892e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-11a.872.2", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENERAL STRIKE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAW", "preceding_text": "y from the Employers' Association. On the one hand, both the Employers' Associations and the Government say in a dispute, \"You must withdraw the notices. We cannot negotiate under a threat\". But the Government have never to my knowledge said to a body of employers, \"You must withdraw your notice; it is impossible for us to negotiate otherwise.\" That is a plain, simple statement of the case, I hope", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-11a.872.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-12", "file": "debates1926-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "47b58461bba2e1d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-12a.893.0", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The public.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "preceding_text": "s, by a number of manufacturers. That, I say, is the real reason of the Bill, though as I suggest the test should be as to whether it is desirable or necessary in the public interest. Measures of the kind ought not to be dependent upon whether any industry asks for it. Does any hon. Member suggest that we ought to pass a Measure of protection for an industry because that industry has asked for it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-12a.893.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-12", "file": "debates1926-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "47b58461bba2e1d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-12a.896.1", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "preceding_text": ". Hon. Members may think what I am about to mention a comparatively small matter, but a very large number of goods marked for importation involve additional Customs examination, and this involves additional Customs officers and additional restraint. This all means delay; a delay which I would like to remind the House may, in the case of a single ship, held up for one day, mean £100 demurrage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-12a.896.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-12", "file": "debates1926-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "47b58461bba2e1d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-12a.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "preceding_text": "es not give very diligent attention to the front pages of some of our great newspapers. Is it suggested that a large number of London stores and Liverpool stores which have full-page advertisements of innumerable articles, a considerable proportion of which are imported, must state in those advertisements, after every article mentioned, that they are of foreign origin? Can that really be intended?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-12a.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-12", "file": "debates1926-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "47b58461bba2e1d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-12a.909.0", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "t together cheap British jam which has been, advertised throughout the world and with which we have been able to compete in every foreign country. Under this Clause, as far as I can gather, it will have to be described, not as British, but as foreign jam, because it will be made from foreign fruit and foreign sugar, and put up in foreign jars; and a great industry which has helped our trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-12a.909.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-12", "file": "debates1926-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "47b58461bba2e1d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-12a.960.1", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you mark raisins? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": " or produce of the United States, and that, I think, completely disposes of the difficulty the hon. Member has in mind. After all, we cannot in this Bill hope to teach people geography. That is not the object of the Bill. All we want to do is to see that people know whether they are buying British, Dominion or foreign goods, and the system of marking proposed in the Bill should achieve the object.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-12a.960.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-12", "file": "debates1926-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "47b58461bba2e1d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-12a.965.0", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Colonel LAMBERT WARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Colonel LAMBERT WARD", "preceding_text": "I should like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-12a.965.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-12", "file": "debates1926-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "47b58461bba2e1d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-12a.966.0", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut,-Colonel WARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut,-Colonel WARD", "preceding_text": "s. In that case they will have to be marked. Unless it be laid down that it is sufficient that the case shall be legibly marked, the question will arise whether each individual orange must be marked. The same argument applies to bananas and apples. In the case of eggs, each individual egg must be marked with the place of origin. If it is possible to mark eggs it is equally possible to mark apples.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-12a.966.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-13", "file": "debates1926-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "30aa1eafbd4a905c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-13a.993.0", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "prevailing in some of the necessitous areas have arisen partially from causes over which the local authority did possess control. There is extravagant local administration, which has resulted in an appalling burden of rates, which has added so much to the cost of production, and has definitely driven trade out of these districts. It is notorious that Poplar has suffered peculiarly in that respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-13a.993.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-13", "file": "debates1926-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "30aa1eafbd4a905c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-13a.993.0", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I have known it longer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ich the local authority did possess control. There is extravagant local administration, which has resulted in an appalling burden of rates, which has added so much to the cost of production, and has definitely driven trade out of these districts. It is notorious that Poplar has suffered peculiarly in that respect. [An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"] I have to have known the district intimately for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-13a.993.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-13", "file": "debates1926-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "30aa1eafbd4a905c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-13a.1054.2", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENERAL STRIKE, MR. MACDONALD'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "It is the 10th May.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-13a.1054.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-13", "file": "debates1926-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "30aa1eafbd4a905c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-13a.1057.0", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENERAL STRIKE, MR. MACDONALD'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ho have had the difficulty, not merely of settling strikes, but of making peace after strikes, how very great those difficulties are. It 13 for that reason that I. welcome the very wise and calming words the Prime Minister has used to-day. I especially welcome the assurance he has given that he will not countenance any attacks upon the powers of the trade unions as the result of what has happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-13a.1057.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-13", "file": "debates1926-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "30aa1eafbd4a905c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-13a.1057.0", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENERAL STRIKE, MR. MACDONALD'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lockout.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "the general strike has been withdrawn. It knows nothing about the conditions, but I trust the Prime Minister at an early date will be in a position to enable us to do so, because unless the 1,200,000 men return to work, the fact that there is no coal being produced in this country will, in itself, throw another 1,500,000 or 2,000,000 men out of work. That was the effect of the coal strike of 1921.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-13a.1057.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-13", "file": "debates1926-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "30aa1eafbd4a905c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-13a.1064.0", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BERMONDSEY BOROUGH COUNCIL (STREET TRADING) BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bermondsey is on the other side of the river.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREAVES-LORD", "preceding_text": "t. Indiscriminate street trading is not the most desirable thing, but while I agree that there should be control, I think, where you are dealing with an area like the Metropolitan area, it is essential that there should be uniformity throughout the whole of it. I assume that Bermondsey is moving in this matter because its immediate neighbour—I forget whether it is the East or West Ham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-13a.1064.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-14", "file": "debates1926-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "4add8ac2eb3c4abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-14a.1098.1", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. WISE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"From the workers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. WISE", "preceding_text": "ort of London has not got any guarantee. Why is this guarantee necessary? Surely the security of this great monopoly, because it is a monopoly, should not have the advantage of a taxpayers' guarantee. It is a new departure. Gas companies have not got it. When gas matured about 100 years ago, I am sure the Government in those days did not give guarantees. Where does this £33,500,000 come from?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-14a.1098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-14", "file": "debates1926-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "4add8ac2eb3c4abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-14a.1103.1", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "preceding_text": "hink would really affect the price of electricity in the least. Therefore that is our first point, that this guarantee was not necessary. The second point is that it is not expedient. I am perfectly free to admit that as industry develops in this country along its present lines you will probably have a good many public utility industries of this class which may be socialised, but not nationalised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-14a.1103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-05-14", "file": "debates1926-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "4add8ac2eb3c4abb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-14a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (COUNTY BOROUGHS AND ADJUSTMENTS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "procedure by private Bill—where the purpose of the Bill is either to constitute a new county borough or extend an old one—and it removes the necessity for referring the matter to a public meeting of electors which may be followed, if it is demanded, by a poll. Anyone who has had experience of these public meetings of electors to consider private Bills knows how unsatisfactory they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-05-14a.1128.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-21", "file": "debates1926-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "014668841254b57a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-21a.41.4", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "Will you pardon me, Sir, if I put another question to you, namely, whether, in the case of the Russian violinist, there was really no urgency at all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-21a.41.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-21", "file": "debates1926-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "014668841254b57a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-21a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Ronald McNeill)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Ronald McNeill)", "preceding_text": "om the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Central Edinburgh (Mr. W. Graham), and with a great deal of what he said I personally find myself in agreement. Although he spoke strongly against the Clause, he, of course, showed that with the object in view he has the fullest possible sympathy. 7.0 P.M. No one showed that sympathy more strongly than my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-21a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-21", "file": "debates1926-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "014668841254b57a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-21a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment of 12 and13 Geo. 5, c. 17, s. 21.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "preceding_text": "f owners of land and buildings, they had to pay on the net Schedule A value thereof, which was frequently far in excess of the actual income which the owners derived therefrom. I would like to give one clear example of the incidence of the tax as regards two wealthy, and equally wealthy, men. A was the proprietor of a prosperous and old-established business making an annual profit of £20,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-21a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-21", "file": "debates1926-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "014668841254b57a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-21a.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Free gifts.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Five!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "preceding_text": " for taxation at all. I would put them in the same category as we do insurance. We exempt from taxation insurance premiums on the ground that it is wise to encourage people to insure, and they escape taxation accordingly. As a matter of principle, apart from the question that this is in fact a gift, we ought to treat these gifts to the clergy as we treat contributions for the purpose of insurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-21a.178.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-21", "file": "debates1926-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "014668841254b57a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-21a.194.3", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE,—(Rate of Entertainments Duty.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Time!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Home Secretary-himself deplores because of their undoubted effect on public morals. Those are the plays that pay, and the real good drama can hardly be made to pay at all. I do not want to advertise the plays that have a long run and fill the theatres but one cause of the result I have referred to is due to the degradation following the Great War and which has always followed after any great wars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-21a.194.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-22", "file": "debates1926-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "107e04ea7ddec252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-22a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HEALTH (SMOKE ABATEMENT) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "o a Clause which, I think, may arouse criticism, not so much for what it contains, as for what it leaves out. Clause 5 extends the powers of an urban authority in the making of by-laws requiring the provision in new buildings of such arrangements for heating as are calculated to prevent or reduce the emission of smoke, but it specially exempts private dwelling-houses from the action of the Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-22a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-22", "file": "debates1926-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "107e04ea7ddec252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-22a.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HEALTH (SMOKE ABATEMENT) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " this Bill. In addition to the kind of fuel I have been describing, there is a great deal of fuel to-day burnt under forced blast, a method which greatly assists smokeless combustion. On the other hand, there is a danger of ash and gritty particles being thrown into the air. I am afraid this Bill will make a crime of modern practice, and it is because I am a little nervous in this direction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-22a.280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-22", "file": "debates1926-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "107e04ea7ddec252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-22a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HEALTH (SMOKE ABATEMENT) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I hope every policeman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I did not put it clearly, but I was asking who would be the authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-22a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-22", "file": "debates1926-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "107e04ea7ddec252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-22a.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HEALTH (SMOKE ABATEMENT) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh! yes, we do!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": ", at any rate, I think it would be a more proper method than, say, issuing a summons against my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer if such a thing happened at the Treasury, and hauling him before the local police court to answer a summons for a nuisance in one of the chimneys of the Treasury. I do not think that most Members of the House would desire to see him put in that position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-22a.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-22", "file": "debates1926-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "107e04ea7ddec252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-22a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HEALTH (SMOKE ABATEMENT) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "ld get over the difficulty which the Government apparently find in dealing with domestic smoke. Domestic smoke, after all, is the bugbear of the whole matter. It is the chief cause of the smoke, and it is being left out of this Bill. It is the chief cause of that melancholy condition of 53 tons per square mile on the constituency of my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for North-East Leeds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-22a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-22", "file": "debates1926-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "107e04ea7ddec252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-22a.337.0", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING (BOOT TRADE CONCILIATION SCHEME).", "cue_speaker": "The POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Sir William Mitchell-Thomson)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is a copy available?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Sir William Mitchell-Thomson)", "preceding_text": "ication which has just been issued in the last Report of the Balfour Committee on Trade and Industry, in the volume entitled \"Survey of Industrial Relations,\" the new volume. They will find on page 276 of that volume a full description of the methods of conciliation in force, and they will see there how the principle of district settlements enforceable under a guarantee has worked out in practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-22a.337.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.345.12", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "The Coalition!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WEDGWOOD BENN", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman tell the House what Minister or party it was that introduced the trade delegation here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.345.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.368.10", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "Are we not to understand that the dividends are being paid in paper francs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.368.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.387.4", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "s, it is obviously impossible to set up machinery to consider such suggestions when both sides have to be represented, and considerable delay has been caused by the stoppage. Part I of the Bill deals with the amalgamation of colliery undertakings, and I think the House will agree that perhaps the most important of all the recommendations the Commission made was that on the subject of amalgamation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.387.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "ntary amalgamation will be sufficient by itself or whether further pressure will be required and therefore they recommended that legislation might be passed, not for immediate application but for application if Parliament so decided three years later, and the curious reason they give for this arrangement is that to do it otherwise, to postpone legislation, might lead to Parliamentary difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.393.2", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not buy them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. The whole reason for them is to be able to deal with existing difficulties. If the hon. Member had listened he would have heard me say that the whole reason of the proposals is to deal with the difficulties that exist and that impede the present working of minerals. The alternative method is to buy up the whole of the royalties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.393.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.393.2", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "ey should be bought out. If the proposal of the Commission were adopted, owing to the fact that they did not intend to deal with existing leases, it would have taken far longer, and the operation could not have been brought to a conclusion, on their own showing, under considerably more than 30 years. Part III deals with the question of pithead baths, and provides for the setting up of those baths.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.393.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "estimated cost which the Commission said would be expended in equipping the coalfields generally with the necessary baths is £4,000,000. That is of course only a rough estimate. They reckon that in the course of 10 years £250,000 per annum will be provided, and another £150,000 per annum from the Miners' Welfare Fund. Therefore, in 10 years time the necessary provision will be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "other name. Nationalisation, as we all know, has been rather under the weather lately. Like many persons who are in that unfortunate position, perhaps it is desirable to change its name, but the mere fact that its name is changed does not alter the essence of the proposition. Not only has that been rejected by this House over and over again, but it has also been rejected by the country repeatedly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "obviously, that is not a thing which can be directly put in the Bill now. With regard to the municipal sale of coal, which the right hon. Gentleman also mentions in his Amendment as having been left out, there, again, that is a matter—I do not know how it may be dealt with in the future, but, at any rate, it is not going to be of any immediate assistance to the wage question in the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": " his Amendment as having been left out, there, again, that is a matter—I do not know how it may be dealt with in the future, but, at any rate, it is not going to be of any immediate assistance to the wage question in the industry. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] That may be a matter of argument and opinion. It is clear that there would not be any very great increase of wages from those proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Your job\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "reat increase of wages from those proposals. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] I hope that when the right hon. Member makes his speech he will develop a little further the very remarkable and interesting speech he made the other day, and which we all welcomed. He then brought out his proposals for unification, and argued them with great force. But just as he was getting supremely interesting, he stopped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.398.0", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Efficiency!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "g recent years has undergone a mechanical and electrical revolution which has affected about 40 per cent. of the industry. Before the War we had 300 or 400 coal conveyors in the mines; to-day we have about 1,400. Before the War we had about 2,000 coal cutting machines; to-day we have about 8,000. Before the War we had about 500,000 horse power electric motors: to-day we have 1,500,000 horse power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.407.0", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "That is how all business is done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It obtains in Yorkshire!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "differentiates them, or very little. They are on a par as to the age of the collieries and thickness of seams. There is the same distance in each between the coal face and the pit bottom. All the material facts which tell in cost of production are on a par as between them yet you have one producing coal 5s. a ton cheaper than the other. That fact is contained in the records and cannot be disputed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.407.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "You have had it already!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HARRY BRITTAIN", "preceding_text": "What about the inquest. First?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.413.3", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They will not do that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "preceding_text": ", in turn, labour in the coal mines will exert itself to its utmost, within its physical capacity, to make the commercial success of the concerns as great as possible. It is not until we reach that attitude of mind on both sides, a desire on the part of the employer to do all he can for labour, a, willingness to take labour into his counsels and give labour a share in the guidance of the concerns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.413.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.413.3", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They will not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. SCOTT", "preceding_text": "utmost, within its physical capacity, to make the commercial success of the concerns as great as possible. It is not until we reach that attitude of mind on both sides, a desire on the part of the employer to do all he can for labour, a, willingness to take labour into his counsels and give labour a share in the guidance of the concerns. [An HON. MEMBER: \"They will not do that.\"] I hope they will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.413.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.441.4", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or by a co-operative society!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "miner. He can only put so much upon the price of the coal for \"leading,\" and the miner knows what the cost of that will be. The hon. Member could come into my district, and if he were a miner he would get a ton of coal \"led\" from the pit within a radius of two miles for 2s. 9d. a ton. But if he lived in a private house and he asked the merchant to bring him a ton of coal out of the same pit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.441.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.441.4", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "t, and if he were a miner he would get a ton of coal \"led\" from the pit within a radius of two miles for 2s. 9d. a ton. But if he lived in a private house and he asked the merchant to bring him a ton of coal out of the same pit—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Or by a co-operative society!\"]—I will deal with the question of co-operative societies later—he will find that in some instances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.441.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.442.3", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "I will give to the hon. Member privately the name of a clerk of a great local authority who was dubious about the price of his coal. He got to know where it came from and the price at the pit, and he went to the dealer and asked him if he would give him a reduction. The dealer said, \"No.\" \"Then,\" said the man, \"This is the last you will bring to me.\" The charge was 17s. 3d. a ton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.442.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.451.0", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUNCAN GRAHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not one!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUNCAN GRAHAM", "preceding_text": " sham and pretence of a settlement which we are discussing to-night. This precious Commission, which was set up in order to find a means by which a settlement could be arrived at which would be satisfactory to the country as a whole, was appointed by the Government of the country—not by this House—by a Tory Government, and it was composed of four men who were members of the Tory party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.451.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.467.2", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS", "preceding_text": "e case that things suggested are very often not any real help towards rehabilitating the industry. On the subject of amalgamation, it has to be borne in mind that when a good pit is asked to amalgamate with a bad pit it is not only the owners who are concerned, but the men in the pits. What we are in effect being asked to do is to agree to a pool of the good and the bad pits in any given district.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.467.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.467.2", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS", "preceding_text": " think the Bill does give us a good deal of assistance. It is said the Bill should have been compulsory. I ask hon. Members of the Labour party, many of whom are sound business men, even though they may not like the name—they have the brains—how any compulsory scheme of amalgamation could be carried except by passing an Act which amalgamates the whole of the pits in any given district.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.467.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS", "preceding_text": "e the Royal Commission that the royalties belonged to the nation, and that, therefore, in dealing with this point, as a matter of propaganda. it can no longer be said that, if these rights were abolished, it would be the miners, and they alone who would get the benefit. It would cost the State a considerable amount of money to make that change, unless, indeed, the royalty owners were expropriated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS", "preceding_text": " as a matter of propaganda. it can no longer be said that, if these rights were abolished, it would be the miners, and they alone who would get the benefit. It would cost the State a considerable amount of money to make that change, unless, indeed, the royalty owners were expropriated. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] If so, there is no reason why you should not put your hand in your neighbour's pocket.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.482.0", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir BEDDOE REES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BEDDOE REES", "preceding_text": " in every colliery district, until I think the men have got a false impression, and they are putting a false value upon reorganisation. That it is an important part of the problem, I admit. I have for a long time advocated the necessity of thorough reorganisation, but I think it is a mistake to mislead the miners into thinking that reorganisation is the end all and is the solution of this problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.482.0", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir BEDDOE REES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get rid of the royalty owners?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BEDDOE REES", "preceding_text": " of us who are engaged in coal mining and have to negotiate leases and deal with mineral rights know something about the difficulties. I have a scheme under way at the moment, where we are putting three collieries into a small amalgamation, and it has taken us five months to get the landlords to agree to give us licences to assign those properties. Hindrances to coal mining ought to be wiped away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.482.0", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir BEDDOE REES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir BEDDOE REES", "preceding_text": "ychological effect may be good, as the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) said, but practically there is nothing in it. What does it matter whether we pay 6d. to a landlord or 6d. to the State. It goes out of the industry and will still be a charge upon the industry, whether we buy the royalty owners out or not. Nobody will suggest, in this House at any rate, confiscation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.493.1", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It will go some way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "think there are many instances in which it would be good. All I wish to do is to guard the House against the view that you can make amalgamations everywhere to the advantage of the trade, and also against the view that it is going to solve the problem. Even when it operates most efficiently it will go only a short way to meet the enormous gap which exists between your prices and your costs to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-23", "file": "debates1926-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "59d9af0904cce049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.495.2", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM GRAHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAM GRAHAM", "preceding_text": "is thought has been apparent—that before any sacrifice was called for from the mining population or, for that matter, even from the owners, the reorganisation of the industry was to be definitely understood in its broad lines, and was to be so far upon its way. What is the situation? An immediate sacrifice called for from the miners now; the ranging of the Government behind the owners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-23a.495.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-24", "file": "debates1926-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "09e35990e147db12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-24a.546.3", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Try it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that hoeing heel is not a skilled occupation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-24a.546.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-24", "file": "debates1926-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "09e35990e147db12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-24a.577.4", "colnum": "577", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1926–27", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"That is a Red Book!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "able methods. I do not think the position is so bad as it has been painted in some quarters. We hear many unfavourable comparisons with foreign results, but I think they are based on inaccurate or partial and misleading versions of the facts. I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) still holds to the opinions expressed in this Green Book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-24a.577.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-24", "file": "debates1926-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "09e35990e147db12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-24a.582.1", "colnum": "582", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1926–27", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUINNESS", "preceding_text": "n, to-day are just over 8 per cent., and we have spent on the small holdings movement £16,000,000 to provide 17,000 small holdings—that is post-War small holdings As at least half this cost will have to be written off as irrecoverable, that will make a net cost of about £500 per holding. You cannot settle people on the land any cheaper in other countries than we have achieved here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-24a.582.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-06-24", "file": "debates1926-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "09e35990e147db12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-24a.621.0", "colnum": "621", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1926–27", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. MEMBER", "cue_text": "I was amused to find that the right hon. Gentleman had just found out what was a stock unit.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "nclusions is not for me to explain. There is the same test for every country, and reducing it into a stock unit, they put Great Britain at 33.1; Denmark at 39.4; Holland at 44.9 and Belgium at 47. I see the explanation is that they reduce cattle, sheep and pigs, into a unit, and upon that basis they have arrived at this estimate per 100 acres. I do not know why the hon. Gentleman should be amused.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-24a.620.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-24", "file": "debates1926-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "09e35990e147db12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-24a.647.2", "colnum": "647", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1926–27", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HAMILTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HAMILTON", "preceding_text": "White Paper of the Board of Trade we see from time to time protection given to industry which puts up prices. That protection is meant to put up prices because the industries are said to be distressed, but we have to remember that every price that is put up may affect agriculture, which can never be protected. We are all agreed on that. Agriculture, our own great key industry, cannot be protected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-24a.647.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-24", "file": "debates1926-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "09e35990e147db12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-24a.647.2", "colnum": "647", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1926–27", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HAMILTON", "cue_text": "An HON.MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HAMILTON", "preceding_text": "are said to be distressed, but we have to remember that every price that is put up may affect agriculture, which can never be protected. We are all agreed on that. Agriculture, our own great key industry, cannot be protected. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"] Go to the country and try and you will soon know why not. It is not a matter to argue about. We know you cannot give protection to meat and corn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-24a.647.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-24", "file": "debates1926-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "09e35990e147db12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-24a.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1926–27", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "content of sucrose than in any part of the world. There is more than 20 per cent. and upwards of sucrose in the sugar-beet grown in the Mull of Kintyre—20.7, I think, whereas 15 per cent. is regarded ordinarily as a very good content. In Argyllshire, too, they are very successful with the growing of potatoes. A very large portion of the seed potatoes for England are brought from Argyllshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-24a.676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-24", "file": "debates1926-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "09e35990e147db12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-24a.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1926–27", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "et employment for its people. May I make one reference to the Glasgow Veterinary College. It is very unfair. If you are to judge by the money allocated I should say the right hon. Gentleman is mote favourable to Edinburgh than to Glasgow. Imagine, only giving TC50 to the Glasgow Veterinary College! If you take the results of these two colleges, the greater man has come through the Glasgow College.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-24a.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-24", "file": "debates1926-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "09e35990e147db12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-24a.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1926–27", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "lege. It is very unfair. If you are to judge by the money allocated I should say the right hon. Gentleman is mote favourable to Edinburgh than to Glasgow. Imagine, only giving TC50 to the Glasgow Veterinary College! If you take the results of these two colleges, the greater man has come through the Glasgow College. [HON MEMBERS \"No!\"] Yes. No one can deny that when you have the book that shows it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-24a.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.699.8", "colnum": "699", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Commander OLIVER LOCKERLAMPSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander OLIVER LOCKERLAMPSON", "preceding_text": "propriation a policy. It may be said that we have no right to object, for he was doing it to Russian nationals. Granting that, however, I say that if be did it to British nationals we have a right to object. I say that the honour of England is engaged when any Englishman, anywhere, comes to harm or ruin. What happened in Russia? Alone of our Allies, Russia has repudiated her debts to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.699.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.699.8", "colnum": "699", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Commander OLIVER LOCKERLAMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander OLIVER LOCKERLAMPSON", "preceding_text": "nterprise of years has all gone; they owe £ 250,000,000 to these unhappy people. And, not content with taking their money, they have in many cases seized these unhappy merchants, who were quite innocent, and imprisoned them; they have beaten them, they have wounded them. they have murdered them— they have even blinded them. There is sitting in the Gallery to-day a man, Mr. Martin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.699.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.699.8", "colnum": "699", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Commander OLIVER LOCKERLAMPSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander OLIVER LOCKERLAMPSON", "preceding_text": "ntent with taking their money, they have in many cases seized these unhappy merchants, who were quite innocent, and imprisoned them; they have beaten them, they have wounded them. they have murdered them— they have even blinded them. There is sitting in the Gallery to-day a man, Mr. Martin— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"]— I am not out of order. Hon. Members may not want me to say this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.699.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.699.8", "colnum": "699", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Commander OLIVER LOCKERLAMPSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Cheer that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander OLIVER LOCKERLAMPSON", "preceding_text": "ey have even blinded them. There is sitting in the Gallery to-day a man, Mr. Martin— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"]— I am not out of order. Hon. Members may not want me to say this. [Interruption.] Sitting in the Gallery to-day, and, I hope, listening to this speech, is a man whom these monsters deprived of sight. He can hear us, but he cannot see us; he was blinded by the Bolshevists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.699.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Commander LOCKER - LAMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander LOCKER - LAMPSON", "preceding_text": " like to say this that I do not believe those privileges would have been accorded then to the Soviet if the Government of that day had realised that later on de jure recognition was going to be given to the Russian Government also. Those privileges were given. Then, as we know, the Coalition fell, and its place was taken by the Labour party who came, if not into power, at least into office.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Commander LOCKER - LAMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander LOCKER - LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "n to the Soviet if the Government of that day had realised that later on de jure recognition was going to be given to the Russian Government also. Those privileges were given. Then, as we know, the Coalition fell, and its place was taken by the Labour party who came, if not into power, at least into office.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]— Then I will say the Labour Party came into power.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Commander LOCKER - LAMPSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Commander LOCKER - LAMPSON", "preceding_text": " an election fought upon that loan, and the loan was lost at the election, and as if we had not had enough of Russian interference, in the middle of that election we were accorded an example of meddling from a so-called friendly State which was outrageous. There fell a thunderbolt from Heaven in the form of the Zinovieff letter. Well, perhaps, the origins of the letter were not strictly celestial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Commander LOCKER - LAMPSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"The peaceful attitude of the Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander LOCKER - LAMPSON", "preceding_text": " clarion voice to that letter and returned a Government to power with a huge majority, and what was that majority given for? It was given to turn out the Bolshevists from this country. There could not be a clearer mandate from the country. If we had done our duty, we ought at once to have ripped up that trade agreement and withdrawn our recognition of Russia. But we know peaceful persuasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Commander LOCKER - LAMPSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Just as in the Tsar's day.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander LOCKER - LAMPSON", "preceding_text": " and we know His Majesty's Government had other difficulties and decided to leave matters as they were. Among other things it told us we, ought to wait and see and that perhaps the Soviet might alter, but the only change in the Soviet has been one of tactics and not one of heart. Still the same pitiless despotism in Russia exists to-day. Its goal is anarchy. Its motive power is the petrol of hate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.708.0", "colnum": "708", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No, ro!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "preceding_text": "wn by the Foreign Secretary on the previous occasion. That is to say, between the 14th June and the 17th June, the wires of the telephone between the Foreign Office and the Home Office had been warmed up a goad deal, and the Home Secretary was made to toe the line and be accurate. Let me take the two further points. Having disposed of the point that the money came from the Soviet Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.708.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.708.0", "colnum": "708", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "preceding_text": "l in the attitude of the Government in allowing this money to pass. The argument is used that the Soviet Government and the trade unions of Russia are one and the same thing; that they are so mixed up that you cannot distinguish between the two. Let us inquire into that, because the ignorance of the organisation of the Russian Government seems to be very great on the part of hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.708.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.708.0", "colnum": "708", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "preceding_text": ", but they were unsuccessful. Lenin and his party were determined that the trade unions of Russia should remain completely autonomous—as there would no doubt be disputes with the bureaucracy, therefore, they should be allowed to be free. A resolution was passed allowing them complete freedom, and so much is that the ease that strikes take place in Russia, although they do not last very long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.708.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.708.0", "colnum": "708", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "preceding_text": "s with the bureaucracy, therefore, they should be allowed to be free. A resolution was passed allowing them complete freedom, and so much is that the ease that strikes take place in Russia, although they do not last very long. [ Interruption .] Hon. Members opposite seem to be proud of the fact that our strikes last a long time and they jeer at a form of government which is able to settle strikes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.708.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.708.0", "colnum": "708", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "preceding_text": "otably from the Secretary of State for India and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I am in some difficulty, because I understand by your ruling, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, that rude and offensive remarks against a friendly Government, even if they are quotations from a speech, cannot be made in this House, and that precludes me from quoting hardly a line from the speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.708.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.708.0", "colnum": "708", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not the nation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "preceding_text": "oting hardly a line from the speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. [HON. MEMBERS \"Go on!\"] No. Mr. Deputy-Speaker has ruled that we are not allowed to do so. The right hon. Gentleman made a speech at Tunbridge Wells in November, and it was pretty bad. He made another speech at Alexandra Palace last Saturday, which was filled with expressions about the Soviet Government and the Russian nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.708.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.708.0", "colnum": "708", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"America.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "preceding_text": "It was bringing into the comity of nations a vast people. It is no good pretending that you can leave them out of account; it is no good pretending that you can go on year after year with this vast country left out in the cold. It makes all your efforts at peace and disarmament absolutely sterile, so long as this great country is treated as it is. No other country in Europe treats Russia as we do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.708.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.708.0", "colnum": "708", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "preceding_text": "f account; it is no good pretending that you can go on year after year with this vast country left out in the cold. It makes all your efforts at peace and disarmament absolutely sterile, so long as this great country is treated as it is. No other country in Europe treats Russia as we do. [HON. MEMBERS \"America.\"] American statesmen do not make speeches such as the Chancellor of the Exchequer made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.708.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.708.0", "colnum": "708", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "cue_text": "Laughter, .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PONSONBY", "preceding_text": "of curbing this propaganda and of preventing the Government from making ridiculous charges in the Press and on the platform. This is not a small question. It is a very big one, and is A question which affects us very closely, and I am glad to see that the hon. Members who went out to Russia and investigated this matter have in their report declared in favour of the renewal of commercial relations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.708.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.715.0", "colnum": "715", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": "They are dictating to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.715.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.715.2", "colnum": "715", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Major-General Sir ALFRED KNOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"And do not want to!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General Sir ALFRED KNOX", "preceding_text": "disturbed times I served in Russia, as the hon. and gallant Member did. I listened to every word of his speech, and I cannot recollect a single point on which he was inaccurate. I would also like to say a word about Admiral Koltchak. When the name of the late Admiral was mentioned, hon. Members opposite above the Gangway jeered. I do not suppose one of those hon. Members ever saw Admiral Koltchak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.715.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.720.2", "colnum": "720", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "s country. Figures may fluctuate. Some quote them at £10,000,000; some quote them at £40,000,000. But it is a very substantial amount, and the real point is, not whether we approve of Communists, not whether we approve of the Cheka, but whether, because we disapprove of the methods of a foreign Government, we therefore ought to break off diplomatic relations and cease to trade with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.720.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "interruption , and HON. MEMBERS \"Withdraw\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "No one knows better than the hon. and gallant Gentleman that that is not accurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.722.3", "colnum": "722", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "vernment. There was one speech, which made a great impression throughout the country, by Mr. Joseph Cowen, of Newcastle, who deserted the Liberal party upon that great point, and I remember the speech with which he denounced the tyranny of the Tsarist Government, its Siberian policy, its exiles, the scourgings and lashings, the murders. I remember his phrase about \"withering the roots of liberty.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.722.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.722.3", "colnum": "722", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "se made by my hon. and gallant Friend in a very able and powerful speech, if I may be permitted to say so. Yet not many years afterwards we were Allies of exactly that Government. We never made conditions. We never said, \"You have, first of all, to give liberty; you must stop sending your political people to Siberia you must restore the Duma.\" There were wholesale massacres under a Tsarist regime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.722.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.723.2", "colnum": "723", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "t take that into account— the difficulty of a Government which is organised upon a different principle from that of any other Government in the world, and where the responsibility, the direct responsibility of the State for all activities is greater than any other country. That undoubtedly is a difficulty. That means that the State becomes more responsible for the activities of its subjects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.723.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.726.0", "colnum": "726", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "An HON MEMBER", "cue_text": "Corn!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "n the ground that that country is spending unlimited gold to overthrow our institutions. In the first place the complaint throughout is that the gold is very limited. Here are letters from the Communist party getting this unlimited gold to say that they are running into debt because they owe £14. Here is another letter to a Com- munist gentleman whose pockets are bulging with Bolshevist gold!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.723.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.727.0", "colnum": "727", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": "The House has enjoyed to the full—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.727.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Order, order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": "The House has enjoyed to the full—[ Interruption ],", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.727.2", "colnum": "727", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": "e hut for that inhibition, and as I have done in other scenes and other places. That is the party we do not consider. But let me make the usual concession to international comity. What Government the people of Russia have is their own affair, and not ours. We have no desire to meddle or to interfere with their institutions. One may be inclined to think that people have the Government they deserve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.727.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.727.2", "colnum": "727", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": "al agreements which will cover the whole Continent of Europe, and will remove further off the dire peril of a renewal of war. What great injury would be done to that cause at this time by a sudden -breaking off even so slight, even so gossamer, a connection as the diplomatic connection between us and the Russian Government? It must do great harm and cause grave disquiet in many parts of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.727.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.746.0", "colnum": "746", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Ask Lloyd George.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "d the British people to put up the money and the troops. When you are all saying that you object to the Russian Soviet Government interfering in our affairs, I ask by what authority and what application of international law, our Government had the right to pour money and troops into Russia and to make sacrifices in order to destroy the Soviet Government during the years that we were fighting them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Having lunch!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "\"— and did lunch—\" with the Kaiser last week at Homburg. That was published on 27th August, 1913. Lord Carson was then organising the raising of an army of 100,000 men in Ulster. I want to know what he was doing with the Kaiser who, it was well known at that time, was preparing for war in this country. I will read to right hon. and hon. Members opposite an account of what he was doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.749.6", "colnum": "749", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ng with an Emperor abroad and getting him to send you guns and ammunition, and then under the cloak of a pretended march getting them landed. I congratulate them on how they did it. I think it was a fine piece of work from that point of view, but they are arrant humbugs to grumble at other people. I understand that other hon. Members wish to speak, and I have made the point which I wished to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.749.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.749.6", "colnum": "749", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ds of Russian Freedom in order to help Anarchists, Nihilists and Communists fighting against the Tsarist autocracy. Therefore, I cannot think it wrong that the workers of Russia should be sending money to this country to-day to help the miners in their fight. The great argument is as to whether the workmen are sending the money or not. I received this letter on lath May from my daughter in Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.749.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.757.0", "colnum": "757", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": "ore them the actual facts. I should like to state the position in a way that I think will not be argumentative. The actual Government, the actual Soviet Govern- ment, is a central executive Committee of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The head of this body— let us have the matter quite clearly— is Kalinin, who is assisted by Zinovieff, Trotsky, Stallin, Bukharin, Tomsky—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.757.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.757.0", "colnum": "757", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PHILIP RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PHILIP RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": " Republics. The head of this body— let us have the matter quite clearly— is Kalinin, who is assisted by Zinovieff, Trotsky, Stallin, Bukharin, Tomsky—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! oh!\"] Well, I do not know that I want to read them all, but I take this list from the \"Izvestia\" of 21st May, 1925, The hon. Member for Bow and Bromley (Mr. Lansbury) went back 30 years. I am going back one year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.757.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": "o tell me how many British companies established in Russia have the same? That is rather important, because this seems to be a one-sided arrangement. If they have their organisation here, we ought to have a corresponding organisation over there. Furthermore, it is quite easy to establish in London a trading organisation to sell products which have cost nothing, on which there are no trade charges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": "gs which have been taken from our people in Russia and nationalised are being sold in England, and add to the credits of those trading organisations in England, which are used against us for a variety of purposes. There is no question that the Communistic party in England are supported by funds. Where do they come from? They do not manufacture anything. Where do they get their funds? From outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": "e of your ignorance of these people. Anyone who has lived a long time in Russia will know that the Russians are masters of chicanery, masters of intrigue, masters at camouflaging anything. In years past I have been engaged in trying to negotiate deals with them. It has gone on months and months, and at the end you thought you had got them down to something; but they always found some backdoor out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.762.1", "colnum": "762", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": "eople. It was not the money of the rich capitalist alone, but the money of the small person. Over and over again I have been approached by people who had put £10 or £15 into an oil company in Russia—money that was the savings of clerks and workmen. That money was put into Russia and the Russians have confiscated it—nationalising it, or what even you may be pleased to call it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.763.0", "colnum": "763", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Which?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "ike. Where has it all gone? Why has it disappeared? I listened to a very charming speech by the hon. and gallant Member who opened this Debate—a very charming speech. Regarding the historical information he gave us about his own experiences with people in Russia I have nothing to say. Regarding his political statements, I should say that nine out of every 10 of his sentences were inaccurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.763.0", "colnum": "763", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Tell us something about Russia!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "accurate. [HON. MEMBERS \"Which?\"] Well, we will agree about one The hon. Member for Central Hull is a silent Member of this House. Another, which we will all agree about— and I am perfectly serious about the matter, because he did deal with certain things regarding which I have first-hand information— is that the Labour Government followed the Coalition. I admit these are small things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.763.0", "colnum": "763", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "export of gold, is simply not for the purpose of disturbing the equilibrium of the Russian exchange. 3.0 P.M. Perhaps the Foreign Secretary will give us his views upon the interpretation of that ordinance of the Russian Government. But, if there is going to be propaganda either from this or any other Government conducted in this country by its agents, then this country has no business to allow it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "That may be, but is the hon. Member going to go at it like a bull at a gate? Really, does the hon. Member with all his enthusiasm live under the delusion that he has some stronger conception of the right of this country to refuse to allow agreements to be broken or propaganda by foreign Powers to be conducted inside this country than we have?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Is he a biscuit man?\" and Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "w the Gangway. The propaganda will go on, and if we break the Trade Agreement now the Russian Government will do its best to increase their hostility to us. That is the view not only of politicians, but of business men. I hold in my hand a letter which I have received from a very important business man who takes the precaution of saying that he in no sense agrees with any of my political opinions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.771.3", "colnum": "771", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ribution for the relief of distress in this country. Sir, you cannot find a word, perhaps I had better not say that, but you will find in almost every Russian Soviet newspaper, in the speeches of almost every Soviet leader, ample proof that it is not collected for the relief of distress, that the sufferings of the miners as such, or their wives and familes, are perfectly indifferent to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.771.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.771.3", "colnum": "771", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "you will find in almost every Russian Soviet newspaper, in the speeches of almost every Soviet leader, ample proof that it is not collected for the relief of distress, that the sufferings of the miners as such, or their wives and familes, are perfectly indifferent to them—[ interruption ]—and that the money is collected and sent not to help people in distress, but to foment revolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.771.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is a new economic policy! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I have not got it now, but I could get it. These are the most authoritative works I know on that constitution, and nothing has changed since they were written.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.774.3", "colnum": "774", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "een clone—I do not know—and money collected by compulsion from the workmen, remitted in breach or by special exception of the law. I say I am wholly unable to distinguish, except technically, between the direct contribution of the Soviet Government and sums collected in those circumstances and remitted in that way. His Majesty's Government thought it. right to draw a distinction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.774.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-25", "file": "debates1926-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "eb86e33dfbd94bf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.778.0", "colnum": "778", "heading": "RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not take the Motion\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "It is not a question of Privilege, nor do I think the Debate has so arisen. The Debate has arisen because certain Members put their names to a Motion on the Order Paper, and the Government have given this day, in order that the subject covered by that Motion might be discussed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-25a.778.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.818.14", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL STRIKE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\" and \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "Are the miners against whom this fund has been organised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.818.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.836.3", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MA1TLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Due to mismanagement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MA1TLAND", "preceding_text": "nd, South Wales, Durham and Northumberland—they will find on the basis of the last December quarter —I repeat these figures once again—that on the hours and wages then existing, apart from the subsidy, 88 tons out of every 100 in Scotland would have been produced at a, loss, 90 out of every 100 in South Wales, 97 out of every 100 in Durham, and the whole tonnage in Northumberland", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.836.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member says \"Rightly turned down.\" We will, therefore, see what they do want and what they refuse. The next recommendation was that there should be a variation according to districts. That again was flatly refused by the leaders of the Miners' Federation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.838.6", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If agreement can be reached!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "arded it as an alternative. They used the phrase I have already quoted, that We come reluctantly but unhesitatingly to the conclusion that the costs of production with the present hours and wages are greater than the industry can bear. With the present hours and wages. They hope that the alternative of longer hours may not be necessary, but they always leave that alternative quite explicitly open.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.838.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.840.3", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "o make another point clear. There are some people who think, or affect to think, that what we are doing is a first move in the direction of a general attack upon hours and wages by the Government. I say, again, on behalf of the Government, as I have said recently in public, that there is nothing of the kind attempted or contemplated. No such attack on hours or wages is in our minds for one moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.840.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.848.1", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not make it 10 hours?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "he hours. Hence it became clear that it would be only fair to make the other choice of longer hours possible. The economies obtained by the lengthening of hours are considerable, as every one knows. You get economies in the working of pits and in a number of other ways. They amount to something like 2s. a ton, taken over the whole of the British coalfield—more in some places, less in others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.848.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.851.11", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "preceding_text": "he Member for the Ogmore Division (Mr. Hartshorn) pointed that out on two previous occasions when he addressed the House, and it is the exact process that has gone on in regard to the miners' wages from July, 1921. Here I think it is really desirable to ask the attention of hon. Members once again to this fact, because many of them are new to the House of Commons and others do not read the papers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.851.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.866.3", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'NEILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"If the other parties would accept it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'NEILL", "preceding_text": "ey still adhere to their original statement that they were prepared to accept the Report as a whole. I am merely talking as an outsider, and as one who has read the Press recently. I understood that before the dispute began it was stated that the Government, much as many of its members disliked certain aspects of the Report, would, nevertheless, to prevent a dispute, accept the Report as a, whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.866.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.868.0", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMES BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMES BROWN", "preceding_text": "ld begin to discuss either wages or hours, namely, that we should try to discover what the Report could give us, what saving could be effected by municipal undertakings in the filing of coal, in the grouping of collieries and other things that lay within the compass of the Report. We have never had any choice in the matter. The Government never said at any moment that they would accept the Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.868.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.868.0", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMES BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMES BROWN", "preceding_text": "things that lay within the compass of the Report. We have never had any choice in the matter. The Government never said at any moment that they would accept the Report. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"] No, they did not. I have looked into the matter very carefully. The Government have never said that they would accept the Report. They have said that if both sides were agreeable they would accept the Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.868.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.874.0", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIGGS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why vote for the Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIGGS", "preceding_text": "n this trouble to-day, the very first thing that is asked is a sacrifice from the men. What of the owners? They give promises, nothing but promises! Personally, I do not blame the miners for one minute for refusing to accept these promises. I do not think the miners should put themselves in the position of making an immediate sacrifice and relying on the owners' unwritten and unlegalised promises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.874.0", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIGGS", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Never!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIGGS", "preceding_text": "ns is not clue to the sacrifices they are asked to make at the moment; I believe it is due almost entirely to the fear that they will lose in one moment what has taken years and years of effort to secure. I support this Bill because it is not compulsory. Hon. Members opposite may not agree with the tactics, but at any rate it is not compulsory and it may help to bring about a better frame of mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.874.0", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIGGS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIGGS", "preceding_text": " were agreed upon between the owners and the men. I rely practically entirely on the Report for my views on this matter. I would like to see the men and the masters accept the Report in its entirety, and then for the Government to declare, \"You accept it, and we will enforce it without questioning.\" Why quibble about royalties or anything else? Royalties are a thing of the past; they are done for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.881.1", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LUNN", "preceding_text": "I take it that will be the \"stunt\" of the Tory candidates in the future. I shall expect my opponent to have that for his motto when the next election comes in my constituency, and I know where he will go—as many other people do who are here. No, Gentlemen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.881.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.884.2", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHITELEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the alternative?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHITELEY", "preceding_text": "House, Amendments were moved which made it really a Bill for 8½ hours, or 8 hours 35 minutes in actuality. The present Bill is to be continued for a temporary period of live years, which means that we are putting the miners of this country, from the point of view of hours, back for a period of 18 years. That is not the kind of progress that we ought to be making, even under a Tory Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.884.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "preceding_text": "e Wholesale Society. In one ease it is 6d. per ton, and in the other case 2.3d. If we were to eliminate the full profit accruing to the factor, it would not appreciably affect—it might in part affect pithead prices—the price of coal, as these figures show. Hon. Members opposite believe there is a certain amount of profit on the distributing side of the trade which could be intercepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.901.3", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "preceding_text": "uce 6,000,000 or 7,000,000 tons of coal at the pithead. It must be an economic price, and if I cannot produce it at a certain price I am out of the market, and I am narrowed down to see whether we can produce at an economic point at the pithead which will enable us to compete in the world's market. It is because the tendency of this Bill will help us definitely in this direction that I support it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.901.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.902.4", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Your people made a good thing out of it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMPSON", "preceding_text": "It was the fault of the Government, because they had control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.902.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.905.2", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Temporary!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "nsible than the coalowners for the present position. We have been chided on this side of the House for not supporting the Report. I want to bring the Government hack to their negotiations with the Miners' Federation and I want to know if they are responsible for making it a condition of negotiation that the miners' representatives should first of all consent to a reduction in wages and also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.905.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.920.0", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier - General CHAVITERIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier - General CHAVITERIS", "preceding_text": "esent difficulties. The Bill is reviled on the other side because they say that it. is a permissive Bill. They say, also, that it is not included in the Report. They say that although it is only a temporary Measure, it will become permanent. As to the last contention, I would state that that is riot the view of such of the coalowners as I have spoken to. 1 have no connection with them of any sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.920.0", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier - General CHAVITERIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier - General CHAVITERIS", "preceding_text": "nt, and they agreed with hon. Members opposite to the extent that they said that because it was only a five years' Bill, \"the reduction which we shall have to enforce in wages in certain areas will be, let us say, 10 per cent. worse, but if it were a permanent Measure we should be prepared to reduce it to 5 per cent.\" He urged me to come to the House and ask that the Bill should be made permanent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.920.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.921.0", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Let us know his name!", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier - General CHAVITERIS", "preceding_text": " a five years' Bill, \"the reduction which we shall have to enforce in wages in certain areas will be, let us say, 10 per cent. worse, but if it were a permanent Measure we should be prepared to reduce it to 5 per cent.\" He urged me to come to the House and ask that the Bill should be made permanent. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is he?\"] I will not state the name in the House, but I will give it. privately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.932.3", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There are not many miners who say that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. JONES", "preceding_text": "ower wages means that the standard of living is reduced in the entire family, and that is an extremely bad thing. An extra hour only affects the miner himself, and I can quite conceive that many miners will say that rather than have a lower standard of living for the family they are prepared to work, during this temporary crisis, for a, longer period of half-an-hour or an hour, as the case may be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.932.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.933.3", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "ction, which may be considerable as things stand, he prefers to work an extra hour or half an hour, 1 cannot see why he should not be allowed to do so. When hon. Members talk about the hardness of the miners' work—and I would be the last to say anything to the contrary—we must bear in mind that at the present time the English miner is working less hours than anybody in the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.933.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.934.3", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "You say you will have the Report? Well, if the hon. Member will look at page 236, he will see the first thing there recommended is an immediate reduction of wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.934.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.935.0", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": " know what is happening. We had to fight too long for justice to the miner to give ap, at the bidding of a Government of the coalowners of this country, what we have gained, and we will not do so until we are absolutely compelled to do so. Mr. Cook's name has been mentioned in this House with something like ridicule. This I say for Cook. He may have made mistakes, but at least he is an honest man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.935.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "ition that the only way out of the difficulty is longer hours and lower wages. You will never get us to agree to that as long as you have heads on your bodies, because we have had to fight so long and so hard. I can understand the intellectual superiority of some of my Friends opposite, who jeer at some of us because we are only labourers, and cannot talk like lawyers. I am only a labourer —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "ill never get us to agree to that as long as you have heads on your bodies, because we have had to fight so long and so hard. I can understand the intellectual superiority of some of my Friends opposite, who jeer at some of us because we are only labourers, and cannot talk like lawyers. I am only a labourer —[ Interruption. ] You are not a labourer; you are not intellectual enough to be one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.946.0", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEMER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Chancellor of the Exchequer promised that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEMER", "preceding_text": "easons I put forward was that the Government of that day had no mandate either for the Seven Hours Bill or for the Royal Commission under Mr. Justice Sankey, which was appointed at that period. At the time the Bill was going through the House the Miners' Federation was sitting at Keswick, and one of the things we were promised if we allowed it to pass was that we should have peace in the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.946.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-28", "file": "debates1926-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "818ee20994f0dbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.949.0", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS\" \"A subsidy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "rs or shorter wages.\" The miners are instinctively right in refusing extended hours of labour or lower wages, but the constructive opposition policy should be advanced. Those engaged in the mining industry who are anxious to get a competitive price should ask the Government for relief from the burden of rates and taxes, which causes them to be undercut by other countries not carrying such charges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-28a.949.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-29", "file": "debates1926-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "40953af71af9b5c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.993.9", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "As I was saying, the Debate yesterday was unreal and lifeless, and the reason was because there was no alternative suggestion put forward to that proposed in the Bill. The Bill does suggest a scheme by which, at any rate, a majority of the pits would be able to open at once—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.993.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-29", "file": "debates1926-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "40953af71af9b5c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.993.9", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "ebate yesterday was unreal and lifeless, and the reason was because there was no alternative suggestion put forward to that proposed in the Bill. The Bill does suggest a scheme by which, at any rate, a majority of the pits would be able to open at once—[ Interruption ]—by which a majority of those working in the pits will he able to get reasonably good wages, and by which no man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.993.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-29", "file": "debates1926-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "40953af71af9b5c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1020.0", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Starvation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "er. [ Laughter. ] It is easy to laugh, but it does not help the argument. There are times for a. sense of humour, and times for other senses, and I think in a. Debate of this importance there are other senses that are more necessary to apply. I venture to suggest that, hard as are the alternatives, the Government are pursuing the course which enables the miner to select the least hard alternative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1020.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-29", "file": "debates1926-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "40953af71af9b5c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1020.0", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about reducing your own wages?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": ", but is there any foundation for it? [An HON. MEMBER: \"You try it. You go down the pit for eight hours.\"] If you are faced with the necessity of a reduction of wages or increase of hours and are considering the question of the maintenance of the standard of living, surely the answer to the problem is to reduce the wages as little as possible, even if you have to some extent to increase the hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1020.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-29", "file": "debates1926-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "40953af71af9b5c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "The hon. Member produced a rope with chain and attachment.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "ay in all, the rope was rubbing the naked flesh of the men. Since that article appeared, I have received a very large number of letters, both from men who are working under these conditions and from men who deny that these conditions exist. For the information of the House, I have brought with me one of these ropes. I am sorry to intrude into the polite environs of this House a thing of this kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-29", "file": "debates1926-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "40953af71af9b5c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1027.0", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "preceding_text": " the industry in terms of pounds, shillings and pence. The hon. Member for East Middlesbrough (Miss Wilkinson) referred several times to the question of profit. She said that this or that legislation was introduced or this or that thing was done simply to increase the owners' profits. She knows as well as anybody else that, for the past 18 months, there has been very little profit in the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1027.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-29", "file": "debates1926-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "40953af71af9b5c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1027.0", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Take a referendum!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "preceding_text": "re not asking for a subsidy, I wait to hear from any one of them how the gap is to be bridged. There is only one other way of bridging the gap, and that is nationalisation. Surely hon. Members must be consistent. They have accused the Prime Minister frequently of not having mandates for this or that. If the Prime Minister brought in any scheme of nationalisation, he would have no mandate for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1027.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-29", "file": "debates1926-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "40953af71af9b5c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1027.0", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The fishermen are being robbed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "preceding_text": "and say, \"You must contribute something to enable the miners to continue working their present hours and to continue earning their present wages\"? Could any hon. Member representing a constituency not, connected with mining say that, with a clear conscience? I cannot. I am still waiting to see how the gap which exists is to be bridged, if it is not to be bridged by nationalisation or by a subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1027.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-29", "file": "debates1926-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "40953af71af9b5c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1027.0", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FRANK MEYER", "preceding_text": "re, and I think the right hon. Gentleman was nearly out of order when he pursued it in his speech. The right hon. Gentleman's comparison of a service with an industry was typical of his confusion of thought, and it was typical of the inaccuracy which characterises so many of its statements when he said that the Samuel Memorandum was accepted by the Government as a settlement of the general strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1027.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-29", "file": "debates1926-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "40953af71af9b5c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1039.0", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where do you get it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "preceding_text": "e miners. Provocative speeches such as have been delivered on the other side will not help towards a settlement of this difficulty. I live on the fringe of a mining area, and I see as much suffering of the miners as hon. Members opposite. I have helped them and relieved them to the best of my ability. I get 30 or 40 of them every day coming around asking for assistance, and I give them assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1039.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-29", "file": "debates1926-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "40953af71af9b5c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1039.0", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "preceding_text": "shire and Leicestershire would go back to work to-morrow on eight hours, well knowing that eventually it would mean increase of wages under the profit-sharing agreement. They would go back to work were it not for the fact that they do not like the idea of going back except as a body and because they fear some sort of intimidation. Some men have signed on at the collieries in which I am interested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1039.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-29", "file": "debates1926-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "40953af71af9b5c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1041.1", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "preceding_text": "Of course, I cannot speak for the coalowners as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-29", "file": "debates1926-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "40953af71af9b5c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1043.3", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about America?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "preceding_text": "tting forward the argument in connection with this Bill that the industry of this country is efficient to-day, and I am trying to show that in Silesia, which has been mentioned by hon. and right hon. Gentlemen, and where it is said the industry is very efficient, and up to date, they cannot pay their men half the wages we pay in this country, and that the men there live under horrible, conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-29", "file": "debates1926-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "40953af71af9b5c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1043.3", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "preceding_text": "w that in Silesia, which has been mentioned by hon. and right hon. Gentlemen, and where it is said the industry is very efficient, and up to date, they cannot pay their men half the wages we pay in this country, and that the men there live under horrible, conditions. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about America?\"] Yes, the coalminers of this country should turn out four tons per day as they do in America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-29", "file": "debates1926-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "40953af71af9b5c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1044.0", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are not going to have them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "preceding_text": "e hours shall be extended they will still be working not any longer hours than on the Continent of Europe, having regard to the rigidity with which the hours are enforced in this country. I object to the figures that have been put forward by hon. Members on the other side, and in connection with the suggested increase, and to the suggestion that it means murder for the miners. That is all rubbish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1044.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-29", "file": "debates1926-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "40953af71af9b5c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1044.0", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "preceding_text": "deaths than there have been since 1919, except to a limited extent year by year because as the mines get more efficient, there are less accidents. Hon. Members opposite cannot prove, and no mining engineer will agree with them, that the extra hour on the day will make any difference at all in regard to loss of life and limb. This question of accidents in the mining industry is greatly exaggerated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1044.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-29", "file": "debates1926-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "40953af71af9b5c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1054.0", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT THOMAS", "preceding_text": "e all realise—that while this dispute is going on, this country is suffering very serious loss. The colossal sum of £8,000,000 a day was mentioned. That may he accurate or not. At any rate. it. is a vast sum. The longer this dispute lasts worse it will be. for everybody. It is the duty of every patriotic citizen to do what he can to bring it to an end. Will this Bill bring it to an end?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1054.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-29", "file": "debates1926-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "40953af71af9b5c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1068.0", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENNETT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are you putting that forward as a serious argument against amalgamation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENNETT", "preceding_text": "this: When we were managing the mine and only part owners our manager, a Scotsman, took a special pride in proving to the other owners, who happened to be Americans, that he could manage a mine cheaper and better than they could. They, too, were always watching results, and as a result we had real efficiency. As soon as we amalgamated it was quite different. That friendly rivalry no longer existed", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1068.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-29", "file": "debates1926-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "40953af71af9b5c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1092.0", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "rhaps, call the price problem. He dealt with the question of the price of the coal which we export from this country, and he maintained that, if we added another hour to the working day of the miners in this country, the Germans would retaliate, and so on, and the standard of living in Germany would be reduced in exact proportion as the standard of living of the miners in this country was reduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1092.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-29", "file": "debates1926-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "40953af71af9b5c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1095.0", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "ave called him a twister—I do not know what they have called him. They have said that he has betrayed the miners, that be has gone back on his word, and all the rest of it. For the life of me, however, I cannot see what else the Prime Minister could have done at this time. I would ask hon. Members opposite who were the first people to accept the Report of the Coal Commission? The Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1095.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-29", "file": "debates1926-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "40953af71af9b5c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1095.0", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The owners!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "that he has betrayed the miners, that be has gone back on his word, and all the rest of it. For the life of me, however, I cannot see what else the Prime Minister could have done at this time. I would ask hon. Members opposite who were the first people to accept the Report of the Coal Commission? The Government. [Interruption]. Who were the first people to reject the Report of the Coal Commission?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1095.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-29", "file": "debates1926-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "40953af71af9b5c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1095.0", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": " the rest of it. For the life of me, however, I cannot see what else the Prime Minister could have done at this time. I would ask hon. Members opposite who were the first people to accept the Report of the Coal Commission? The Government. [Interruption]. Who were the first people to reject the Report of the Coal Commission? [HON. MEMBERS: \"The owners!\"] Not at all. The miners were the first—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1095.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-29", "file": "debates1926-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "40953af71af9b5c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1095.0", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "rly badly right through, and in that they have been excelled only by the miners. The Government were confronted on one side by the Miners' Federation and on the other side by the Mining Association. What was the wretched Government to do? They were in an impossible position, with two impossible sets of people to deal with, and of the two the miners have proved themselves to be the more impossible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-29a.1095.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-30", "file": "debates1926-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3476bd0774d96d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1209.9", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. YOUNG", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "o talk of the temporary nature of this Measure. The progress that has been made in the past will continue in spite of this Measure. Just as the workers from time to time have come from slavery to serfdom, from serfdom to free labour, and then on from free labour to organised labour, so that movement will continue, and the struggle will go on till the workers get a share of the control of industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1209.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-30", "file": "debates1926-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3476bd0774d96d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1213.1", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major PRICE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major PRICE", "preceding_text": "an hon. Gentlemen say if the Coal Report is accepted in its entirety, they will on behalf of the miners agree to it and abide by it? Can a single Member of the Front Opposition Bench come forward and say he will use all his endeavours and the endeavours of his party to put the Report into operation if the Government will agree to it The Government have already said that they are prepared to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-30", "file": "debates1926-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3476bd0774d96d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1214.1", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major PRICE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major PRICE", "preceding_text": "The coal owners would be forced to accept it, if you on your side accepted it. The main objection urged to this Bill is that it prevents future negotiations for a settlement of this dispute. In what way does it prevent you now, or at any time, or when the Bill passes, putting forward a settlement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-30", "file": "debates1926-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3476bd0774d96d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1214.5", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major PRICE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major PRICE", "preceding_text": "I am perfectly aware that, if you take the miners' leaders, nobody can honestly say that they have from the beginning sought a settlement. Why, the very opinions expressed time out of number by Mr. Cook during and before this dispute shows that, instead of trying to create a state of affairs under which the industry could progress, his one desire has been to kill the industry on its present lines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1214.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-30", "file": "debates1926-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3476bd0774d96d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1214.5", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major PRICE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quote!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major PRICE", "preceding_text": "lement. Why, the very opinions expressed time out of number by Mr. Cook during and before this dispute shows that, instead of trying to create a state of affairs under which the industry could progress, his one desire has been to kill the industry on its present lines. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"] You may say it is rubbish, but I would refer you to Mr. Cook's own speeches, and you will see it there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1214.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-30", "file": "debates1926-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3476bd0774d96d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1218.1", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN", "preceding_text": " continuity of policy. The Bill last week was intended to reorganise the industry; this Bill is going to disorganise the industry. If it be a question of increasing production, the best way to increase production always is to reduce hours. Not only in the mining industry, but in any other industry, a reduction of hours has always resulted in increased production. One is consequential on the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-30", "file": "debates1926-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3476bd0774d96d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1218.1", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In what way?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN", "preceding_text": "oduction of this Bill. It is argued that it is permissive—that the miners can take it if they so desire or they can leave it. We say it is compulsory, and that the difference between this Bill and last week's Bill is this: the Bill last week left the initiative to the coalowners, it is a voluntary Bill for three years; the Bill affecting miners' hours is compulsory, obligatory and immediate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-30", "file": "debates1926-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3476bd0774d96d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1226.1", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SUTTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Even than they!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SUTTON", "preceding_text": "s have to be found, by one-third of the mining population. Therefore, these 800,000 mine workers would have to work an additional hour and would have to suffer a reduction in their wages as well. Is that a system that should operate in 1926? The miners of this country would be working far longer than the miners in any mine in Europe, with the exception, as has been said, of those in Upper Silesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-30", "file": "debates1926-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3476bd0774d96d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1266.3", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "f the Votes belong to the Liberal and Labour parties, so I claim that you have no mandate to make any change and that the Government are doing wrong in this matter. I want to make it known that the fact that the owners are being backed up by the Government is clearly shown by what the Prime Minister has done. He stated recently that he was not going to take any dictatorship from capital or labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-30", "file": "debates1926-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3476bd0774d96d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1268.0", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ject. They contended that, as with the seven-hour day there were more accidents during the last hour, therefore with an eight-hour day the rate of accidents will be still further increased. I can assure them that no such inference as that can possibly be drawn from the statistics, if they are carefully examined. So far as the statistics yield any inference, the inference is rather to the contrary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1268.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-30", "file": "debates1926-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3476bd0774d96d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1274.1", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "the Committee. I state quite distinctly I am not acting in the interests of the coalowners or anyone else. We are introducing this Bill—at least I myself so far as. I have a share in it am doing so, simply because I believe in the circumstances it is the right thing to do, and for no other reason. Hon. Members opposite seem to think that we are at once the slaves of the coalowners and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-30", "file": "debates1926-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3476bd0774d96d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1274.1", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So it will be!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "hink that we are at once the slaves of the coalowners and—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] I thought that statement would produce a cheer from the other side such as I seldom get. Yet the same time, while hon. Members say this about us, one of them earlier in the day produced the fact that one of the coalowners had said: \"Why do they not make it permanent. They ought to have made it permanent.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-30", "file": "debates1926-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3476bd0774d96d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1275.0", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EVAN DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\" and \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EVAN DAVIES", "preceding_text": "e industry, the only sensible proposal to put before the House, that is, if the House is to settle it, is for the eight hours to be applied to the uneconomic pits, and let the others work the seven hours. Everyone knows that is a very impracticable proposition, but it comes to the surface because the Government want to apply the eight-hours day to the collieries which are already paying their way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-30", "file": "debates1926-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3476bd0774d96d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1288.3", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": " otherwise the Bill would not be passed. It is brought in in order to put the mining industry on a paying basis. That is the purpose of the Bill. These mineowners voted in the Lobby last night to put the mining industry on a paying basis at the expense of other people. Surely it is quite in order for me to draw attention to what happened last night in the division? The Government are acting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1288.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-30", "file": "debates1926-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3476bd0774d96d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1288.3", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "y on a paying basis. That is the purpose of the Bill. These mineowners voted in the Lobby last night to put the mining industry on a paying basis at the expense of other people. Surely it is quite in order for me to draw attention to what happened last night in the division? The Government are acting—[ Laughter. ] If hon. Members below the Gangway care to laugh at a Bill that going to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1288.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-30", "file": "debates1926-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3476bd0774d96d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1288.3", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, at you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "mineowners voted in the Lobby last night to put the mining industry on a paying basis at the expense of other people. Surely it is quite in order for me to draw attention to what happened last night in the division? The Government are acting—[ Laughter. ] If hon. Members below the Gangway care to laugh at a Bill that going to— [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"] You are not laughing at the Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1288.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-30", "file": "debates1926-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3476bd0774d96d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1292.0", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "prepared to work it and it will be necessary to ask for an extension. The miners do not want the Bill. Why should the Government bring it in, even for one year. The mine-owners and the Government want the Bill. Let them go into the mines jointly. They will not be missed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-30", "file": "debates1926-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3476bd0774d96d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1302.1", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONEYLENDERS (EXCISE).", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "siness was to be taken. Not a word was said about this Resolution. The Chief Whip, with his amazing knowledge of procedure, will say it was not necessary to draw attention to the fact that it was to be taken because it was possible to slip it through under the Standing Orders without giving notice that he intended to take it, but I think hon. Members who are interested in it are taken by surprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-30", "file": "debates1926-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3476bd0774d96d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1302.1", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONEYLENDERS (EXCISE).", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "ers' rights is doing a service to the House as a whole, whatever arrangements may be come to by those in charge of the business. I am told there was no arrangement come to. It is the practice of Ministers now not to answer. We have had instances of Ministers sitting mum and treating the House with implied insult. It is possible that when I have said what I have to say, no reply will be vouchsafed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-30", "file": "debates1926-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3476bd0774d96d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1304.1", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONEYLENDERS (EXCISE).", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Commander Eyres Monsell)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Commander Eyres Monsell)", "preceding_text": "The question addressed to the Prime Minister was what business we were going to take by virtue of the exemption of the Eleven o'clock Rule. I am most particular never to take business without agreeing with the Official Whips of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-30", "file": "debates1926-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3476bd0774d96d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1305.6", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONEYLENDERS (EXCISE).", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "My remarks apply equally to that", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1305.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-06-30", "file": "debates1926-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "3476bd0774d96d21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1305.6", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MONEYLENDERS (EXCISE).", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "if it does not concern the Government, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury does not attempt to keep a House. I have seen his supporters beckoning hon. Members to leave the House in order that a House should not be kept. I give notice, most respectfully, that if on any future occasion any hon. Member has a grievance to raise affecting his constituents and he is not given any support —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-06-30a.1305.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1335.3", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWO0D", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWO0D", "preceding_text": "Arising from that reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1335.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1344.9", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "With regard to the business for to-day, is the Prime Minister still determined to push the Coal Mines Bill through its final stage to-day? Is he aware that only three days have been allowed for discussion—two for the Second Reading and one for the Committee stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1344.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1345.0", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "To-day will be the fourth day of the discussion. The Bill only contains one Clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1345.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1360.3", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "They spoke as if it would be quite easy to continue the industry without any change with regard to hours or wages. They did not realise that we are confronted with a situation which is described by the Royal Commission itself as \"one of disaster hanging over the mining industry.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1360.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1360.3", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "n from the Royal Commission's Report. I know that we all take leave to agree with some parts of that Report and to differ from others, but nobody who understands the question at all can really deny the truth of that observation. If over 70 per cent. of the coal of this country is at this moment being got at a loss, that is a serious situation which cannot be remedied without very drastic measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1360.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1360.3", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "ts of that Report and to differ from others, but nobody who understands the question at all can really deny the truth of that observation. If over 70 per cent. of the coal of this country is at this moment being got at a loss, that is a serious situation which cannot be remedied without very drastic measures. [ Interruption. ] The Debate took the line, first of all, of abuse of the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1360.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1360.3", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has done nothing!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "hat is a serious situation which cannot be remedied without very drastic measures. [ Interruption. ] The Debate took the line, first of all, of abuse of the Prime Minister. [ Interruption. ] Anybody who knows what the Prime Minister has done from the very beginning of this business knows that his patience has been inexhaustible and that, though his temper has been tried, he has never been ruffled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1360.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1360.3", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": " Interruption. ] Anybody who knows what the Prime Minister has done from the very beginning of this business knows that his patience has been inexhaustible and that, though his temper has been tried, he has never been ruffled. [An HON. MEMBER: \"He has done nothing!\"] To say that he has not used every ounce of his strength in the cause of peace is to say something which everybody knows is not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1360.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1360.3", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": " his patience has been inexhaustible and that, though his temper has been tried, he has never been ruffled. [An HON. MEMBER: \"He has done nothing!\"] To say that he has not used every ounce of his strength in the cause of peace is to say something which everybody knows is not true. [ Interruption. ] Yet that is said by those who profess to speak on behalf of those who have not moved one inch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1360.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1361.3", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Name!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "You are a murderer as well as he.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1361.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1361.9", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "from the Memorandum which the Chairman of the Commission produced at the time of the general strike. Practically, the only difference, I think, was that whereas he recommended resumption of work with a limited subsidy the Government declined to increase the subsidy or go beyond the £3,000,000 limit which had already been declared. That was the second step, and it was rejected by both parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1361.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1364.3", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "Some of it is in the Bill. Nobody disputes that the immediate situation must be dealt with long before reorganisation proposals can have any material effect. We have been attacked in what I think is an inconsistent way. We have been told over and over again that this Bill is part of a direct attack upon w a g es—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1364.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1364.3", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "y disputes that the immediate situation must be dealt with long before reorganisation proposals can have any material effect. We have been attacked in what I think is an inconsistent way. We have been told over and over again that this Bill is part of a direct attack upon w a g es—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"]—and that the Conservative party are out to make a general attack upon wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1364.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1364.5", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "rguments to disprove such a charge. Another argument, and, perhaps, a stronger argument, is that every lowering of wages which has ever been consented to by the Conservative Government, or by the Government in which I had the honour to serve under the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George), has been accompanied by a distinct guarantee that if prosperity came wages would go up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1364.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1364.7", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "I must be allowed to say what are the facts. I represented the Government in the signing of the Coal Mines Agreement on behalf of the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs. The essence of that Agreement was that the moment the industry progressed, then, by the process of ascertainment, any surplus profits that were derived should be divided in certain proportions between wages and capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1364.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1366.3", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "acity of the world at large is not capable of great expansion. Except in certain parts of Europe, the baying capacity of almost every other country in the world is stronger than it has been for some time. Our difficulty is not that there is no prospect of expansion in the buying capacity of the world, but that we have lost markets which we had before. We have lost them to other European countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1366.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1368.9", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is a precipice behind as well!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BRIDGEMAN", "preceding_text": "It is easy to say they are wrong, but we all have a right to our own opinions. What are the alternatives to our proposal Several have been mentioned. I think it was the right hon. Member for Shettleston (Mr. Wheatley) who said that in introducing this Bill the Prime Minister was reversing the engine. Well, it is not a bad thing to do, when you are getting near a precipice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1368.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1369.1", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BR1DGEMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BR1DGEMAN", "preceding_text": "I do not expect you to. The fourth alternative is the one which is proposed in this Bill, and surely it is not too much to ask that at any rate it will be possible for those who are concerned to consider what would be the effect of this proposal. The House has already been told by the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1379.0", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. CRAIG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bread and butter!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. CRAIG", "preceding_text": "ccept that as true, and, in considering anything which affects the life and well-being of the miner, this side of his life must he considered. Having said that, I would turn to the other side of the millet's life, for there must be another side. There must be some recompense, some compensation, something which tends to draw men to the industry and develop the manhood which we see in that industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1392.0", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUSSELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUSSELL", "preceding_text": "the House, and I doubt whether there be any on the Front Bench on this side, who are in the least enamoured of a Bill of this kind. It is to be deplored that the long train of events and circumstances, not merely of the past weeks and months, but of the past years, have led up to such a state of affairs that there is no other course open to any Government than to bring forward a Bill of this kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1392.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1409.0", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "that necessarily mean that you would contemplate that the industry should be supported as it is now by the rest of the community until such time as this can. be carried into effect? Mr. TAWNEY: Oh, no; I think it would be quite wrong to assume that. There we have Mr. Tawney turning down the subsidy, and at the same time offering no suggestion for that most difficult problem, how to bridge the gap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1409.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1409.0", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": " Report, and when a patient is in a critical condition, you have to suggest measures—the patient need not take them unless he likes—that you would never dream of suggesting if that patient were in good health. It is quite true, as the right hon. Member for Carmarthen (Sir A. Mond) said yesterday—I did not hear his speech, but I looked at it—that the Bill will be permissive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1409.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1420.0", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Yes!", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ours basis and on the various increases of hours inside the limits of the Act. If no one will negotiate or accept those terms the question falls to the ground, but unless negotiations can take place I see very little hope of anything being done, and I would ask hon. Members opposite, \"Are you all of you absolutely satisfied in your own hearts of the wisdom of the policy of the Miners' Federation?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1418.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1420.2", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Yes!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Are you satisfied with your Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1430.2", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. WATTS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. WATTS", "preceding_text": "I am merely concerned with my own personal experience which is the experience of a quarter of a century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1430.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1430.2", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. WATTS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. WATTS", "preceding_text": "I am merely concerned with my own personal experience which is the experience of a quarter of a century. [ Interruption. ] I am not at all surprised at the fear among hon. Members on the Socialist benches opposite of this Bill, because I think they believe there is in it the germ of a settlement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1430.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1430.2", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. WATTS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. WATTS", "preceding_text": " germ of a settlement. [ Laughter. ] Hon. Members may laugh if they please, but that does not worry me. There is the laugh, we arc told, that shows the vacant mind. I am not surprised at the fear which many hon. Members on the Socialist benches—I do not say all—display about this Bill. They fear that in it there is the germ of a settlement, and that is the very last thing they desired.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1430.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1430.2", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. WATTS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. WATTS", "preceding_text": "ked only six days in the week, I should have ended in the workhouse—there was no dole in my days! Hon. Members opposite describe this Bill as reactionary. I cannot see anything reactionary in a Bill which seeks to restore the liberty of the individual collier to work as many hours as he wishes. The Bill restores to the miners the liberty of action which was taken away by the Seven Hours Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1430.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1432.1", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. WATTS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. WATTS", "preceding_text": "is dispute is settled, they will want to have some very clear explanation of what has become of that money. Personally, I have a very shrewd idea where that money has gone. Further than that, in regard to the money that has come from Russia, I was assured by many of those miners in Lancashire that, however much money has come from Russia, certainly the miners of Lancashire have never had a copper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1432.1", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. WATTS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. WATTS", "preceding_text": " money has gone. Further than that, in regard to the money that has come from Russia, I was assured by many of those miners in Lancashire that, however much money has come from Russia, certainly the miners of Lancashire have never had a copper. [ Interruption. ] I personally, along with my mining friends, because I regard them as friends, think we know what has become of a good deal of that money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1433.9", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. WATTS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. WATTS", "preceding_text": "I am prepared to wait and see, because I am confident of what I say, from my intimate relations with the men—and the relationship between a doctor and a workman is probably more intimate than with anybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1433.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1438.0", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "preceding_text": "mber took the attitude that because the Prime Minister was interested in the industry, which everyone knew, therefore he should not take part in these Debates. But the leaders of the miners and the trade union are equally interested in profits. Their salaries entirely depend on the coal industry, and if the Eight Hours Bill is successful they will be taking. a share in the profits of the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1438.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1444.1", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HILTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They did not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HILTON", "preceding_text": "The miners have refused to accept the findings of the Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1455.4", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WARDLAW-MILNE", "preceding_text": "ce a movement which appears to be going to lower their standard of life. It is only natural that they should fight to the utmost against that movement. Is it not possible for the Government to induce the mineowners to make this suggestion to the miners: \"You are afraid that this is an attack on your standard of life. We want to make it clear to you that we are not attacking your standard of life\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1455.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1462.0", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Colonel Lane Fox)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Colonel Lane Fox)", "preceding_text": "isk that we have now of districts being entirely, or practically entirely, without employment, would disappear. The right hon. Gentleman may say that that might not happen, but we believe that it will happen, and that it will be a considerable advantage if this system is adopted. The right hon. Gentleman also said that neither longer hours nor reduced wages would do anything to save the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1462.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-07-01", "file": "debates1926-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6c15bb036fac31f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1466.0", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "preceding_text": "In the Sankey Commission evidence is given by two of the most prominent financial experts, Sir Josiah Stamp and Mr. Lowes Dickinson, that £135,000,000 was the figure pre-War. I am willing to take another £50,000,000 on that and to take £180,000,000 as a test. There is not a single colliery owner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-01a.1465.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-02", "file": "debates1926-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4302440ceedbee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1493.0", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Sir GERALD STRICKLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GERALD STRICKLAND", "preceding_text": "anything in the direction indicating a determination to depress the standard of living, or to diminish the wages of the miners, have already, within the last 12 months, by bold action taken in this House with great deliberation, and at considerable political and financial risk, already increased the wages of the miners by at least 15 per cent. as a consequence of the adoption of the gold standard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-02", "file": "debates1926-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4302440ceedbee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1493.0", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Sir GERALD STRICKLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Malta.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GERALD STRICKLAND", "preceding_text": "orkers and by all those working for fixed salaries. Then let us reflect on what was the result of the gold standard on the so-called coal-owners. It has been all against those who provide the wages fund, Their troubles have increased over and over again, when selling and exporting, by the adoption of the gold standard. Their export has become more diminished, and their profits have been dwindling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-02", "file": "debates1926-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4302440ceedbee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1496.1", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. STRICKLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. STRICKLAND", "preceding_text": " British coal trade to diminish unemployment by successful competition in the markets of the world. Damage to law and order comes from the refusal of hon. Members to accept those well considered suggestions and conditions. Ingratitude is really the cause of the danger of internal disturbance in this country. The Govern- ment have been complacent in their strenuous efforts to meet the Labour party!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-02", "file": "debates1926-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4302440ceedbee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1496.1", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. STRICKLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\" and \"Let them show it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. STRICKLAND", "preceding_text": "I have already referred, that of indirectly adding to the wages of the miners at least 15 per cent. on the value of wage paid on a gold standard and then again by putting at the disposal of the trade a subsidy of £23,000,000 and offering more in order to educate public opinion, and in order to gain time to spread the light so that now the whole country is behind the Government with open eyes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-02", "file": "debates1926-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4302440ceedbee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1498.6", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"M.P. for Malta.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": "We have listened with very great interest to the reasoned speech of the hon. Member for Lancaster (Sir G. Strickland).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1498.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-02", "file": "debates1926-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4302440ceedbee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1504.10", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "day he had a portrait of himself with Lenin—the arch-murderer of all time—presented to him, the two of them side by side. It is a perfectly shocking thing that a man of that temperament and record should have the fate of these men in his hands. (HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"] Mr. Cook, you know perfectly well, the man whom every decent miner on that side is only too anxious to have superseded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1504.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-02", "file": "debates1926-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4302440ceedbee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1511.1", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "he men engaged in this fight are ordinarily engaged in preserving their standard of life, but as the fight develops, as the Government adopt Measure after Measure, and as the masters are showing the cloven hoof day after day in the dispute, there is involved not only an economic problem but grave political, social and constitutional issues, and we who are responsible for the working classes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-02", "file": "debates1926-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4302440ceedbee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1513.0", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": " on the other side, those who are fighting the great battle of the working classes are deprived of the right of speaking and fighting for their political, social and other privileges. There is another grave point to which I would direct the attention of the Government. We are now being asked to renew the Emergency Powers Act for the third time. We could have pardoned the Government the first time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-02", "file": "debates1926-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4302440ceedbee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1519.2", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ll be too early to throw up our hats.\" I think I have been justified in that view. Even now I say that it would be very much better to attempt to make peace by negotiation, by accepting the offer of an armistice, instead of relying on force, of which these Regulations are part of the weapon. I shall certainly support the Amendment. I am glad that those who are with me in my party will do the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1519.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-02", "file": "debates1926-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4302440ceedbee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1522.1", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "preceding_text": " and what was in the letter that I read to the Home Secretary. He was a man in business, who closed his shop a quarter of an hour after this raid. He says himself that there was no noise or crowd in the street. He walked along to a licensed house to get his ordinary glass of beer, and he was going to play a game of billiards, but the police rushed in, knocked him about, and laid him up for a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-02", "file": "debates1926-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4302440ceedbee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1544.0", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I understand a stoppage was threatened in the mining industry in the days when the right hon. Gentleman occupied office and Regulations were actually prepared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1544.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-02", "file": "debates1926-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4302440ceedbee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1547.2", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Member for Platting (Mr. Clynes) told us that since 1920,think he said, or since the Armistice, there had been a fall of £600,000,000 in the nominal wages of labour. He pointed out that all the sacrifices were on one side. He omitted to tell us that the fall in the rates of wages for a full week has, on the average, been almost exactly balanced by the fall in the cost of living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1547.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-02", "file": "debates1926-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4302440ceedbee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1547.2", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Would you like to earn your living that way?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " recruited by poor people from Ireland or Scotland, because their sons went back into the industry. He said that was why they claimed special consideration and sympathy. An hon. Member opposite also spoke of the miners as the best of our race. If they are the best of our race, and if they send their sons back into the industry continuously, as we know they do, and as we know they like to go—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1547.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-02", "file": "debates1926-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4302440ceedbee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1547.2", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Never severely enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "is country, the million most magnificent men in the country would consent to endure them, or would send their sons there. Let me review the grounds upon which the Government could he censured do not say that they have been censured, because very few of the speeches in this Debate have sustained the actual question before the House. We could he censured, presumably, for our conduct of negotiations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1547.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-02", "file": "debates1926-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4302440ceedbee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1552.1", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "eady progress. But do not let us suppose that the progress of this country can be maintained without relation to economic facts For my part, I consider that if we are able, on the morrow of a great shattering struggle, to hold the full position of labour standards which we had gained before that struggle, it is not to be said that we have incurred a great misfortune or that we have suffered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-02", "file": "debates1926-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4302440ceedbee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1552.1", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ere 72 others working underground on the lines of communication between the coal face and the shaft, and 42 persons on the surface, making a total of 114 others for 100 at the face. In 1924, for every 100 at the face, there were 95 others underground, instead of 72, and 50 on the surface instead of 42, making a total of 145 others instead of 114, to deal with the output of 100 persons at the face.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-02", "file": "debates1926-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4302440ceedbee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1552.1", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does that include parasites in the industry?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " sure that whatever unemployment is inevitable in the reorganisation of the coal industry would not be better borne, would not create less suffering if it were caused by the combing of a certain proportion of men taken from the extra employment in every part and all over the country, rather than by the blotting out of whole districts or the unnecessary closing of a large number of particular pits?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-02", "file": "debates1926-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4302440ceedbee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1552.1", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To the coalowners!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "hole weight of the blow of any shrinkage fall upon this or that particular district or this or that particular pit. No, Sir; I cannot feel in the least any sense of self-reproach, as a member of the Government, when we are invited to pass judgment on the actions we have taken in this matter. They have been actions taken in the face of great difficulties, but they have been sincere and loyal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1552.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-02", "file": "debates1926-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4302440ceedbee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1555.5", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": ". That is not accepting the Report, which condemns altogether the idea of a subsidy. I know it is a very common attitude—I cannot say I am innocent of it from time to time—in regard to Reports of Royal Commissions, to accept with great approval those parts with which one happens to agree. But the Government's position is perfectly clear in regard to this Report of the Royal Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1555.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-02", "file": "debates1926-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4302440ceedbee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1555.5", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not cut the royalties?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "t agree with the proposal in the Report about the purchase of the mining royalties. I will tell the House why. First of all, I think it would hamper very much the finances of the country, at a time when we have immense conversion operations impending, out of which the taxpayer might get a very great relief—a much larger relief than would be involved in the actual purchase of these royalties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1555.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-02", "file": "debates1926-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4302440ceedbee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1559.2", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "il and water being in competition with coal. If either of those two right hon. Gentlemen knew anything about the subject they would know that neither oil nor water is in competition with coal. I know that the right hon. Gentleman for Hillhead contradicted himself in a statement he made recently, but that only shows what people tell him when he comes into this House to speak. Spoon-fed politicians!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1559.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-02", "file": "debates1926-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4302440ceedbee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1560.3", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who tells them that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "to say what should be done with God's wealth? Any Government that acts in such a way as that belongs to the Stone Age. When the Government are dealing with the royalty owners they are prepared to guarantee them £100,000,000, while on the other hand all they can do for the miners is to offer them a reduction of wages. That is what the miners tell you is the meaning of the Government proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-02a.1560.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1598.6", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "No, Sir; but that part was only intended to be offensive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1598.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1617.8", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POOR LAW.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "This question is one of peculiar interest in regard to the Debate which is just about to take place. I do not want to ask that great pages of figures should be read out, but I do think it is important that we should know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1617.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1642.3", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "st scrupulous regard for all the checks which experience show to be necessary for the administration of domiciliary relief. He will say that the situation in which the guardians find themselves is due to no fault of their own, but that they are victims of the circumstances of the poverty of their district and the extent of unemployment there and, above all, to the failure of this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1642.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1642.3", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You will find it so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "e poverty of their district and the extent of unemployment there and, above all, to the failure of this Government—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"]—but not, I presume, of the Government which preceded it, to supply a remedy for unemployment. I am not for one moment going to deny the fact that any board of guardians functioning in West Ham would have an extremely difficult task to perform.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1642.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1662.1", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": " right hon. Gentleman's statement. I will say this in passing. Even if all he has said were true, even if it could be proved up to the hilt, it would not justify this House in giving a Second Reading to the Measure now before us, because this is not a West Ham Measure. This is not a Bill for dealing with Bedwelty. This is a Bill for the gradual destruction of local Government in England and Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1663.1", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "rnment demitted office these figures have steadily increased until the present moment. In March, 1925, the 272 had become 285; it remained stationary for the next quarter; in September it had gone up to 315; and in December it had reached the figure of 342. According to the \"Labour Gazette\" figures, in March of this year it had bounded further to 421, and in the month of May it had gone up to 624.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1669.0", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERNEST ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "ll hear a great deal about the sacredness of local self-government from the Opposition benches to-day. In the West Ham Union, at any rate, the fact has to be recognised that local self-government has definitely broken down, and that the local service of Poor Law relief is not now administered from the local rate but has to be largely supplemented by loans from the Ministry of Health. I go further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1669.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1673.1", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "lustrated by a case which I have had from the lips of a member of the West Ham Board of Guardians and for which he can give chapter and verse. A widow was living with her son, a motor driver, who fell out of work. For weeks and for months the widow struggled on, parting with small portions of her furniture and even with some of her clothing rather than make an application to the relieving officer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1685.0", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": " Club. But corruption only begins when the ordinary worker begins to take part in public administration, and ho gets control of the machinery, and he says, as we are not ashamed of saying in West Ham, \"every man who draws the trade union rate of wages from our public authority and works the hours laid clown by the general conduct of our movement shall be a member of the union.\" Is that corruption?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1685.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1685.0", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "Ham, \"every man who draws the trade union rate of wages from our public authority and works the hours laid clown by the general conduct of our movement shall be a member of the union.\" Is that corruption? [ Interruption. ] You know how to intimidate. You are doing it now. Tens of thousands of railwaymen have been intimidated during the general strike. Seven thousand members of our own union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1685.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1686.1", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": " to he put into the pillory now. The worst case you can find is a family with an income of £10 a week, and that is made a charge against the members of the boards of guardians. If there is any corruption about it, according to your officer, you have the power to surcharge members of the board under the present law, like you did to Popular, and God help you, you will never get your money back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1688.1", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "t were not for their past donkey work for your party, getting salaries of £1,200 a year when they are not worth 12d. a month. They could not even get up to defend their own Government when the Front Bench was absent. These are the people who charge us with corruption. Most of them are only there because they are their father's son, and some of them would have a difficulty in proving it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1695.0", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain HUDSON", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain HUDSON", "preceding_text": "0, Vol. 197.] I admit that that case is somewhat different from the case with which I am now dealing, but my point is that the spirit is the same, because people elect guardians who are going to give them relief. Seeing that the hon. Member for Bow and Bromley is of opinion that a Member of this House should not vote when he is financially interested, I hope I shall have his support on this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1695.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1718.0", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "fficiently by a most devoted body of guardians, in, say, a borough like Fulham, and if it is done by the same type of individual all over London why should it be necessary in one district that the administration of affairs be on such a different scale, that if it can be done effectively in one place it should not be possible to find it equally well done and on equally sound lines in another place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1718.0", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel VAUGHAN-MORGAN", "preceding_text": "r they go on the more difficult they are to remedy. So we come to the end of all attempts that have been made to meet the difficulty of the particular areas that have been discussed this afternoon, and this is the final effort, the final endeavour to protect and safeguard the local administration. We have really come to a breakdown in the system. The public authority are really defying Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1722.4", "colnum": "1722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And no Income Tax!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "preceding_text": "s in that particular area. The Minister has dealt with the hardship to trade associations which have large liabilities in the West Ham Union area, who are denied the right of representation. I can speak on behalf of probably the largest trade organisation in that area—namely, the London Cooperative Society, which last year paid rates to the extent of £11,000 in this Poor Law union area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1722.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1730.1", "colnum": "1730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is the problem.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ut the proportion of persons in receipt of Poor Law relief in West Ham per 10,000 of the population, again at the end of April, was 923. In Birmingham it was 250, and if you allow for the difference in unemployment it might be in Birmingham 375. So that in West Ham they, are relieving, in relation to the number of unemployed, two-and-a-half times as many people as they are relieving in Birmingham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1755.3", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "Divisional Labour party—to propose that the Minister's conditions at that particular time should be accepted. What was his fate? He stood for election at the last board of guardians election and, because he had made that very reasonable proposition in the circumstances which then existed, he was called by all and sundry in the district a \"baby starver\" and as a, consequence he lost his seat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1755.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1757.0", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "That is a lying statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1757.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1769.4", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Withdraw !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "Every hon. Member has a perfect right to make a suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1769.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1770.0", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Strike\" and \"Lockout\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "preceding_text": "ry the Government will similarly alter the law. Only a month ago the right hon. Gentleman said the Government needed these powers because of the continuation of the situation then existing and he asked the House to pass these Regulations for another month. Since the last time these Regulations were passed we have had a whole month to test, whether there is in this country during the lockout—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1770.0", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a stoppage.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "preceding_text": "se of the continuation of the situation then existing and he asked the House to pass these Regulations for another month. Since the last time these Regulations were passed we have had a whole month to test, whether there is in this country during the lockout—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Strike\" and \"Lockout\"]—I welcome this opportunity of settling once for all whether this is a strike or a lockout.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1777.4", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "sent Government—the Postmaster-General—who was selected by the Prime Minister to be Chief Civil Commissioner. The Postmaster-General took a very active part in the sedition campaign of 1913, like the Minister of Transport, who said the other day that he had buried his revolver in Ulster, but, if the same circumstances occurred again, he would use it again, and he was not ashamed of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1777.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1787.0", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George), for 15 weeks during the 1921 dispute not a single one of these Regulations was required. Further than that, although the main Act that gave the Home Secretary the power to evoke these Regulations was passed in 1990, and, if my memory serves me right, the Coalition Government a year before that dispute, of which the Home Secretary was a Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1787.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1794.1", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If they are unnecessary why have them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "are valuable, and if the hon. Member read them carefully he would see that there is no ground for the complaint which was contained in the main point raised by the hon. and gallant Member for Leith—that there is infringement of the rights of the free subject. They are regulations necessary at a time of great difficulty but which are to be carried out for the benefit of the people as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1797.1", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"How many prosecutions?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "It is quite true that we are to-day in a peaceful state but these Regulations are largely a matter of protection. They were as I have said, in force all through the fifteen weeks of this trouble in 1921. It is quite true they ware not used to any extent. They have not been used to any extent during the last month.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1799.7", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "Do you want to know? I said in my speech that any man—and I repeat it here to-day in the House of Commons—that any man who desires to work will receive the fullest possible,protection of His Majesty's Government and the whole of His Majesty's forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1799.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1803.1", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is political bias.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "It just depends, I suppose, on who represents the Division. He has not remitted the Horwich sentences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1803.1", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What a hope\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": " political bias.\"] The Home Secretary has done one great service this morning. He is always frank; he is brutally frank. He has told us one thing that will always stand to his credit or otherwise. He has told us he would very much like to see these Regulations made permanent. I hope he will not have the power to do that for very long. I hope we will soon have another Government to sweep them away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1803.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1811.0", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "As you did the Press.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "ment evidently contemplates, and if the miners do not give way and that leads to a General Election, then this policy of repression on the part of the Home Secretary is possibly going to result in the electorate acting somewhat in the same way as it did on the last occasion. I dare say the Government could win another election if they clamped down the propaganda of their political opponents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1810.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1825.2", "colnum": "1825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What, the teetotaller?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "e is not going to take a teetotal attitude. The chairman of the Urban District Council, who was a strict teetotaller, did not enter the public house. The miners' official was engaged in conversation by a man who was in the public house and who cleverly led him to make certain statements. I must admit he foolishly brought in the Chairman of the Urban District Council to bear out what he was saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1825.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-05", "file": "debates1926-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "f6ae6759b7c7aef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1835.8", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "I was endeavouring to read the mind of the right hon. Gentleman and to show that there was reason to believe that he had two objects in view in re-imposing these Regulations. One of these is that the Government is going to buy coal; is going to bring in coal which is blackleg coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-05a.1835.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2090.11", "colnum": "2090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"That is not a point of Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "You did not allow me to finish my sentence. What I was going to ask the right hon. Gentleman through you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2090.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2091.8", "colnum": "2091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "He was appointed by this House, for the express purpose of investigating and reporting to the House upon any such trading transaction. When they are completed, they will be submitted to this officer of the House, who will report to the House upon them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2091.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2091.8", "colnum": "2091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "He was appointed by this House, for the express purpose of investigating and reporting to the House upon any such trading transaction. When they are completed, they will be submitted to this officer of the House, who will report to the House upon them—[ Interruption ]—and any criticism which it is desired to make upon the transactions can be made then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2091.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2091.10", "colnum": "2091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "It is not the case that I have ever been unwilling to give information to the House of Commons. I am afraid I have often bored the Committee with a great deal of information, and at Question time, as also in debate, I have never been slow in supplying information asked for by hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2091.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2091.11", "colnum": "2091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARDY JONES", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Is it in order for the right hon. Gentleman to be buying coal for the purposes of the nation, when members of his family are heavy shareholders in coal mines?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2091.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2091.12", "colnum": "2091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "In view of that rather unusual interruption, I should desire to make a short statement. It is within the knowledge of every member of this Committee that, long before the first dispute in the mining industry arose, I not only disclosed to the Prime Minister and my colleagues, but to everybody else the indirect interest I had in coal mining. I tendered my resignation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2091.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2092.3", "colnum": "2092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "I did not think I should be called upon for an explanation of that kind in reply to any criticism of any Member on any side of House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2092.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2092.8", "colnum": "2092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "The essential services of the country must be carried on, and the Government are responsible for seeing that those services are carried on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2092.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2093.0", "colnum": "2093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. HALL", "preceding_text": "n this country, and, if they put into operation that part of the Emergency Powers Act, then the necessary coal can be provided in this country instead of going to Germany for it. I can quite understand the reluctance with which the right hon. Gentleman attempted to explain this Vote. I expected to have some information with regard to the stocks of coal available in the country at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2093.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2099.0", "colnum": "2099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": " by hon. Gentlemen opposite that I think it is high time some Members on this side of the House put their own private point of view. I am as much interested in the miner, his wife and his family, as are many hon. Gentlemen who sit opposite, and, so far as knowledge of actual work is concerned, I have experienced in my own short life possibly quite as much actual work as some hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2099.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2099.0", "colnum": "2099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "se and talk about their love of buying British goods, seeing that on every platform in the country they show their preference for foreign products every time. I strongly support the Vote. Hon. Gentlemen opposite know quite well—they are not allowed to express themselves freely—that the present situation has arisen entirely through the stupidity and the obstinacy of the miners' leaders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2099.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2101.1", "colnum": "2101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "to hon. Gentlemen opposite that they cannot come into this Committee and say that hon. Members on this side are callous, that we do not believe in what we say, and that we are out to starve the miners and cut down their standard of life, while at the same time, they go out into the open and, in excuse for their own conduct, make statements such as that which I have just quoted. What are the facts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2101.1", "colnum": "2101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": ", while, at the same time, they know that the people principally responsible for the present situation and for this Vote are the leaders of the Miners' Federation. They cannot get away from that responsibility. I wish to be perfectly definite, and I say that if responsible mine agents in the country and the real hard workers were asked to-morrow, \"Will you get rid of Mr. Cook or Mr. Smith?\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2102.1", "colnum": "2102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So you do!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "It is very unfair of hon. Members opposite to allege that we stand up for the coalowners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2102.1", "colnum": "2102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "It is very unfair of hon. Members opposite to allege that we stand up for the coalowners. [HON. MEMBERS: \"So you do!\"] We do no such thing!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2111.1", "colnum": "2111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "preceding_text": "coal-owners. I want to repudiate that in the most emphatic manner, and I will not content myself with repudiating it, but will go a little further, if the hon. Member will allow me. The Miners' Federation, in their demand that there should not be a penny off the pay, or a minute on the day, were not embarking on a fight against the coalowners or the Government, but on a fight against economic law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2113.1", "colnum": "2113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "preceding_text": "nomic on that basis. Instead, the miners in the good areas have shown their loyalty to their colleagues, who were less favourably circumstanced, by refusing to work, although no notices were posted in Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Cannock Chase. The owners were prepared to go on, after the subsidy terminated at the end of April, at the rate of pay and the hours previously worked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2120.1", "colnum": "2120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "n this city to-night he will find in the greater part great organised balls, which will go on till three, four, or five o'clock in the morning. He will, too, I think find that every restaurant has a cabaret, which will continue much later. He will find, I do not know how many night clubs, that will go on to all hours—will go on till the morning. Is the right hon. Gentleman aware of all that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2120.1", "colnum": "2120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman aware of all that? [An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know!\"] I know these things because I inquire about them, and I am handing over the information to the right hon. Gentleman. Some of the clubs, I understand, are quite respectable. Still, it does not look like severe restriction in the matter of the coal supplies. We are burning coal, we are burning electricity, we are using all this up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2124.1", "colnum": "2124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "preceding_text": "Yes, and what I am saying in addition is that generally speaking they are not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2124.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2124.2", "colnum": "2124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "preceding_text": "d there is hardly a coalfield in this country where they are working a full week, or where they have made a full week's work for the last four or five years. The actual wages of the men are much below the wages quoted in the figures given by the Government Department. Again, in regard to the Eight Hours Bill, I think it is deplorable, because in that direction the Government have shown partiality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2125.1", "colnum": "2125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is permissive!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "preceding_text": "hat the mineowners and the Miners' Federation are guilty of obstinacy, surely the first party to step in between the two opposing parties should be the Government of the day, but the Government have not shown any disposition to do so. On the contrary, they have shown a disposition to come down on the side of the mineowners. We have passed an Eight Hours Bill, which is thoroughly reactionary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2125.1", "colnum": "2125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is your solution?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "preceding_text": "he eight-hours day, you will not come at all, and you will lose your benefits.\" The whole record of the Government in regard to this matter has been reactionary in this respect, and even now it would be better for them to devote their energies to finding a satisfactory solution rather than prolonging the agony and aggravating it by doing such things as are contained in this Supplementary Estimate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2125.1", "colnum": "2125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"That was never suggested.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "preceding_text": "ld have accepted the principle of a reduction of wages before discussing the Report of the Commission is the wrong way to proceed with this matter. It is an unprecedented thing, to my mind, for anybody to say to one of the contending parties in a dispute, \"Here is the Report, but before you accept it we demand that you shall sign an agreement that you will agree to a permanent reduction in wages.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2127.0", "colnum": "2127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARDY-JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARDY-JONES", "preceding_text": " about bringing in Russian coal if they thought it would help to defeat the British miners. Hon. Members opposite have asked us what is our solution of this difficulty. It seems to be taken for granted that the coal industry is in such a mess that there is only one possible way out of the difficulty, and that is a reduction of wages and an increase of hours. That is the solution of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2127.0", "colnum": "2127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARDY-JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARDY-JONES", "preceding_text": "ssion was £100,000,000. That is now put forward as an excuse for not carrying out this recommenda- tion. The real reason, however, is that the Government know that if they once bought out the mining royalties in Great Britain they would sooner or later be compelled to nationalise the land as well, and that would clear out the landed class who are such a burden on British industry and society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2131.2", "colnum": "2131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "I merely repeated what the President said. It may or may not be a statement of fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2131.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2138.2", "colnum": "2138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": " It should be used reasonably in the interests of the country as a whole, but while we are trying to rim these Regulations with fairness, though we are appealing to everyone to reduce their expenditure of coal to a minimum, I am not here to say we decline to allow anyone to use coal except for the most rigorously necessary purposes. After all, the non-combatants in this matter have certain rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2138.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2139.5", "colnum": "2139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Let them burn oil!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "for getting coal. What would happen? Questions would be put in this House. \"Is the Home Secretary or is the Minister of Mines aware that in such and such part of the country there is no coal at all?\" \"Is the Home Secretary aware that the cottagers cannot cook their dinners because they have no coal?\" What answer could I make? The House would complain, and rightly complain, of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2139.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2143.0", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Where are you buying?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": " we have to ship it, and then we shall sell it. First of all, in regard to buying the coal it is absolutely essential that nobody should know that it is the Government of Great Britain that is buying. We are buying from certain sources, and I am glad to tell the House that up to the present our purchases have been made on admirable terms. In due course, the accounts will be presented to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2147.2", "colnum": "2147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "n connection with the struggle on which we are now engaged. It is only West Ham Guardians who can he suspected of anything like that The very idea of suspecting people on the other side, no matter how deeply they may be immersed personally in the business which we are discussing, the very idea that they should be suspected of thinking corruptly or acting corruptly raises indignation in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2147.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2149.7", "colnum": "2149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES (IMPORTATION OF COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "nity. During the course of the Debate, speaker after speaker on the other side confronted us with the statement alleged to have come from the Trade Union Congress. I want to tell the House that the Trade Union Congress issued no such statement. They have issued no statement, and if any statement has been issued in their name it is entirely unauthorised, and the contents of it are obviously untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2149.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2176.1", "colnum": "2176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "I will give full details later on but I must first of all tell the Committee something about the organisation that has spent the money. First of all the Postmaster-General was appointed Chief Civil Commissioner. The country was divided into 11 divisions, in each of which there was a Civil Commissioner, and those Commissioners were junior members of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2179.5", "colnum": "2179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "If the mineowners had asked for volunteers, I am quite sure that large numbers of men would have volunteered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2179.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2179.5", "colnum": "2179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "If the mineowners had asked for volunteers, I am quite sure that large numbers of men would have volunteered. [ Interruption. ] There was no work that these volunteers were not willing to do to help the country in its time of need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2179.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2186.0", "colnum": "2186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Black and Tans!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "ition to the ordinary special constables, another force called the Civil Constabulary Reserve. The special constables were not able to give up the whole of their time, but I thought there might be a body of men who might be prepared to give up the whole of their time. Accord- ingly, a—it is difficult to describe it—semi-military force was created, called the Civil Constabulary Reserve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2185.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2187.2", "colnum": "2187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "The display of military force.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEE", "preceding_text": "Can the Home Secretary justify the march of the tanks and armoured cars in London?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2187.3", "colnum": "2187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": " I knew then, and what I know now of the condition of affairs round the docks—have been a collision between the police and the military, and the strikers round the docks. Hon. Members may say that we sent down too great a force, and that we sent down a force which did not need to be used. It was the fact of sending down that superior force, with tanks, that saved bloodshed and saved trouble.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2189.0", "colnum": "2189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PURCELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They failed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PURCELL", "preceding_text": "tion. This is the organisation that is supposed to protect the public. This is the type of organisation under the Home Secretary and his hydra-headed Strike committee which is supposed to be an efficient machine for the protection of the public. It was designed for the purpose of creating disorder and encouraging our people to enter into the fray when they would turn round and call out the troops.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2189.0", "colnum": "2189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PURCELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PURCELL", "preceding_text": " issued to our people was that wherever they found spies in their committees, or people likely to incite to disorder, they were to turn them out instantly. We told them that any disorder was not to our advantage. This was broadcast throughout the country, and that is the reason why they failed. In one case the town council came to our trades Council and asked us to assist in policing the district.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2197.3", "colnum": "2197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PURCELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PURCELL", "preceding_text": "benches or trade unions desire that there should be a general strike. It is that there is always a feeling, deep down in the hearts of these people, that they are not being treated correctly or decently. Many of them are simply moving in the direction in which they are moving, because of economic factors that are always bearing down upon them. Many of them do not know exactly where they are going.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2197.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2199.1", "colnum": "2199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": "hink fit, but we all know quite clearly, on both sides, that the capitalist Government represents the capitalist interest at all costs. If there was no bloodshed in the recent upheaval, no thanks are due to the people who organised the crushing of the trade unions. Hon. Members on the Front Bench opposite know that, and they know that we know it whether their supporters behind them know it or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2199.1", "colnum": "2199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": "ks are due to the people who organised the crushing of the trade unions. Hon. Members on the Front Bench opposite know that, and they know that we know it whether their supporters behind them know it or not. [ Laughter. ] Possibly the supporters behind them do know it; and would have been only too delighted to have seen the preparations that they claim to know were being made, carried into effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2203.0", "colnum": "2203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROMLEY", "preceding_text": " been in prison for ordinary theft. So plentiful were these volunteers, and of such high calibre were they, that these people were taken back. What I want to suggest to the. Home Secretary, for the purpose of peace, is that, in spite of a great deal of patience and a great deal of appeal, two of the convicts who stole His Majesty's mails are still driving engines, but they will not be much longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2203.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2204.0", "colnum": "2204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who are 'we'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "s a compositor, I do not think he is at his best. I say nothing about the technical aspects. I say nothing about the vulgar tone of the advertisement of the Government and their friends which apeared in the paper, because I do not want to take up time. I want to refer only to one aspect. We held during the general strike that these matters should be settled by Parliament. We are Parliamentary men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2204.0", "colnum": "2204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "per what the Government on the one side said, and what, on the other side, the Opposition said, or of putting the case for both, which is what I understand ought to have been done, they indulged in such phrases as these: Mr. George Lansbury followed with an angry, shouting speech. The speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was A striking one. Then there was pandemonium on the Socialist benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2204.0", "colnum": "2204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "hon. Members opposite may think that I am reading from one of their party organs, but. I am reading from the official \"Gazette.\" Further, I find a reference to one of the moderate members of the Socialist party, and so on, and so forth. Let me take another specimen. It speaks of Mr. Herbert Smith as That dour, glum, heavy-browed and unsmiling person. Here is another, but I will not read it ℄", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2207.3", "colnum": "2207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY SLESSER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY SLESSER", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman—in the case of the \"Times\" newspaper, for instance—examples of how newspapers could be properly conducted, and could decently take one view or another of the issue, and at the same time preserve their dignity and their self-respect. When my hon. and gallant Friend spoke of the vulgarity of this newspaper, which I do not think is contested in any part of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2207.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2207.3", "colnum": "2207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HENRY SLESSER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HENRY SLESSER", "preceding_text": "one view or another of the issue, and at the same time preserve their dignity and their self-respect. When my hon. and gallant Friend spoke of the vulgarity of this newspaper, which I do not think is contested in any part of the House— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"] I am sorry to hear it. I thought the literary taste of this House was sufficiently high to admit that this was a very vulgar newspaper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2207.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2208.7", "colnum": "2208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Captain FitzRoy, I demand an explanation from4 the Home Secretary, because he challenged me and every other Member of the House to ask questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2208.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2208.8", "colnum": "2208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lies!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "preceding_text": "hen he comes to reply, that the emergency was such that it was necessary to produce in the public mind a feeling which would bring the strike rapidly to an end. I think that any proper speeches or representations which anybody or any Government might make ought properly to be reported in this newspaper; but to report fairly is one thing, and to cover your newspaper with large headlines and —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2208.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2212.0", "colnum": "2212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Not true!", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "e had only succeeded, as doubtless he tried, in persuading his friends not to gag all the other newspapers in the country. After all, all the newspapers, as far as we knew, and as far as some people could try, were to be completely silenced. That was the position that was suddenly sprung upon us. Only one exception was to be made, and that was the newspaper which was supporting the general strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2213.0", "colnum": "2213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "If we are to be subjected to a great deal of hard language and a great amount of sharp talk, we are entitled to reply; but if we are to be interrupted on wrong points of Order or alleged points of Order, then it is very difficult to carry on the Debate. I do not think it should be supposed that these tactics really do any harm to those who sit on this side of the House. They do not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2213.0", "colnum": "2213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "d points of Order, then it is very difficult to carry on the Debate. I do not think it should be supposed that these tactics really do any harm to those who sit on this side of the House. They do not. [ Interruption. ] There are only 16 or 17 minutes left. I can assure hon. Members opposite that it is a matter of absolute indifference to me whether I am allowed to make my case or whether I am not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2213.0", "colnum": "2213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " the House. They do not. [ Interruption. ] There are only 16 or 17 minutes left. I can assure hon. Members opposite that it is a matter of absolute indifference to me whether I am allowed to make my case or whether I am not. [ Interruption. ] I do not mind in the least. I have plenty of opportunities of speaking in this House. I have to trespass more than I like on the good temper of the Assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2213.0", "colnum": "2213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "trespass more than I like on the good temper of the Assembly. [ Interruption. ] If it would be better to pass the remaining 17 minutes in howling rather than in arguing, then I am prepared to facilitate the general wish; but if we are to be allowed a Debate, we must be allowed liberty of Debate. We must not be shouted down and interrupted because we say something that annoys hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2213.0", "colnum": "2213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ey call me the harshest names that the dictionary contains, I can hardly be expected to leap forward in gratitude and agreement with what they say. I have to put up with it. Anything that is not unparliamentary, I think we ought to put up with. Why should the Labour party be so mealy-mouthed about Parliamentary Debates? We are not afraid of hard language and rough, blunt terms. Why should they be?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2213.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2214.1", "colnum": "2214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "When it was worked by union labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2214.3", "colnum": "2214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMPERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " only point on which I interrupted the right hon. Gentleman was his statement that a Labour newspaper had been permitted to run when others had been stopped. The \"British Worker\" did not start, and, as I understand, was not permitted to start until the Government started the \"British Gazette.\" I sit here and have to listen to many things with which I disagree, but I do not think I interrupt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2214.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-07-07", "file": "debates1926-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b2cc5ede4fab3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2217.0", "colnum": "2217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "You would have died young.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " fight of this kind, however unfortunate it may be, it it absolutely no use people pretending they do not know what side they are on. Here I am sure the hon. Gentleman will agree with me. The ancient Greeks had a very salutary law that in disturbances of this kind, which sometimes in that country took a very serious form, anyone who could not make up his mind which side he was on was put to death.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-07a.2216.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-07-08", "file": "debates1926-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "192ec37ddbfab5d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-08a.2232.4", "colnum": "2232", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "preceding_text": "Is it the case that there has been a greater disposition not to grant reprieves since the present Home Secretary has been in office?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-08a.2232.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-07-08", "file": "debates1926-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "192ec37ddbfab5d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-08a.2260.1", "colnum": "2260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman take any steps to stop the financing of German trade in Russia?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. M. SAMUEL (Secretary, Overseas Trade Department)", "preceding_text": "I may refer the hon. Member to the reply which I gave on the 5th July to a similar question asked by the hon. Member for the Forest of Dean (Mr. Purcell).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-08a.2260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-08", "file": "debates1926-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "192ec37ddbfab5d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-08a.2267.4", "colnum": "2267", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "May I put—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-08a.2267.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-08", "file": "debates1926-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "192ec37ddbfab5d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-08a.2277.2", "colnum": "2277", "heading": "PERSONAL EXPLANATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ion, since it might be thought that I desired to evade something, or to keep something back. I understand that for some weeks there have been experts employed, I do not know by whom, or at whose expense, to search the records of Somerset House, and the files of the \"Ministry of Labour Gazette,\" in order to see whether anything could be found that could be used to discredit His Majesty's Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-08a.2277.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-08", "file": "debates1926-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "192ec37ddbfab5d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-08a.2277.2", "colnum": "2277", "heading": "PERSONAL EXPLANATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "discredit His Majesty's Ministers. [ Interruption. ] It is difficult, in the absence of any express charges, to know what I am to reply to, but I will assume three possible charges which may be made. I would like to make a short statement upon each. First of all, there is the charge, implied I think in the question of the hon. Member—who seems to be rather a specialist in this kind of thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-08a.2277.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-08", "file": "debates1926-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "192ec37ddbfab5d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-08a.2278.4", "colnum": "2278", "heading": "PERSONAL EXPLANATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DUFF COOPER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUFF COOPER", "preceding_text": "On the point of Order. May I submit that it is quite impossible for Members of His Majesty's Government to wait, for these charges to be formulated, since not one Member of the Opposition has had the courage to formulate any charge? They have confined themselves solely to insinuations which they cannot substantiate and do not dare to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-08a.2278.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-08", "file": "debates1926-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "192ec37ddbfab5d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-08a.2311.2", "colnum": "2311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Higher!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": " the Member for Mile End (Mr. Scurr). The real cause of this Bill, the Minister said, was some slight corruption in the Borough of West Ham in connection with the board of guardians. I want to say unhesitatingly that the highest standard of commercial morality is not entirely on the other side of the House; I suggest that the standard of commercial morality is just as high on this side as on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-08a.2311.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-08", "file": "debates1926-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "192ec37ddbfab5d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-08a.2319.0", "colnum": "2319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "low the standard of wages of the ordinary unskilled labourer, so that no longer will it be possible for boards of guardians to give a scale of relief which will enable the man to refuse a sweating job. The slogan which we have heard on platforms in the East End of London is that no man ought to receive so much relief as would give him more than the unskilled labourer gets when he is in employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-08a.2319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-08", "file": "debates1926-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "192ec37ddbfab5d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-08a.2319.0", "colnum": "2319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bankrupt.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "stion at stake, and that is the secret of this Bill. Those boards of guardians which refuse to help the sweating employer of labour to get cheap labour are to be put in the pillory, but those who are prepared to do the dirty work of the employers will get the benediction of the right hon. Gentleman and they will have money to help them in their campaign. We have to come to him because we are poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-08a.2319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-08", "file": "debates1926-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "192ec37ddbfab5d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-08a.2332.2", "colnum": "2332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Your own party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "s given a Second Reading. The case then put forward by my right hon. Friend was that in relation to one particular board, an exceptional situation has arisen which called for exceptional powers and, on the evidence which was tendered to the House of Commons by my right hon. Friend and myself, the House by a large majority agreed that exceptional powers of this kind should be given to the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-08a.2332.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-08", "file": "debates1926-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "192ec37ddbfab5d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-08a.2375.2", "colnum": "2375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is the general law!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "Under the Merthyr Tydvil judgment all sources of income are to be taken into account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-08a.2375.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-08", "file": "debates1926-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "192ec37ddbfab5d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-08a.2390.3", "colnum": "2390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Brotherly love!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "women who will be returned. We want to know how this provision is to be carried out, and when. Are you going to carry on for ever, or until this Government lasts, which will not be for ever. This Amendment limits the powers of the Minister. Local authorities will have to find the money for this relief. Some of us have been on these local bodies, and do you think we are going to find money for you?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-08a.2390.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-09", "file": "debates1926-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d38362b617ed094b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-09a.2441.2", "colnum": "2441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "out prejudice to anything which may have been done under the Order as long as it had been in force. It is a very big change to say that the Order shall not come into force until actually approved by each House. Suppose, for example, there has been an Order, and it is proposed to extend it. The extension cannot come into operation untilit has been approved by Parliament. There is going to be a gap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-09a.2441.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-09", "file": "debates1926-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d38362b617ed094b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-09a.2445.1", "colnum": "2445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "With all respect, Mr. Hoff, I am speaking the opinion of my OWN constituents in this matter. I am entitled to do so. The whole object and issue of the Bill is to \"down the miners.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-09a.2445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-09", "file": "debates1926-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d38362b617ed094b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-09a.2458.0", "colnum": "2458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": " they are to he compelled to pay for the service that is imposed upon them and I do not think that is really going to commend this system to the mass of the people in these localities. This is Government action taken, I presume, not so much with regard to West Ham as with regard to the interest of the country as a whole. Since that is the view, the country as a whole should pay for these services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-09a.2458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-09", "file": "debates1926-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d38362b617ed094b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-09a.2481.2", "colnum": "2481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "country that any external authority outside a local area is better able to govern that area than the people in their own district. The Bill is a denial of every democratic constitutional principle. If the Government persist, which I have no doubt they will, in carrying this Measure through the House of Lords, as they have done through the House of Commons, of course it will reach the Statute Book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-09a.2481.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-09", "file": "debates1926-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d38362b617ed094b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-09a.2485.2", "colnum": "2485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ised other means of dealing with that problem, namely, unemployment insurance. When the party to which he belongs was in office, they introduced an amending Bill which made certain changes. In fact, they made certain increases in the amount of benefit. If my recollection is correct, the rate of benefit for a man was raised by 3s., and the benefit in respect of a child was increased from 1s. to 2s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-09a.2485.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-09", "file": "debates1926-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d38362b617ed094b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-09a.2492.1", "colnum": "2492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel VAUGHAN - MORGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel VAUGHAN - MORGAN", "preceding_text": "It restores the freedom of the inhabitants of that area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-09a.2492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-09", "file": "debates1926-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d38362b617ed094b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-09a.2500.0", "colnum": "2500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw! '", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "e local authority have failed, or are about to fail, to carry out their functions. That is the problem we have to face. I said on Second Reading, and I repeat, that no Government faced with this position could afford to take the course which I think would be advocated by the hon. Member for Bow and Bromley (Mr. Lansbury), though I doubt whether it would be advocated by any responsibleperson—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-09a.2500.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-09", "file": "debates1926-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d38362b617ed094b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-09a.2502.6", "colnum": "2502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "The Eight Hours Bill is a permissive Measure. [Interruption.] In the case of the West Ham Guardians, what the hon. Member is saying is that they should be able to do as they like with other people's money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-09a.2502.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-09", "file": "debates1926-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d38362b617ed094b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-09a.2502.7", "colnum": "2502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "If they could raise the money—[HON. MEMBERS \"Order !\"] —you could not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-09a.2502.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-09", "file": "debates1926-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d38362b617ed094b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-09a.2504.0", "colnum": "2504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARDS OF GUARDIANS (DEFAULT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "the auditors, shows there has undoubtedly been a grave abuse of the powers entrusted to the guardians. It is not merely a question of whether this or that amount is sufficient for a family to live upon, but it is a question of giving relief wholesale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-09a.2504.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": " who was standing at the Bar of the other House something like two hours before any of those incidents which you have men- tioned, concerning the reception of Black Rod in this House, occurred, and as one who took some part in interjections in the other House, may I say that the noble Lords in the other House seem to have forgotten the fact that that they were dealing with standards of life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.42.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.47.8", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN. COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": " House, 5th October, 1925, the Minister is shown as having 23,250 ordinary shares in this company, and I believe I am right in saying that, as in the case of the first company I referred to, the Minister is the largest shareholder connected with it. Since the present Government came into office this company have had 14 Government contracts. Perhaps I ought to say in fairness to the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.47.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN. COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "rther, the Registrar—Mr. CampbellTaylor—said this I would point out that the company is liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds for every day during which such default continues, and that every Director and Manager of the Company who shall knowingly and wilfully authorise or permit such default incurs the like penalty. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Were they summoned?\"] No; they filed a return.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN. COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" How do you know the company were not threatened?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "ical effect upon the minor officials of a Government if it were known to them that one of the directors of a company with whom they were dealing was a member of the Cabinet. As a matter of fact, we have something like that already proved this case of the non-filing of the return for 1924. Messrs. Hoskins and Sons Ltd. get off, but the smaller firms are threatened with the utmost rigour of the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN. COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: `So have the miners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "in all sorts of minds, and already there have been a crop of suspicions. Some people think that this organised attack, for such it certainly is, is promoted from abroad. That it is organised I do not think admits of any doubt, because a quite impartial person like Dr. Shadwell wrote to the \"Times\" on Wednesday to point out that the. Prime Minister had been violently attacked in the last few weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN. COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell us about the Red Letter\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "is Motion. They actively engage in all sorts of researches. They go to Somerset House, I dare say, quite as often as the right hon. Gentleman and his friends. They go because they are employed to go in the course of litigation. No doubt it is often a useful public service, but at the same time, oddly enough, they do not stand very high in public esteem. I am not going to say anything about Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN. COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "No; I do not say anything about it. As to innuendo I only want to make the same sort of innuendo as your own leaders would make. My theory is rather different. I read a very interesting note in the current number of the \"New Leader,\" which filled me with interest. I will not read the whole of it unless it be wished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN. COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "It is true that the right hon. Member for Burnley said something about not throwing stones when you live in a glass house. The hon. Member for Dundee (Mr. Johnston) said a good deal of the same kind. Let us clear our minds upon the point. Either this is mud slinging or it is not. If it is mud slinging, it is no defence to say that other people have slung mud at another time, much of the same kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN. COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "n) said a good deal of the same kind. Let us clear our minds upon the point. Either this is mud slinging or it is not. If it is mud slinging, it is no defence to say that other people have slung mud at another time, much of the same kind. [ Interruption. ] If, on the other hand, it was not mud, what becomes of the Minister who was then assailed. If it was mud slinging to talk about biscuits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.112.0", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN. COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sacreligioue fat!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "the light of history, that a member of the house of Cecil should be at all concerned about a charge of corruption. I remember hearing, some time ago, the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) referring to the house of Cecil. He said—I think he particularly referred to the Noble Lord—that the Noble Lord's hands were dripping with the fat of privilege.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN. COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "he working people of this country will ever forgive the Government and the Prime Minister for having brought in that Bill, knowing, as they do know, the enormous amount of benefit that will come to the people who own coal-mining shares and iron foundry shares and so on. It is not really that this will benefit the coal industry; it will benefit every industry that is dependent on the coal industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.126.6", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN. COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN SIMON", "preceding_text": "cism about. the present Leader of the Opposition in regard to his acceptance of a motor-car. I think that in this particular case he got off much more lightly than most people might have expected. But that does not alter the fact that it would have been a most gross misuse of Parliamentary opportunity if anybody had tried to build up a case against the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Aberavon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.126.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.142.4", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN. COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "I am not accusing the right hon. Gentleman of corruption. I defy him to take from my speech now, or anything I have said, anything that would bear that interpretation. But I say the time has come when the House ought to face the facts. I do not like to refer to the right hon. Gentleman. I would prefer to say the right hon. Mr. A.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.142.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.142.4", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN. COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "s assured that he takes no interest in the business, that though it is quite true he is a director, that as a director he does nothing. That is unsatisfactory. The right hon. Gentleman said, I understand—I was away at the time—\"I am a trustee.\" The right hon. Gentleman really must not give currency to the doctrine that a trustee can justify himself for anything by neglect of his trust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.142.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.142.4", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN. COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " will be a censure upon him, but I would like to point out that if the Noble Lord's Amendment is passed the sentence upon the right hon. Gentleman is \"not guilty, but you must not do it again,\" and I am quite willing to leave it there. Of course, I know the Attorney-General will say that this is related to an attack which was made upon other right hon. Gentlemen and that it is an organised attack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.142.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.145.2", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN. COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ll be it is one which the Members of the Opposition on the Front Bench may profoundly regret and disclaim, but they are driven into it by the irresistible pressure of those behind him. Let me give the House, from some of these outside sources, the sort of insinuation which is being made outside this House. I hold in my hand the latest specimen of the Yellow Press called \"Lansbury's Labour Weekly.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.145.2", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN. COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "is this note to stimulate the interest of the readers: In the centre pages you will find some fairly startling financial documents about certain Cabinet Ministers. You can make your own comments. Encouraged by that editorial note, I turned to the centre page, and I found there in big block type across the centre of the page the announcement: \"Chamberlains and Baldwins.\" It is an anonymous article.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN. COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "I have often seen statements to the contrary. Let me read two or three of these observations: In these pages we print a further instalment of facts with regard to Baldwins. Ltd., and the profits of that great coal and iron enterprise. But before we had completed this exposure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN. COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "of which he was a director was one which had Government contracts? That is, I think, fairly stating the question, and I agree that it is a very proper question. The answer is that my right hon. Friend did tell both Mr. Bonar Law and the present Prime Minister—Mr. Bonar Law when he took office in October, 1922, and the present Prime Minister when he took office under him in May or June, 1923.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN. COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. and gallant Member really think that that is inconsistent with what I have said?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.150.3", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN. COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "e will observe that in fact what my right hon. Friend has done has been exactly what I should anticipate Mr. Bonar Law would in those circumstances have suggested, because he has in fact taken no active part in the management of this company, and knows nothing about its Government contracts. I have tried to answer the question which was put to me. I have read to the House this Yellow Press attack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.150.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.150.3", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN. COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Mustard!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " what I should anticipate Mr. Bonar Law would in those circumstances have suggested, because he has in fact taken no active part in the management of this company, and knows nothing about its Government contracts. I have tried to answer the question which was put to me. I have read to the House this Yellow Press attack. [Interruption.] It may well be that, as hon. Members say, it came from Moscow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.150.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.150.3", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN. COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have a perfect right to do so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "e responsible for this Amendment were in saying that this inquiry cannot be granted by way of concession to a. campaign of calumny. Why is it, the House may ask, that these attacks have been launched one after the other against my right hon. Friend? Why is it that hon. Members opposite have devoted their industry, or have employed others to do it for them, in searching the files of Somerset House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.150.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN. COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman said it was a public duty, and he went on to say why. He said it was because my right hon. Friend had brought forward this Bill last week. The fact is that these charges, whatever the motives that actuated, them, are not going to produce the result which some hon. Members opposite seem to hope. In England we do not believe in stabbing a man in the back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN. COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "n was careful not himself to make, but which are fathered and endorsed by the Resolution he has put down, are either believed or not believed by those who insinuate them. If they do not believe them, what does the House think of politicians who are not ashamed to seek to besmirch the honour of their political opponents with charges which they know to be false, in order to gain political advantage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.152.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.171.1", "colnum": "171", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They can go back at the same wages!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "We are not. It is your party that is preventing them. To what do you want them to go back? You want us to help you to send these men back to economic slavery. These men, according to your own Commission, do not earn a reasonable living at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.186.1", "colnum": "186", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANN0N", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANN0N", "preceding_text": "assed since the very beginning of the trouble knows that the two so-called leaders—because I believe in my soul that if a ballot were taken of the miners of the country to-day the great majority would not follow them—these so-called leaders have taken up a-definite, stone-wall attitude against any modification of their original attitude towards the Report of the Royal Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-12", "file": "debates1926-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "e22324b05c44672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "when you think of the conditions of enterprise all over the Midlands where the industries have no coal, and of the number of people who have been thrown out of employment from day to day because these industries have not been able to get coal—when you think of all that, I ask hon. Members opposite, does that make no appeal at all to those responsible for the policy of the Miners' Federation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-12a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-13", "file": "debates1926-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "4f4c655757676a9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-13a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1926-27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Lockout!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "try and the consequent increase of unemployment in other industries which are dependent on coal. We know from past experience that stoppages in the coal industry are apt to last a very long time. We know too that this particular stoppage began under specially unfavourable circumstances, so far as boards of guardians are concerned, for, if I may make a comparison with the coal strike in 1921—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-13a.262.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-13", "file": "debates1926-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "4f4c655757676a9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-13a.314.2", "colnum": "314", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1926-27.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHY", "preceding_text": "ove their physique than anything else. That is what the Minister of Health ought to concentrate on now. He cannot get money from the Chancellor of the Exchequer for housing schemes but he should encourage municipalities to provide more means of open-air recreation. A good deal is being done. Games and pastimes are no longer the perquisite of the rich. Other sports, like dancing, are good exercise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-13a.314.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-15", "file": "debates1926-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "42803a80aa80c055", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-15a.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A bob'!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SNOWDEN", "preceding_text": " amount at that time was a good arithmetical number of 5 per cent. The Chancellor now proposes to make the duty 31 per cent. on credit betting and 2 per cent. on cash betting. How in the world are you going to calculate arid collect this 2 per cent. duty upon the racecourse? A good deal of racecourse betting is, I understand, in comparatively small amounts. I believe some people put on a shilling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-15a.716.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-07-20", "file": "debates1926-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "6eeeeb34296a3944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-20a.1021.7", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Order\" and \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "Is not the real reason that the Secretary for Mine is incapable of answering these, questions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-20a.1021.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-20", "file": "debates1926-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "6eeeeb34296a3944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-20a.1041.10", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I should like notice of that question, but I do not think there are a great many occasions when more than one race meeting would be taking place on the same day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-20a.1041.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-20", "file": "debates1926-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "6eeeeb34296a3944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-20a.1065.8", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Earl Winterton)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak for yourself!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Earl Winterton)", "preceding_text": "and the Provincial Councils,, which is due in the autumn. I will not attempt here to give a forecast of what the electoral results of all this are likely to be. It is bad enough to have to do, what we all do at election times here, and that is predict on every platform, with every appearance of, but with no possible reason for, confidence, the electoral fortunes of our parties and ourselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-20a.1065.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-20", "file": "debates1926-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "6eeeeb34296a3944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-20a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Why not try it here?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": " favourable position. In 1926–27 the falling off due to reduccd fares and freight is expected to be about £1,500,000, and the amount available for transfer to the railway reserve in 1926–27 will be diminished pro tanto. On some lines, third-class passengers will now be able to travel over long distances, at the rate of less than d. ¼d. per mile—a very remarkable result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-20a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-20", "file": "debates1926-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "6eeeeb34296a3944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-20a.1117.1", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "the Indian agriculturist and the British worker. The middleman, the merchant and the capitalist will otherwise exploit the workers, and work for their own advantage and the detriment of the workers. It is on these grounds that I appeal to the Noble Lord to remember that: we are living in an age after the great civilising revolution in Russia, and not before it, and to frame his policy accordingly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-20a.1117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-20", "file": "debates1926-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "6eeeeb34296a3944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-20a.1117.1", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much is there in Russia!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": " to remember that: we are living in an age after the great civilising revolution in Russia, and not before it, and to frame his policy accordingly. [ Laughter. ] If I may be allowed to reply to the laughter of hon. Members opposite, I would say that for 150 years the Government of India has been struggling and have pretended to spread education in India, and to-day there is only 7 per cent. of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-20a.1117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-20", "file": "debates1926-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "6eeeeb34296a3944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-20a.1161.2", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUEST", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUEST", "preceding_text": "s, the organisation becomes really the key note of the fundamental problem of Indian organisation. I understand that at the present time in the newly-irrigated areas in the Punjab there are colonies of men and their families going out and starting new villages according to this old organisation of over 2,000 years old. If India is poor now, India has been through all the centuries fabulously rich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-20a.1161.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-20", "file": "debates1926-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "6eeeeb34296a3944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-20a.1168.2", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So he is !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "er for Dundee (Mr. Johnston) made a statement about the agents provocateurs. He said that an inquiry having been made by the officials concerned, without the accused men having been heard, that inquiry was quite sufficient for him, and he wanted no further evidence. I am astonished that the Noble Lord should take up such an attitude. I always regarded him as being a type of fair-minded Englishman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-20a.1168.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-20", "file": "debates1926-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "6eeeeb34296a3944", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-20a.1187.1", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What date\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "rnment. They have not done so. One hon. Gentleman said there was no sort of evidence, actual or presumptive, that the witnesses had been in danger as a result of conditions in Bengal before the Ordinance or the Act was passed. That was not so. I can quote the words I used in the debate two years ago, or rather instances which I gave in the debate two years ago. The Alipore conspiracy case was one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-20a.1187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-21", "file": "debates1926-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "54a6a4e718ba36d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-21a.1213.3", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Has it not been brought to the notice of the right hon. Gentleman that this coal is absolutely no use for the purpose for which it is being used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-21a.1213.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-07-21", "file": "debates1926-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "54a6a4e718ba36d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-21a.1219.1", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "All these restrictions on block booking are in restraint of trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-21a.1219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-21", "file": "debates1926-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "54a6a4e718ba36d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-21a.1235.3", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "aty of Versailles, we are told that it may take several years, yet before we can hope to find a plan through the League of Nations. Meanwhile, we are pledged to a great expansion of the Air Force to 18 times its strength in 1922. We are also pledged to a great increase in expenditure in respect of Singapore and in other directions. That expenditure is more popular with hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-21a.1235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-21", "file": "debates1926-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "54a6a4e718ba36d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-21a.1240.1", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "usiness of finance to soften social injustices rather than to exacerbate them; it should be the business of finance to lighten unproductive burdens on the community rather than to allow them to remain and to grow heavier; it should be the business of finance to lay the foundations, not for future wars, but for a more hopeful relationship both between nations and between classes within the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-21a.1240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-21", "file": "debates1926-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "54a6a4e718ba36d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-21a.1250.0", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is Individualism!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": " to spend in place of the private taxpayer spending it. It frequently is money which would have accumulated in the taxpayers' account and would have gone to swell the sum total of capital without which industry cannot be conducted, and the objection to passing it through the State is that there is no such process in any State machinery whereby you add to the capital sum in the national possession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-21a.1250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-21", "file": "debates1926-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "54a6a4e718ba36d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-21a.1281.0", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"£32,000,000!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHORT", "preceding_text": "hequer, but I have found no evidence to indicate that he thinks that this is an instrument which can be used in that way. The right hon. Gentleman went into office under most favourable conditions. The international situation was bright, trade was reviving, employ- ment was increasing, and unemployment was decreasing. In 192.5 he gave £42,000,000 away in remission of Income Tax and Super-tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-21a.1281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-21", "file": "debates1926-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "54a6a4e718ba36d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-21a.1308.0", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Ronald McNeill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\" and \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Ronald McNeill)", "preceding_text": "allocation. That struck me as being a departure from the high regard for principle which he professed on another occasion. I think that what was spoken of in the early days as \"a raid on the Road Fund,\" which was to cause so much trouble, is now, at any rate, as far as I can ascertain, accepted, not only in this House but really throughout the country on the whole as a very reasonable proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-21a.1308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-21", "file": "debates1926-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "54a6a4e718ba36d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-21a.1361.2", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE AND EAST AFRICA LOANS [GUARANTEE].", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": "e he loses his property, and one of the blessings we have conferred on the native is the establishment of medical research for the purpose of protecting his cattle. It is quite easy to pick small faults in an administration, but it was an eye-opener to me, in going through Central Africa, to find that one could walk more safely there than in the East End of London, whereas only 20 years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-21a.1361.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-22", "file": "debates1926-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "2d56a741e7161345", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-22a.1447.1", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARD OF EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are cheaper!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "it is inadequate, but I think that the question of the kind of book which requires most to be provided has been taken too little account of in the past and has been given too little systematic consideration. I think there is a tendency for a large proportion of the money that is spent on books and stationery to go on the provision of text books of second-rate or even third-rate quality very often.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-22a.1447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-22", "file": "debates1926-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "2d56a741e7161345", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-22a.1459.1", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARD OF EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is not one!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TREVELYAN", "preceding_text": ".M. There is the case of Hornsey. It is typical of a good many. I have not the least doubt that Hornsey has a very high standard of expenditure. The Noble Lord showed us that that was the case. Hornsey is a very progressive authority. It is not progressive because it has got a very large Labour majority; it is rather the other way. There is no reckless Labour majority of members on that authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-22a.1459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-22", "file": "debates1926-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "2d56a741e7161345", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-22a.1479.0", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARD OF EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What school?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "classes. I do not want to bring party politics into this matter, but this is indeed class legislation of the worst character. It cuts right across the principle of equal advantages for the working-class children in elementary schools. You cannot give equal advantages to children in elementary schools in classes of 50 when children of the richer portion of the community are in classes of 10 and 12.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-22a.1479.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-22", "file": "debates1926-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "2d56a741e7161345", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-22a.1482.1", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARD OF EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Most of you do!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COVE", "preceding_text": "this new movement, instead of encouraging it in a great constructive effort, the energies of the Board are now directed to repression and curtailment. It is not an activity which is getting value for money, but an activity which is meant merely to cut down and to save pounds, shillings and pence. It is an unwise economy. I do not want to spend more money merely for the sake of spending more money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-22a.1482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-22", "file": "debates1926-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "2d56a741e7161345", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-22a.1544.0", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOARD OF EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ver 12 years of age and not more than 50 when they are under 12. Unfortunately, our assessable value is very low and we cannot be allowed to go forward. We, in the county of Durham, have an assessable value of £26 per child, whereas in the North Riding the assessable value is something like £42; yet we are expected to do as much with our money as the North Riding does. It cannot be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-22a.1544.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-23", "file": "debates1926-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "38f2edde5bf79227", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-23a.1589.0", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "o do so, provided that the owners on the one hand and the miners' representatives on the other hand would also accept the Report, so that we all three might co-operate in getting a lasting settlement on the basis of the Report. But there was no acceptance on the part of the other parties. So the Government naturally reserved its liberty. No one supposes that the Government, being what it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-23a.1589.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-23", "file": "debates1926-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "38f2edde5bf79227", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-23a.1590.3", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "make any retail trader jump into the coal-distributing trade, especially if the 25 per cent. can be obtained in addition to profits which are already said to be too high. I cannot myself believe that the trade is so profitable as that, and that we do not find other people immediately joining it. If it is found to be necessary to do something more the Government will not shirk doing something more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-23a.1590.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-23", "file": "debates1926-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "38f2edde5bf79227", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-23a.1592.1", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Hon. Members. \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": ". The original Commission's Report, as shown by the passage which I have read, is to the effect that there is a large difference between the pit-head price and the consumers charge, which may be due either to profits or expenses. The Commission made a considerable investigation on its own account and came to no further conclusion than that, except that it recommended the municipal selling of coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-23a.1592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-23", "file": "debates1926-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "38f2edde5bf79227", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-23a.1602.3", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BECKETT", "preceding_text": "May I say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-23a.1602.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-23", "file": "debates1926-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "38f2edde5bf79227", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-23a.1602.5", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "preceding_text": "et that the Government will not accept this new Clause. It would be a sort of gesture to hon. Members opposite, and to the coal-miners of the country who have exaggerated ideas on this question of profits. But I quite agree with the Government in not accepting it, seeing that the miners will not accept the Report on the Coal Commission, seeing that they have held the country up for 12 weeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-23a.1602.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-23", "file": "debates1926-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "38f2edde5bf79227", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-23a.1616.0", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The railways!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "ect of special legislation, when the whole matter can be adequately discussed. The question of machinery must be gone into. If you survey the world from China to Peru you will get half-a-dozen very interesting ways of applying the views we have heard. Which is the best? I am not prepared to say, certainly not this afternoon. Moreover, why should the miners alone have this course imposed upon them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-23a.1616.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-23", "file": "debates1926-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "38f2edde5bf79227", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-23a.1618.0", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It does not do anything!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ties, purchase. These are not questions of hours, but they are essential questions to the amount of wage which is to be paid to the men, and the wage that the industry can pay. If we set up an arbitration tribunal now, and put it upon the basis of this Bill, it will alter nothing. On the whole, it will simply create disappointment. It does not go far enough, thoroughly to reconstruct the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-23a.1618.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-23", "file": "debates1926-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "38f2edde5bf79227", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-23a.1654.6", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "The owners have generally been accused of being money makers, who are always trying to make profits and who disregard everyone else. If an amalgamation is economic, if there is a profit to be made out of it, cannot you trust the owners to bring in a scheme in order that the economic amalgamation may be carried out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-23a.1654.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-23", "file": "debates1926-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "38f2edde5bf79227", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-23a.1655.1", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "or the liabilities of the companies to be amalgamated. They would know nothing about the financial arrangements which exist in any single company. How on earth could they bring in schemes of amalgamation? This is a very complicated matter, and I do not want to add to the difficulties; but if the miners themselves owned the collieries under their unions, if they took the risk of coal mining —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-23a.1655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-23", "file": "debates1926-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "38f2edde5bf79227", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-23a.1656.1", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "cial risk and put their money into the collieries and become directors and shareholders, then they can bring in absorption schemes. If that scheme is a good one, the unwilling owners of adjoining collieries can be compelled to amalgamate under it. Hon. Members opposite have there the answer in their own hands to the question they ask. I hope the House will come to a decision on this Amendment now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-23a.1656.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-23", "file": "debates1926-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "38f2edde5bf79227", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-23a.1656.3", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR - GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR - GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Member suggest that a trade union must not invest its money in public securities like any other investor?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-23a.1656.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-07-23", "file": "debates1926-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "38f2edde5bf79227", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-23a.1656.5", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "And you know it!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "They are not able to buy a coal mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-23a.1656.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1720.3", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four months!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "of an outsider. There is presumably in their opinion no one in the whole world sufficiently able or impartial to sit in judgment on the coal industry. I repeat that that is an unreasonable position to take up. At that very moment, the Prime Minister had, I think, in his pocket a proposal accepted by Mr. Herbert Smith and Mr. Cook to take the judgment of an impartial arbitrator upon the very facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1720.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1720.3", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And a susbsidy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " a definite position, above the signatures of the two officials of the Miners' Executive, that they are prepared to assent to a reference back to the Commission with a view to working out the details of the Report on reconstruction and wages; and, if there is anything left upon which there is disagreement, they are prepared to refer the matter to an impartial chairman and to stand by his decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1720.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1720.3", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "actly the proposal here— or whether it be to aid certain districts, after the negotiations have succeeded, I cannot say—but for one of these two purposes, it may be for both, I believe some assistance will be necessary. Therefore, the principle which is embodied in the proposals of the Churches, which have been accepted by the Miners' Federation, is also accepted by the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1720.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1727.1", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hidden hand!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "The £3,000,000 came later. That was one of the afterthoughts which were, I am afraid, introduced by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I do not think that was the Prime Minister's idea at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1727.1", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No subsidy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "wn—the extension of hours. The leading Government organ says to-day: Parliament to-day will undoubtedly express the opinion of the nation if it affirms that an agreement is to be sought and found on the lines prepared by the Commission. The lines prepared by the Commission are the lines which are laid down in this document, which has now been accepted by the chiefs of the Miners' Federation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1727.1", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "gest that we have latitude with regard to future legislation, and I do not propose to transgress. But the Eight Hours Act is a voluntary one, and although I cannot discuss the wisdom or otherwise of having carried it, I can discuss the probability and the desirability of its being brought into operation, and I can discuss the question of how long it is likely to take to force its acceptance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1734.0", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "and it was made before I went to Norwich possibly—that I received a letter from the Bishop of Lich-field with the signature of the Secretary of the Miners' Federation attached to it. It was only in Monday's \"Daily Herald\" that I read that the same gentleman said, referring to a reduction of wages, that when reorganisation proposals are put into operation, wages reduction will be unnecessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1734.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1739.0", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ns of the Report, distasteful as some of them were to the Government, if they could thereby secure peace. We tailed. In spite of this, the Government have introduced a Bill, which will become law in a few days, giving effect to every one of the Commission's recommendations requiring legislative action except two, which could not conceivably make the slightest difference to the immediate situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1739.0", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "s quite true, as the right hon. Gentleman said, that we said at the beginning of these struggles that, if the two parties, as was said in the Report, agreed, we would legislate on the question of hours. There was no negotiation; there was nothing going on; and it seemed to the Government, after mature consideration, not that we had any price paid to us, as the right hon. Gentleman suggested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1739.0", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "our own work on the utilisation of coal and the study of fuel as rapidly as the necessary research workers can be got together The present programme involves an expenditure this year more than twice that of four years ago, and, as the programme develops, with the Chancellor of the Exchequer's permission, the expenditure will grow. The Mining Industry Bill gives the Research Department power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1741.1", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ny people are too apt to jump at what we may hope to see from this research in a few years' time, and imagine that this autumn or winter results which will inevitably come in time can be obtained at once. The purchasing Departments of the Government are prepared to buy from the output of any new plants at the market price. The Government proposals cover the whole ground of the chapter on research.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1742.1", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You did with hours!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "o parties of any kind because the break occurred before they had got down to it, or even got near to it. It seems to me that now both parties are in a much better position to do that. There is only one word that perhaps I might add. Supposing the two parties would come together for negotiation or for arbitration, we would do all in our power to help. We cannot impose legislative settlements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1742.1", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have said neither side could settle!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "y one word that perhaps I might add. Supposing the two parties would come together for negotiation or for arbitration, we would do all in our power to help. We cannot impose legislative settlements—[An HON. MEMBER: \"You did with hours!\"] That is not a settlement. There has been no negotiation at all as to whether, inside that, with any modification a settlement may be possible to be reached.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1744.1", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "shops. He knows perfectly well that the Bishops never would make such a suggestion. It is absolutely futile. What is the position? What has he done? The right hon. Gentleman has nothing whatever to say on the dispute as it is to-day. He has told us this proposal was made to him through the medium of the Ecclesiastical representatives. What has he done? He has simply rejected it sans phrase —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1744.1", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "to know two things. We ought to have this clear. Does the Government believe in the Royal Commission's Report or does it not? If it believes in the Royal Commission's Report, when is it going to carry it into effect? The other thing we want to know is this. Does the Government believe in peace? The Government has had offer after offer and opportunity after opportunity given it to make peace—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1744.1", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " below the gangway and his friends would like I admit, but a peace which would have some modicum of justice embodied in it. Again and again they have had their opportunity. Again and again the Prime Minister has said, here and outside, that he wishes for peace, and from the beginning of the struggle to this moment he has never lifted his little finger for peace. It is very hard for me to say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1745.1", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do you accept that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "ring peace, and it is not going to help to goodwill in the industry. The Government really ought to make it clear what its position regarding the Commission's Report is. First of all, regarding wages, the Commission's Report has been violated by every step the Government took before and since the lock-out has taken place. The Royal Commission has said quite definitely that wages will have to fall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1745.1", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do you accept that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " clear what its position regarding the Commission's Report is. First of all, regarding wages, the Commission's Report has been violated by every step the Government took before and since the lock-out has taken place. The Royal Commission has said quite definitely that wages will have to fall. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Do you accept that?\"] The Royal Commission has said that in its opinion wages must fall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1745.1", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "Report, and carried it out in that way, there would have been nobody who would have been more righteously indignant than the Prime Minister himself about the miners having broken their word and their bond. The Bill which will be before us again this week—the Mining Industry Bill—is not the Royal Commission's Report and is not the Royal Commission's recommendations. It as nothing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1745.1", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Laughter and HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "e sort of uncertainty that characterises the English weather, \"We are in favour of the Royal Commission's Report.\" It is true that they said at first—they have not always given this qualification—that they accepted it providing the other two sides did the same. Of the other two sides the owners never accepted it. The only party that came near to an attempt at acceptance was the miners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1745.1", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "ication—that they accepted it providing the other two sides did the same. Of the other two sides the owners never accepted it. The only party that came near to an attempt at acceptance was the miners. [ Laughter and HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"] Hon. Members are not more amused at me than I am at them. I repeat that the miners are the only party that offered at the beginning a tentative acceptance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1748.3", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What did he mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Member having a joke? Is this Debate a sort of country fair or is it the House of Commons Mr. Smith's statement was as I have said. It is all very well for hon. Members opposite to say what does that mean?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1748.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1752.2", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "What Mr. Herbert Smith said was that he was quite ready to go through the Report, read it carefully, and then abide by the conclusions be reached.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1752.4", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are wrong!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "I suggest we should refer to the written word when we get outside this House. What Mr. Herbert Smith said on that occasion was this, not in these words, but this is the effect: \"I am prepared to go through that Report most carefully and to abide by any conclusions that I reach.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1752.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1753.3", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "asis of a seven-hours' day. It means a wage such as the South Wales owners refused to put forward as long as they possibly could, because it was such a miserable wage, and, therefore, when conditions in a district like South Wales were such that only a miserable wage could be offered, on a seven-hours' basis, surely sheer humanity demanded that some increase of hours should be put forward instead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1753.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1754.4", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": " Friend the Member for Ogmore (Mr. Hartshorn). What were those proposals? Something that he called \"unification of the industry.\" He was quite unable to say what it meant, but the blessed word \"unification\" was good enough; it was an excellent catchword; it had the requisite number of syllables. And the right hon. Gentleman suggests that that is a possible basis of negotiation between the parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1754.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1761.1", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": " South Wales are wages which many workers in this country would be only too glad to earn; they are wages at the rate that was being paid in 1921 when the cost of living was much higher than it is to-day, and there are millions of workers who would be only too glad to get back to the 1921 basis of wages and to enjoy the higher standard of living which the lower cost of living has rendered possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1770.3", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Not eight hours!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": " with some Government assistance for this period of four months, and during the interval let the Coal Commission work out what they think will put the industry on its legs, and then at the end of four months, if it is not settled, let it go to the arbitrator, and, if he says we are to suffer this 10 per cent. and the 25 per cent. and the eight hours, or whatever the decision, we will abide by it.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1770.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1807.1", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In what way?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "preceding_text": "I have listened to this Debate with great interest and considerable disappointment. Scarcely a speech has been made which has carried us any further, and it is especially disappointing that Members of the party opposite should continue to adopt an attitude which is certainly not calculated to bring this dispute to an early close.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1807.1", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rot!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "preceding_text": " in other parts of the world are working longer hours in order to capture our trade. A continuance of this dispute will do nobody any good. It cannot have any effect in the part of the world from which I come except to close the pits, in some cases for ever, and so long as hon. Members opposite look upon this question from a political and not from an economic point of view we shall get no further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1808.3", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "preceding_text": "d deal to be said for the suggestions put forward by the Bishops, but those, suggestions do not bring us much nearer a settlement. Indeed from what the Prime Minister said, it seems to me that they have not carried us any further at all. There is nothing to prove that, supposing the Government were to grant a subvention for the next four months, there would be a settlement at the end of that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1808.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1810.3", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RENNIE SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RENNIE SMITH", "preceding_text": "ed the things which the Prime Minister did not say as he listened to the very spiritual and moral attitude of the Prime Minister in delivering his speech this afternoon, that the present policy of the Government, in merely handing over weapons to the owners and deliberately neglecting the essential reconstruction of the industry, stands condemned before the whole of this nation in every essential.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1810.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1815.0", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And very dear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "ant sources of mercantile revenue, and which has given us a hold over the carriage of goods in the world which no other natural advantages could have conferred upon us, is now down to such a low ebb that the tide seem to be flowing uphill. Coals are now coming to Newcastle. The fuel which is being used on the Thames now is not North County fuel or from the Midlands, but very poor coal from abroad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1820.0", "colnum": "1820", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Colonel Lane Fox)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Colonel Lane Fox)", "preceding_text": " that is. We are told that the miners will be ready to submit to arbitration if for a few months we grant them a subsidy. The hon. and learned Member for South Shields (Mr. Harney) pointed out that it is a very expensive thing to continue this stoppage and that it would be cheaper if we gave a subsidy, but surely it would be much cheaper if they came together to negotiate without a subsidy at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1820.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1820.0", "colnum": "1820", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Colonel Lane Fox)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rub it in!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Colonel Lane Fox)", "preceding_text": "surely it would be much cheaper if they came together to negotiate without a subsidy at all. [ Interruption. ] I want to press this point. If arbitration or negotiation is really meant, it can start to-morrow; there is nothing to prevent it, and there is no need for this cry that this cannot be done until the country has been bled of many more million pounds. I do not want to use hard words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1820.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1820.0", "colnum": "1820", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Colonel Lane Fox)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Colonel Lane Fox)", "preceding_text": "en a gentleman comes and tells you that he will hold you to ransom, that you will be submitted to very heavy expenditure if you do not at once produce money, you certainly do not give him that sum of money, even though it may be more expensive to maintain the more difficult position with which he is threatening you. You do not give him the money, because you know that if you do he will come again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1820.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1820.0", "colnum": "1820", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Colonel Lane Fox)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY for MINES (Colonel Lane Fox)", "preceding_text": "t? The first speech was: The Commission had reported, and it was rather difficult to find out what they meant, for different chapters dealt with the same thing in a different way; but he had agreed, on behalf of the Miners' Federation, to take from page 1 to the end of the Report, to go thoroughly into it and accept the evidence. Hon. Gentlemen opposite do not now seem to be so ready to cheer that", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1820.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1824.1", "colnum": "1824", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "h all deference to the right hon. Gentleman, that he is mistaken in what am speaking about. This was the second speech, in which Mr. Herbert Smith made this explanation: Somebody was under the impression that he had agreed to accept the full Report. What he had intended to imply was that he was prepared to examine the Report from page 1 to the last page, and stand by the result as fiNaily reached.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1824.1", "colnum": "1824", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "which somebody had got of what he had said and what he had really meant to say, and there was a great difference between the impression which the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Aberavon had got and the impression that Mr. Smith himself wished to give. I only want to say that it does seem to me that the leadership of the miners has been on this, as on many previous occasions, quite deplorable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1824.1", "colnum": "1824", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Never\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "Smith himself wished to give. I only want to say that it does seem to me that the leadership of the miners has been on this, as on many previous occasions, quite deplorable. [ Interruption. ] If you go back to the history of the mining industry, you will find, time and time again, that the miners have had the opportunity of doing a comparatively good deal and have failed by trying to get too much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1826.0", "colnum": "1826", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What proposal?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "re than the speech made by the right hon. Gentleman. He has told this House that there is no chance now of our seeing the men negotiating with them. It seems to me like telling them not to negotiate because he could have encouraged them to come forward and not to wait for a subsidy, but he has refused to take that line and he has refused to accept the proposal which was made by the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1826.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-26", "file": "debates1926-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "348b943e8c3bfd9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1877.3", "colnum": "1877", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman's charge, he found it possible to spend so much less on the civil part. It seems to me a rather strange coinci- dence, if it was due merely to the accident of procuring more deliveries of warlike machines, that at the same time there was less expenditure on civil aviation and the Meteorological and Miscellaneous Effective Services. That is a point I do not quite understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-26a.1877.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-27", "file": "debates1926-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5f4d55dbb7b4b546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.1886.7", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COUPER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COUPER", "preceding_text": "I ask the right hon. Gentleman to accept our thanks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.1886.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-27", "file": "debates1926-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5f4d55dbb7b4b546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.1903.5", "colnum": "1903", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL STRIKE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIDSON", "preceding_text": "I understand that allegations have been made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.1903.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-27", "file": "debates1926-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5f4d55dbb7b4b546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.1942.0", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "preceding_text": " has been no statement repeated by the repre- sentatives of the owners more often and with less ground than that any statement we make as to suspicion of the transfer prices is a charge against the independent accountants. The independent accountants do not fix the transfer prices, to begin with. The transfer prices are fixed by the employers themselves, or by the officials acting on their behalf.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.1942.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-27", "file": "debates1926-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5f4d55dbb7b4b546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.1943.3", "colnum": "1943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "preceding_text": "defrauded of their wages. It is clearly what is due to the men. You say the method of regulating wages and profits came in in 1921. Of course it did, but it was never an agreement. It was forced upon the men against hundreds of thousands of a majority. When the men were called upon to vote they voted against this ascertainment—against this method—by hundreds of thousands of a majority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.1943.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-27", "file": "debates1926-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5f4d55dbb7b4b546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.1951.2", "colnum": "1951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "I heard the evidence that was given before the Commission. I hope the House will not be drawn on this occasion into a general discussion on this subject, because it is quite evident that the Amendment would not leave the situation in any completer form. This is a much bigger question than the question involved in this Amendment. The whole thing is a matter for agreement between the parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.1951.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-27", "file": "debates1926-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5f4d55dbb7b4b546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.1965.0", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENNETT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENNETT", "preceding_text": "ket value of the minerals and will thus reduce the sums received by the present owners. The State would neither gain nor lose by this, since it would purchase the royalties at a lessened price on the one hand and would make an equivalent contribution to the Welfare Fund on the other. I hope the Government will not advance this argument, because it will put a considerable strain upon party loyalty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.1965.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-27", "file": "debates1926-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5f4d55dbb7b4b546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.1969.0", "colnum": "1969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ALEXANDER SPROT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALEXANDER SPROT", "preceding_text": "The object of this levy is to provide pit-head baths. That is an excellent idea of which I thoroughly approve, but I would like to ask: What is to be done with the rest of the money when the pithead baths are provided all over the country? Some of the pits have already been provided with baths under the old welfare levy, and it is now proposed to put on a new welfare levy on the same people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.1969.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-27", "file": "debates1926-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5f4d55dbb7b4b546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.1970.4", "colnum": "1970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is already taxed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": " opportunity of passing their opinion on the question of how much the royalty owners ought to pay, I am certain in my own district they would consider that the royalty owners got off cheaply at 5s. in the £, and, indeed, would be lucky to get off with paying 19s. in the £. Hon. Members opposite have deplored this tax. I rejoice that at last somebody is beginning to tax the royalty owner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.1970.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-27", "file": "debates1926-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5f4d55dbb7b4b546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.1977.1", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "al owners are drawing every year from £6,500,000 to £7,000,000, and 25 per cent. is not too large a levy on them in face of the fact that royalty owners have for 200 years, unchallenged, drawn huge sums in royalties. In the last 70 years they have taken at least £300,000,000. It is a small thing to ask them to agree to this 5s. If the Government agree, the royalty owners will agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.1977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-27", "file": "debates1926-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5f4d55dbb7b4b546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.1977.1", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "nt. is not too large a levy on them in face of the fact that royalty owners have for 200 years, unchallenged, drawn huge sums in royalties. In the last 70 years they have taken at least £300,000,000. It is a small thing to ask them to agree to this 5s. If the Government agree, the royalty owners will agree. [ Laughter. ] Yes, because the Government and the royalty owners are synonymous terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.1977.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-07-27", "file": "debates1926-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5f4d55dbb7b4b546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.1987.2", "colnum": "1987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SPROT", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the learned Solicitor-General for his explanation, and desire to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.1987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-27", "file": "debates1926-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5f4d55dbb7b4b546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.2006.2", "colnum": "2006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "preceding_text": "I am quite prepared to be regarded with a certain degree of suspicion for the simple reason that the only people acquainted with the shale miners really among the representatives of the miners here are the Scottish representatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.2006.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-27", "file": "debates1926-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5f4d55dbb7b4b546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.2009.5", "colnum": "2009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain WALTER SHAW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WALTER SHAW", "preceding_text": "e I am situated, and may I say also that I know personally that those Departmental Committees, which are similar to the pit committees, have added and do actually add to the expense of the running of the railroads. I think we shall find the same thing will happen with regard to these pit committees, if and when they are appointed, and they will only add to the expenses of the running of the mines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.2009.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-07-27", "file": "debates1926-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5f4d55dbb7b4b546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.2011.2", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "You are too late.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. NALL", "preceding_text": "I beg to second the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.2011.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-07-27", "file": "debates1926-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5f4d55dbb7b4b546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.2011.8", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Agreed!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "Perhaps in the circumstances, as it appears to have been a case of misunderstanding, hon. Members will allow it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.2011.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-27", "file": "debates1926-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5f4d55dbb7b4b546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.2031.1", "colnum": "2031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I think they are right!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARNEY", "preceding_text": "e ought to reject this Clause. It is alien to the character of the Bill; it was not found necessary to import any such Clause to give symmetry to the original structure of the Bill. It is brought in at the last moment, and it is more likely to create among the miners. Their minds at this moment are filled with suspicion that the only voice listened to in the Cabinet is the voice of the mineowners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.2031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-27", "file": "debates1926-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5f4d55dbb7b4b546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.2034.1", "colnum": "2034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANS", "preceding_text": "ne is to follow the practice which has been established there, and to put the Regulations the Minister can now make subject to exactly the same checks and safeguards as already exist. Hon. Members opposite now complain that in some way or another this is going to deprive men who are working in the mines of a reasonable prospect by their industry and education of rising to the position of managers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.2034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-27", "file": "debates1926-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5f4d55dbb7b4b546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.2047.5", "colnum": "2047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "s for working minerals will be enormously increased by this Bill. Part III, as hon. Gentlemen will remember, deals with the levy on loyalty owners, and the provision of pit-head baths. Part IV limits recruitment for the next three years and allows those who are dispossessed, under operations which may take place as a result of this Measure, to be secured in their employment in the mining industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.2047.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-27", "file": "debates1926-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "5f4d55dbb7b4b546", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.2053.0", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "preceding_text": " presently, because of the bigger wage he enjoys as against the labourer on the surface, invite the competition of that surface labourer. Therefore, there is every reason, both from the standpoint of the mechanical production of coal and from the standpoint of the new competition that will have been introduced, for this new provision with regard to recruitment. The Bill is generous and wise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-27a.2053.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-07-28", "file": "debates1926-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0f770c4036b5deb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-28a.2094.2", "colnum": "2094", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ALIENS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "And the Conservative clubs!", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WOODCOCK", "preceding_text": "Was it not formerly the custom to publish periodically a return of the particulars of the 100 chief trade unions in the country and in this way to supply those particulars to the House; and is the right hon. Gentleman prepared to resume the publication of these particulars so that the House may have the information desired.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-28a.2094.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-28", "file": "debates1926-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0f770c4036b5deb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-28a.2167.0", "colnum": "2167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is no cabin!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "on this matter have been met by statements which I do not think have received sufficient investigation. I raised a question about a little boat called the \"Cygnet\" which sails to the Island of Tiree and I pointed out that the third-class passengers, who have little or no accommodation provided for them, when they are driven back into the cabin are immediately told that they had to pay cabin fares.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-28a.2167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-28", "file": "debates1926-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0f770c4036b5deb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-28a.2170.0", "colnum": "2170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Capitalism!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "cause one steamboat company is getting from £36,000 to £50,000 a year of subsidy. If anybody tries to cut in, this company has got the piers and the ferry boats and it can choke them off. It is not worth the while of anyone to compete with them on the ordinary commercial plane. Private enterprise does not get a chance there. We are under an autocratic despotism which makes it impossible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-28a.2170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-28", "file": "debates1926-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0f770c4036b5deb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-28a.2195.0", "colnum": "2195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. GILMOUR", "preceding_text": "fold, or even eight-fold. That, in my view, is extravagance. I am very anxious to see the development and progress of education, and, indeed, I think the action of the Department within this last year has shown that that progress is being made. Indeed, I am in agreement with one hon. Member who said that our system of education in Scotland was superior to those of our neighbours across the Border.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-28a.2195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-28", "file": "debates1926-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0f770c4036b5deb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-28a.2259.12", "colnum": "2259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "I should like to ask what is the rate of duty upon beer in the Isle of Man, as compared with the rate in this country? It is on record that in passing the 1918 Act the Financial Secretary at that time, the present Prime Minister, gave the House an explanation of the variation at that time in the Beer Duty. We have a Report of the Committee of the Privy Council, and it states in the Appendix—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-28a.2259.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-28", "file": "debates1926-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0f770c4036b5deb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-28a.2261.2", "colnum": "2261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": " same rate as they are imposed upon the people of Great Britain. It seems to me perfectly clear from the way that this Clause and the way the remaining Clauses of the Bill are drawn, that it is the desire of the Government, acting on behalf of the. Crown, that the Customs Duties for the Isle of Man should as nearly as possible be brought into line with the Customs Duties operating in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-28a.2261.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-28", "file": "debates1926-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0f770c4036b5deb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-28a.2264.3", "colnum": "2264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "With regard to the reply of the Financial Secretary, may I ask whether the authorities do not show clearly that the initiation of taxation is with His Majesty's 'Government? I quote from the \"Enclycopædia Britannica\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-28a.2264.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-28", "file": "debates1926-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0f770c4036b5deb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-28a.2270.6", "colnum": "2270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "The point is an extremely simple one. The Clause says that en matches removed or imported into the Isle of Man a certain duty shall be paid. Supposing matches had been imported into Great Britain and subsequently exported to the Isle of Man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-28a.2270.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-28", "file": "debates1926-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0f770c4036b5deb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-28a.2270.6", "colnum": "2270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Matches.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "The point is an extremely simple one. The Clause says that en matches removed or imported into the Isle of Man a certain duty shall be paid. Supposing matches had been imported into Great Britain and subsequently exported to the Isle of Man—[ Interruption ]—or supposing a motor-car is imported into Great Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-28a.2270.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-28", "file": "debates1926-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0f770c4036b5deb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-28a.2278.3", "colnum": "2278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICES AND REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1926–27.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are not; they are levied by the Isle of Man Legislature.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "e of the isle of Man. It is no answer to say that they can put the charge on the trippers to the Isle of Man. If the hon. Member for Grimsby (Mr. Womersley) had read the Report, he would have found a statement by the Committee that they cannot find that more than three-eighths of the total duties can be passed on to the trippers. My point is that we are, by passing this Bill, levying dutiesߞ", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-28a.2278.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-29", "file": "debates1926-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "1542740163f632d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-29a.2384.0", "colnum": "2384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOMINION AND COLONIAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HADEN GUEST", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"In this country.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HADEN GUEST", "preceding_text": "ew South Wales there was land available for wheat growing, for mixed farming, or for dairy farming equal to the total area of England and Wales. If that be so in the one State of New South Wales, you have got an area of land there which obviously is capable of taking as many migrants as we could send to them in the next 20 years. There is no difficulty whatsoever about land for men to settle upon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-29a.2384.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-29", "file": "debates1926-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "1542740163f632d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-29a.2420.0", "colnum": "2420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOMINION AND COLONIAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It cost a lot of money!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Member for Derby which is now the official policy of this party, and that is bulk purchasing and distribution at the cheapest possible price to the people of this country. The present Secretary of State did not attempt in any way to dispute the figures given by the right hon. Member for Derby. We went in for bulk purchase in the War, and bought the wool crop and reduced the price of wool.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-29a.2420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-29", "file": "debates1926-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "1542740163f632d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-29a.2447.2", "colnum": "2447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOMINION AND COLONIAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "served, and that is a report by three settlers of distinction in Southern Rhodesia on the land problem in Rhodesia, and their suggestions for the settlement of that problem. This report, by Mr. Maurice Carter, Sir Herbert Taylor, and another settler, is an admirable example of how all thinking men in this House would like to see our Dominions approach the question of native land and native labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-29a.2447.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-29", "file": "debates1926-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "1542740163f632d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-29a.2447.2", "colnum": "2447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOMINION AND COLONIAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ruption. ] No, it is merely an appreciation of the fact that the Englishman in the Dominions has responsibilities to the natives in addition to the desire to get their labour cheaply. I hope hon. Members will read this report. In reading it myself I felt it afforded some consolation for the fact that Southern Rhodesia is an independent Dominion and has not amalgamated with the Union further South.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-29a.2447.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-29", "file": "debates1926-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "1542740163f632d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-29a.2472.1", "colnum": "2472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "We get some good out of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-29a.2472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-29", "file": "debates1926-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "1542740163f632d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-29a.2472.1", "colnum": "2472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": " try to come in here are those whom it is in the interests of this country to admit. There is a divergence of opinion between the two sides of the House. Hon. Members opposite desire, I suppose, as the hon. Member who moved the Amendment desires, to let them all come in here, desires that we should open our gates freely to the agitator, the Communist—I am not ashamed of mentioning that name.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-29a.2472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-29", "file": "debates1926-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "1542740163f632d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-29a.2473.1", "colnum": "2473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "Oh, no; that is quite unfair. I am speaking now of men living in the East End of London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-29a.2473.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-07-29", "file": "debates1926-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "1542740163f632d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-29a.2474.5", "colnum": "2474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "The charge, as far as any charges are arguments, are made against the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-29a.2474.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-29", "file": "debates1926-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "1542740163f632d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-29a.2488.1", "colnum": "2488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": ">Sir FRANK MEYER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Perishable.\"", "preceding_speaker": ">Sir FRANK MEYER", "preceding_text": "shments, newspapers, and so on. I want to call the attention to the Home Secretary to the ridiculous way in which the Schedules are drawn. This has nothing to do with the hours of shop assistants. It is laid down that shops can keep open for the purpose of selling strawberries, raspberries, bilberries, apricots, but not for the sale of bananas, oranges or even a lemon. What is the reason for that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-29a.2488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-30", "file": "debates1926-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "aaab6ae9bd36ce46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2512.4", "colnum": "2512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEmnEris: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "That is what you always do—create prejudice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2512.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-30", "file": "debates1926-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "aaab6ae9bd36ce46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2524.0", "colnum": "2524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about your party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "preceding_text": "ession, whatever he may be called upon or asked to do. Now I turn to these Regulations, which the hon. and gallant Gentleman has been attacking. I have been amazed during the last few months at the manner in which that remnant of a party talks in this House. Apparently its talking in the country is no good at all, because it goes from bad to worse; it is positively going to vanishing point.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2524.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-30", "file": "debates1926-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "aaab6ae9bd36ce46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2524.0", "colnum": "2524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"North Hammersmith.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "preceding_text": "ently its talking in the country is no good at all, because it goes from bad to worse; it is positively going to vanishing point.—[An HON. MEMBER: \"What about your party?\"] I do not think that hon. Members above the Gangway opposite have anything to jeer about. If the election in North timberland could not have been won in that particular district, it could not have been won in any district.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2524.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-30", "file": "debates1926-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "aaab6ae9bd36ce46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2524.0", "colnum": "2524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "preceding_text": "ction in North timberland could not have been won in that particular district, it could not have been won in any district. [HON. MEMBERS: \"North Hammersmith.\"] The less said about North Hammersmith, about which I know something, the better. It never pays to jeer before the sentence is completed, because, if hon. Members knew the methods to which the Socialist party sank in North Hammersmith—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2524.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-30", "file": "debates1926-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "aaab6ae9bd36ce46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2524.0", "colnum": "2524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"What about Ladywood?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "preceding_text": ". It never pays to jeer before the sentence is completed, because, if hon. Members knew the methods to which the Socialist party sank in North Hammersmith—[ Interruption ]—they would see that it was as black a page in the history of electoral proceedings in this country as any. Therefore, let them not he too sure that North Hammersmith is the feather which shows the way the wind blows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2524.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-30", "file": "debates1926-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "aaab6ae9bd36ce46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2526.5", "colnum": "2526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. NIELD", "preceding_text": "I promptly obey your directions, Mr. Speaker, and to put myself in order, I agree, as a matter of order, that I ought not to have transgressed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2526.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-30", "file": "debates1926-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "aaab6ae9bd36ce46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2532.1", "colnum": "2532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Withdraw I \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "I. bow at once to your ruling, Mr. Speaker. The discussion that has taken place has rather been pushed across borders over which I had no intention of pushing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-30", "file": "debates1926-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "aaab6ae9bd36ce46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2562.1", "colnum": "2562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WARWICKSHIRE MINERS' ASSOCIATION. THE TIDE HAS TURNED!!", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" They were never put into operation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "there was a Liberal Prime Minister, one of his numerous leaders. I think I am justified in saying not only what I have done about the Regulations from the Liberal point of view, but it is well known that the Labour party, when quite a different state of affairs existed, told the House quite definitely, when there was a trumpery little strike in the tramway world, that they would issue Regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-30", "file": "debates1926-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "aaab6ae9bd36ce46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2571.5", "colnum": "2571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WARWICKSHIRE MINERS' ASSOCIATION. THE TIDE HAS TURNED!!", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" No \"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": ", and all the right hon. Gentlemen opposite rose in their places and declared that this was corrupting the fount of public justice. The Home Secretary comes here and boasts that not many prosecutions have been instituted owing to his own benevolent attitude. My own feeling is that one of the worst features of these Regulations is that they do introduce political influence into judicial proceedings", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2571.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-30", "file": "debates1926-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "aaab6ae9bd36ce46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2572.0", "colnum": "2572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WARWICKSHIRE MINERS' ASSOCIATION. THE TIDE HAS TURNED!!", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "preceding_text": "the baton charge.\" He refused to go with them at that hour and they then told him that lie must be at Whitehall by 10 o'clock that morning. Luckily for him the door of his house was on a chain which he did not undo, thus preventing these men from pushing the door wide open. Instead of going to Whitehall he telephoned, and the people at Whitehall said that they knew nothing at all about the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2572.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-30", "file": "debates1926-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "aaab6ae9bd36ce46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2572.0", "colnum": "2572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WARWICKSHIRE MINERS' ASSOCIATION. THE TIDE HAS TURNED!!", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Hear, hear! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "preceding_text": "he Army and the Navy and have also shown themselves to be \" angels of peace.\" We have had \" angels of peace \" in our district, and I was surprised to hear the Home Secretary's statement as to the use of the military. We saw battalions of them being paraded in the East India Dock Road and all round the wharves, and when the convoys went up the road there were armoured cars and tanks and Lewis guns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2572.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-30", "file": "debates1926-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "aaab6ae9bd36ce46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2572.0", "colnum": "2572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WARWICKSHIRE MINERS' ASSOCIATION. THE TIDE HAS TURNED!!", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "preceding_text": "paraded in the East India Dock Road and all round the wharves, and when the convoys went up the road there were armoured cars and tanks and Lewis guns. [HON. MEMBERS: \" Hear, hear! \"] Hon. Members applaud that statement, but the Home Secretary would try to make them believe and make the public believe that such things did not happen. We were also blessed with a large importation of foreign police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2572.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-30", "file": "debates1926-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "aaab6ae9bd36ce46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2572.0", "colnum": "2572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WARWICKSHIRE MINERS' ASSOCIATION. THE TIDE HAS TURNED!!", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "preceding_text": "em believe and make the public believe that such things did not happen. We were also blessed with a large importation of foreign police. [HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh! \"] They were foreign to Poplar at all events. We had foot police and horse police, and they were not satisfied with parading up and down the streets and roads, but they went across the pavements and chased people from the doors of the houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2572.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-30", "file": "debates1926-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "aaab6ae9bd36ce46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2579.1", "colnum": "2579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WARWICKSHIRE MINERS' ASSOCIATION. THE TIDE HAS TURNED!!", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Like Russia!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "r the purpose of drilling a reserve force. One of the higher officials of Scotland Yard attended at that, office, and was surprised when he saw the premises, and realised that there was not accommodation even for the typewriting machines which were required for the work of that trade union. This Regulation encourages the worst type there is in any country—the secret service and the informer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-30", "file": "debates1926-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "aaab6ae9bd36ce46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2579.1", "colnum": "2579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WARWICKSHIRE MINERS' ASSOCIATION. THE TIDE HAS TURNED!!", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": " suspects is engaged upon anything which he thinks is prejudicial to public safety. Even with all the fears which we know animate the members of the Government, I think it is absurd to ask for a continuance of these Regulations. The members of the Government seem to me to go about in fear and trembling, and every night suspect that there is somebody in their bedroom of whom they seem to be afraid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-30", "file": "debates1926-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "aaab6ae9bd36ce46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2582.1", "colnum": "2582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WARWICKSHIRE MINERS' ASSOCIATION. THE TIDE HAS TURNED!!", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Captain Hacking)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Captain Hacking)", "preceding_text": "th the consent of a Secretary of State. I think he took exception to that paragraph, because he inferred that it was an indication, if not more than an indication, that we took these powers to protect ourselves. This is the first time that I have been given to understand that the Labour party have no registered newspapers. I thought, for example, that the \"Daily Herald\" was a registered newspaper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-30", "file": "debates1926-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "aaab6ae9bd36ce46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2583.2", "colnum": "2583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WARWICKSHIRE MINERS' ASSOCIATION. THE TIDE HAS TURNED!!", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "Has anyone ever heard British rights disposed of in such a way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2583.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-30", "file": "debates1926-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "aaab6ae9bd36ce46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2584.3", "colnum": "2584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WARWICKSHIRE MINERS' ASSOCIATION. THE TIDE HAS TURNED!!", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "ting, but I say that this indicates that this thing is becoming perpetual. The hon. and gallant Gentleman says that it has nothing to do with the miners' strike, but that it is because certain ill-disposed people may be inclined to do something. Then why not take the power permanently? Why not have done with all this humbug, and say that you intend to invade the privileges which people have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2584.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-30", "file": "debates1926-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "aaab6ae9bd36ce46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2584.7", "colnum": "2584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WARWICKSHIRE MINERS' ASSOCIATION. THE TIDE HAS TURNED!!", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "That is how the hon. and gallant Gentleman defends the putting in of these powers. Perhaps, in my sincerity and conviction, I may speak with too much excitement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2584.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-07-30", "file": "debates1926-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "aaab6ae9bd36ce46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2584.7", "colnum": "2584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WARWICKSHIRE MINERS' ASSOCIATION. THE TIDE HAS TURNED!!", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "incerity and conviction, I may speak with too much excitement—[ Interruption ]—but I can assure the hon. and gallant Gentleman that many people in this country, not members of the Labour party, regard with very grave concern the taking away of fundamental rights of the citizen, and especially the flippant way in which that is defended in a sentence by an underling from the Home Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-07-30a.2584.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-08-02", "file": "debates1926-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "133eca93ad4c85a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-02a.2632.1", "colnum": "2632", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MOTOR CYCLES (SILENCERS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RYE", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. and gallant Gentleman aware that the contrary view is held by prominent members of highway authorities, and that, in particular, at a meeting of the Westminster City Council, on Thursday last, it was thought that there is grave danger on the north side of Trafalgar Square, and the construction of a subway was advocated?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-02a.2632.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-02", "file": "debates1926-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "133eca93ad4c85a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-02a.2694.0", "colnum": "2694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FENBY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FENBY", "preceding_text": "this. You have the Ouse running eastward. You have the Derwent, a smaller river, running westward, and one meets the other. The stronger water coming down the Ouse running eastward backs all the water up the Derwent that wants to run westward, and you get hundreds if not thousands of acres of good land flooded simply because the river, instead of running into the Ouse, wants turning the other way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-02a.2694.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-02", "file": "debates1926-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "133eca93ad4c85a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-02a.2717.5", "colnum": "2717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "port which he issued with regard to the condition of drainage in Scotland, where he points out that a good deal of the drainage of Scotland had been very largely neglected because of the lack of capital, and that the land was becoming waterlogged. It is because you have general deterioration owing to the fact that the landlord his not any longer the necessary cash for the purpose of keeping it up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-02a.2717.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-03", "file": "debates1926-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "563095fb37479123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-03a.2787.5", "colnum": "2787", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "the hon. and gallant Gentleman aware that the report issued by the Scottish Board of Health shows that the children who live in four-roomed houses have a chance of 20 years more life than the children who are reared in single-room apartments; and is it not time, when you have put, out such a report, that you should put your foot down here, and stop people building stables when houses are required?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-03a.2787.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-03", "file": "debates1926-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "563095fb37479123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-03a.2849.3", "colnum": "2849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "leman's first desire was to re-establish private enterprise in the building industry, and secondarily to deal with the housing problem. This Bill follows that line. It is a subsidy to private owners of houses, just as the 1923 subsidy has, in the vast majority of cases, gone into private hands. It is a plan for bolstering up neglected rural cottages. There may be something to be said for it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-03a.2849.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-03", "file": "debates1926-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "563095fb37479123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-03a.2855.3", "colnum": "2855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "he Front Bench on this side, and in this case, also, you cannot prove that the farm labourer, in the long run, is going to be helped. I do not know whether it is a fanciful suggestion, but I put this forward for what it is worth—I stand open to correction, and shall be glad to be corrected—that it will be possible, in connection with this Bill, for the week ender to put a tenant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-03a.2855.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-03", "file": "debates1926-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "563095fb37479123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-03a.2889.0", "colnum": "2889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SULLIVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SULLIVAN", "preceding_text": "rds but never a good one. When I do meet a good landlord I will give him credit for being good. I sincerely hope Members of our party will press this matter to a division and let the country know just exactly what is taking place. If a house becomes unhealthy, why should not a public authority do its duty and issue a closing order? All the money we can spend will not make a bad house a good house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-03a.2889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-03", "file": "debates1926-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "563095fb37479123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-03a.2900.1", "colnum": "2900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "when it is met, for the improvement of their own personal possessions. There is no question of lack of sympathy with the landlords or with any class of the community, distressed or otherwise. It is a good, sound principle of public policy which is being violated by this Bill, and the point is this, that when they have got this help, then the property improved by the public still remains their own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-03a.2900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-03", "file": "debates1926-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "563095fb37479123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-03a.2900.1", "colnum": "2900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" There are reservations!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " which is being violated by this Bill, and the point is this, that when they have got this help, then the property improved by the public still remains their own. [Interruption.] It certainly does. The property still remains their own, and that is a very moderate way of stating it, because, as I shall show, so far as this Bill is concerned, it is the improved property that still remains their own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-03a.2900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-03", "file": "debates1926-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "563095fb37479123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-03a.2900.1", "colnum": "2900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMEBERS: Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "ns their own. [An HON. MEMBER: \" There are reservations!\"] The reservations amount to nothing whatever as a matter of possession. Hon. Members opposite, in supporting this Bill, are going to try to maintain private ownership at the public expense. That is a good Tory doctrine, and I hope, when they publish to their rural constituents the stories that they are going to tell about this Debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-03a.2900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-03", "file": "debates1926-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "563095fb37479123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-03a.2900.1", "colnum": "2900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "e to be made in connection with that statement, which is a perfectly true statement. The first is this: If the condition of the landed classes—I am not going to use the term now with reference to any of those landlords with outside interests, because I leave them out of account for the purpose of the argument, but I am referring to the landowner, for whom I have a very great affection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-03a.2900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-03", "file": "debates1926-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "563095fb37479123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-03a.2903.4", "colnum": "2903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "here will be much less pressure brought to bear upon housing conditions by the county council than would be the case by the existing housing authority, which is the rural district council. This Bill is brought in at the last quarter of the eleventh hour of the Session. They want something for window-dressing; they want to be able to go into the rural districts, and say \"This is what we are doing.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-03a.2903.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-03", "file": "debates1926-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "563095fb37479123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-03a.2911.0", "colnum": "2911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"So we are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. JONES", "preceding_text": "verybody knows that the landlords have neglected their duty. They have been subsidised by being given a reduction of agricultural rates, and now they are wanting another subsidy. His Master's Voice—Edison Bell Record—decides the issue! They have to pay for the votes they get, and they are paying by this Bill. They say they are going to give better houses to workers in I he rural areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-03a.2911.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-03", "file": "debates1926-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "563095fb37479123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-03a.2961.10", "colnum": "2961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLERGY PENSIONS MEASURE, 1926.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH NALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH NALL", "preceding_text": "reason that, if this Measure is not presented for Royal Assent now, the result will he that some 200 clergy will be prevented from benefiting. I do not want to press the Measure if the House feels that it should not be proceeded with, but I think it would be a great injustice to two or three hundred clergy if, in response to some quite negligible opposition, the House were to hang up this Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-03a.2961.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-08-03", "file": "debates1926-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "563095fb37479123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-03a.2963.1", "colnum": "2963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLERGY PENSIONS MEASURE, 1926.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Yes!", "preceding_speaker": "Major HILLS", "preceding_text": "re many hon. Members listening to me have not read it. I know the Noble Lord opposite and the Noble Lord below me took a very great interest in passing the Act under which this Measure comes before us. Do they think they are doing a good service to the Church Assembly in rushing the House of Commons like this? We do not know anything about the Measure. No explanatory statement has been circulated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-03a.2963.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-04", "file": "debates1926-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "5f7de8b9cfcbafdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-04a.3087.2", "colnum": "3087", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R.RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R.RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": "I will give the terms exactly, in one minute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-04a.3087.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-04", "file": "debates1926-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "5f7de8b9cfcbafdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-04a.3088.1", "colnum": "3088", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "urs basis and on an eight-hours basis, and neither of these offers has been discussed at all, but they have been definitely turned down each time. it is perfectly clear that the miners' leaders want settlement, but they have not the courage to make their own proposals or to suggest one, but they are merely waiting for the men to give a lead. The leaders are waiting for a lead instead of giving it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-04a.3088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-04", "file": "debates1926-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "5f7de8b9cfcbafdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-04a.3088.1", "colnum": "3088", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go to the mining districts and see it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "something about dire distress. I hope that no exaggerated statements will be made on that subject, because my information is—and I say this with all responsibility—from all parts of the country and from perfectly unprejudiced sources, that the alleged starvation about which we have heard so much in this House does not exist. There is no abnormal distress in any way at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-04a.3088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-04", "file": "debates1926-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "5f7de8b9cfcbafdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-04a.3090.1", "colnum": "3090", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ations going on at the present moment among the miners as to whether their leaders should take part in negotiation upon these lines, and he tells the House he does not even know the terms of the reference made to the miners. I should like to know what his Department is doing. Surely they ought to give him information on a thing so vital as this. It is no use quoting speeches delivered by Mr. Cook.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-04a.3090.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-04", "file": "debates1926-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "5f7de8b9cfcbafdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-04a.3090.1", "colnum": "3090", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: Yes! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "c foundations of this industry and of the whole business of the country. The Government that approaches the settlement of a question in that spirit is a hopeless Government. It is a fatuous thing to try and settle upon those lines. Is it subsidy? If it is subsidy, why, the Government themselves have said that they are prepared to give —3,000,000. They have never withdrawn that in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-04a.3090.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-04", "file": "debates1926-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "5f7de8b9cfcbafdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-04a.3090.1", "colnum": "3090", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "owners and men with an independent chairman. Why should it be assumed that an independent chairman will decide to give terms with regard to wages which will be so uneconomic that they will destroy the whole industry? I am deeply sorry that the Government have taken this line. We are separating for a month—I am assuming that, if the stoppage is not over, we shall be back at the end of August.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-04a.3090.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-04", "file": "debates1926-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "5f7de8b9cfcbafdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-04a.3090.1", "colnum": "3090", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "th has ever said it. On the contrary, he has rather indicated that he is quite willing to discuss a reduction of wages. If after reconstruction it leads direct to reduction, he will accept the logical conclusion. He has said so over and over again. But still Mr. Cook, for various reasons, attracted more limelight than Mr. Herbert Smith did, and naturally, because he has greater gifts of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-04a.3090.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-04", "file": "debates1926-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "5f7de8b9cfcbafdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-04a.3090.1", "colnum": "3090", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" A rotten one!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "as done. The fact remains that Mr. Cook and Mr. Herbert Smith, on the documents which they themselves have signed, have gone to the country with proposals which embody not merely what the Churches have recommended but what the Commissioners recommended, and public opinion will judge the dispute in future upon that basis and not upon the basis of the slogan. What position will the Government be in?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-04a.3090.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-30", "file": "debates1926-08-30a.xml", "sha256": "0b1e14b8f5eddf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.12.3", "colnum": "12", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "evel best to prevent disturbances. The man I spoke of just now, the sergeant of police, who has lived in a village or small town and knows the miners, knows practically every one there, time after time has gone to a man and said, \"Now, So-and-So, you and I know one another. Do not let us have a row. Go home and do not make a disturbance.\" In hundreds of cases that intervention has been successful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.12.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-30", "file": "debates1926-08-30a.xml", "sha256": "0b1e14b8f5eddf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.17.1", "colnum": "17", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": " regard to peaceful picketing. There seems to be an idea that peaceful picketing means that a man may do almost anything he likes short of resorting to actual violence. That he may \"peacefully persuade\" is quite clear, but he may go further than peacefully persuade and he may act on the advice of Mr. Cook who, in one of his speeches a short time ago, said that booing is legal. Booing is not legal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.17.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-30", "file": "debates1926-08-30a.xml", "sha256": "0b1e14b8f5eddf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.17.1", "colnum": "17", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "e and he may act on the advice of Mr. Cook who, in one of his speeches a short time ago, said that booing is legal. Booing is not legal. [ Interruption. ] I am going to put the matter so plainly this afternoon that hon. Members opposite and people in the country may make no mistake as to what my views are in regard to this matter. I have not up to the present advised proceedings against any—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.17.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-30", "file": "debates1926-08-30a.xml", "sha256": "0b1e14b8f5eddf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.19.2", "colnum": "19", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENALL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENALL", "preceding_text": "But is it not a fact that magistrates will take more notice of what the Home Secretary says than any other Member of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.19.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-30", "file": "debates1926-08-30a.xml", "sha256": "0b1e14b8f5eddf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.19.4", "colnum": "19", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members will allow me to continue my speech, I will give a perfectly clear statement of what I conceive to be the law in this matter. I cannot for a moment enforce my view on the magistrates—that is quite clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.19.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-30", "file": "debates1926-08-30a.xml", "sha256": "0b1e14b8f5eddf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.21.4", "colnum": "21", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are a lawyer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "I am quoting from the Circular laid before the House in December last, which was submitted to the Law Officers of the Crown, and they may be presumed to know the law. I am not a lawyer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.21.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-30", "file": "debates1926-08-30a.xml", "sha256": "0b1e14b8f5eddf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.21.4", "colnum": "21", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "picketing. Further than that I want to consider the question not merely of those unfortunate people who have come up against the police during the last few months and who have been sentenced to various terms of imprisonment for various degrees of violence or intimidation. There is really something worse than that. There is the man who makes the speeches which lead to that violence or intimidation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.21.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-30", "file": "debates1926-08-30a.xml", "sha256": "0b1e14b8f5eddf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "'s speech. This is what he said, speaking about the so-called blacklegs, men who desire to work—and, after all, I stand at this Box to say that while a man has a right to withhold his work and to say: \"I will not work except on satisfactory terms and at satisfactory wages,\" he has no right whatever to attempt to compel anybody else or to dictate to anybody else upon what terms he shall work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-30", "file": "debates1926-08-30a.xml", "sha256": "0b1e14b8f5eddf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "a glass of beer without the fear of someone demanding their right to speak and recalling their present action. He went on to say: At Sutton Manor 12 to 15 wagons were filled on Monday last and again since, without any attempt at concealment. If anything can be calculated to incite men, that is. Men have a right to fill wagons if they like, and they have a perfect right in this country to hew coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-30", "file": "debates1926-08-30a.xml", "sha256": "0b1e14b8f5eddf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"As you did\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "the hon. Member said: If there is any real work to be done, leave it to men like myself. You might do something and be taken, while the authorities would be very much afraid of taking me, for instance, as a Member of Parliament. The hon. Member for Leigh seems to think that he is to be allowed to say things which other men are not allowed to say, that he may incite other men to intimidation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.23.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-30", "file": "debates1926-08-30a.xml", "sha256": "0b1e14b8f5eddf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.26.5", "colnum": "26", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"That is true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "ouble rather than make trouble. There may be one or two cases which we may have to discuss—I hope in a friendly manner—but the great bulk, as I say, do their duty admirably. This is what Mr. Cook said with regard to them: Policemen must remember that their friends the Tories will not he in power much longer. We are having a Labour Government next. Oh, yes, there is no mistake about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.26.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-30", "file": "debates1926-08-30a.xml", "sha256": "0b1e14b8f5eddf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.28.4", "colnum": "28", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With no thanks to you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "l to those responsible. I should like to make an appeal to Mr. Cook himself, to those on that side of the House, and to the leaders of the miners generally not to embitter the situation by making speeches of this kind. [ Interruption. ] I say to hon. Members, even if they feel they would like to make such speeches: \"Do not embitter the situation.\" We have got on without bitterness for four months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.28.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-30", "file": "debates1926-08-30a.xml", "sha256": "0b1e14b8f5eddf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.47.2", "colnum": "47", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": " wagonettes and chars-a-bane. While the meeting was in progress, and while I was speaking against the winding of coal—because that is something we did not agree with—the pulleys go round and some of the blacklegs show themselves right in the face of the crowd. A number of the crowd turned round ready to rush on to the premises. If that was not a direct incitement then nothing could be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.47.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-30", "file": "debates1926-08-30a.xml", "sha256": "0b1e14b8f5eddf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On very fair terms\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "supply of fuel, and he hurled all his points against the men. I wonder what he thinks about that Noble Lord who owns one of the Cheshire mines, who is so regardful of the interest of his country, and who, I suppose, has his mine worked so that fuel may be supplied for domestic and industrial purposes, and yet last week threatened to close the mine unless the men returned to work on his conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.61.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-30", "file": "debates1926-08-30a.xml", "sha256": "0b1e14b8f5eddf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.92.0", "colnum": "92", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "he power, as Secretary of State, to allow or permit any police constable to seize any part of a printing plant, or any part of the property of a registered newspaper, and dispose of that property in such manner as he may determine, without being under the compulsion of seeking the approval of a Law Court for his action? I ask this question because I happen to have been an unfortunate victim—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.92.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-30", "file": "debates1926-08-30a.xml", "sha256": "0b1e14b8f5eddf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about miners?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SLESSER", "preceding_text": "e coalowner can sit to hear many of these cases, although not directly affected and susceptible of bias in the common-law, technical sense of the word. It is much more satisfactory, I submit, that it should be declared by Parliament in terms that no coalowner, shareholder or person having any pecuniary interest in the coal trade, should have anything to do with this business from beginning to end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-30", "file": "debates1926-08-30a.xml", "sha256": "0b1e14b8f5eddf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.101.1", "colnum": "101", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A shareholder!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "What does indirectly mean?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-30", "file": "debates1926-08-30a.xml", "sha256": "0b1e14b8f5eddf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": " an agreement by them- selves. He is enjoying himself on the Continent and not troubling a little bit about the millions of miners with their wives and children who are suffering from starvation. The adoption of this Regulation is the only way out. There is no sign of the coalowners and the miners being able to come to an agreement, and only way out now is for the Government to take over the pits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-30", "file": "debates1926-08-30a.xml", "sha256": "0b1e14b8f5eddf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.121.2", "colnum": "121", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the train story?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "The narrative is a tale; what I was telling is the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-30a.121.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.141.5", "colnum": "141", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "and that this Motion, and one which is to follow, are preliminary to business to-day. We do not wish to take up time in discussing them, but with reference to this Motion, against which we shall have to divide, why is it that the Government are so anxious to rise at five o'clock to-day? Surely the Government mean the sitting to be useful, and if contributions of a helpful character are being made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.141.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.141.5", "colnum": "141", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To catch trains!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "aced as we are now with the trouble that the country is going through, we might try to prove that this House is desirous of using every means in its power to put an end to the present deplorable condition and to get trade resumed. Why should the Government propose a purely artificial termination to our sitting to-day? If the Debate is going on then, why should hon. Members adjourn at five o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.141.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.141.5", "colnum": "141", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "he Government propose a purely artificial termination to our sitting to-day? If the Debate is going on then, why should hon. Members adjourn at five o'clock. [HON. MEMBERS: \"To catch trains!\"] That is all right. Now we understand. Hon. Members opposite will not sit here to do the work of the nation. I should never have ventured to suggest that myself, but as hon. Members have done it for me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.141.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.159.2", "colnum": "159", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Report.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "'s\" of what had happened there before, but puts a specially big dot on the \"i,\" and a specially thick stroke on the \"t,\" then hon. Members opposite will excuse me when I say that municipal elections at the present time and in the present circumstances do indi- cate that the nation is thoroughly tired of, and completely opposed to, the Government. The owners said, \"We must have reductions in wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.159.2", "colnum": "159", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": ", said \"Give us eight hours now.\" The Government said, \"We will,\" and they did it. Then the question of district agreements came up. Even upon that the Government could not speak with a united voice. The First Lord of the Admiralty has made a speech on his own responsibility. We all know of Cabinet Ministers and Ministers who wander out at week-ends and, speaking on their own responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where can you get it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " the House what the actual position is to-day? Negotiations are now proceeding, and let us see what is exactly the situation. I do not know if hon. Members have got a copy of the minutes of the proceedings of the conference held between the miners and the owners, but I would strongly recommend hon. Members to become possessed of a copy of this verbatim report of what took place at that conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not verbatim!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "a copy of the minutes of the proceedings of the conference held between the miners and the owners, but I would strongly recommend hon. Members to become possessed of a copy of this verbatim report of what took place at that conference. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Where can you get it?\"] I do not know, but I got my copy from the Miners' Federation, and I think it has already been published in the newspapers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.168.9", "colnum": "168", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "By no agreement with the men. There is no suggestion of agreement here. ( Interruption. ] If it be a laugh that hon. Members are out for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.168.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.168.11", "colnum": "168", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fourteenth!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "s away? I do not believe it for a moment. I think it is quite possible, after this position on the part of the owners, that the Government might get the two sides together again. How long ago is it since we told them, and since they agreed with us, that we will get no solution of this matter by leaving the two sides alone? The Prime Minister said so from that Box at the beginning, on the 11th May.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.168.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.171.0", "colnum": "171", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell us where!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland)", "preceding_text": " of industrial peace will be helped by further debates initiated in the way in which the right hon. Gentleman has initiated this one. Wanting, as I do want most earnestly, an early settlement of this great dispute, I would say that the more we are saved from the kind of remarks which have characterised a large part of the right hon. Gentleman's speech, the more we might hope for such a settlement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.171.0", "colnum": "171", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland)", "preceding_text": " I will tell him. The right hon. Gentleman has opened up the whole question of this dispute; has gone over again the whole grounds of quarrel, and has proceeded to talk about them in the same strain without really producing anything new. He has made the same statements which the facts themselves have since disproved. He proceeds again to attack the Government for having passed the Eight Hours Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.171.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Blacklegs!", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland)", "preceding_text": "he other. It is very easy to say, as he does, that one party has shown that it is going to impose it, and to take up the attitude that, therefore, the case is proved. What do the facts show—and, after all, what we have to come down to are the hard facts? What do the facts show? There has been one considerable district offer, and on what basis has it been? It has been on a 7½-hour basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.173.0", "colnum": "173", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "as the Act passed recently. The Act would be needed for the purpose of that elasticity which is referred to on page 175 of the Report. I say to the right hon. Gentleman that the facts themselves are the strongest judge of the situation, and up to the present everything that has passed has shown that every syllable of the Prime Minister's statement that this was a permissive Act has been justified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.173.0", "colnum": "173", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "statement that this was a permissive Act has been justified. [ Interruption. ] I have not quarrelled with the statement that has been quoted by the right hon. Gentleman, and I have not repudiated it. But I want to say again that, with this dispute going on, and with no step forward being made by the one side, it may naturally be that opportunities which otherwise might have been possible may pass.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.173.0", "colnum": "173", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Another threat!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "ve not repudiated it. But I want to say again that, with this dispute going on, and with no step forward being made by the one side, it may naturally be that opportunities which otherwise might have been possible may pass. [ Interruption. ] Opportunities open to the Miners' Federation may pass from them if they continue, as they have continued up to the present, to persist in their rigid attitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.173.0", "colnum": "173", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "been possible may pass. [ Interruption. ] Opportunities open to the Miners' Federation may pass from them if they continue, as they have continued up to the present, to persist in their rigid attitude. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Another threat!\"] The right hon. Gentleman has accused the Government of not bringing the parties together. I do not know if the right hon. Gentleman meant that observation for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.173.0", "colnum": "173", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "at with them continuously in the first instance. We have met them separately and put all the considerations before them. We did everything that it was possible to do, by means of constant conferences, to produce a settlement. We have always been open to see either side or both sides, and we have been willing to open negotiations as soon as it seemed that there was any possible use in our doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.174.3", "colnum": "174", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "I have read all the proceedings. I am no advocate for the owners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.174.3", "colnum": "174", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"His master's voice!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "I have read all the proceedings. I am no advocate for the owners. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"!] The hon. Gentleman is repeating what I thought was the not very worthy insinuation of his Leader at the beginning of the Debate, that we have been a committee to do the owners' will. Whatever we have done we have done on our own judgment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.174.3", "colnum": "174", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "done on our own judgment. [An HON. MEMBER: \"His master's voice!\"] The right hon. Gentleman knows quite well in his heart that nothing of the kind has been the case. We brought in an Eight Hours Bill because we thought it was right. When we found a change of percentage which we did not think was justified, we went to the owners and said to them, \"This has to be changed,\" and we should say so again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.174.3", "colnum": "174", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. STEEL-MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "d has been the case. We brought in an Eight Hours Bill because we thought it was right. When we found a change of percentage which we did not think was justified, we went to the owners and said to them, \"This has to be changed,\" and we should say so again. [ Interruption. ] We were able to say what we thought with perfect impartiality to either side, and hon. Members opposite know that quite well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.198.0", "colnum": "198", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " in the districts, in the future. They have actually gone back, and that is one of the things that is making the miners feel that the Government are not quite holding the balance between the two parties. If I may say so to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his speech at Swansea he complained of the action of the miners. I think he could have used exactly the same terms with regard to the owners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.198.0", "colnum": "198", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "sm exactly could be equally directed against the mineowners. Take these two—and I think perhaps I had better confine myself to the discussions between the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer and his colleagues and the mining leaders. There was no real negotiation. They were firing negatives at each other. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was more concerned to say he was not going to give a subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.198.0", "colnum": "198", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "at delusion. I think it would be a fatal error, even if there was a collapse. It is very difficult to make a peace which is imposed under those conditions a just peace. Anybody who has known anything about negotiating peace when there has been a complete defeat of the enemy knows how very difficult it is to negotiate an absolutely tolerant and indulgent peace that will last under those conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are an optimist.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " challenge the wisdom of excluding a resort to a subsidy as a solution of the difficulty. Then there is the question of reconstruction or reorganisation to which my right hon. Friend significantly referred. I am sincerely under the impression that the Act of Parliament which we passed last Session is a real and definite means of procuring the reconstruction and reorganisation of the coal industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "oned in public. Then there is the question of hours, on which, of course, there is a complete deadlock. I am not, you will see, arguing unfairly. It is, of course, open to the Opposition to say that the Government's Eight Hours Bill has been the cause of prolonging the dispute. For our part, we believe that the dispute would have lasted till now, whether there had been any Eight Hours Bill or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "nd is largely a controversy of form, between these two points of view. Notice must be taken of all the local conditions, and there ought to be a national survey of the whole of that process afterwards, and a national settlement within the ambit of which district conditions have been properly considered and district arrangements are properly embodied. I cannot see why that should be irreconcilable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ict arrangements are properly embodied. I cannot see why that should be irreconcilable. [ Interruption. ] We have Acts of Parliament which contain many Clauses, and the Schedules of which deal now with this and now with that, but the Act as a whole is the Act of Parliament. The Schedules may apply to different parts of the country, but it is absurd that there should be a difference in that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ome change or alteration in the situation. I still hope that the delegate conference next Thursday may be productive of some change. But there really is absolutely nothing that anyone has a right to build upon up to this present moment. The Leader of the Opposition said, in the more controversial portion of his speech, that the Government were a loyal and efficient sub-committee of the mineowners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Prove it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " But there really is absolutely nothing that anyone has a right to build upon up to this present moment. The Leader of the Opposition said, in the more controversial portion of his speech, that the Government were a loyal and efficient sub-committee of the mineowners. [ Interruption. ] I know that hon. Gentlemen will pardon me if, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, I say that that is not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "argument, and no influence except that which should be exerted through the legitimate status of one of the parties to a great dispute, has weighed in the least with the Government. Is it suggested that political influences are in the way? What is the political value of these gentlemen's support? Right or wrong, we are strong enough to judge entirely independently of any consideration of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wait till your chief comes back!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "tical value of these gentlemen's support? Right or wrong, we are strong enough to judge entirely independently of any consideration of that kind. [ Interruption. ] Let the Leader of the Opposition when he has the power, let the miners' leaders arm us with the weapons of economic truth, and we will see who in the name of procedure or formality presumes to stand in the path of a peaceful settlement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Starvation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " did not produce any good results. There is always the danger which we have to consider, although I do not expect to carry hon. Gentlemen with me on it, that starting a conference like this, which may be very short and disagreeable, which may be empty and futile, might have the effect of delaying the hard natural processes which all the time are going forward. We must take that into consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.213.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-08-31", "file": "debates1926-08-31a.xml", "sha256": "1d0c90b1ccb1cfc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.239.0", "colnum": "239", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "to decrease production in this country by 15 per cent. How any hon. Member can square that official statement of the Chairman of the Fuel Committee—the man whom the Government have entrusted with the job of reorganising the coal industry—with the considered policy of the Government, I, for the life of me, do not understand, and I do not know anyone else who even pretends to understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-08-31a.239.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.255.0", "colnum": "255", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (GOVERNMENT BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is the Order Paper\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "t, upon what subjects I would like to get a statement from them, or what I should like to discuss in the Autumn Session. It is too remote, but I think he ought to have been a little more candid with us and told us what he wants to discuss in the Autumn Session. It is not usual for the Government to get a blank cheque in this way. I was not able to take down his words exactly, but I observed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.255.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.269.4", "colnum": "269", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "A discussion this afternoon upon the present situation of the mining dispute cannot, I think, be better opened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.269.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.269.4", "colnum": "269", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "oney was thrown away. Whether the judgment of posterity will be that it was thrown away or not I cannot tell that depends on the course of future events which are at present hidden from us. For myself even now I am impenitent. I believe it was the right thing at that time, and I shall never regret it. The struggle was averted, and time was given to think, but there was not very much thinking done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.269.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.269.4", "colnum": "269", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "his Debate, how, by legislation, you can make parties agree. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Eight hours!\"] We had no power to make the miners appear before the Macmillan Inquiry. You may pass legislation, but, as has often been said in this House, there is nothing that Parliament can do which can effect either of two very important things: You cannot make an owner open his pit, and you cannot make a man go down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.269.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "the possible outcome of such a conference than was really justified. When I heard of it first of all, judging by the correspondence I had from London, I had high hopes that at last a real forward step had been taken. But no one, I think, felt that disappointment more than my right hon. Friend, who had worked with such zeal and such hope to that end. The moment I returned I saw both owners and men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "y way the matter of hours. The difficulty of hours, at this late date, is two-fold. There is the original difficulty which I put before the House, and that is my own conviction that some fields cannot work at seven hours on any wage which can be paid; and the second is that many agreements have already in fact been made, and are working, in parts of the country, on terms where hours are concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "akes a very real difficulty. Another difficulty is that an important thing, if possible, is to get the whole field resuming work. I do not think it would be possible to get pits opened unless those who opened them knew what terms they would have to pay, the reason being, of course, a very simple one. Except for a few very wealthy people here and there, the losses of the trade have been very heavy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On starvation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ility in the hours considered. In those circumstances, we have got pretty well to the end of our powers of mediation. We have tried. It may be that the dialectical skill of the Leader of the Liberal party would have succeeded where we failed. I say that perfectly seriously, although I think we want a settlement built on something more firm even than that which can be achieved by dialectical skill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are responsible!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "might have effected a settlement where we have failed. But our efforts have failed, and, although our last proposal has been rejected the Government are perfectly willing that it should stand for a short time yet. I would, however, make this observation in conclusion. We have been, and we are, passing through an extraordinarily difficult time, a time that is straining the resources of our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And on the miners!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "t to estimate. The longer the stoppage, the deeper do the rates get involved in debt, and that in the districts which depend primarily on industry. So that, in addition to the debts owing by individuals, by trade unions, by firms, there is also that blind and unknown pressure of debt hanging over the community, in the way of increased rates, which bears on every industry and on all railways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ys—[An HON. MEMBER: \"And on the miners!\"]—exactly; and that remains as a dead weight on industry, on profits, on wages. That is a thing that men do not sufficiently realise, and it is only one more proof, as the whole of these 21 weeks are proving, where the men have practically come to-day to a point at which, had they reached it at the beginning, we could have had a settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.278.0", "colnum": "278", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "and in the way of the negotiations, by sticking at it wherever obstacles appeared, whatever difficulties there were, never falling back on the old mistake that the Government has repeated almost every day since this trouble started of dropping things when they came to a difficulty and then writing letters and presenting ultimatums, but insisting upon personal interviews, insisting upon talk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.278.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.287.2", "colnum": "287", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That gives the lie to Cook!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "he statement is this: A reduction in labour costs. That expression has evidently been very carefully chosen because it is what, to use a homely term, I might call a portmanteau expression, it covers everything, it is chosen because it covers everything. It covers wages, it covers hours, it covers reorganisation, and it was chosen deliberately. That statement of the Chancellor's was perfectly true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.287.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.291.0", "colnum": "291", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "The Miners' Federation, who were not there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "hat it had been sent, and as a matter of fact I do not read the letter in the same way as the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George). I want to put myself perfectly clear with the House of Commons. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer had said, in reply to my question, that he did do it; if he had said \"Yes, that was an invitation, and T meant it to be such\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.294.3", "colnum": "294", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The miners!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "mplating this devastating struggle going on from week to week, and nobody knows when it is going to end, although an honourable settlement has been offered. Is it not the best plan to allow the Chancellor of the Exchequer to get along with the negotiations which he began? Why are we rejecting an offer which four or five months ago would have been an honourable settlement? Whose fault is it?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.294.3", "colnum": "294", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nothing!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ectly clear that, in his judgment, the mineowners as well had behaved with great stupidity, with lack of knowledge, and with great rudeness to the Government of the kingdom. In those circumstances is it not possible that we could resume—that we should get back to the position in which we were on 28th August when there was a real hope that something would happen What have the miners offered I", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.294.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.299.2", "colnum": "299", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "That is a very fair question. I have said already that there is a gigantic difficulty in the way. You cannot obviously prosecute 1,000,000 men, and that is one of the difficulties which confronts everyone who has to discuss compulsory arbitration. But there are other methods of dealing with that difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.299.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.299.2", "colnum": "299", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the shareholders?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "s compulsory arbitration. But there are other methods of dealing with that difficulty. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What are they?\"] There are, no doubt, other ways of dealing with that question. May I point this out? There is this difference between the two parties, the owners of great works can go on indefinitely without suffering privation or destitution. If the struggle were to go on for 12 months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.299.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "I really do not think the Chancellor of the Exchequer is behaving with his usual candour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Eight Hours Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "otiations that we never made any promise to the Miners' Federation and their representatives that they could attain what they wished, or that we could procure the conference for which they asked, or the national settlement which they desired. We never could promise them a National Agreement. How could we? It was not in our power. It is not in the power of Parliament to secure a National Agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "hat we could procure the conference for which they asked, or the national settlement which they desired. We never could promise them a National Agreement. How could we? It was not in our power. It is not in the power of Parliament to secure a National Agreement. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Eight Hours Bill?\"] Parliament can compel people to obey or to submit, but it cannot compel them to agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"That is the point!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "d the third was that at a later stage the district agreements should be referred to a central and national body in order that any discrepancies, short-comings or incoherences in those agreements—and, after all, when you have 24 different districts the agreements must be reviewed at the centre in order that there may be some co-ordinating machinery to relate one district agreement to another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "repancies, short-comings or incoherences in those agreements—and, after all, when you have 24 different districts the agreements must be reviewed at the centre in order that there may be some co-ordinating machinery to relate one district agreement to another. [HON MEMBERS: \"That is the point!\"] That was our proposal. His Majesty's Government have not gone back in the least on that proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We always said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "time we had reason to know—and I am not saying anything which could be said to be a breach of private confidence or of confidential negotiations—that the Miners' Federation themselves, while adhering most strongly to the principle of a national minimum percentage, were prepared to consider variations of that percentage to meet the cases of districts where peculiar conditions prevailed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.316.5", "colnum": "316", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "e time I think it is a very serious thing for any body of citizens to show so little respect for the lawfully constituted authorities of the country as not to accept their considered guidance and earnest invitation in a matter of this kind, while reserving their full liberty not to agree to anything put before them which they thought was detrimental to their own interests. I will leave it at that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.316.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.331.3", "colnum": "331", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEANS", "preceding_text": "htful—I was going to use the word \"sane\"—body of men, considering the best interests of the miners, considering the desires which the miners' leaders have expressed themselves as out to obtain, should refuse this offer, getting district settlements and then referring them—if you like the whole lot of them—to the tribunal. I think they are acting against their own interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.331.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-27", "file": "debates1926-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "3b1e47e35604898b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.343.0", "colnum": "343", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir CHARLES WILSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is a British subject!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir CHARLES WILSON", "preceding_text": "It is perfectly clear what a small section of this House would like to see brought about in this country, and it is because of the speech of the hon. Member for North Battersea, (Mr. Saklatvala) that I have risen. The hon. Member enjoys the hospitality of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-27a.343.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-28", "file": "debates1926-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b4363929737c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT. 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)", "preceding_text": "he said Act. This is the sixth time, I think, that I have moved this Resolution to confirm the Regulations made under the Emergency Powers Act, 1920. On the last occasion when I submitted this Resolution to the House I was accused of having made too lengthy a speech, and I am sure it will be for the convenience of the House that I should not speak so long this time. I do not think it is necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-28", "file": "debates1926-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b4363929737c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT. 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)", "preceding_text": "12;and for that opinion we are responsible—that a condition of emergency has arisen, and when such a condition arises it is the duty of the Government to put such Regulations as they see fit into force, subject only to the assent of the House of Commons. We have from month to month put these Regulations in force and they have from month to month received the approval of the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-28", "file": "debates1926-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b4363929737c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT. 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)", "preceding_text": "ve from month to month received the approval of the House of Commons. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"] At any rate they have been passed by the House of Commons and a majority of hon. Members have expressed their approval. In a House of Commons constituted like the present one very few things could be unanimously passed. I do not intend to repeat the observations which I have made before on this subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-28", "file": "debates1926-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b4363929737c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.413.0", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT. 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "ld make on those cases. First of all, the Home Secretary admits that, of the 309, no fewer than 212 are for sedition. He knows as well as I do that sedition is a thing that is undefinable—that anyone getting up in a temper may utter a few sentences which have no effect at all upon anybody, the worst effect that they have being upon himself, and he regrets them as soon as he has uttered them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-28", "file": "debates1926-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b4363929737c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.413.0", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT. 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Twenty-one!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "men have to be got together and when the conduct of a dispute has to be seen to, if he liked to apply that Regulation, instead of 212 cases, he could have had 2,212 cases during the last month; and when he had them there would not be a single case that a man of common sense would think of handing over to the police. That is the situation—309 cases, of which 212 are under Regulation 33—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-28", "file": "debates1926-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b4363929737c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT. 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "to the hands of magistrates who exhibit such bias? Who are the Ministers who are claiming these powers? There is the Under-Secretary of State. I take him first. He is of the opinion that the people of this country have a selection. They can either be loyal to the King and Constitution, or loyal to the Red International, but if they are loyal to the King and Constitution they must be Conservatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-28", "file": "debates1926-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b4363929737c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT. 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "on. Members question that, let me give a quotation: Captain Hacking, M.P., and Two Loyalties. A person whose loyalty to King and Country and Parliament in which the country had grown great, and through which we had evolved to our present structure. That was loyalty to the Conservative party. The other loyalty was the loyalty to the Red International. What are unhappy individuals like myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-28", "file": "debates1926-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b4363929737c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.420.1", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT. 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Author!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": " with free speech should listen to this poem. I am not good at reading poetry, but I should like to read this. These are the words published by and with the authority of His Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Home Office: Jix the boy for work, Jix the boy for play. Notice the cumulative literary effect of the repetition of the word, Jix the lad when times are bad To keep the reds away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-28", "file": "debates1926-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b4363929737c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.445.0", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT. 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STORRY DEANS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not a strike.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STORRY DEANS", "preceding_text": "ergency Regulations, which are a departure from the common law of the land, that the House should fully consider them. Therefore, I make no apology for intervening in the Debate. I am as jealous as the ex-Solicitor-General for the Common Law of this country; it is the citadel of our liberty. But no one sitting on the benches opposite can deny that a strike of great magnitude is an emergency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-28", "file": "debates1926-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b4363929737c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.453.1", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT. 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Chars-a-bane?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAKLATVALA", "preceding_text": "herefore, avoided the five miles' radius. The other method adopted was this: The authorities had a notice of the particular meeting and the procession a few days before. But the police did not give us five minutes to inform the public that the meeting was cancelled. They simply rushed the people hither and thither, and sent out of the area even the chars-a-bane in which some of the people arrived.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.453.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-28", "file": "debates1926-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b4363929737c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.464.4", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT. 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "hould Dome and put their case before me, as they are entitled to do. But in all these cases, with the exception, I think, of one, with regard to which a statement was made in this House a few months ago by the hon. Member for Doncaster or one of his colleagues, in which a complaint was made about a certain justice, no case at all has ever been made that there was unfairness in regard to the trial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.464.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-28", "file": "debates1926-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b4363929737c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.467.4", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT. 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENCER", "preceding_text": "t commenced a little tin-panning and so on, but he was not touched, and it was more fun than anything else. [ Interruption .] If hon. Members will listen to the case, they will be able to exercise their judgment upon it. What I want is justice on all sides. If a man wants to go to work, although I do not like to see him go as a blackleg, I have no hesitation in saying that he has a right to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.467.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-28", "file": "debates1926-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b4363929737c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT. 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHNSTON", "preceding_text": "of the law. If another kind of Home Secretary sat there, a Home Secretary perhaps selected by the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, I do not know what might happen, but I do not think that anybody would be so insane as to use this Regulation. This Regulation could be so used as to destroy any criticism of the Administration of the day. Under this Regulation you destroy the freedom of the Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.477.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-28", "file": "debates1926-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b4363929737c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.499.3", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT. 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At £4 a ton!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "evious occasion somebody interrupted me when I was speaking, and suggested that nothing had been done by this Regulation. I should like to say that the country really does not realise what it owes to the immense amount of hard and constant work which is being done by Committees all over the country in the regulating of supplies which it is being found possible to distribute throughout the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.499.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-28", "file": "debates1926-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b4363929737c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.511.3", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARTSHORN", "preceding_text": "h another month, and we shall find ourselves here a month hence discussing the matter in the same way as we have for the last five months. I hope I shall be expressing the sentiments of every Member in this House, regardless of the party to which he belongs, when I say that we ought not to allow Parliament to adjourn without, at least, making a special effort to bring this great dispute to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.511.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-28", "file": "debates1926-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b4363929737c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.524.0", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "e proposals did not form the basis of a settlement, because a settlement has to be made between two parties, and the reasons why the Government considered that they did not afford a basis for settlement were given yesterday both by myself and by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. We considered both from such arguments as we were able to use ourselves, and also after consultation with the coalowners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.524.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-28", "file": "debates1926-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b4363929737c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.524.0", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the eight hours?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "ons why the Government considered that they did not afford a basis for settlement were given yesterday both by myself and by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. We considered both from such arguments as we were able to use ourselves, and also after consultation with the coalowners. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Well, any proposals from the one side to a mediator must be brought before the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.524.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-28", "file": "debates1926-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b4363929737c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.524.0", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "il he knew what would be the terms which would Obtain for some little time, so that he might he able to make his sales and his contracts. Another practical difficulty in the way of looking on these proposals as a basis of a settlement is that when my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Leader of the Labour party had those discussions which we all hoped would bear fruit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.524.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-28", "file": "debates1926-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b4363929737c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You took it for the owners!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " default of a national agreement, and until such time as a national agreement was arrived at, to set up and make function an appeal tribunal. It would operate where either party was dissatisfied with the wages at which work had been resumed. A resumption of work on agreements to be made must be, in our view, a precedent to legislation. Legislation is a serious step to take in matters of this kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-28", "file": "debates1926-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b4363929737c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cut it off now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " was made in 1924 by stabilising, in a moment of better trade, a wage which cannot be held in normal times, and which would have, in such a. settlement, the seeds of future trouble. The Government, of course, cannot tell what will be the ultimate reception of the offer which they made, and which, I believe, the miners still have before them. We said that that offer could only be held a short time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-28", "file": "debates1926-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b4363929737c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.529.0", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not till Christmas!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "ns down that offer upon the strength of the speeches that have hitherto been made in regard to it. If it is a bad proposal then all I can say is that that condition of the proposal has not been demonstrated from the benches opposite. I again urge the Government not to throw out an offer like this which means an essential surrender. You may have an end of the dispute in a short time by breaks away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.529.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-28", "file": "debates1926-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b4363929737c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.534.0", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "e speeches which have been delivered from the, benches of the official Opposition. What do they amount to? They are simply a reiteration of the proposals which were made last week, after midnight, by the Miners' Federation to the Government, and which, at the very first glance, we stated afforded not the slightest prospect of a termination of the stoppage. We gave perfectly clear reasons for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.534.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-28", "file": "debates1926-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b4363929737c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.534.0", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the eight hours?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": ". If anyone imagines, at this stage in this business—and, surely, we ought to be looking at the verities of the case now—if anyone imagines at this stage that this business is going to be settled on that basis, they must be living in a world of the wildest absurdity. There is not the slightest chance of an immediate resumption of work on a temporary basis of a universal seven-hour day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.534.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-09-28", "file": "debates1926-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "5a3b4363929737c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.534.0", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You passed the Eight Hours Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "ome forward from the other side, should legislate, should use the power of Parliament, and should pass Acts of Parliament so that these proposals may be put into statutory form. That is a tremendous thing to ask. Those proposals can have no validity unless they are clothed in a Statute or agreed to by the owners. That is what you are asking us to do, to clothe those proposals with the form of law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-09-28a.534.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-25", "file": "debates1926-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "75d36e837625f329", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.561.1", "colnum": "561", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir ARTHUR HOLBROOK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir ARTHUR HOLBROOK", "preceding_text": " on the 12th October last. When addressing a meeting of Good Templars he made these remarks: I have seen many Members drunk in the House of Commons, and I am sorry to say no party is exempt. Then, later on, when he was interviewed on this question, he said that the allegation he had made in his speech was quite true, particularly on the Conservative side, because there more Members were concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-25", "file": "debates1926-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "75d36e837625f329", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.561.1", "colnum": "561", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir ARTHUR HOLBROOK", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir ARTHUR HOLBROOK", "preceding_text": "les of the House as regards breach of its privileges. It is laid down that any reflection upon a Member constitutes a breach of privilege, and it is also laid down that insults to Members constitute a breach of privilege. Surely, a statement of this character is calculated to do irreparable damage to this honourable House, and those of us who are here to maintain the dignity of our position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.561.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-25", "file": "debates1926-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "75d36e837625f329", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.569.2", "colnum": "569", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At jolly good pay.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": " concessions, and a wish for honourable settlement. So far as I can estimate the situation it is this: That while there is a mood for and evidence of a wish for accommodation, there is no evidence of surrender on the miners' part. It is true that in the past month or two some thousands of men have gone back to the pits, or, perhaps I should say, have been driven back by the pressure of starvation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.569.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-25", "file": "debates1926-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "75d36e837625f329", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.584.0", "colnum": "584", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Gentleman. I very rarely indulge in abusive epithets, and when I used the word \"stupidity\" I meant what I said. I have never yet in public or in private uttered any sharper criticism of the negotiators on the other side. But he asked me to be fair to both sides, and I do think, after long experience, that the leadership of the Federation during these months has been lamentably incompetent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-25", "file": "debates1926-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "75d36e837625f329", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.584.0", "colnum": "584", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Try it now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "t I said. I have never yet in public or in private uttered any sharper criticism of the negotiators on the other side. But he asked me to be fair to both sides, and I do think, after long experience, that the leadership of the Federation during these months has been lamentably incompetent. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about you?\"] My competence or incompetence will be tried by the country in due course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-25", "file": "debates1926-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "75d36e837625f329", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.596.0", "colnum": "596", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do you buy their coal?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "nd on them, as he did when the mining subsidy was given. The question is an economic question and not a political question at all. It is not capable of being solved by any Government. No Government can force foreign countries that used to buy our coal to buy it again, and unless they are willing to come into our markets and buy our coal, it is a sheer waste of time for the Government to interfere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.596.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-25", "file": "debates1926-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "75d36e837625f329", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.596.0", "colnum": "596", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why don't they do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "ve been in the mines all their lives, and their fathers before before them, for generations, regard them as interlopers and as foreigners. The old miners would far rather have no negotiated settlement, but would prefer to be free to act on their own initiative and work under district settlements with their employers, than have a negotiated settlement which would leave these other men in the mines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.596.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-25", "file": "debates1926-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "75d36e837625f329", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.596.0", "colnum": "596", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The miners?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "ally in a great many parts, and they will do it further, as long as hopes are not held out that some foolish action, instigated by the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs, will be taken, or that the Government will be rash enough again to dip their hands deeply into the taxpayers' pockets. The miners have had something like £50,000,000 out of the National Exchequer in the last few years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.596.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-25", "file": "debates1926-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "75d36e837625f329", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.596.0", "colnum": "596", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are you advocating that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "he country, in deliberately giving large sums in outdoor relief to the families of men who are refusing to work when occupation is open to them, when a job is offered, is being exceedingly generous to the workers, and if equal treatment had been given to the mineowners, it would have made up a substantial portion of the mine incomes out of the rates. It has been entirely favourable to the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.596.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-25", "file": "debates1926-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "75d36e837625f329", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.605.0", "colnum": "605", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Major ROPNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The coalowners!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major ROPNER", "preceding_text": "ner that he must open his pits. Universal industrial conscription may be the logical outcome of State Socialism, but the Conservative party, supporting, as it always has done, individual liberty, could not force the miner to work if he desires to withdraw his labour, and we could not force a mineowner to open his pits under uneconomic conditions. Who is to blame for the continuance of the dispute?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-25", "file": "debates1926-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "75d36e837625f329", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.613.0", "colnum": "613", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PENNY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You want to know if he is as bad as you were?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PENNY", "preceding_text": "ause I have been told that he is paid a very considerable sum whenever he does so. When I was in business, and had to deal with large funds, I retained a brokerage for my work, and I am wondering whether Mr. Cook is getting any consideration for the administration of the Russian money which is extracted from the poor Russian miners who are working under far worse conditions than our men over here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-25", "file": "debates1926-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "75d36e837625f329", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.617.3", "colnum": "617", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "No, because every intelligent reader of the newspapers knows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.617.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-25", "file": "debates1926-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "75d36e837625f329", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.639.5", "colnum": "639", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have already done it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "n I was moving the Emergency Regulations I pointed out that it is a little difficult to justify the non-prosecution of Mr. Cook while men in a lesser position have been prosecuted. On the other hand, I have had to realise that he is the admitted leader of a large body of men. A heavy responsibility would rest on me if I were to take away from the Miners' Federation the leader in whom they believe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.639.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-25", "file": "debates1926-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "75d36e837625f329", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.640.1", "colnum": "640", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander ASTBURY", "preceding_text": "Before the Home Secretary replies to that question, will he find out from whom this great demand comes and whether it is not from a few of the scallywags there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-25", "file": "debates1926-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "75d36e837625f329", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.666.1", "colnum": "666", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain STREATFEILD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Because you never worked!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain STREATFEILD", "preceding_text": "possible, but at the present moment I cannot see how the industry can carry the weight of the wages under the 1924 agreement. I only wish it could. Nobody would like to see it more than I. There were originally two alternatives, either a reduction of wages or an increase of hours. I, personally, if I were still working in a colliery, would rather work longer hours than suffer a reduction of wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-25", "file": "debates1926-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "75d36e837625f329", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.668.4", "colnum": "668", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain STREATFEILD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is barbarism!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain STREATFEILD", "preceding_text": "up between both sides. I quite agree that in a great many cases that suspicion against the owners is justified, and I will tell hon. Members opposite quite frankly that I would put a millstone round the neck of the owner who does not play the game with his men just as I would round the neck of the men who do not give a fair day's work for a fair day's pay, and I would heave them both into the sea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.668.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-25", "file": "debates1926-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "75d36e837625f329", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.676.2", "colnum": "676", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "utant. Our position has been well described as being one of mediation, and if the two parties can be got together then we may be useful, but as long as it is impossible to bring the two parties together—at present there is no proposition that the two parties are prepared to discuss mutually—it is worse than useless to bring them together, because the negotiations would only break down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.676.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-25", "file": "debates1926-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "75d36e837625f329", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "Go down to the districts and tell them that; meet the local leaders and see what they say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-25", "file": "debates1926-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "75d36e837625f329", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "Various things have been said in this Debate, and, in the short time that is left to me, it is impossible to deal with them all, but I wish again to repudiate the suggestion that the Government has been responsible for the length of the stoppage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-25", "file": "debates1926-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "75d36e837625f329", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "uld remind them that in a great many districts that Bill is not being completely implemented, as they said it was going to be, and only a seven and a-half hours' day is being asked, and my private opinion is that if a proper ballot had been taken among the miners it would have been found that a very large number were quite prepared to work an extra half hour in order to avoid a reduction of wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-25", "file": "debates1926-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "75d36e837625f329", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And profits!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "y were bound to disagree with it. As long as the possibility of in- creasing hours is excluded it is not likely that any proposal will be satisfactory. There may not be the same requirement in all the districts but it is evident under present conditions that there are some districts which for a time will require some extension of hours if they are to maintain a reasonable and decent rate of wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-25", "file": "debates1926-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "75d36e837625f329", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Government!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "Who is it that is depriving us of British coal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-25", "file": "debates1926-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "75d36e837625f329", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What will you do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "ice by more ordinary methods if we can possibly do so. In trying to reduce the price we must not, at the same time, leave large areas without any supply of coal whatever. I have not had a vast amount of time in which to reply, but I have tried to make the best use of it. I will conclude by expressing the hope that hon. Members opposite will use their earnest endeavours to bring about a settlement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-25a.681.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.699.5", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why are you interested in England?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "I wish to raise a question of privilege. The matter I refer to is a statement made in a book called \"England\" written by Dean Inge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.699.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.709.3", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE (COMPLAINT OF MEMBER'S SPEECH).", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "of residential and other disabilities in my own constituency, but to people in higher walks of life also, and that Members of this House were not exempt. I went on at that juncture to use the words complained of, and I said, and I repeat it here to-day, that I have seen members of all parties in this House, my own party I regret to say included, drunk in this House not on one occasion but on many.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.709.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE (COMPLAINT OF MEMBER'S SPEECH).", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": " approve of what I have said. They may not have agreed altogether with the wisdom or propriety of making the utterance, or with the particular way in which it was made, but they do not contest the truth or accuracy of what I have said. I say further, that I have assisted other Members of this House to remove a hopelessly intoxicated Member from its precincts. That is known to Members of all sides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.711.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.712.2", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE (COMPLAINT OF MEMBER'S SPEECH).", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "on but on many occasions I had seen Members coming into this House, after dinner, flushed with wine, and with all their higher powers of control removed and abrogated, because of the influence of the drink which they had taken downstairs. I made that statement. That, again, is a matter of actual common complaint on these benches with regard to hon. Members sitting opposite —a number of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.712.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.712.2", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE (COMPLAINT OF MEMBER'S SPEECH).", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "to that effect been shouted across from this side to the other, but speakers on this side who were on their feet at the time have made pointed reference to the condition of individual Members on the other side. Speaking again with a full sense of responsibility, I cannot withdraw that statement in my original speech. Any man who is honest with himself knows that what I am saying is perfectly true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.712.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.718.6", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE (COMPLAINT OF MEMBER'S SPEECH).", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. HOLBROOK", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. HOLBROOK", "preceding_text": " the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Platting (Mr. Clynes), when he reads it, will come to the conclusion that he took an exaggerated view when he said that I was offensive. But from the opposite side of the House many offensive epithets were hurled at me. I was charged with being a brewers' advocate, and the hon. Lady the Member for Plymouth (Viscountess Astor) applauded that statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.718.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.725.1", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE (COMPLAINT OF MEMBER'S SPEECH).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": " and that is done without the quoting of a word to substantiate the charge and without withdrawing the charge. It is a malicious, foul and lying statement against hon. Members. It is a Motion presumably brought forward in the interests of cleanliness, and the hon. and gallant Member's colleagues shout \"Divide!\" The hon. and gallant Member comes along, and quotes a deliberate lie, a foul statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.726.0", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE (COMPLAINT OF MEMBER'S SPEECH).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIANT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIANT", "preceding_text": "I want the House to consider what the Motion means. It is nothing other than a Vote of Censure upon the hon. Member for West Bermondsey (Dr. Salter).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.726.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.726.0", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE (COMPLAINT OF MEMBER'S SPEECH).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIANT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIANT", "preceding_text": "fore a Committee if the Amendment were passed, and very few in this House can afford to vote for the Motion and to feel that they are not cowards in so doing. I feel that I should be a coward if I did not stand in this House and defend the statements made by the hon. Member for West Bermondsey. I go further, and I say here in this House that I am prepared to corroborate the statements he has made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.726.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.728.0", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGE (COMPLAINT OF MEMBER'S SPEECH).", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "nd give the hon. Member for West Bermondsey as much opportunity of defending his honour as Members on the other side are desirous of having in order to defend their honour. If Members on the other side of the House are honest with themselves, they must know that the passing of this Motion is not going to give a verdict upon the hon. Member for West Bermondsey which is in accordance with the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.728.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.731.3", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"Is that why you are introducing them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)", "preceding_text": "tle difficult, but I will endeavour in my utterance this afternoon to find a just mean between the two. It has always been my practice on these occasions to give the House all the information I can as to the way in which the Regulations have worked during the previous months. I am very glad to be able to say that the number of cases under the Regulations during the past month has shown a decrease.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.731.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.731.3", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)", "preceding_text": "nder the Regulations during the past month has shown a decrease. [An. HON. MEMBER: \"Is that why you are introducing them?\"] An hon. Member opposite says if there has been a decrease, why move them? If there is an increase, hon. Members accuse me of using them detrimentally to the interest of the community. It is exceedingly difficult for me to please hon. Members on the opposite side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.731.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.733.4", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite know perfectly well that they have taken advantage of the methods of this House to raise a point of Order which is not a point of Order at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.733.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To how many was the letter sent?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "ot been necessary for me to act under the provisions of that Regulation, but I sent a letter to the Chief Constables about 10 days ago, which I think it is only right that I should read to the House. I think hon. Members opposite will agree that I have never attempted to keep back anything that I have done in this matter, and I desire to put forward what I have done in a clear manner to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman promised yesterday to give us the names of the areas.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "k hon. Members opposite will agree that I have never attempted to keep back anything that I have done in this matter, and I desire to put forward what I have done in a clear manner to the House. [An HON. MEMBER: \"To how many was the letter sent?\"]. To all concerned in the counties or boroughs where there was a stoppage. I think the hon. Member may take it that it was sent roughly to from 16 to 20.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.740.10", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE CONSTABULARY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Civil action, surely?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "nother man to break a contract, he is guilty of an offence. That is not peaceful picketing at all. It is seeking to induce a man to break a contract. Safety men in Yorkshire, for instance, are subject to 14 days' notice on either side, and, if men leave the work without giving the necessary notice, they are guilty of a crime under the law of the land, altogether apart from these Regulations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.740.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.752.0", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE CONSTABULARY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "t hon. Gentleman stands there and discusses the sending to gaol of the finest workers in this country. He stands there discussing ways and means of sending to gaol, women, old women, the mothers of the British race, the mothers of the boys who defended us from the Germans, and how does the right hon. Gentleman treat them to-day? He hands them over to any insignificant stupid Chief Constable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.752.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.752.0", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE CONSTABULARY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "iners view it, and I warn this House that that is what you are faced with; and that is the spirit in which we of the Labour party decided to-day. All the tameness has gone; we decided to-day as a party, at our party meeting, that we are going out to do all that we possibly can to stand by the miner. The whole party is pledged to it. Of course, you can hear laughing, and you can hear smiling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.752.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.752.0", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE CONSTABULARY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " about the mines—all the brains, all the collar-and-tie brigade are there—the staff are all there, and there is no coal coming up, which proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that, if it is so necessary, the most valuable asset that you have is, as I have already said, the miner. It is the duty of the Home Secretary, if he claims to have the interest of Britain at heart, as I have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.752.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.771.0", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE CONSTABULARY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PURCELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Drivel!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PURCELL", "preceding_text": "es and conditions of the workers. There is no case on record in which there has been more sacrifices in support of the maintenance of their own solidarity and less disorder than in the present dispute. The Government are anxious to promote disorder. They are desirous of creating disorder in order that they may call out the troops and see whether ordinary soldiers will fire on their fellow workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.771.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.771.0", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE CONSTABULARY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PURCELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Drivel!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PURCELL", "preceding_text": "olidarity and less disorder than in the present dispute. The Government are anxious to promote disorder. They are desirous of creating disorder in order that they may call out the troops and see whether ordinary soldiers will fire on their fellow workers. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Drivel!\"] I hope they will not. I hope they will refuse to do so. I think you want to try them. If it was not for our men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.771.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.776.3", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE CONSTABULARY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What happened?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "preceding_text": "I have seen the mass picketing. I have seen thousands collecting round a pit trying to frighten those poor men who had the courage of their convictions. There are brave men who will face a howling mob in order to go back to work and then hon. Members opposite say that it is peaceful picketing. I have seen 2,000 men trying to stop a few miners going into a pit when only four policemen were present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.776.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.786.6", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE CONSTABULARY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.786.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.817.1", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE CONSTABULARY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": " that the reasons for it were strong on the former occasions, but that they are far stronger to-day. This is the only method of settling the coal dispute. The only practical means of ending the dispute is for the Government to have some power which will enable them to bring the coalowners to their senses. I believe the coalowners, alone, are the cause of the dispute lasting up to the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.817.1", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE CONSTABULARY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "ing the dispute is for the Government to have some power which will enable them to bring the coalowners to their senses. I believe the coalowners, alone, are the cause of the dispute lasting up to the present time. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"!] Hon. Members opposite say \"No\" I suppose a good many of them believe that the best way of bringing the dispute to an end is by starving the miners into submission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.817.1", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE CONSTABULARY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "up to the present time. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"!] Hon. Members opposite say \"No\" I suppose a good many of them believe that the best way of bringing the dispute to an end is by starving the miners into submission. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"!] The dispute will never be brought to an end in that way. The way to end this dispute is by bringing the parties round a table. We have been in disputes again and again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.817.1", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE CONSTABULARY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Regulations?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "the Miners' Federation to discuss the question. The Miners' Federation has not asked the Government or the coalowners to accept terms, but only to meet and discuss the matter. I disagree with the Prime Minister's statement that the real barrier to ending this dispute is the hours question. If the Prime Minister turned up the speech delivered by the Chancellor of the Exchequer two months ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.820.3", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE CONSTABULARY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why five?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "s will take possession of the pits. The Government should not only have this Regulation to protect the miners on the question of hours but also to protect them on the question of wages. In these same terms for the County of Durham they are suggesting that every adult datal worker should receive 6s. 8½d. per day. If one multiplies that by five, that means that these men will only earn 33s. 6d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.820.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.823.1", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE CONSTABULARY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Yes !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "t all parts get a fair share of it? One hon. Member raised a question as to the supply of coal to householders. In some parts of the country householders are allowed to have only 1 cwt. of coal a fortnight, and we have heard from an hon. Member that in another part they are allowed only half a cwt. a fortnight. What I want to ask the Secretary for Mines is: Does that limitation apply to everybody?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.823.1", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE CONSTABULARY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For each grate!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "s. In some parts of the country householders are allowed to have only 1 cwt. of coal a fortnight, and we have heard from an hon. Member that in another part they are allowed only half a cwt. a fortnight. What I want to ask the Secretary for Mines is: Does that limitation apply to everybody? [HON. MEMBERS \"Yes !\"] Let us see. Does it apply to the Prime Minister? Does he get only 1 cwt. a fortnight?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.823.1", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE CONSTABULARY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And to the Members for Durham?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "heard from an hon. Member that in another part they are allowed only half a cwt. a fortnight. What I want to ask the Secretary for Mines is: Does that limitation apply to everybody? [HON. MEMBERS \"Yes !\"] Let us see. Does it apply to the Prime Minister? Does he get only 1 cwt. a fortnight? [HON. MEMBERS: \"For each grate!\"] I ask the Secretary for Mines further: Does it apply to the Home Secretary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.825.0", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE CONSTABULARY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "No. The Regulation is that everybody, whether he is a working man, or the Prime Minister, or the Home Secretary, may get half a hundredweight a week. If any reason can be shown—if he has a sick mother—or a big house—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.825.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.825.3", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE CONSTABULARY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "Yes, that is perfectly true, and in view of all these things which the coalowners have done, it is difficult for us to understand why they have allowed this lock-out to continue so long. I have had the answer I wanted from the Secretary for Mines. I understand now that we shall be entitled on the platform to tell the working classes that they are limited to one hundredweight of coal per fortnight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.825.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE CONSTABULARY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHITELEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHITELEY", "preceding_text": "Regulations. As a matter of fact where men have gone back to work and have come out again, the coalowners have not stopped at their original offers but have offered them guaranteed wages of 15s. a day, free omnibus rides to and from their work, seven hours bank to bank, any kind of thing to break the resistance of the men who are endeavouring to carry out the policy they themselves have laid down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.833.8", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE CONSTABULARY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CONNOLLY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CONNOLLY", "preceding_text": " of the official Opposition has pressed it on the Government and the Leader of the Liberal Opposition has also pressed it on the last two occasions. The Chancellor of the Exchequer seemed to be quite surprised at this and desired a clearer explanation from the Leader of the Liberal Opposition. He said without qualification that, as far as he and his party were concerned, they were in favour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.833.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.836.4", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE CONSTABULARY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cook's fault!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. N. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "own country. Why should it be more expensive? Was it not one of the reasons why the miners were asked to accept a lower wage that foreign coal was cheaper than the coal produced in this country, and that we had to meet its competition abroad? The foreign coal is being brought into this country and we are paying 5s. 6d. a cwt. in Glasgow and, as I am informed to-day, 7s. a cwt. in Inverness for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.836.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-10-26", "file": "debates1926-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "264dc0691d03a7cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-10-26a.842.3", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE CONSTABULARY.", "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/1926-10-26a.842.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-09", "file": "debates1926-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "0d0d59418c3e98ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-09a.998.0", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We shall go a lot further than this!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "o whether this was a Socialist measure or not, stoutly contending that is was not proposed as a Measure of nationalisation. There are judges and judges in this House, and I think even my right hon. Friend would admit that, perhaps, the best judges are hon. Members on the benches opposite who have commended this Measure as, a Socialist measure, and given wholehearted support to my right hon. Friend", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-09a.998.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-09", "file": "debates1926-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "0d0d59418c3e98ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-09a.1000.0", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "ry Clause in this Bill is based upon—the protection of vested interests as against the rights and the needs of the nation. The Government could not go on with a Bill like this, however, unless they took the Socialist position, and that is why it is such a muddle of a Bill. If they had taken our Amendments and our advice, they would have had to-day a Bill of which any Minister might be proud.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-09a.1000.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-09", "file": "debates1926-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "0d0d59418c3e98ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-09a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNON", "preceding_text": "This has been the subject of considerable discussion. I understand my hon. Friend the Member for Limehouse (Mr. Attlee) is prepared to accept it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-09a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-09", "file": "debates1926-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "0d0d59418c3e98ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-09a.1029.1", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBERS: \"Lawyers' fees!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "rliament. It will be within the recollection of everyone interested in the question of electricity that the Electricity Commissioners made about as big a mess of that business as any bureaucratic body has ever done in the last 50 years. The first thing they did was to produce a. scheme which the Courts declared ultra vires. They then had inquiries, at the cost of a small fortune to the ratepayers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-09a.1029.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-10", "file": "debates1926-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a29ec0157620e6da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-10a.1073.7", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FISHERIES (RESEARCH).", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Mr. Guinness)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Mr. Guinness)", "preceding_text": "vidence that the effects of fishing on the stock of fish are by no means negligible. Statistics are of fundamental importance for the intelligent study of fishery problems, and I do not propose to do anything to impair the accuracy of our fishery statistics. As funds permit and opportunity serves, assistance will be given for the discovery of new fishing grounds, and but for the coal strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-10a.1073.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-10", "file": "debates1926-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a29ec0157620e6da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-10a.1078.7", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "Probably the House is aware that there has been a general arrangement to reduce prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-10a.1078.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-10", "file": "debates1926-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a29ec0157620e6da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-10a.1117.0", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "m surprised at my right hon. Friend falling so easily into the trap so cunningly laid for him by hon. Members on the other side in using the hon. Member, who, I think an hon. Member opposite described as \"the Government submarine.\" That is not my particular object in rising. I would like, before assent is given to this Amendment, to hear from someone speaking in authority on the Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-10a.1117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-10", "file": "debates1926-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a29ec0157620e6da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-10a.1173.1", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. NALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is the right hon. Member for Ealing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. NALL", "preceding_text": "Yes. A change over is now taking place in Ealing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-10a.1173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-10", "file": "debates1926-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a29ec0157620e6da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-10a.1194.1", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. NALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. NALL", "preceding_text": "nd we are rather short on the general account. This district shall have a separate tariff and it is to be raised.\" A general tariff for the whole country, which one presumes will be about the average of the whole country, will obviously be higher than the tariff properly chargeable to the efficient districts. That is one of the unfortunate aspects of nationalisation which creeps into this Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-10a.1194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-10", "file": "debates1926-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a29ec0157620e6da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-10a.1206.0", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will it apply in the case of a contract?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "mpany has to submit to a revision of maximum prices, that under Clause 30 a sliding scale is imposed upon it, and that under the Fifth Schedule there is a revision of the revenue which may be obtained by a municipality. Therefore there are, with regard to all giving undertakers, conditions in the Bill to prevent any undue profit being made by these companies out of any circumstances such as those.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-10a.1206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-10", "file": "debates1926-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a29ec0157620e6da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-10a.1214.0", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Impossible!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "tricity Commissioners can correctly be described as one of the parties to the dispute, if there is a dispute. I do not know, and the Attorney-General has not told us, what is the reason of his introducing the Amendment, but I think members of the Bar will regard it as somewhat extraordinary that the leader of the Bar, with all its traditions, should be put, by some force which I do not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-10a.1214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-10", "file": "debates1926-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a29ec0157620e6da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-10a.1215.2", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Vote against it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. HALL", "preceding_text": "the cost is so much. It is an extraordinary procedure. When this Clause was under discussion in Committee a vast amount of argument took place. It was not then proposed by the Attorney-General that the Electricity Commissioners should have the last word to say in regard to cost, and I am surprised that practically at the eleventh hour we should be asked to swallow an Amendment of this description.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-10a.1215.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-10", "file": "debates1926-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "a29ec0157620e6da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-10a.1217.1", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "t operating efficiently. That station is in course of change. Many stations in the country at the present time are changing over from one steam pressure to another. Two-thirds of a station may be changed over, and one-third has still to be changed. When that one-third is changed the cost of production from that station will be very materially decreased. In some cases it will be very nearly halved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-10a.1217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-11", "file": "debates1926-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "76c5544100d436d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1226.12", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"From America?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "Is the Home Secretary not aware that a good deal of money comes from other countries, and has there been the same objection to money coming from other countries as from Russia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1226.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-11", "file": "debates1926-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "76c5544100d436d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1229.0", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Arising from the right hon. Gentleman's reply to Question No. 15, I would like to ask if he is aware that a summons has been issued to me from this district, because I was there last week, and on the summons it states that I delivered a speech which was calculated to restrict the supply of fuel—that is all. I have written asking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-11", "file": "debates1926-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "76c5544100d436d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1229.0", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "mplained of, so that I may be in a position to defend myself when I go to the Court on Monday, and that he has replied as follows: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th instant concerning the summons received by you, and to say I have forwarded the same to the Chief Constable to be dealt with. That is because I was informed by a legal luminary of the law of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-11", "file": "debates1926-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "76c5544100d436d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir CHARLES OMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir CHARLES OMAN", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-11", "file": "debates1926-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "76c5544100d436d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "preceding_text": "May I call the attention of the right hon. Gentleman to the fact that the men did not wish the police to deliver the charge while the women and children were there, but that a charge was deliberately ordered by the Chief Constable, and that women and children were struck down, that one girl 11 years of age was struck down.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-11", "file": "debates1926-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "76c5544100d436d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "preceding_text": " of the right hon. Gentleman to the fact that the men did not wish the police to deliver the charge while the women and children were there, but that a charge was deliberately ordered by the Chief Constable, and that women and children were struck down, that one girl 11 years of age was struck down.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"] May I call the right hon. Gentleman's attention to the fact.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-11", "file": "debates1926-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "76c5544100d436d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1231.0", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "preceding_text": " given for the crowd to disperse? The police manœuvred the people into a kind of cul de sac where they could neither move one way or the other. The Chief Constable gave them five minutes to clear, but in less than one minute a baton charge was ordered. Women were struck while standing in their own doorways, and others were also struck by the police. One man working on the local railway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1231.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-11", "file": "debates1926-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "76c5544100d436d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1231.0", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "preceding_text": "ways, and others were also struck by the police. One man working on the local railway—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"]. Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that a man returning from his work on the railway was struck down by the police, that people going on their ordinary business were met by the police and struck, and that in one case a man coming from behind a house was met by two policemen —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1231.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-11", "file": "debates1926-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "76c5544100d436d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1318.2", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "he scope of this Amendment. The letter to these companies goes on to say that the Electricity Commissioners will be pleased to have the detailed costs set out in Section ( a ) of the second Schedule and Sections ( b ) and ( c ). The letter concludes by saying: The time allowed for the preparation of the information required is very short, and we should be glad to have the same as soon as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1318.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-11", "file": "debates1926-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "76c5544100d436d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1328.0", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "preceding_text": "rantee. With the Government guarantee they could probably borrow the money at 5 per cent., and without the Government guarantee, my hon. Friend stated, perhaps they would have to pay 6 per cent. When you have a good case it is better not to spoil it by being greedy, and therefore I will admit that they might have to pay as much as 2 per cent. more for the money. Assume they have to pay 7 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-11", "file": "debates1926-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "76c5544100d436d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1330.1", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "preceding_text": "ch circumstances could fail to raise any capital that they require at a reasonable rate. It is quite obvious to me that if there is any risk of the Board nut being able to raise capital in these circumstances the whole case for the Bill must fail. The Attorney-General has raised the point that the Board have not any tangible assets. What tangible assets, in most cases, has a municipal corporation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-11", "file": "debates1926-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "76c5544100d436d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1330.1", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "preceding_text": "m the taxpayers' pocket or from the ratepayers' pocket and to say: \"We are, according to our judgment, going to invest this money, which we have taken from your pocket, in such industries as we think fit.\" It is a right of the taxpayer to invest his money as he thinks fit, advised by those who are competent to advise him on those matters, who are the bankers and other people in the City of London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-11", "file": "debates1926-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "76c5544100d436d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1343.1", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ill. If he studies the Bill more carefully, or perhaps I should say a little more sympathetically, he will ascertain that instead of the Board having the right to force this current at any price upon the consumer, there is no obligation on the various undertakers to take their current from the Board; the only inducement is that the Board can supply more cheaply than the undertakers can produce it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-11", "file": "debates1926-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "76c5544100d436d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1389.2", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The forty thieves!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "matter how often they make that claim, we on this side do not heed the statement. We cannot judge by words, we judge by actions, and when you get in a situation like this, after all that some of us have suffered during the passage of this Bill, and after all the vested interests have been met, after the hon. Member for Moseley has fought all the time for his British Federation of Industries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1389.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-11", "file": "debates1926-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "76c5544100d436d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1404.1", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BALFOUR", "preceding_text": " hon. and learned Friend gave true expression to his feelings when he said that my hon. Friend the Member for the Moseley Division of Birmingham (Mr. Hannon) had had his share. An hon. Member below me who moved an Amendment a few minutes ago had a concession readily granted, because I think in that particular case the hon. Member represented railway interests, and it was necessary to secure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-11", "file": "debates1926-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "76c5544100d436d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1408.0", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "uperintendent of Police, the only name on my summonses, a letter requesting him to send to me the words of the part of my speech which had been value for my being summoned, in order that I might get my witnesses and my defence ready, as I am going to defend myself against the Home Secretary or any other Secretary that this rotten Government cares to produce. What did I get for my courteous letter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-11", "file": "debates1926-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "76c5544100d436d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1409.2", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did you say?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ight be able to prepare his case—which comes on next Monday—and this is what he is told. I have been pushed off and I have no evidence of what they are going to put against me. I am to be rushed into it and, as you know, Mr. Speaker, I give all my time to my Parliamentary duties. I was sent here by my constituents to give my time to Parliament and I do so and I have not had time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1409.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-11", "file": "debates1926-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "76c5544100d436d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1409.4", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "ht of every British subject, that is the right of free speech, and every right-thinking man whether he be Tory, Liberal or Labour, must defend the right of free speech and must therefore support me in my claim. Last Tuesday in speaking here on the Emergency Regulations I pointed out to the Home Secretary where he would land himself by handing out this power to big, dirty, stupid, chief constables.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1409.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-11", "file": "debates1926-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "76c5544100d436d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1413.0", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "Why did not you withdraw the summonses?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-11a.1413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-12", "file": "debates1926-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d466be300879769", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-12a.1447.0", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH NALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"For a start.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH NALL", "preceding_text": "deprecates the suppression of the Merz Report and the undue haste with which the Government has pressed the scheme. That is the opinion of the Incorporated Municipal Electrical Association. Since the Weir Report was published we have had some more information from the Commissioners. The Weir Report recommends certain things and expenditure, and the Government propose to guarantee £33,500,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-12a.1447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-12", "file": "debates1926-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d466be300879769", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-12a.1508.1", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "es it that he accuses Lord Weir of being deliberately misleading because he suppresses the fact that they have got water power in Canada? The address goes on: It seems to me that there is a complex of primary causes, economic and political, for our backwardness in electrical development. The hon. Member for Hampstead thinks we are not backward in electricity. The President does not agree with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-12a.1508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-12", "file": "debates1926-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d466be300879769", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-12a.1509.1", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "I wonder how many years past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-12a.1509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-12", "file": "debates1926-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d466be300879769", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-12a.1509.1", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY (SUPPLY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ricity to the consumer. That is the object of the Bill, and I am sorry T did not succeed in making this clear at an earlier stage. None the less, however difficult it may he to assail figures except by vituperation, or to assail the Bill on any logical grounds, there is always one weapon, and it is that you can always say this is nationalisation. \"Give a dog a bad name and it is easy to hang him.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-12a.1509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-15", "file": "debates1926-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "8fe30dec4c228dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-15a.1594.0", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "also told we have an Irish grievance and that -the station at Dublin interferes very considerably with broadcasting in North Wales, particularly from Manchester and Bournemouth, on which we depend. I would appeal to the right hon. Gentleman to establish in North Wales either a broadcasting or a relaying station in -which the Welsh language could be used very much more widely than it is at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-15a.1594.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-11-16", "file": "debates1926-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "721e5990d290694b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1693.2", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (POLITICAL SPEECHES).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Name!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "Will this policy be pursued at a General Election; and will it apply to the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition, and the Leader of the Liberal party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-16", "file": "debates1926-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "721e5990d290694b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1695.2", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "COMPULSORY PRELIMINARY ARBITRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lock-out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to introduce a Bill to prevent any strike or lock-out in any industrial dispute until a preliminary arbitration has taken place before a properly constituted Court. I rise to move the Motion standing in my name, having regard to the present industrial situation, and to the tremendous cost of the coal strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1695.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-16", "file": "debates1926-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "721e5990d290694b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1695.2", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "COMPULSORY PRELIMINARY ARBITRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DIXEY", "preceding_text": "facts were obviously against them. It is on those lines that I have had the audacity, on the part of the general public, to frame this Bill. I consider it is the duty of anyone who has witnessed the situation which has developed in this country during the past few months to see whether there is any possible, method by which we can get rid of those people who do not desire to see peace in industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1695.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-16", "file": "debates1926-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "721e5990d290694b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1698.0", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "COMPULSORY PRELIMINARY ARBITRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYDAY", "preceding_text": " the people of the country. I want the House to consider what this Bill would mean if it were passed. It is not as though it were the Government bringing forward some well-thought-out subject for debate in the House. This Measure is ill-conceived and wrongly-named. It is not arbitration at all, and, as a matter of fact, will be the first step towards creating more distrust in the industrial world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-16", "file": "debates1926-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "721e5990d290694b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1700.0", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "COMPULSORY PRELIMINARY ARBITRATION.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "You say preliminary arbitration before a strike, but if the arbitrator says he believes the employers to be right you cannot enforce his decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-16", "file": "debates1926-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "721e5990d290694b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1718.0", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "and that was actually the number of people in receipt of relief in this country at that time. The present figure is 2,038,606. I want to say that in these circumstances it is not surprising that this reduction of numbers has been accompanied by a tendency in many unions to reduce the scale on which relief to miners' dependants has been given, and in some cases to refuse out-door relief altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-16", "file": "debates1926-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "721e5990d290694b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1720.1", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "s discomfort and hardship, the officers of the Ministry, who have throughout been instructed to keep in close touch with the situation, have been unable to find cases in which the guardians or their officers have failed to relieve destitution, and the general effect of the information, so far as children are concerned, is that they are better fed and healthier than when their fathers were at work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-16", "file": "debates1926-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "721e5990d290694b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1721.5", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "bout this afternoon, namely, the offering of a \"house\" order to people who apply for Poor Law relief. I know, and the hon. Gentleman knows, and I am sure the Minister knows, that boards of guardians who want to cut down public assistance always use the weapon of the \"house\" in order to bring that about. There are many people in this country who would rather die than go into one of these Bastilles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1721.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-16", "file": "debates1926-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "721e5990d290694b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1721.5", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "nd the hon. Gentleman knows, and I am sure the Minister knows, that boards of guardians who want to cut down public assistance always use the weapon of the \"house\" in order to bring that about. There are many people in this country who would rather die than go into one of these Bastilles. [ Interruption. ] Hon. Gentlemen cheer that, and yet this is what you offer to men who fought in the late War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1721.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-16", "file": "debates1926-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "721e5990d290694b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1721.5", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Can you wonder?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ut I am certain if the right hon. Gentleman was put in the palace of truth he would have to admit quite frankly that when these precautionary words, with regard to the power of the relieving officer over the board of guardians to act apart from the board of guardians, were put into the Memorandum he had in mind those boards of guardians which are controlled by Labour representatives and no others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1721.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-16", "file": "debates1926-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "721e5990d290694b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1726.2", "colnum": "1726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "had downed every scheme, and that it was so difficult that nothing realy could be done. He was very sorry and he poured out tears to the hon. Member for East Middlesbrough (Miss Wilkinson) because he said, \"Here am I, virtuous man that I am. I have appointed a strong Committee, and at the end the Committee says, what everyone else says, nothing can be done.\" But that is not all the Committee said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1726.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-16", "file": "debates1926-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "721e5990d290694b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1760.1", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " mind that there is only one way of keeping people from the Poor Law, and only one way of getting them out of the long lines of the unemployed, and that is by an improvement in trade. The hon. Member for Bow and Bromley said, \"What we want to do is to raise the school age.\" He knows perfectly well that when his Government were in power they had a majority here in the House to raise the school age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-16", "file": "debates1926-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "721e5990d290694b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1771.4", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "You are not answering the question!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1771.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-16", "file": "debates1926-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "721e5990d290694b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1803.0", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FINBURGH", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FINBURGH", "preceding_text": "by Members opposite that we do not care what the rates are. I have heard it repeatedly said on platforms by Socialist and Labour speakers. They make no bones about it. They have repeated and repeated again that we do not care what the rates are, we are going to get there. What the country wants in my humble opinion to restore things to the normal state is industrial peace. That is what we require.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1803.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-16", "file": "debates1926-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "721e5990d290694b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1817.3", "colnum": "1817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "d hardship inflicted upon the families of those concerned in the industry directly concerned and those thrown out of employment in other industries by the stoppage, but it certainly is a fact that as far as nourishment is concerned that there has been no evidence of mal-nutrition. We have had repeated reports that the children are actually better fed than they were when their fathers were in work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1817.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-16", "file": "debates1926-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "721e5990d290694b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1823.0", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "There has been no Cabinet decision?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-16a.1823.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-11-17", "file": "debates1926-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "21c0cdacbac7917e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-17a.1869.1", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "And other buildings.", "preceding_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "preceding_text": "The operative words are in respect of dwellings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-17a.1869.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-17", "file": "debates1926-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "21c0cdacbac7917e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-17a.1870.1", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": ", what should me more natural than that there should emanate from the political party of that gentleman a proposal to put the labourer where he would not put his car? We have now reached the stage where \"Stables for the workers\" is a plank in the Conservative programme. After all, if you consider the history of that party, this is not a long step in degeneracy from where they have already arrived.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-17a.1870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-17", "file": "debates1926-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "21c0cdacbac7917e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-17a.1873.1", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, Hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "— — because the economic facts of the present system entitle them to that type of house. They say, in regard to the agricultural labourer, that he must be prepared, like all other sections of the community, to face the economic facts in his desire for a higher standard of living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-17a.1873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-17", "file": "debates1926-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "21c0cdacbac7917e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-17a.1873.1", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It comes from you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "ed on the idea that it is folly to provide new houses in those districts, and that, as the end of British agriculture is in view, you should devote a certain amount of public money to patching up the old houses, because they will serve the purpose for the short time for which houses will be required. That is a most pessimistic and, I submit, a most unpatriotic view to come from the party opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-17a.1873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-17", "file": "debates1926-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "21c0cdacbac7917e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-17a.1873.1", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "e is in view, you should devote a certain amount of public money to patching up the old houses, because they will serve the purpose for the short time for which houses will be required. That is a most pessimistic and, I submit, a most unpatriotic view to come from the party opposite. [An HON. MEMBER: \"It comes from you!\"] If I am wrong in my interpretation of the views of the party opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-17a.1873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-17", "file": "debates1926-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "21c0cdacbac7917e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-17a.1873.1", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "because they will serve the purpose for the short time for which houses will be required. That is a most pessimistic and, I submit, a most unpatriotic view to come from the party opposite. [An HON. MEMBER: \"It comes from you!\"] If I am wrong in my interpretation of the views of the party opposite—[An HON. MEMBER: \"You are!\"]—why should they not pursue a policy of erecting houses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-17a.1873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-17", "file": "debates1926-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "21c0cdacbac7917e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-17a.1876.0", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "attention of the local authority. The right hon. Gentleman, however, made one remark which I think ought not to go unchallenged, because it would be apt to mislead the public. In talking about buildings, he rather suggested that, even when these are remodelled, they would still be unfit for habitation. It is, however, a direct provision of the Bill that the local authority must be satisfied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-17a.1876.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-17", "file": "debates1926-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "21c0cdacbac7917e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-17a.1898.1", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VIANT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A good house.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VIANT", "preceding_text": "nd money over to private persons, but in favour of the creation of assets for the community. I support the Amendment because I am firmly convinced that we ought to know exactly to what we are being committed. We are asked to hand over a blank cheque, not only to the Departments, but to those who are interested in putting their property into repair in the agricultural areas. What have we in return?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-17a.1898.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-11-18", "file": "debates1926-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "40dae47dbe148f72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.1947.3", "colnum": "1947", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BETHNAL GREEN GUARDIANS (ARMY AND NAVY).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "Is it to be understood that when a local authority refuses to provide cheap flesh and blood for the defence of property—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.1947.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-18", "file": "debates1926-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "40dae47dbe148f72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.1987.4", "colnum": "1987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "rge which I rise this afternoon to accept. I am going to charge the Government with using its administrative power deliberately against the miners during the stoppage. The right hon. Gentleman in his speech praised the boards of guardians. He said: On the whole, I feel that boards of guardians deserve the highest possible credit for the manner in which they have handled a very difficult situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.1987.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-18", "file": "debates1926-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "40dae47dbe148f72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.1997.0", "colnum": "1997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the children?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAM", "preceding_text": "r a moment that I do not consider school children should be fed. I believe it is right. I am only mentioning the fact to show the burden the ratepayer has to bear in the counties that are affected. \"Interruption.] I am not saying it is extravagant. I am saying that is the burden the ratepayer has to bear, and the ratepayer is essentially the man upon whom the future of the country largely depends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.1997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-18", "file": "debates1926-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "40dae47dbe148f72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2001.2", "colnum": "2001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whether they work or not I\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "I am going to repeat that. It is the duty of this Government and it is the duty of every Government to try to make everyone happy and comfortable. This Tory Government seems to think that only the rich should be happy and comfortable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2001.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-18", "file": "debates1926-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "40dae47dbe148f72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2008.0", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "ously of the small ratepayers and said that they were suffering because they voted for a Tory Government two years ago. That is to say, that the miners do not accept the franchise of the people and say: \"We will take our revenge on you for voting for a Tory Government two years ago.\" Everybody knows that when Labour gets a majority on the local council the small ratepayer suffers abominably worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2008.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-18", "file": "debates1926-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "40dae47dbe148f72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2008.0", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the economic law?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "I do not think they have been mean. I think they have been guilty of a great deal of folly, and I object to the granting of any more money. It is the greatest possible folly to give men money in order to enable them to carry on a hopeless dispute against an economic law. You are doing the greatest possible harm by such a policy. You are not helping them; you are hurting them. It does them no good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2008.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-18", "file": "debates1926-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "40dae47dbe148f72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2025.0", "colnum": "2025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The miners are ratepayers; they will take their responsibility ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "e House for this Vote. The prospects before local authorities are certainly very alarming. They have these great sums for which they are indebted, and I am afraid the ratepayers in the several localities must anticipate that the burdens upon them are going to he heavy for some time to come. That is the price which the ratepayers will have to pay for the stoppage which has paralysed our industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2025.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-18", "file": "debates1926-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "40dae47dbe148f72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2030.3", "colnum": "2030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": ". The right hon. Gentleman says, \"Would you give the guardians anything they ask?\" I say that before he replaced any board of guardians, before he, by a stroke of the pen, shifted the elected representatives and put in his own nominees to carry out this detestable policy, there ought to have been a public inquiry into the conditions of the locality and into the methods by which relief was granted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2030.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-18", "file": "debates1926-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "40dae47dbe148f72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2030.3", "colnum": "2030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " before he, by a stroke of the pen, shifted the elected representatives and put in his own nominees to carry out this detestable policy, there ought to have been a public inquiry into the conditions of the locality and into the methods by which relief was granted. [ Interruption. ] No, you have made no investigation worth the paper it is written on. I would have had the public investigation first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2030.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-18", "file": "debates1926-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "40dae47dbe148f72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2031.1", "colnum": "2031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "But the right hon. Gentleman challenged us to say whether he would be entitled to grant a board of guardians any loans they asked for, and I am answering that challenge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-18", "file": "debates1926-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "40dae47dbe148f72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2032.0", "colnum": "2032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I say that the Minister himself has no right to lay down the scale of relief. That is the first thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2032.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-18", "file": "debates1926-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "40dae47dbe148f72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2032.0", "colnum": "2032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I say that the Minister himself has no right to lay down the scale of relief. That is the first thing. [ Interruption. ] Let me answer it in my own way. I have not come to make a set speech, so you cannot upset me in the least. The point put to me is as to what. I should do if I were faced with the same situation that the Minister has to face.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2032.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-18", "file": "debates1926-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "40dae47dbe148f72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2033.0", "colnum": "2033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The Minister of Health is not listening!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "ortunity of testing in the Courts whether the obiter dictum of the Minister is right or not. It is a new practice and I think it is quite contrary to the law. Another change has also taken place and we now have the blessing of a 56-hours' week for nurses instead of 48 hours. This is what has taken place in regard to our Central Hospital, where, unlike London, we treat cancer and venereal diseases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2033.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-18", "file": "debates1926-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "40dae47dbe148f72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2042.1", "colnum": "2042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "preceding_text": "s set, which he takes round the country with him. I asked him the other day if he had taken out a licence for his portable wireless set, which he takes round in his motor car, and takes up the river on Sundays in the summer, and he told me that, as he had one wireless licence, it, was not necessary for him to take out two. I want to point out to the Noble Lord that if a man is in a position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2042.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-18", "file": "debates1926-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "40dae47dbe148f72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2070.0", "colnum": "2070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROHIBITED MEETINGS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHITELEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Read it again!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHITELEY", "preceding_text": "entleman is prepared to carry these Regulations out in real justice to all sections, then this gallant Colonel's name ought to go on to his list, and he ought not to be allowed to address any further meetings in this country, because this is really creating disaffection and is preaching bloody revolution, and that is by a man representing the opinion of the Conservative Government in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2070.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-18", "file": "debates1926-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "40dae47dbe148f72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2076.1", "colnum": "2076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROHIBITED MEETINGS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "grandmotherly way and say that the people shall not be allowed to listen to appeals on behalf of Communism? I can assure the Home Secretary that I am quite able to look after Communism in my own constituency without his assistance, and I cannot meet that propaganda unless the Home Secretary allows free discussion. What is the main argument of hon. Gentlemen opposite against the Communist movement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2076.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-18", "file": "debates1926-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "40dae47dbe148f72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2080.0", "colnum": "2080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROHIBITED MEETINGS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "If I were guilty of the terrible things of which the hon. Member for Caerphilly (Mr. Morgan Jones) has just accused me, I should be unworthy of holding the high office which I now hold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2080.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-18", "file": "debates1926-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "40dae47dbe148f72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2080.0", "colnum": "2080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROHIBITED MEETINGS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "lly (Mr. Morgan Jones) has just accused me, I should be unworthy of holding the high office which I now hold. [ Interruption. ] As I have sat here now for nearly two hours, and have listened without a single interruption on my part, I think hon. Members might listen to me without interruption during the half-hour or so for which I shall speak, and I trust that they will at !east give me fair play.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2080.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-18", "file": "debates1926-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "40dae47dbe148f72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2090.5", "colnum": "2090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"DOWN WITH TERMS OF SURRENDER.\"", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That made it worse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "d refer. I refer to the speech of the hon. Member for Blaydon (Mr. Whiteley), who made three complaints. One complaint concerned the speech of a certain Colonel Leather, which I admit was a very stupid speech, a very improper speech. If that speech had been delivered in a mining area he would certainly have been prosecuted, but delivered, as I understand it was, at a Primrose League meeting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2090.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-18", "file": "debates1926-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "40dae47dbe148f72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2093.3", "colnum": "2093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"DOWN WITH TERMS OF SURRENDER.\"", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the meeting at Caerphilly?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "I will not pursue the matter further, except to say that if any hon. Member who has an accusation of this kind to make likes to send such accusation to me I will have inquiries made. I think I have answered all the accusations which have been made with regard to the administration of these Emergency Regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2093.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-18", "file": "debates1926-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "40dae47dbe148f72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2097.2", "colnum": "2097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"DOWN WITH TERMS OF SURRENDER.\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "We have put questions with regard to the banning of meetings by police officials in the counties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2097.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-11-18", "file": "debates1926-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "40dae47dbe148f72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2097.3", "colnum": "2097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"DOWN WITH TERMS OF SURRENDER.\"", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "When did you put questions?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "We have put questions with regard to the banning of meetings by police officials in the counties. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] In this House. The meetings were banned in the counties of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2097.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-18", "file": "debates1926-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "40dae47dbe148f72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2100.3", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"DOWN WITH TERMS OF SURRENDER.\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HAYES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HAYES", "preceding_text": " party will not readily employ. They denounce all violence except their own. They uphold all law except the law which they choose to break. They always welcome the application of force to others, while they themselves are to be immune. They select from the Statute Book the laws they will obey and the laws they will resist. Is that a true statement of the Tory outlook with regard to administration?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2100.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-18", "file": "debates1926-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "40dae47dbe148f72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2102.2", "colnum": "2102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — \"DOWN WITH TERMS OF SURRENDER.\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "I know you did not say it. You are too \"fly\" a criminal for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-18a.2102.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-19", "file": "debates1926-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "81a8151fc30851fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-19a.2113.4", "colnum": "2113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNIVERSITY OF LONDON BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of EDUCATION (Lord Eustace Percy)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That has not eventuated.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of EDUCATION (Lord Eustace Percy)", "preceding_text": "senting outsiders. The same is true of the Incorporated Law Society and the Inns of Court, who, between them, have six representatives, and those six representatives. were put on quite definitely and explicitly with the idea that there might in the future be some organic connection between the Inns of Court and the University in the direction of building up a great University of London law school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-19a.2113.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-19", "file": "debates1926-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "81a8151fc30851fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-19a.2145.6", "colnum": "2145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNIVERSITY OF LONDON BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HILTON YOUNG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Of the Haldane Commission.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HILTON YOUNG", "preceding_text": "rience was that of the Chairman of the Committee responsible for the Departmental Report behind this Bill. I listened with great interest, although with real difficulty, to the arguments of my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for St. Pancras (Sir R. Barnett). I disagree with the suggestion that the election of the hon. Member for London University (Dr. Little) was any condemnation of our Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-19a.2145.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-22", "file": "debates1926-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "b2ea633a9c511c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-22a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "preceding_text": "brought in under Amendments which were carried up-stairs—does introduce a great deal of difficulty. Let me quote one or two instances to show how impossible it is to work legislation of this character. Take musical instruments, which are already covered by the McKenna Duties. They represent a series of difficulties. Last year musical instruments of the value of £1,184,000 were imported.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-22a.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-22", "file": "debates1926-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "b2ea633a9c511c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-22a.127.0", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "eference to an Amendment to exclude eggs from the provisions of the Bill, the right hon. Gentleman said: If we were to accept this Amendment I think we should destroy the whole utility of this. Bill in the case of eggs. They must be marked before importation … if the home producer is to be assisted at all effectively.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, Standing Committee B., 6th July, 1926; col. 322.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-22a.127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-22", "file": "debates1926-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "b2ea633a9c511c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-22a.138.0", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We will make one for you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. CHADWICK", "preceding_text": "ill. The hon. Gentleman has spoken of various aspects of trade and of the neglect of the housewife. I suppose he would say that the housewife would not have any opportunity of stating her case before a committee dealing with one of these subjects in which she, as a consumer, is interested. That is perfectly untrue. If the Society of East Ham Housewives—if there be such—a society—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-22a.138.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-22", "file": "debates1926-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "b2ea633a9c511c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-22a.183.2", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "I am encouraged by that observation. The hon. and gallant Member who has this cause so much at heart—may I say, without any offence, has it much more in his heart than in his head—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-22a.183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-22", "file": "debates1926-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "b2ea633a9c511c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-22a.183.4", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "Then everybody is pleased, and we can pass on to the next argument. In conversation with hon. Members belonging to the party opposite they have told rue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-22a.183.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-22", "file": "debates1926-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "b2ea633a9c511c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-22a.183.4", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Constituency!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major CRAWFURD", "preceding_text": "Then everybody is pleased, and we can pass on to the next argument. In conversation with hon. Members belonging to the party opposite they have told rue—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"] I understand it would be outside the Rules of Order to mention hon. Members by name.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-22a.183.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-23", "file": "debates1926-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8b1e690f98b55e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-23a.325.2", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "t to sell and how they ought to sell it, and, unless ample notice is given of any Order that is made, or any new Schedules of various goods which have to be marked, it is quite certain that prosecutions, if the law is going to be administered strictly, will be fairly numerous. It, may very well be that we are not going to fill our prisons with business people who have fallen foul of the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-23a.325.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-23", "file": "debates1926-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8b1e690f98b55e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-23a.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Support the Amendment!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. THORNE", "preceding_text": "I desire to oppose this Amendment. I represent a Division where the rates are exceedingly high.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-23a.336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-23", "file": "debates1926-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8b1e690f98b55e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-23a.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "to being regarded as part of His Majesty's Dominions. But when we come to the suggestion that the mandated territories are part of Iris Majesty's Dominions then we are trespassing on dangerous grounds. It goes against the spirit of the League of Nations. We hold these territories on trust, and the whole idea is that these States, at any rate while they are under our mandatory control should—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-23a.346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-23", "file": "debates1926-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8b1e690f98b55e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-23a.348.2", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "The words \"His Majesty's Dominions\" are used constantly in these Bills, and it is really fantastic to suggest to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-23a.348.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-23", "file": "debates1926-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8b1e690f98b55e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-23a.365.0", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. The dyers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member who has just spoken has been quite misled, naturally, by what was said by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Seaham (Mr. Webb). It is not a case of a compulsory Order at all and there is nothing in this Bill which orders any single article made in Lancashire or anywhere else to be marked. They will only be marked if the people who make those goods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-23a.365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-23", "file": "debates1926-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8b1e690f98b55e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-23a.365.0", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "hat was said by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Seaham (Mr. Webb). It is not a case of a compulsory Order at all and there is nothing in this Bill which orders any single article made in Lancashire or anywhere else to be marked. They will only be marked if the people who make those goods—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No. The dyers.\"] The people who apply would naturally be the makers of the goods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-23a.365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-24", "file": "debates1926-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "6a62adbb3b856bb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-24a.433.2", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Burton Chadwick)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Sir Burton Chadwick)", "preceding_text": "pportunity for self-protection. 4.0 P.M. I have been twitted during these Debates with making short speeches. I make short speeches because I am not a good speaker, but I try to put into my speeches what is germane to the subject and to confine myself to that, and not to repeat myself. I am going to maintain my reputation, and, therefore, I shall not make a long speech to-day. In conelusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-24a.433.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-24", "file": "debates1926-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "6a62adbb3b856bb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-24a.435.0", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "cue_text": "An HON. Member: \"A section of it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "preceding_text": "ion on my part, mere foolish fancy on the part of one who knows nothing about business, and so on. I own to having a very modest knowledge on this subject, but the people concerned seem to be pretty well alarmed. During the passage of this Bill through this House we have been bombarded with representations in one form or another, verbal and printed, from bodies like the London Chamber of Commerce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-24a.435.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-24", "file": "debates1926-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "6a62adbb3b856bb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-24a.435.0", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Import trade!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEBB", "preceding_text": "k the Bill will do. It will check fraud and misrepresentation, but this is only a very small matter—the Board of Trade knows how small—and it might have been done at a much less cost. It will cause expense and trouble to British manufacturers and traders—how much I cannot say, but, in some cases, it will he considerable. It will inevitably, to some extent, check our export trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-24a.435.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-24", "file": "debates1926-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "6a62adbb3b856bb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-24a.456.0", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "e last General Election two years ago. I take off my hat with respect to the billposter who stuck that placard on so securely. For two long years the rains have descended upon it and the winds have blown, but it still remains affixed to the wall. The placard says, \"Stanley Baldwin stands for stability.\" In the last 12 months there has been an increase of half a million in the number of unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-24a.456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-24", "file": "debates1926-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "6a62adbb3b856bb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-24a.456.0", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "preceding_text": " The placard says, \"Stanley Baldwin stands for stability.\" In the last 12 months there has been an increase of half a million in the number of unemployed. [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members are anxious to interrupt and to say what the cause is. One hon. Member says it is the coal stoppage. It is perfectly well known that if a Labour Government had been in office we should not have had a coal stoppage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-24a.456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-24", "file": "debates1926-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "6a62adbb3b856bb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-24a.456.0", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "me, in favour of buying British goods which was initiated by the Post Office, as a result of which we get our letters stamped \"Buy British Goods\" by American machines. During the campaign, and perhaps to encourage it, the Secretary of State for War decided to give a big Government contract to an American razor company to supply safety razors to the British Army. How will this affect that contract?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-24a.456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-24", "file": "debates1926-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "6a62adbb3b856bb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-24a.456.0", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "anada\"? I take it they will, under this Bill; and an hon. Member who is an authority on this Bill confirms me. All these millions of safety razor blades will have to be stamped \"Made in Canada,\" and I take it the holders will have to be stamped \"Made in England,\" because if the holder has not got \"Made in England\" stamped on it, the inference to \"Tommy Atkins,\" who is not always very bright—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-24a.456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-24", "file": "debates1926-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "6a62adbb3b856bb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-24a.456.0", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Things have changed since then! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "preceding_text": ". Member who is an authority on this Bill confirms me. All these millions of safety razor blades will have to be stamped \"Made in Canada,\" and I take it the holders will have to be stamped \"Made in England,\" because if the holder has not got \"Made in England\" stamped on it, the inference to \"Tommy Atkins,\" who is not always very bright— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh !\"] Well, he was not in my time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-24a.456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-24", "file": "debates1926-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "6a62adbb3b856bb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-24a.462.2", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And bananas\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "s Mr. Bun theme, of \"Patience,\" over again. Whatever he can stomach, it must always be A not too French French bean. Now we are going to have the ridiculous Clause which provides for the possibility —I cannot believe it is anything more—of solemnly labelling or stamping cabbages, tomatoes, and all sorts of other things, in order that the housewife may know exactly where they come from.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-24a.462.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-24", "file": "debates1926-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "6a62adbb3b856bb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-24a.501.0", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "l Amendments which are put forward, the right hon. Gentleman and his friends say this is a tyrannous Government using its vast majority to steamrofler them, and to reject any Amend- ment, however reasonable. But when we accept Amendments—and over 50 per cent. of those accepted in Committee were moved by the right hon. Gentleman and his friends—and I am very much obliged to him and them", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-24a.501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-24", "file": "debates1926-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "6a62adbb3b856bb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-24a.506.2", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANDISE MARKS (IMPORTED GOODS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "to the Bill. The hon. Member for Paddington (Sir W. Perring), who is qualified to speak on the matter with full knowledge, spoke in Committee for the National Chamber of Trade which represents tens of thousands of these shopkeepers and he told the Committee that, so far from opposing this Bill, they welcomed it as a desirable Measure. This is a Measure in which sentiment and business are combined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-24a.506.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-25", "file": "debates1926-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b840d4315a885379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-25a.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whether right or wrong!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "is new Clause would be the alteration of a custom which has existed far a very long time. If the proposal had been the other way about, if the taxes had been all levied on owners and it was to be put on the occupiers, my argument against the change of incidence would have been the very same, namely, that a tax which has been long-existent, and which has entered into everybody's calculations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-25a.590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-25", "file": "debates1926-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b840d4315a885379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-25a.671.2", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRISONS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ow whether the right hoc. Gentleman has ever been in an ordinary police cell. If he has been, even on a visit of inspection, he must know that, generally speaking, those places are not suited for detaining a human being for more than 24 hours, let alone for 30 days; and I would not be doing the fair thing by my constituents—a fair proportion of whom periodically get landed into those places.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-25a.671.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-25", "file": "debates1926-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b840d4315a885379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-25a.671.2", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRISONS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "upation by one prisoner and another. Such steps are not generally taken in police cells used for lock-up purposes, and I for one would have to move the deletion of this Clause if it were proposed to take the whole Bill this evening, and I suggest that the right hon. Gentleman should change his mind on that point. The Government have made very good progress with most of their Measures this Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-25a.671.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-25", "file": "debates1926-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b840d4315a885379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-25a.675.1", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNION OF BENEFICES AND DISPOSAL OF CHURCHES (METROPOLIS) MEASURE, 1926.", "cue_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord H. CECIL", "preceding_text": "War and the period immediately following the War we encountered a very considerable body of opinion which said, \"By what right do you come to us asking for money for the extension of your churches and church objects and the like when you have here a great number of churches wholly superfluous for the purpose because of their excessive number, which are not of great architectural or artistic value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-25a.675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-25", "file": "debates1926-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b840d4315a885379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-25a.688.0", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNION OF BENEFICES AND DISPOSAL OF CHURCHES (METROPOLIS) MEASURE, 1926.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir VANSITTART BOWATER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir VANSITTART BOWATER", "preceding_text": " has been on the Order Paper of this House on several occasions, and we know and believe that the reason why it was not brought forward before the House at the end of the Summer Session was that the Noble Lord who has introduced the Measure to-day did not like the atmosphere of the House and felt perfectly certain that he would lose the day. I think, after the very feeble effort to convince—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-25a.688.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-25", "file": "debates1926-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b840d4315a885379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-25a.698.0", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNION OF BENEFICES AND DISPOSAL OF CHURCHES (METROPOLIS) MEASURE, 1926.", "cue_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "preceding_text": "hurches are undoubtedly some of the finest specimens of the architecture of their time, that would be the view of this House, and it is only when we come to the churches themselves that there is a difference of opinion. I consider that the protection of these churches under this measure is infinitely greater than the protection they have at present, and that is the reason why I am in favour of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-25a.698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-25", "file": "debates1926-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b840d4315a885379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-25a.698.0", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNION OF BENEFICES AND DISPOSAL OF CHURCHES (METROPOLIS) MEASURE, 1926.", "cue_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "preceding_text": "is a difference of opinion. I consider that the protection of these churches under this measure is infinitely greater than the protection they have at present, and that is the reason why I am in favour of it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide.\"] A building of historical importance and architectural beauty, the Bank of England, is to-day being reconstructed. Do we hear all this outcry about vandalism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-25a.698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-25", "file": "debates1926-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b840d4315a885379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-25a.698.0", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNION OF BENEFICES AND DISPOSAL OF CHURCHES (METROPOLIS) MEASURE, 1926.", "cue_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "preceding_text": "onstructed. Do we hear all this outcry about vandalism. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"] It is perfectly true that there are not the same associations attaching to it as to some of the City Churches, but there is the same historic interest, and no protest has been raised against the re-construction of the Bank of England. In this case a great deal of prejudice has been aroused and I ask the House", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-25a.698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-25", "file": "debates1926-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b840d4315a885379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-25a.698.0", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNION OF BENEFICES AND DISPOSAL OF CHURCHES (METROPOLIS) MEASURE, 1926.", "cue_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major KINDERSLEY", "preceding_text": " is the same historic interest, and no protest has been raised against the re-construction of the Bank of England. In this case a great deal of prejudice has been aroused and I ask the House [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide, divide!\"] to remember that while it is right and proper that we should maintain the sepulchres of the past we should also have regard to the aims and purposes for which they were built.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-25a.698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-25", "file": "debates1926-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b840d4315a885379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-25a.701.0", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNION OF BENEFICES AND DISPOSAL OF CHURCHES (METROPOLIS) MEASURE, 1926.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Ronald McNeill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Ronald McNeill)", "preceding_text": " that my Noble Friend, and those who act with him, could make out a case for the removal of these churches, and for the turning into money of their valuable sites, I say distinctly that the Church has no right to that money, and that, consequently, this proposal, which deliberately appropriates that money definitely to church purposes, ought to be resisted on that ground, and on that ground alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-25a.701.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-25", "file": "debates1926-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b840d4315a885379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-25a.701.0", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNION OF BENEFICES AND DISPOSAL OF CHURCHES (METROPOLIS) MEASURE, 1926.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Ronald McNeill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed\" and \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Ronald McNeill)", "preceding_text": "g them, and it may be found subsequently that we have hastily given our assent to legislation to which there are very grave objections. My Noble Friend, in enumerating the so-called safeguards against abuses of this legislation, laid great emphasis upon the Commission to be appointed by the Bishop under Section 3 of the Measure. I would like to call the attention of hon. Members to that provision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-25a.701.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-26", "file": "debates1926-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "44a28b947640d80d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-26a.717.5", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "There is that danger, of course, though I did not want to exaggerate it too much. Not half the miners are yet back, and efforts are being made on behalf of some of the more extreme sections of opinion to prevent those who are not back going back to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-26a.717.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-26", "file": "debates1926-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "44a28b947640d80d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-26a.750.0", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. RICHARDSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Worse!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. RICHARDSON", "preceding_text": "eeches have been made here to-day, but, God help me ! I am afraid I am a rebel still, because of the humiliating conditions that these negations have helped the owners to impose upon my people. I am older than many hon. Members here, and have gone through more. I have seen worse conditions than they saw, and I see my county going back to the terrible conditions that I had to meet when I was a boy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-26a.750.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-26", "file": "debates1926-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "44a28b947640d80d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-26a.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "They have not done this at the bidding of Moscow. I am sorry the Home Secretary is not here. I look upon the Home Secretary as the most incendiary person in this country, by reason of the speeches be makes outside this House charging a million intelligent men with allowing themselves to be starved for over six months at the bidding of somebody in Russia—some one man. Why, what rubbish it is!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-26a.767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-26", "file": "debates1926-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "44a28b947640d80d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-26a.780.0", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who told you that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "their anion—and, although I think it was wholly misguided, I cannot withhold my meed of admiration from it. If you transfer that spirit to the industry and show the same loyalty to the pit in which they work, and do their best in it, there is no limit to the prosperity which would come about. If they follow their leader whose original intention was practically to destroy the industry —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-26a.780.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-26", "file": "debates1926-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "44a28b947640d80d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-26a.785.0", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By ballot?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "preceding_text": "he hon. and learned Member had followed the course of events during the last three months he would have found that everything that has been submitted to the miners which came short of what they considered to be their due was rejected, although the suggestions were backed by a recommendation from the officials of the Federation. The miners themselves, by huge majorities, have decided this business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-26a.785.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-26", "file": "debates1926-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "44a28b947640d80d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-26a.786.3", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "preceding_text": "arted back at 3 p.m. I got back by three or four o'clock. I had to wash and get the dirt off myself even after that. From four o'clock in the morning until a quarter to four o'clock in the afternoon or nearly 12 hours I was away from home under the eight-hour day system. A return to the eight-hour day system means that hundreds of thousands of our people will be condemned to that experience again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-26a.786.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-26", "file": "debates1926-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "44a28b947640d80d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-26a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "preceding_text": "It is interesting to know that the Noble Lord is one of those who promised these people that if they fought in Gallipoli they would come back to homes fit for heroes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-26a.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-26", "file": "debates1926-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "44a28b947640d80d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-26a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "preceding_text": " standard of life which is worse than anything that has existed for 50 years. That is his reward for fighting in Gallipoli and for winning the War. I tell the Home Secretary that whether he puts these Regulations on or takes them off—whatever gesture he may make—it is too late. If the coalowners hacked by the Government and the Noble Lord are going to insist on putting on to the miners", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-26a.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-26", "file": "debates1926-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "44a28b947640d80d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-26a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "preceding_text": "e may make—it is too late. If the coalowners hacked by the Government and the Noble Lord are going to insist on putting on to the miners [ Laughter. ] I do not object to the Noble Lord's laughter. I would rather see him laugh than cry. But we will talk about this when we get the opportunity, and perhaps the Noble Lord will laugh on the other side of his face before this business is finished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-26a.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-29", "file": "debates1926-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e37c519bb4ade1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-29a.833.6", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TOBACCO AND. SWEETS (HOURS OF SALE).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "That is rather a problem, I think. So far as the other question is concerned, it is quite true that there is no opportunity of discussing this question on the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill, but I have had no information that there is anything like a. majority feeling in the House requiring a change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-29a.833.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-11-29", "file": "debates1926-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e37c519bb4ade1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-29a.838.3", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "Is it not also a fact that they have been making enormous profits and that they expect to make even greater profits?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-29a.838.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-29", "file": "debates1926-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e37c519bb4ade1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-29a.853.3", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "ere created has been almost entirely neglected. You have such a spectacle as the Home Secretary's influence going to this point, that in Derbyshire the Chief Constable, egged on, as I believe, by the Home Secretary, sends at least 100 policemen into a village Court to watch my hon. Friend the Member for Bridgeton (Mr. Maxton) and my hon. Friend the Member for Dumbarton Burghs (Mr. Kirkwood)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-29a.853.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-29", "file": "debates1926-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e37c519bb4ade1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-29a.857.6", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Certainly!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "t to illustrate the charge I am now making. I was in Hull the other day, and I was brought in contact with the fact that at the end of last week, though Communist leaflets are held to be the particular danger from the point of view of these Regulations, 30,000 Communist leaflets were distributed throughout the central division. Does any hon. Member say that they were distributed by the Communists?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-29a.857.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-29", "file": "debates1926-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e37c519bb4ade1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-29a.859.3", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "that to be the tenor of all the Home Secretary has stood for in his speeches, and I believe there are a large number of people in the country who believe that is the Home Secretary's intention, and that it is one of the intentions of these Regulations. What I wanted to prove was that these leaflets had not been distributed by Communists at all, but by friends of the Tory party in that very spirit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-29a.859.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-29", "file": "debates1926-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e37c519bb4ade1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-29a.860.0", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "I would like to say that as a result of speeches like this delivered in Hull you will have the pleasure of receiving back to this House the hon. and gallant Member for Central Hull, who has been here so long. All I desire to say, in conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-29a.860.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-29", "file": "debates1926-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e37c519bb4ade1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-29a.882.1", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not finish to-day?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "I need not worry about it any more. Then I was asked how long it will be desirable for me to ask the House to keep the Regulations in force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-29a.882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-29", "file": "debates1926-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e37c519bb4ade1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-29a.882.1", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Back at work or signed on?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS", "preceding_text": "rgely in certain sections of the country. There are other sections where there are only a very few back, and where there is a possibility, at all events, that trouble may occur. The hon. Member for Don Valley has given me very great hope indeed, and if he is right in his figures no one will be more delighted than I shall. He told us that by tomorrow 80 per cent. of the miners will be back at work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-29a.882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-29", "file": "debates1926-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e37c519bb4ade1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-29a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": " was proposing to revoke some of these Regulations, if not all of them, on Thursday. I and the rest of my colleagues who have been urging upon him to revoke most of the Regulations hope that he will not cancel Regulation 14, even on Thursday. There is a need for Regulation 14 to remain, this week, next week, next month, next year. When Labour comes into power after the next General Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-29a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-29", "file": "debates1926-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e37c519bb4ade1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-29a.927.3", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS ACT, 1920 (REGULATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel LANE FOX", "preceding_text": "I have suggested might have occurred. It is a far bigger operation than hon. Gentlemen appear to understand. To take over supplies and merely fix prices will do nothing when we have foreign coal coming in. If the pit-head price is to be fixed, the retail price must also be fixed, and, if the price is to be fixed against the coalowner and the merchant, it is necessary to take over the whole output.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-29a.927.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-29", "file": "debates1926-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "e37c519bb4ade1f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-29a.962.3", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GROVES", "preceding_text": "l life is extinct, and we think they should do this without imposing any additional charge either upon the nation or upon the family; and the same considerations ought to apply in the case of institutions and hospitals. In the case of a private medical practitioner there would be no additional charge—at least it would not be felt, inasmuch as it would go into the bill in the ordinary course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-29a.962.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-30", "file": "debates1926-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "23a7fe7b6f55fc62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-30a.1037.2", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL HOLDINGS AND ALLOTMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUXTON", "preceding_text": "on these benches feel most strongly of all in regard to this Bill. We are not against small holdings; indeed, some of us pride ourselves that in days of Tory lethargy we tried to rouse that public opinion which helped to bring about the Act of 1908. Far be it from any of us to hamper a genuine small holdings movement. I object to this Bill, because it is markedly a Measure for establishing owners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-30a.1037.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-30", "file": "debates1926-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "23a7fe7b6f55fc62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-30a.1051.0", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL HOLDINGS AND ALLOTMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir MERVYN MANNINGHAM-BULLER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir MERVYN MANNINGHAM-BULLER", "preceding_text": "ition than the security of tenure of the man who actually owns his own land. We on this side of the House believe that there is a very great deal of truth in the words which were written about the end of the 18th Century by a prominent writer on agriculture, when he said: \"The magic of property turns sand to gold. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-30a.1051.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-30", "file": "debates1926-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "23a7fe7b6f55fc62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-30a.1069.0", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL HOLDINGS AND ALLOTMENTS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRACE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRACE", "preceding_text": "It is very difficult to follow the objections of some hon. Members opposite to peasant ownership. There was the hon. Member for Merthyr Tydvil (Mr. Wallhead). Is he aware that in Russia the whole of the agricultural system is based upon peasant ownership?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-30a.1069.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-11-30", "file": "debates1926-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "23a7fe7b6f55fc62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-30a.1154.2", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FARM WORK, SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major ELLIOT", "preceding_text": " way comparable to certain seasonal agricultural occupations. One of the great criticisms which is brought against the present education system is that by carrying it out as a mechanical system alike for country and town it gives but little opportunity for seasonal occupations in agriculture which afford to the country dweller opportunities for employment which are not in any way comparable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-11-30a.1154.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-12-01", "file": "debates1926-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e7f8ced103a7e3f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-01a.1190.10", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MILK AND DAIRIES ORDER, 1926.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FENBY", "preceding_text": "If the full rigour of the Order is to be enforced,, will the hon. Gentleman consider the finding of credit on easy terms for those badly affected by this Order, so far as the reconstruction of buildings is concerned, and, secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-01a.1190.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-12-01", "file": "debates1926-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e7f8ced103a7e3f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-01a.1195.6", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACQUISTEN", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that they kept the normal services up throughout the summer-time, even though coal was more expensive than it is now; and is it not also the case that they are in negotiation for a new contract just now, and are they not using this means of bringing pressure on the Postmaster-General?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-01a.1195.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-01", "file": "debates1926-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e7f8ced103a7e3f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-01a.1240.1", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL COMMITTEE BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Brains! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "ey do not know what it is to have a night's sleep because of the verminous conditions under which they live? Here is a body of men, Judges, who have been reared in the lap of luxury, and the very best that Britain can give them, and then when they come to 50 or 60 years of age they are to get this comfortable job. Why should they get it? What is it that these Judges have which is superior over me?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-01a.1240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-01", "file": "debates1926-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e7f8ced103a7e3f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-01a.1240.1", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL COMMITTEE BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": " listen even to our own Front Bench? It is enough to make the very stones cry out, to think that they would tell us that this £4,000 a year should be paid. It all turns on this, that you have on the one hand people with tens of thousands of pounds, taking tens of thousands of pounds; you have gentlemen on the other side of the House who are in the habit of drawing tens of thousands of pounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-01a.1240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-01", "file": "debates1926-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e7f8ced103a7e3f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-01a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL COMMITTEE BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "e do not require a knowledge of Indian law or any other law to realise that the lawyers' trade union is the strongest trade union in the country. We find the lawyers always on the job when there is some pecuniary advantage to be gained. We have only to look around these benches when a question of this kind is being discussed and we find on the other side practically all its supporters are lawyers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-01a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-01", "file": "debates1926-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e7f8ced103a7e3f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-01a.1266.5", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL COMMITTEE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": "er difficult to extract all the facts—we understand the position to be this: We understand that the appointments are to be made immediately, and I presume that some candidates are in view. Are they to go on at £2,000 a year ad interim, and, supposing that the Indian Legislature does not vote the additional £2,000, shall we pay it retrospectively as from the date of the appointment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-01a.1266.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-01", "file": "debates1926-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e7f8ced103a7e3f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-01a.1266.5", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL COMMITTEE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "Loud laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": " in Committee is entitled to know what it is voting. We have not the least idea. We know that we are going to pay £2,000 a year as from the date of these appointments, but we do not know whether the additional £2,000 is going to be found from India. Are we to understand that if it is not found we are to pay it retrospectively? The Attorney-General told us, in his brief way: \"No pension.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-01a.1266.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-01", "file": "debates1926-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e7f8ced103a7e3f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-01a.1272.0", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE AND EAST AFRICA LOANS [GUARANTEE].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "iorated under the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, so that the difficulty of raising loans in the open market has become greater, since the prices of trustee securities have fallen from the relatively high level at which they stood when the Labour Government was in office to the deplorably low level at which they stand as the result of two years' experience of the present Chancellor's finance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-01a.1272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-01", "file": "debates1926-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e7f8ced103a7e3f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-01a.1322.2", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE AND EAST AFRICA LOANS [GUARANTEE].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORMSBY-GORE", "preceding_text": "ant is considered progress and steady development over a long period of years. Your labour policy alone will necessitate your going reasonably slow. These are large territories, rather sparsely populated. Fan HON. MEMBER: \"What benefits will the natives get?\"] Certainly I hope the natives will reap great benefits from these developments. I hope the natives will reap the major part of the benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-01a.1322.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-02", "file": "debates1926-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "cd11be389b2192ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-02a.1376.3", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "In view of the suggestion that most of these interruptions come from one party—and we on this side know, of course, which party it is —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-02a.1376.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-02", "file": "debates1926-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "cd11be389b2192ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-02a.1397.1", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) ACT, 1924.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Neville Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Neville Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": " The right hon. Gentleman said: As things stand to-days it is those people who do not need our help for whom houses are provided. In order to provide for people who do need our help, in order to widen the range, to enlarge the areas from which tenants may be drawn, we require to extend the subsidy and bring rents down to a level which those people can afford to pay. That is the substantial reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-02a.1397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-02", "file": "debates1926-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "cd11be389b2192ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-02a.1416.1", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) ACT, 1924.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Poplar's rents are not inclusive! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHEATLEY", "preceding_text": "er for larger houses. In other parts of the country they are higher for the same class of house. The right hon. Gentleman also took the trouble, I suppose through political hilarity, to quote the local authority of Poplar. I find that Poplar is letting its houses at inclusive rents of 7s. a week. If you have rents 6s. 4d. a week in Bradford and 7s. a week in London you are getting very near—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-02a.1416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-02", "file": "debates1926-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "cd11be389b2192ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-02a.1478.0", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) ACT, 1924.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALLHEAD", "preceding_text": "g any real reform carried out so far as the housing of the people is concerned. It is perfectly clear that private enterprise has failed. I believe that the Minister of Health, strongly imbued with Conservative principles, hates the idea of the municipal ownership of houses, hates the idea of the public ownership of houses, and wants an extension of the principle of every man owning his own house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-02a.1478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-02", "file": "debates1926-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "cd11be389b2192ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-02a.1486.0", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) ACT, 1924.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " majority of these have not been built for the manual worker. Nearly 467,000 houses have been built with State assistance but of those, 196,000 have been built by private enterprise, and the vast majority of that 196,000 houses are not to-day occupied by the working classes. 270,000 houses have been built since the War by local authorities. Not three-fifths of those are occupied by manual workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-02a.1486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-02", "file": "debates1926-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "cd11be389b2192ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-02a.1486.0", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) ACT, 1924.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " their citizens. If we take the middle six months of the year, ending September, the best building period, and take the years 1924, 1925 and 1926. we shall find that while in 1924 local authorities built 8,000 houses, in the six months this year they have built nearly 37,000 houses, and whereas private enterprise built 18,000 houses in the six months in 1924, they have built 38,000 houses in 1926.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-02a.1486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-03", "file": "debates1926-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "31099e3b67a7364d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-03a.1579.5", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not being moved!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "I do not want nay hon. Friends to be misled when I said I would accept all these Amendments. It does occur to me that this proposed Amendment in line 4—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-03a.1579.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-03", "file": "debates1926-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "31099e3b67a7364d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-03a.1625.2", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PENNY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Peace and good will!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PENNY", "preceding_text": "aid of anything happening to his person, he need not attend the dinner at all, or he could attend it in the ordinary costume that one would wear at such a function. Our forefathers placed these Laws on the Statute Book to protect the great work of the Reformation, far which so many of our noblest men and women endured martyrdom at the hands of the Papists, who, in my opinion, are behind this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-03a.1625.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-03", "file": "debates1926-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "31099e3b67a7364d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-03a.1636.1", "colnum": "1636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "d me when I put it in that way. But it is not the case that Roman Catholics are not entitled to the relief that other charities are entitled to, especially now that it has been decided that money left for superstitious uses is not void as a charity. Supposing I left money to-morrow to a Roman Catholic community for saying Masses, the most superstitious use one can see in the eyes of the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-03a.1636.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-12-06", "file": "debates1926-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "7a0c57ba1e822513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1647.9", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether it is a fact that the right hon. Gentleman is not so much interested in reducing the price of coal as he was in increasing the miners' hours?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1647.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-06", "file": "debates1926-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "7a0c57ba1e822513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1655.9", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOCKER-LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "We think that at the present moment it would not serve any useful purpose to bring it before the League.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1655.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-12-06", "file": "debates1926-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "7a0c57ba1e822513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1669.1", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "A lock-out!", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel ASHLEY", "preceding_text": "Yes; but the hon. Gentleman has forgotten that there has been a coal strike since—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1669.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-06", "file": "debates1926-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "7a0c57ba1e822513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1697.1", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Neville Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This is giving him something!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Mr. Neville Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "lled to make the alterations that he will make when he has the facilities given him which are offered by the Bill The other assumption is that this is a Bill for the benefit of the owners of house property. The way you look at the Bill as a whole, and upon this Amendment in particular, must largely be governed by whether you are more anxious to help the agricultural worker, or to punish the owner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-06", "file": "debates1926-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "7a0c57ba1e822513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1706.0", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not repair!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "preceding_text": "attending such subsidies require careful consideration. Subsidies of this nature would mean that the builder would be using the State resources to enable him to make a profit on the small share of capital supplied by him. In this way we should be relieving owners of duties which have been recognised as theirs from time immemorial—namely, that they should keep their property in proper repair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-06", "file": "debates1926-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "7a0c57ba1e822513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1729.0", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are those rural?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARR", "preceding_text": "er, but will take those with five dwellers and over in a single-apartment house, undivided, and without any partition. The number of houses with five living in those conditions is 12,657. In the case of six dwelling in single-roomed house the number of houses is 7,712; seven in the single-roomed house, 4,005; eight in the single-roomed house, 1,865; and nine in the single-roomed house, 806 houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1729.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-06", "file": "debates1926-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "7a0c57ba1e822513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1743.0", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "preceding_text": "ountry mansions do not object to horses, cows, and so on, they would object to workers, and if workers were going to live in those stables and other buildings that were to be turned into houses, then, rather than have them in the vicinity of their mansions, they would take advantage of this Amendment, because, while they do not object to horses or cattle, they would object to agricultural workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1743.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-06", "file": "debates1926-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "7a0c57ba1e822513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1798.1", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ubsidy to help them in their difficulty. It is not as though the landed classes, the country interests, have been poverty-stricken. In so far as they have passed through bad times, they have always found sympathetic assistance from Conservative Government after Conservative Government. The rural landlords to-day do not pay their fair share of taxation and they do not pay their fair share of rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1798.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-12-06", "file": "debates1926-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "7a0c57ba1e822513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1810.1", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order, order!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir THOMAS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ppen to have in my Division, which includes nearly the whole of the Cotswold Hills—at any rate, 50 miles of them form the backbone of my Division—several very pretty villages, situated on the banks of the River Avon. I was there last year, and an agricultural labourer came up to me and made this remark: \"What a d—shame it is that there is not a. single agricultural worker\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1810.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-06", "file": "debates1926-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "7a0c57ba1e822513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1810.3", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "cannot afford to do it.\" But the man has done it and the most wonderful thing is that while we have from first to last advanced over £500,000 to men of the working class—not all agricultural labourers, but postmen, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, blacksmiths, paper hangers and a few agricultural labourers—in not one single case have we lost a penny piece of principal or interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1810.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-06", "file": "debates1926-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "7a0c57ba1e822513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1810.3", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "the most wonderful thing is that while we have from first to last advanced over £500,000 to men of the working class—not all agricultural labourers, but postmen, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, blacksmiths, paper hangers and a few agricultural labourers—in not one single case have we lost a penny piece of principal or interest. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Yes, my friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1810.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-06", "file": "debates1926-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "7a0c57ba1e822513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1810.3", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The labourers are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "2;not all agricultural labourers, but postmen, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, blacksmiths, paper hangers and a few agricultural labourers—in not one single case have we lost a penny piece of principal or interest. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Yes, my friends—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"] I beg pardon—they are honest people in the country and I ask hon. Members to bear that in mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1810.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-06", "file": "debates1926-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "7a0c57ba1e822513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1810.3", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. DAVIES", "preceding_text": " the country at big rents. We are told that the landlord cught to provide houses for the agricultural workers; but he has done that in the past. I have known over and over again where landowners have shut down their houses to go and live in flats, because out of the rents they were getting they could not keep their places up, but they were determined to see that the labourers were properly housed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1810.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-06", "file": "debates1926-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "7a0c57ba1e822513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1822.0", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "We have just heard a characteristic speech from the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Shettleston (Mr. Wheatley), and, if I may say so, one typical of the attitude of the Labour party to these proposals—suspicion, jealousy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1822.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-06", "file": "debates1926-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "7a0c57ba1e822513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1822.0", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give him better wages.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "ns on that matter, I say that this is a right and proper attempt for something to be done. If this is not to be done, what is to be the position of the agricultural worker in this country? Hon. Members opposite, as far as their plans are concerned, have abandoned him. They would condemn him to houses under the Housing Act of 1924 at rents which, in the great majority of cases, he is unable to pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1822.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-06", "file": "debates1926-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "7a0c57ba1e822513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1838.2", "colnum": "1838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HEALTH (SMOKE ABATEMENT) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "The argument was that there was not a sufficient supply of gas and electricity to meet the needs of this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1838.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-06", "file": "debates1926-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "7a0c57ba1e822513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1852.0", "colnum": "1852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRISONS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER (Captain FitzRoy)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER (Captain FitzRoy)", "preceding_text": "The Question is, \"That the Bill be now read the Third time.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-06", "file": "debates1926-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "7a0c57ba1e822513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1853.3", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRISONS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "I must insist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1853.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-06", "file": "debates1926-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "7a0c57ba1e822513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1863.0", "colnum": "1863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRISONS (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMES BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMES BROWN", "preceding_text": "s side of the House, and it will certainly be given by me, that there will be no difficulty in the passing of this Bill if it is postponed. The Secretary of State for Scotland must be aware that there is a good deal of feeling in Scotland just now regarding Scottish business in this House and very great efforts are being made to get a Government of our own in Scotland to deal with our own affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-06a.1863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-07", "file": "debates1926-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "c34d433b4ef1de7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-07a.1878.5", "colnum": "1878", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES INQUIRIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "That is not so. I understand the whole of the Committee were supplied with the information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-07a.1878.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-07", "file": "debates1926-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "c34d433b4ef1de7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-07a.1921.2", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "POLITICAL SUBSCRIPTIONS (PUBLICATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to introduce a Bill to compel the publication by all political parties, organisations and associations of income and expenditure duly certified and audited by chartered incorporated accountants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-07a.1921.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-07", "file": "debates1926-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "c34d433b4ef1de7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-07a.1921.2", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "POLITICAL SUBSCRIPTIONS (PUBLICATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": "f the British Empire—upon which the sun never sets and in which the tax collector never sleeps. Just think for a moment of the glory and the \"kudos\" of the Liberal working man's name appearing in a subscription list to help to pay the forfeit of Liberal candidates in moral victories where many are called but very few, if any are chosen—all for a nimble 6d. or 1s. a year. Bat why go on?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-07a.1921.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-07", "file": "debates1926-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "c34d433b4ef1de7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-07a.1970.0", "colnum": "1970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SALE OF FOOD (WEIGHTS AND MEASURES) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is no Motion!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "I think the last two speeches we have heard would have been much more in order on the Merchandise Marks Bill. I am not sure whether the right hon. Gentleman was seconding the Motion to refer the Bill to a Select Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-07a.1970.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-12-07", "file": "debates1926-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "c34d433b4ef1de7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-07a.2069.1", "colnum": "2069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIAN AND COLONIAL DIVORCE JURISDICTION BILL [Lords.].", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIDD", "preceding_text": "In view of that undertaking, I beg leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-07a.2069.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2105.1", "colnum": "2105", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel DAY", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that in some places the white arrows are covered over with glass and electric lights are underneath them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2131.1", "colnum": "2131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hull!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " beheld and heard the great demonstration which attended the introduction of an hon. and gallant Member whom upon purely personal grounds we are all glad to see back here, but whom, upon political grounds—I am sure as an hon. Friend of mine he will not misunderstand me—we would prefer not to see back, I refer to the hon. and gallant Member for Chelmsford (Lieut.-Colonel Howard - Bury).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2131.1", "colnum": "2131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAMSAY MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "led the tactics of a Government seeking to become masters of the situation. What did they do? The Government never had a policy at all; they burst out here and there, and they burst out in a third place. As they burst out with their various proposals like the operations at a Dutch auction it reminded one of the outburst of those will-of-the-wisps that you see every now and again at odd odd places.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2139.1", "colnum": "2139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cook said so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " interest of the nation. The federation is broken. It will unite again. There is not national agreement. It will grow up. Combined labour, depend upon it, will resume its unity and its power. As the result of the action of the Government and of the operation of the dispute, good will is shattered. The miners to-day, in their million homes, have been taught to believe that organised might is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2139.1", "colnum": "2139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cook tried it!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": " to believe that organised might is right. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Cook said so!\"] They have been taught by bitter experience that those who have got might on their side can trample upon right as much as they like, and that while a Tory Government are in office no attempt will be made to prevent it. Antagonism is the only offspring of what has happened. Extremism is the only Fruit of the Cabinet's policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2143.0", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Bald win)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Bald win)", "preceding_text": "ts on the Miners' Federation, for its failure to control Mr. Cook; and this House further declares that a decent standard of life and a living wage for miners can only he secured by ceasing to squander the national resources in men and money by industrial strife. I cannot help, in spite of what was said by the Leader of the Opposition, regretting that this Motion has been put down. I do regret it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2143.0", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Bald win)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was you who passed the Eight Hours Act\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Bald win)", "preceding_text": "out for revolution.\" He was a \"humble disciple of Lenin.\" He was openly fomenting bad feeling both before July, 1925, and right away on, and he has, I believe in retrospect, prolonged the struggle and brought it to an ignominious disaster. Nothing that he prophesied came true, and he let down in turn the Labour party, the Trade Union Council, and the miners. It was he and not the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2143.0", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Bald win)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You must get a scapegoat!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Bald win)", "preceding_text": " in retrospect, prolonged the struggle and brought it to an ignominious disaster. Nothing that he prophesied came true, and he let down in turn the Labour party, the Trade Union Council, and the miners. It was he and not the Government—[An HON. MEMBER: \"It was you who passed the Eight Hours Act\"]who prolonged and embittered the dispute, who missed every opportunity of obtaining a settlement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2143.0", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Bald win)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Bald win)", "preceding_text": " HON. MEMBER: \"It was you who passed the Eight Hours Act\"]who prolonged and embittered the dispute, who missed every opportunity of obtaining a settlement. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You must get a scapegoat!\"] It was a difficult and most unhappy temperament to have the responsibility of leading a million British workmen —a difficulty felt not only by the Government, but by his own colleagues —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2146.1", "colnum": "2146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "e, but we were discussing the whole thing—he asked me what would happen if an economic wage could not be paid, that is to say, if the condition of the industry would not allow a living wage to be paid? I said in any case like that, if you get an industry that is not making enough to pay a decent wage, there are no alternatives except closing down, a Government subsidy, or reduction of wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2146.1", "colnum": "2146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has need to be!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " that, if you get an industry that is not making enough to pay a decent wage, there are no alternatives except closing down, a Government subsidy, or reduction of wages. [ Interruption. ] I would say one word about the other great power with Mr. Cook—a. character pofes asunder from him—and that is Mr. Herbert Smith. Mr. Herbert Smith is straight, very shrewd, and very suspicious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2146.1", "colnum": "2146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "rs find that everything has to be surrendered for which the men came out origiNally. When you have two powerful personalities, but divergent and discordant as they became towards the end; when you have a wages agreement, which, in the words of one of their own leaders, is such that not 1 per cent, of the working miners and not more than 10 per cent. of their leaders understand it thoroughly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2147.5", "colnum": "2147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " as that Executive was divided towards the end of the struggle, and when you have a. rank and file which has been fed for more than a year with promises that cannot be kept and with hopes whose only foundation was rhetoric, what can the end be but disaster? I want the House, after having listened to those few words about the protagonists on that side, to go back with me for a moment to last April.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2147.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2147.5", "colnum": "2147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "ome temporary and clearly necessary sacrifice would have to be made by the miners, provided it was equitably shared, and energetic steps were taken to put an early end to the necessity for such sacrifice. The Government undertook at that time to put the whole of the Report into operation—[Horn, MEMBERS: \"No!\"] —with a view to having a settlement, if the other parties would agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2147.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2151.2", "colnum": "2151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "That was your blunder.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I accept that, certainly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2151.3", "colnum": "2151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " that the fight would end on the terms that Mr. Cook had promised them? It was the agitation carried on by Mr. Cook and those who fought with him, and when the slogan, as the leader of the Labour party said, was put before the men they accepted it, but thee did not press it on the leaders, and the responsibility of all those who put this slogan before them and made them fight for it is tremendous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2151.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2151.3", "colnum": "2151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "le who have felt deeply and keenly. But the one thing that has really troubled me all through this time, and which has tried me more than anything was not coming down to this House and trying to make speeches and being shouted at, but it was this feeling that you had a million m.-r, who were show- ing day by day loyalty, courage, fortitude, and, with a few exceptions, restraint and good behaviour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2151.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2151.3", "colnum": "2151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Humbug!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "this time, and which has tried me more than anything was not coming down to this House and trying to make speeches and being shouted at, but it was this feeling that you had a million m.-r, who were show- ing day by day loyalty, courage, fortitude, and, with a few exceptions, restraint and good behaviour. [ Interruption. ] The finest qualities of the Englishman were being exploited in this manner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2151.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2153.1", "colnum": "2153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " his Under-Secretary at the time the Russian agreement was made, had fought his extremists, he might have broken up his party at the moment, but he would have got a far bigger one now, and he would have had with him a large number of voters who are now on our side. This is the dilemma that I have observed for some time past, and hon. Members have to make their choice now that this dispute is over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2156.1", "colnum": "2156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "every previous struggle was, was prolonged until it lasted seven months, and even now you have not got a settlement—if it had been purely that, I should certainly have had no hesitation in going into the same Lobby. But, unfortunately, my right hon. and hon. Friends have deemed it wise to introduce another element. I am not sure that it is wise to move a Vote of Censure at all at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2156.1", "colnum": "2156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"It was the view of the Sankey Commission.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "stage. But that is not the objection which I have to this Motion, and I am bound to point out what that objection is. At the end of the Resolution, we are committed to the proposition that a decent standard of life and a living wage for miners can now be secured only by the nation taking over and reorganising the mining industry. That is the view, undoubtedly, of my hon. Friends above the Gangway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2156.1", "colnum": "2156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Sankey himself did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "cent standard of life and a living wage for miners can now be secured only by the nation taking over and reorganising the mining industry. That is the view, undoubtedly, of my hon. Friends above the Gangway. [HON. MEMBERS \"It was the view of the Sankey Commission.\"] The Sankey Commission, by, I believe, a majority of one or two, decided in favour of it at that time. I said I could not accept that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2158.1", "colnum": "2158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ing to answer it. The fact that the question is not merely a fair one, but is perfectly relevant, shows the mistake of mixing up censure with a discussion on nationalisation. I am now going to be taken away from the subject of the Debate this afternoon in order to discuss something else. I am quite prepared to do it. The answer is that when you come to land it is the ownership of the raw material.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2158.1", "colnum": "2158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "when you come to running a concern. to managing it, to taking the responsibility of directing the operations, of paying the wages, of raising coal and buying and selling it, the analogy would be if I proposed that farming should be nationalised. In both cases there is ownership of the raw material—in the one case the raw material in the mineral, and in the other the raw material in the soil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2158.1", "colnum": "2158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "valuable coal measures of this country for the benefit of their own shareholders and to the detriment, not merely of those who are engaged in work- ing the industry, but of all those who are engaged in other industries—to raise the price of coal and to lower wages—if you are going to have great trusts of that kind, it is obvious that the nation must intervene, and intervene effectively", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2162.1", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "t this week or next. One finds statements of that kind followed up by an ex-Minister of the Socialist Government, the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Preston (Mr. T. Shaw), who said in a notable speech, which must be the cause of considerable embarrassment to his leaders either at present or on the hustings in the future: We take full responsibility. We are neither ashamed nor afraid. 6.0 P.M.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2164.1", "colnum": "2164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "er answering on behalf of his Government in this House of Commons. We recall how epithets were hurled across the Floor of this House and no opportunity was given to deny them or refute them. We remember other things. We remember the campaign of calumny against Ministers. All this in furtherance of the attitude and the policy which was devised, determined and predestined by the Third International.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2178.4", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHITELEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They did accept it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHITELEY", "preceding_text": "epted the proposals of the Royal Commission. As a matter of fact that blunder rests with the Government. The Government spent millions of the taxpayers' money, but, they have not the courage to put into operation the Royal Commission's Report. They said they would accept it, if the two sides to the dispute accepted it, but they knew, when saying so, that the coalowners never intended to accept it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2178.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2182.5", "colnum": "2182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Humbug!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. MOND", "preceding_text": "nner so as to enable us to work with them in a friendly manner? Or are they going, under the leadership of Mr. Cook, an avowed Communist, to go into the industry, not with the idea of making it a success but a failure? Are they going to be dictated to by the Bolshevists of Russia and to use the mining industry as a weapon to paralyse Britain? If they are, there can be neither peace nor prosperity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2182.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2188.3", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "ing a prior acceptance of reductions as a condition of going into conference. That is the first great blunder standing to the account of the Government, and that was why the miners' secretary declared in a letter that Until reorganisation is effected we shall maintain our unbending refusal to accept lower wages or longer hours. When it is effected the case for these conferences will have vanished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2188.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2194.1", "colnum": "2194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLYNES", "preceding_text": "or industrial peace since the Armistice. The Ministry of Labour can inform us officially of the fact that the wage reductions to which the workers in this country have submitted in recent years amount, as an annual sum, to something approaching £600,000,000. Which class in the country, if asked to make a contribution to the safety of industry comparable to that would give it without fighting?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2196.0", "colnum": "2196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "before have I known a Vote of Censure which was not almost impelled upon the Opposition by the unanimous support of its followers on a clean cut issue about something wrong the Government was supposed to have done. On this occasion there is no such unanimous feeling. If what one reads in the newspapers is correct, it was by a bare majority of one that they decided to have a Vote of Censure at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2196.0", "colnum": "2196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How many thousand votes?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "week in winning a constituency they did not hold at that moment. It is true that that seat was held by the common enemy, and it has sometimes happened before that, even with a popular Government, seats previously Liberal or Socialist still remain so. But if you take the whole of the by-elections since the General Election, I think I am right in saying the Conservative party has only lost one seat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2201.4", "colnum": "2201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "ed by Moscow. Its aim is the over throw of all existing institutions by world revolution. Their influences can be traced in any strike of any magnitude, and they oppose everything which may promote better relations between employers and employed. Their object is to prevent any amelioration of the lot of the workers. Is there a single hon. Gentleman who sits opposite who says that that is not true?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2201.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2201.4", "colnum": "2201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "eny that this movement has been financed from the same source as that mentioned by the right hon. Gentleman, and do they deny that the agents of that foreign Power in this country have done everything in their power to bring about the ruin of the industry in which they profess to lead the men? Is it denied that the miners' leaders have done everything in their power to bring this industry to ruin?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2201.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2204.0", "colnum": "2204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CAPE", "preceding_text": "tion of the Act that he has put on the Statute Book—that what was meant by \"permissive\" was that it gave permission to the employers to work the pits any hours between seven and eight. But it did not give any permission to the workmen to say whether they would work those hours or not. Therefore, this permissive Bill which was placed on the Statute Book was a permissive Bill to one side only.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2225.0", "colnum": "2225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "preceding_text": "nts in what, if I may say so, was an extremely interesting speech to all of us, that I feel tempted to follow him, but the hour is late and time is short and I am not so well versed in the expert knowledge which he himself possesses. I would only like to say this. I can assure him that nobody on these benches was ever anxious to see or is anxious to see to-day longer hours worked in army industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2227.1", "colnum": "2227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain EDEN", "preceding_text": "or British industry. Unless we do, we shall certainly never recover our national prosperity, and I would suggest to the right hon. Gentleman who is going to speak for the Opposition and to the representative of this Government that they cannot do better than unite in such endeavours. We know perfectly well that if anything is to come of it, we shall all have to make sacrifices for the common poof.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2229.0", "colnum": "2229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where, were you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WALSH", "preceding_text": "d of the findings of the Royal Commission, for its partiality towards the mineowners, for its failure to control the price of coal, and for the passing of the Coal Mines (Eight Hours) Act, which prolonged and embittered the dispute and resulted in the imposition of harsh terms upon men no longer able to resist. Hon. Members opposite have never spoken during these last three hours one single—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2241.3", "colnum": "2241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": ";which so interested me that I had the facts verified by the proper Department of State—in which a line was drawn across England, and taking that line everything to the north of it is in great misfortune while everything to the south is carrying on somehow. There is double the percentage of unemployment north of a line drawn from Bristol to Hull—double what there is south of that line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2241.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-08", "file": "debates1926-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c053a9340333a82e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2241.3", "colnum": "2241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL TRADE DISPUTE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is what we are here for!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "across England, and taking that line everything to the north of it is in great misfortune while everything to the south is carrying on somehow. There is double the percentage of unemployment north of a line drawn from Bristol to Hull—double what there is south of that line. [ Interruption. ] This is a fact of which everyone should think. Is it not your affair as much and even more than ours?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-08a.2241.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-09", "file": "debates1926-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "280e36cd583e5dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-09a.2277.2", "colnum": "2277", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INCOME TAX ASSESSMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "I wish to press the Chancellor of the Exchequer in this matter, because in Wales we attach great importance to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-09a.2277.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-09", "file": "debates1926-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "280e36cd583e5dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-09a.2327.6", "colnum": "2327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE AND EAST AFRICA LOANS (GUARANTEE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "Then I am afraid that the hon. and gallant Member is more simple than I gave him credit for being.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-09a.2327.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-09", "file": "debates1926-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "280e36cd583e5dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-09a.2337.0", "colnum": "2337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE AND EAST AFRICA LOANS (GUARANTEE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "l. It has never been done before. Norman Ley tried to do it in a book, but it has never been done, because the difficulty is that Kenya is occupied by settlers belonging to a very high aristocratic caste. You may criticise almost anything in the British Empire except Kenya. I do not propose to join in the criticism I have done it so often and have made myself so intensely unpopular aver it —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-09a.2337.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-09", "file": "debates1926-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "280e36cd583e5dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-09a.2374.0", "colnum": "2374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE AND EAST AFRICA LOANS (GUARANTEE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or gold!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "dated territories, and more especially do I congratulate him on being able to stand firm against this Amendment. It is really remarkable to find a \"dyed in the woof \"Tariff Reformer standing up against this Amendment, yet there are still in this House a few people who understand that if we lend £10,000,000 abroad that £10,000,000 can only leave this country in British manufactured goods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-09a.2374.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-09", "file": "debates1926-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "280e36cd583e5dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-09a.2415.5", "colnum": "2415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1 (Prohibition of giving of short weight, measure or number), ordered to stand part of the Bill.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "preceding_text": " the requirements of the general public. But these variations show that the public are not going to get all that they expected from the Bill. I take it we are here dealing with a case wherein a request has been made by the purchaser to have meat boned and trimmed, but it is not stated whether or not the butcher is compelled to send the bone or bones and the trimmings, if any, along with the joint.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-09a.2415.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-09", "file": "debates1926-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "280e36cd583e5dc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-09a.2415.5", "colnum": "2415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1 (Prohibition of giving of short weight, measure or number), ordered to stand part of the Bill.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARCH", "preceding_text": "oint. [ Laughter. ] I can understand hon. Gentlemen opposite laughing. They do not require the bones, but unfortunately people in the district which I represent often have to purchase bones from the butcher in order to stew them down to provide a meal for a family when they are unable to purchase meat. If hon. Members opposite had their way these people would never have the money to purchase meat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-09a.2415.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-10", "file": "debates1926-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "e35da74dc39950b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-10a.2474.2", "colnum": "2474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS (REGULATION OF REPORTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. HUME-WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Hon. Members \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. HUME-WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "pstairs, that is, whether the reports of divorce cases in future are to contain the signed statement or charges or counter charges in support of which evidence is given, or whether we should adopt the French practice of giving the names of the parties and result of the trials. My submission is that as the suggestion underlying this Bill is to cut the report down to the smallest possible dimensions", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-10a.2474.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-10", "file": "debates1926-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "e35da74dc39950b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-10a.2496.2", "colnum": "2496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS (REGULATION OF REPORTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STORRY DEANS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STORRY DEANS", "preceding_text": "—and no one is more in favour than I am of eliminating salacious matter from our newspapers—it would be better to accept the Amendment and take this paragraph right out rather than to have such a mixture as a statement of charges in support of which evidence is given without any statement of the evidence to enable the public to judge for themselves whether it was ample evidence or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-10a.2496.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-13", "file": "debates1926-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3ce8ba13a78e0df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-13a.2598.0", "colnum": "2598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CORONERS (AMENDMENT) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "There are two points which I think ought to be made in connection with this new Clause. I desire to oppose the passing into law of this proposal. If this new Clause is passed it means that the authority, which has power to hold the inquest, is to be changed from the coroner to the local authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-13a.2598.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-13", "file": "debates1926-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3ce8ba13a78e0df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-13a.2603.2", "colnum": "2603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CORONERS (AMENDMENT) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For how many years?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "preceding_text": "can hardly take that in. The hon. Gentleman accused me of always being suspicious, and so I am, in view of the treatment we generally get, but there must have been some consideration given to these fees before the Bill came to Committee, because I believe the hon. Gentleman admitted that in paragraph ( a ), where the Bill says one and a-half guineas; previously the doctors had only had one guinea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-13a.2603.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-13", "file": "debates1926-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3ce8ba13a78e0df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-13a.2611.1", "colnum": "2611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CORONERS (AMENDMENT) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. VERNON DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ply objected to the method by which the increase was given. I would point out that if that fee of one guinea was regarded as fair in 1844 surely at this time there should be some slight increase. I wonder how many increases of wages the miners have had during that period? There is a tendency among the Members of the Labour party to belittle the medical profession whenever they have an opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-13a.2611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-13", "file": "debates1926-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3ce8ba13a78e0df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-13a.2631.0", "colnum": "2631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEGITIMACY BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "Supposing we pass the Bill in the form which the whole House desires—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-13a.2631.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-13", "file": "debates1926-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3ce8ba13a78e0df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-13a.2674.3", "colnum": "2674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SALE OF FOOD (WEIGHTS AND MEASURES) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "suggested may not be the best words. The hon. Member for Lincoln (Mr. Taylor) is not an expert draftsman and he is not above taking advice or assistance from the Parliamentary Secretary or any of his officials. He will be glad to go into the question of an alternative form of words to meet our purpose. The Solicitor-General and the Lord Advocate are going off for six or seven weeks' holiday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-13a.2674.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-13", "file": "debates1926-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "3ce8ba13a78e0df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-13a.2692.7", "colnum": "2692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SALE OF FOOD (WEIGHTS AND MEASURES) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a Sunday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, in page 9, line 31, to leave out the word \"October\" and to insert instead thereof the word \"May.\" This is the date of coming into force of the Act. I have no particular penchant for any one day rather than another provided the Act is not postponed too far. I think 1st May is a very good day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-13a.2692.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-14", "file": "debates1926-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "de618144fa7e8c83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-14a.2879.1", "colnum": "2879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE (INCREASE OF PENALTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BENN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BENN", "preceding_text": " ridiculous Measure called the Merchandise Marks Act we have required the natives in these trust territories to stamp their goods \"British Empire made,\" which simply would not be true. The Secretary of State for the Dominions and Colonies is himself always trying in spirit, though he never oversteps the mark verbally, to twist this conception of trusteeship into a mere sordid conception of Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-14a.2879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1926-12-15", "file": "debates1926-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "acfbe712b9c0e374", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-15a.2911.1", "colnum": "2911", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "Do I understand from the right hon. Gentleman's figures that the price of sheep has fallen only 50 per cent., whereas the value received for this farm shows a falling of 500 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1926-12-15a.2911.1"}